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What is the Cabbage Soup Diet and Does it Work?
Posted by fitnessguru in Prescription Diet Drugs, Weight Loss on May 01st, 2009
Eat as much as you want as often as you want and still lose weight. How often has that slogan been around? It was probably originally used with the cabbage soup diet. So what is this miracle soup and what does it do exactly? The cabbage soup legend says that one can lose 10 pounds in 7 days. While that figure might be a bit hard to believe, judging by the soup’s ingredients (and calorie count), it would make sense that anyone using it for sustained periods of time would stand to lose weight.
The ingredients of the cabbage soup vary from source to source, but the general consensus is that it should contain cabbage and a number of other vegetables. Some proponents say that certain ingredients have to be consumed on certain days. For example: Cabbage soup only the first day, cabbage soup and fruit (but no bananas) the second day, cabbage soup and a baked potato but no fruit the third day. Others swear that the trick is eating the soup and only the soup. The soup makes you feel full, includes calorie negative foods, and provides some nutrients and vitamins. Calorie negative foods are those that require the body to use more energy to digest them then the foods contain. Cabbage and celery are both considered calorie negative foods.
One recipe is as follows:
One shredded head of cabbage
One can diced tomatoes
Two shredded carrots
Two stalks chopped celery
One chopped onion
One cup of chopped parsley
Two quarts of water
Mix all ingredients and simmer for at least an hour. It’s permissible to add 3 or 4 bullion cubes for flavoring. Eat one cup of the soup every two hours or so. Some people prefer to strain out the veggies and just drink the broth.
In many ways, this is very similar to a crash diet, both in the way it works and as far as side-effects are concerned. Many seem to report feeling light headed, low on energy and having decreased power of concentration during the diet, and of course, the weight you lose during this kind of diet will easily be gained again unless you are extremely careful. That being said, many seem to say that the cabbage soup diet represented the solution for their weight-loss issues, and that any inconvenience they might have experienced during was fully worth it.
The cabbage soup diet is a short term, no more than a week diet. In the end, whether or not you choose to go through with this diet is up to you, just make sure you weigh all the pros and cons beforehand.
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