Advice About The Cabbage Soup Diet
Anyone who wants an explanation of the cabbage soup diet can have one – BALONEY. There’s really no need for further explanation. But in case you’re curious here is some more information.
Nobody knows who created the cabbage soup diet. It first appeared in the early 1980s, faxed from person to person like a chain letter. To gain acceptance the diet often used well-respected names, calling itself things like the Children’s Hospital diet. Any suggested relationship to these institutions is false.
Water is important in the cabbage soup diet, often the only drink allowed in the course of the day. Here’s how the diet works.
Day one — cabbage soup and fruit, but not bananas.
Day two — cabbage soup as usual, and vegetables including a half baked potato without 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 – cabbage soup, six tomatoes and up to 20 ounces of beef.
Day six — cabbage soup and as much of beef and vegetables as you can eat, no potatoes.
Day seven — Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice – no potatoes.
It was often claimed the cabbage soup diet could result in as much as 10 pounds of weight loss in only week. Unfortunately that would be 10 pounds in water weight. A week is simply too short a time in which to lose 10 pounds of fat. But given a week the cabbage soup diet could make someone seriously ill from malnutrition.
In addition the cabbage soup diet isn’t easy. That isn’t to say that it’s complicated, but cabbage soup seven days in a row can be quite bland and boring. 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.
You don’t have to turn to something goofy like the cabbage soup diet for weight loss. Losing weight is a simple matter of eating less, and becoming more active.
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