The joys of Dieting: Cabbage Soup Diet

Now this is something I am not sure I want to try everyday! Cabbage Soup Diet.

Cabbage soup diet is a very famous quick weight loss diet. The diet primarily focuses on consuming cabbage soup along with some low- calorie foods for losing weight quickly within short period of time. Since the choices for food in this diet are quite limited some factors like boredom, insufficient nutrition are unavoidable.

The diet plan doesn’t comprise of any recommendations of exercises, no alterations in bad habits it is just a strict list of items to eat every day of the week. Another thing is that foods prescribed in the diet have to be eaten at home only because such foods won’t be available in the hotel menus. This diet promises dieter to shed atleast 10 pounds within a week’s time as dieters are limited to one week at a time in this diet plan. For those wanting to lose more weight are recommended to hold on before plunging into the next week of this super-low calorie diet.

This 7-day cabbage soup diet plan allows the dieter to eat everything till the time dieter can adhere to small list of foods allowed on alternate days in addition to two daily bowls of fat free cabbage soup. Other foods in the list are vegetables, fruits, skimmed milk and meat. Drink plenty of water and try to avoid alcohol while on diet.

Let us look at a sample cabbage soup diet plan:
Day 1: Cabbage soup along with plenty of fruits except bananas. Drink cranberry juice, water, sugarless tea or black coffee.
Day 2: Cabbage soup again with all vegetables which are low on calorie except beans, peas or corn and also baked potato with butter.
Day 3: Cabbage soup along with a combination of above mentioned fruits and vegetables.
Day 4: Cabbage soup with up to 8 bananas and drink two glasses of skimmed milk.
Day 5: Cabbage soup along with 20 ounce of beef, fish or chicken, about 6 fresh tomatoes and about 6-8 glasses of water.
Day 6: Cabbage soup with 3 beef steaks and unlimited amount of vegetables.
Day 7: Cabbage soup with 2 cups of brown rice, sugarless fruit juices and unlimited number of vegetables.

The cabbage soup recipe may vary slightly among different versions of the cabbage soup diet.

Basically it is made out of cabbage along with assorted vegetables like onions and tomatoes with flavors added by onion soup mix, tomato juice and bouillon.