Losing Weight Quickly With The Cabbage Soup Diet
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Sample Cabbage Soup Diet Plan
Day 1 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, plus any fruit you wish to eat except bananas. |
Day 2 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, plus any vegetables, not including corn, peas or beans. You can have baked potato with butter. |
Day 3 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, plus any fruits and vegetables. |
Day 4 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, now you can add up to 6 bannanas and ulimited amounts of skim milk. |
Day 5 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, and 6 tomatoes and up to 450 grams of meat or fish or poultry. |
Day 6 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, with unlimted amounts of beef and veggies. |
Day 7 The Ultimate Cabbage Soup, with pure unsweetened fruit juice, brown rice and unlimited veggies. |
Absolutely No bread, alcoholic or carbonated beverages during your Ultimate Cabbage Soup diet. You can have unsweetened cranberry juice, tea or coffee and water everyday of your cabbage soup diet.
Note: You can mix up your cabbage soup recipes to add different flavors. Flavors such as Caribbean, Italian, Szechuan and Tex-Mex cabbage soup recipes can give you the opportunity to change up the cabbage soup during the week. All can be achieved by just adding a few extra ingredients.
One Cabbage Soup Recipe
6 or 7 large green onions
2-3 large green peppers
1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)
1 bunch celery
1/2 head cabbage
1 package Onion Soup Mix
1 or 2 cubes bouillon (optional)
1 48 oz. can V8
Seasoning for taste (very little salt or other herbs, or Ms. Dash)
You can get other varieties of cabbage soup recipes from Cabbagesoupdiet.com.
Is This Approach To Weight Loss Safe?
Pros
- Quick weight loss
- Encourages eating unlimited fruit and veggies
- Can be seasoned with herbs that promote weight gain and adds to taste
- Has been used for many years by many, many people
- Easy to make and simple directions to follow
- Helps with trapped toxins and constipation
- Promotes drinking water and healthier beverages
Cons
- Not sufficient nutrients and calories to be a long-term diet
- May cause excess gas
- Too much sodium
- May leave you wanting for other food since your diet is restricted, which may in turn cause weight gain if done for an extended period.
- Doesn't give options for people who don't like cabbage
Conclusion
Whatever your reason for trying this diet plan, you must know as stated above that it is only meant to be done very short-term. In fact, any "soup" diet is meant to only be a short-term solution in order to lose weight quickly or to cleanse the body and get it ready for a new weight loss or new diet plan. Never go on any soup diet for an extended period. Although you may lose weight because the amount of calories you ingest have decreased, you may also cause damage because you are not getting all the nutrients required to remain healthy. If you don't like cabbage, as stated above, there are other options in soups that will allow you to lose weight fast in order to attend an event or jumpstart a new weight loss program. Some other quick weight loss soups include:
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Other books on different recipes for this diet plan
Capital Cabbages: The Ultimate Collection of the World's Finest Cabbage Recipes available on Kindle and in book form from Amazon.

Gives you different recipes that you can play with to find out which soup works for you.
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Resources and References
MayoClinic.com: What is the cabbage soup diet, and can it help me lose weight?
The Cabbage Soup Diet, Margaret Dunbrot, Pages 10 & 11