Cabbage Soup Diet
It’s very easy to describe the cabbage soup diet – FAKE. There’s no need to know anything more about this ridiculous diet. But in case you’re curious here is some more information.
The origins of the cabbage soup diet are nebulous. It was one of the diets faxed from machine to machine in the early 1980’s. The diet went under many names, often using a part of the name of a well respected institution such as the Russian peasant diet, or the St. Jude’s diet. Needless to say, the diet has no relation to any of the institutions, nations, or people used in these names.
Water is important in the cabbage soup diet, often the only drink allowed in the course of the day. A general outline of the diet is something like this.
Day one — cabbage soup and fruit, but not bananas.
Day two — cabbage soup plus vegetables, which could include a half baked potato with no butter.
Day three — add vegetables and fruit to the daily cabbage soup, but no bananas or potato.
Day four — cabbage soup +8 bananas and skimmed milk.
Day five — as much as 20 ounces of beef +6 tomatoes along with cabbage soup.
Day six — cabbage soup plus as much beef and vegetables as can be eaten, but no potatoes.
Day seven — Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice – no potatoes.
The cabbage soup diet claims that people can lose 10 pounds in only one week. Unfortunately that would be 10 pounds in water weight. It’s impossible to lose 10 pounds of fat in a week. It is however, possible to get sick from a lack of nutrition which is one danger with the cabbage soup diet.
In addition the cabbage soup diet isn’t easy. Not because it’s too complicated, but rather because seven days of cabbage soup becomes monotonous. It was common for people to last only a couple of days before quitting. There was even an attempt to spice up the cabbage soup diet with new recipes, but that failed.
In general nothing quite as extreme as the cabbage soup diet is needed to lose weight. A program of exercise plus cutting down calories than what you normally eat on a day-to-day basis can be very effective.
