| Cabbage Soup Diet Plan -Overview
Cabbage Soup Diet is a low-fat, high-fiber diet that will
help you get into shape fast before you embark on a more
moderate long-term eating plan. This diet should only
be followed for 7 days at a time, with at least two weeks
in between.
Cabbage soup Diet plan basics:
The Cabbage Soup Diet is based on a fat-burning
soup that contains negligible calories. The more soup
you eat the more weight you should lose. It allows people
to eat as much Cabbage Soup as they want each day,
Day One:
Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas).
Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day.
For drinks- unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.
Day Two:
Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh,
raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat
leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans,
peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along
with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big
baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.
Day Three:
Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and
vegetables you want. No Baked Potato.
Day Four:
Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas
and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would
like on this day, along with your soup. This day is
supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.
Day Five:
Beef And Tomatos: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and
up to six fresh tomtoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses
of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body.
Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled
or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no
skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute
broiled fish for the beef one one of the beef days (but
not both).
Day Six:
Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart's content of
beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or
3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No
Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.
Day Seven:
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables:
Again stuff, stuff, stuff yourself. Be sure to eat your
soup at least once this day.
Cabbage Soup Diet Plan - Claims
You will lose
weight fast.
- You can eat as much of the foods listed in the program
as you want.
- Although the diet is only for seven days (and shouldn't
be adhered to for longer), it provides a great "kick-start"
for a more moderate diet.
- A do-it-yourself diet
- Not very complicated to follow
- Affordable
- Good break from junk-food diet
Cabbage Soup Diet Plan - Drawbacks
- Does not contribute to long-term weight loss
- Not nutritionally balanced
- Monotonous
Lacks some essential vitamins and minerals
Recipe for cabbage soup:
Ingredients :
6 Large Green Onions
2 Green Peppers
1-2 Cans Diced Tomatoes
1 Bunch Celery
1 Package Lipton Onion Soup Mix
1-2 Cubes of Bullion (if desired)
1 head cabbage
Instructions:
Cut vegetables into small pieces and cover
with water, you can use V-8 juice also. Boil fast for
10 minutes. Reduce to simmer and continue cooking until
vegetables are tender. Season to taste with salt, pepper,
parsley, or whatever spice you want to add. |