Typically, the diet consists of eating cabbage soup every day, complemented by some fruit, veg or beef, and drinks are limited to water except where stated otherwise. They say there are 6 key factors that make this diet successful and they are to follow the diet religiously, drink at least 4 glasses of water per day, remember that its only for 7 days, use multivitamin tablets to compliment, eat as much soup as you can and don't go hungry, try spices to liven it up and break the monotony. A typical diet looks like this;
Day 1 - Cabbage soup, as much fruit as you like, excluding bananas
Day 2 - Cabbage soup, vegetables including 1 baked potato with a little butter
Day 3 - Cabbage soup, fruit and veg excluding potatoes and bananas
Day 4 - Cabbage soup, up to 8 bananas and as much skimmed milk as you want
Day 5 - Cabbage soup, up to 20 ounces of beef and up to six tomatoes
Day 6 - Cabbage soup, as much beef and veg (excluding potatoes) as you want
Day 7 - Cabbage soup, brown rice, veg (excluding potatoes) and unsweetened fruit juice
I will now give you my verdict on the cabbage soup diet and explain why I think you should not try it. First of all this is purely a short-term weight loss offering and unsuitable for a long term diet. This being because it is low calorie, low fat and very high fiber. You will go through several days at a time taking extremely high sodium and pretty much zero protein. This is unhealthy. You will feel nauseous, weak and have decreased concentration levels. Another common side effect is extremely bad wind! So you may want to keep those windows open at home and in the office! I do not recommend this diet to anybody.
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