Cabbage Soup Diet Review
Review In a Nutshell
The Cabbage Soup Diet recommends as much cabbage soup as you can eat, while restricting other foods rather intensely for a week. While effective for temporary, minor weight loss, this diet comes nowhere close to being a sustainable solution for the seriously overweight.
How Does It Work?
This diet presents a rather arbitrary, almost off-the-wall combination of food combined with, yes, cabbage soup for a week.
Who Is It Good For?
Those seeking a break from normal meat and potatoes lifestyle, temporary weight loss and quick results.
Keys: Week-long Regimin
- Day 1: Fruit; tea, coffee, cranberry juice and water; cabbage soup (as much as desired)
- Day 2: Vegetables of your choice (no beans, peas or sweet corn); baked potatoe; no fruit; cabbage soup (as much as desired)
- Day 3: Combines days 1 and 2
- Day 4: up to 8 bananas; skim milk, soup
- Day 5: 10-20 ounces of beef; tomatoes; 6-8 glasses of water; soup at least once. Skinless chicken or broiled fish may be substituted for beef.
- Day 6: Beef; vegetables; fresh vegetables or salad; no potatoe; soup at least once.
- Day 7: Brown rice; unsweetened fruit juices; vegetables; soup. No bread, alcohol or carbonated drinks.
Pros
- Low-calorie food choices
- Helps clean system of some impurities
Cons
- Promotes the idea that cabbage soup acts as a fat-burner. Technically, this claim is unclear.
- A very temporary, tactical rather than strategic response to unhealthy eating patterns. In other words, not a lifestyle change nor an overall weight loss solution...
- Not designed for vegetarians, despite the main ingrediant.
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