Cabbage Soup Diet Plan #53
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The Top 100 Weight Loss Tips keeps on keeping on with article 53 in this series. With the aim to bring you a complete set of one hundred unique and relevant articles to help you achieve your goal to lose weight, we’ll now take a look at the diet plan that uses cabbage soup as its base and see just how effective this one can be.
Cabbage Soup Diet Plan
The cabbage soup diet plan was originally formulated to cause heart patients to lose weight fast prior to life saving operations as they were often far too overweight to be considered safe to undergo the anesthetic needed while being prepped for the operation. The diet was seen as so successful that it became taken up my mainstream dietitians as a means to provide a way to lose weight fast.
The plan itself revolves around a base meal made from cabbage soup, hence its name. The soup itself contains almost no nutrients and zero calories while making you feel full. The great thing is that you can eat several bowls of this soup a day but its pretty boring to do that. Not only that, but in the first few days, you eat very little else!
To this end, the soup can have other vegetables added to it to improve its flavour and nutrient content, but whatever you add to it reduces its effectiveness as a fast weight loss food.
The best additions to the soup to retain its very low calorie properties include onions, garlic, tomatoes, water cress, herbs and spices. Sure, that doesn’t sound like much but it at least improves the flavour! If you include any of carrots, turnips, parsnips, beetroot peas or beans, you increase the calories some, but it makes a more nutritious and flavoursome soup.
The downside to this diet is that it only works in the short term. There are no long term benefits to be obtained by this kind of diet so it is not recommended as a way of achieving a long lasting slimmer body. It is purely to kick start the weight loss process to cause the body to drop a few pounds over a period of a week. After that it must be stopped and a normal diet resumed.
The reason for this is that it contains few nutrients and prolonged use can result in malnutrition, which is a dangerous state of heath and could bring with it dangerous health related problems.
Certain diet plans have grown up around the base cabbage soup that provide nutritious foods by altering the types of foods you eat each day and these systems are more successful in the longer term it you stick to them although unless you’re prepared to exercise as well to augment any diet, you are highly likely to put the weight back on again as soon as you stop.
100 Weight Loss Tips number 52 follows in the next post!
I read with interest your article on the cabbage soup diet plan and I agree with your sentiments. I tried this diet a few years ago when I was about two stones overweight and within two weeks I had lost about 16 pounds. I had to then stop the diet and resume a more nutritious one, but went at it gradually while exercising daily and the weight did not come back on!
I was amazed and carried on doing what I was doing. Today, I can pretty well eat what I like and I stay at mu ideal weight. Its all thanks to this great cabbage soup diet kick starting my metabolism, so Id recommend it to anyone, although they should exercise as well or I don’t think it will be anywhere as effe4ctive or long lasting.
Peter
There is obviously a lot to know about this special cabbage soup diet. I think you made some good points about its effectiveness also and I want to add that I tried this a while ago and was very impressed by my sudden weight loss – I dropped 6 pounds in that week and I’d never been able to lose weight before. I have to say that the food got very boring, very quickly, but a week on this diet is not so bad and sets you up for a diet switch to a more balanced, healthy diet afterwards to help keep those pounds off.
Robbie
That’s a really good diet for the short term and losing several pounds fast.
There seems never to be enough data regarding the cabbage soup diet. Nice post that helped me a heap with my research. I’m writing a lot of comparable articles on using cabbages in other ways for dieting and losing weight. Carry on with the great work, this is an excellent, well researched and informative blog.