The cabbage soup diet is a seven-day low-calorie diet. This diet has become really popular because you can lose weight very quickly (about 10 pounds in 7 days). However, it isn’t a long term diet, so after seven days you should have your usual healthy diet and of course, you should exercise regularly.
Important! The cabbage soup diet should be applied only for 7 days. If you want to continue with it, you should take a break of it at least for two weeks so your body will be able to recover. This diet is not recommended for adolescents and children. If you have health problems, consult your doctor before you start to this or any weight loss diet.
How does the cabbage soup diet work?
Some people claim that the cabbage has the ability to burn calories. To feel the benefits of this diet, you need to eat cabbage soup every day combined with some other food. The cabbage soup contains very few calories, and the additional food is different for every day.
This diet is a great choice for those who constantly feel hungry, because the amount of food you are consuming isn’t really limited, you can eat as much cabbage soup as you like and also some extra food. Drinks that you can consume are: tea without sugar, coffee and water.
How to prepare the cabbage soup?
Ingredients:
- 1 small cabbage
- 6 large spring onions or small onion or leek
- 2 green peppers
- 2-3 diced tomatoes or 1/2 cup of canned tomatoes
- 1-2 garlic cloves
- 1 stalk of celery
- parsley
- salt, black pepper and dry herbs to taste.
Preparation:
Chop the vegetables and place them in a pot. Add enough water to cover them completely. Add the spices and cook on medium high for 10 minutes. Then cook the soup on low heat until the vegetables are cooked. You can also add 1-2 carrots.
7-day cabbage soup diet meal plan
Day 1: Along with the cabbage soup you can eat fruits as much as you like, except bananas.
Day 2: In your daily menu along with the cabbage soup, you can include some vegetables (except beans, corn and peas). Potatoes are limited. You can eat 1 baked potato with 1 teaspoon of butter.
Day 3: You can combine the cabbage soup with some vegetables (excluding potatoes) and fruit (excluding bananas).
Day 4: In addition to the cabbage soup, you are allowed to eat a maximum of 8 bananas and drink as much skimmed milk as you like.
Day 5: Along with the soup you can eat 10-15 oz of grilled lean beef or chicken breast and six fresh tomatoes. On this day you also need to drink 8 glasses of water.
Day 6: You can eat the cabbage soup, 10-15 oz or grilled lean beef or skinless chicken breast and vegetables (excluding potatoes).
Day 7: You can eat the cabbage soup and 1/4 cup of cooked brown rice, vegetables (excluding potatoes) and drink as much freshly squeezed fruit juice as you want.
Pros of the cabbage soup diet
As you follow this way of eating you won’t feel hungry because you can eat as much allowed foods as you want. This is also a detoxifying diet, you’ll lose weight fast and you don’t need too specific or too many things to try it out.
Once you end this cabbage soup diet in 7 days, continue to eat healthy and have an active life to stay in top shape.
Cons of the cabbage soup diet
Some experts claim that with this diet you mostly lose water from your body, rather than burning fat, and because of that the weight can easily return.
Although you can eat as much allowed foods as you want, you can quickly become bored.
This diet can lead to lack of certain vitamins and minerals in the body, so take your daily multivitamin supplement.
