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Cabbage Soup Diet |
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 If you've been trying different kinds of diet these past few years, you must have heard of the Cabbage Soup Diet. There have been plenty of versions of this diet, since others who have promoted this diet have either added or replaced some of the ingredients which means that apart from the cabbage soup you can expect to see a variety of foods, but nothing exciting.
What this diet can offer
There have been a lot of hype surrounding this diet and people have claimed that you can lose 10 pounds in a week which is probably true, but surely it's just water weight and not fat. The concept of the cabbage soup diet is to keep your stomach filled with cabbage soup to keep hunger away while your body burns the calories or what is left of it.
The earlier version of the diet was just cabbage soup and nothing else. Newer versions have added lean meat, fruits, vegetables, and brown rice to the meal plan to make dieters stay with the diet longer. Aside from water, beverages that are allowed are unsweetened fruit juice, tea, and coffee.
If we compare the earlier version of the Cabbage Soup Diet to the newer ones, the older versions clearly isn't recommended for healthy weight loss. The new versions can hardly pass up as a Cabbage Soup Diet anymore since it uses lots of different vegetables and lean meat accompanied with fruits and brown rice. If you follow strictly the newer version of the diet, you will realize that you are only allowed to eat lean meat twice a week and a bit of complex carbohydrates.
Upside:
- Fast weight loss
- Unlimited consumption of prescribed foods
Downside:
- Reports of negative side effects like weakness, dizziness, flatulence and headaches
- Not for long term
- Hard to keep the weight off
- Most of the lost weight is not fat but water and most of it is from muscle tissues.
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