Cabbage Soup Diet - 7-Days-Diet Plan

It's very easy to describe the cabbage soup diet - FAKE.  Anything else is just a lot of noise. But in case you're curious here is some more information.

The origins of this 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. 

This diet calls for drinking nothing but water or unsweetened fruit juice on days when juice is allowed.  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, eight bananas, 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 -- cabbage soup, brown rice, vegetables, unsweetened fruit juice, but no potatoes.

It was often claimed this type of diet could result in as much as 10 pounds of weight loss in only week.  While it may be possible, most of that weight will be water weight. It's impossible to lose 10 pounds of fat in a week. But given a week this diet could make someone seriously ill from malnutrition.

The other problem with the cabbage soup diet is that it's a very difficult diet to follow. 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. Even as more exciting cabbage soup recipes, including some with various spices, made the rounds people still quit early.

You don't have to turn to something goofy like this diet method for weight loss. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to accomplish a goal.

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