Cabbage Soup Diet ?

I am looking at going on the cabbage soup diet at www.cabbage-soup-dieting.com ? Has anyone tried this diet. I heard you can lose a heap of weight and fast.

 

I didn't go to the site but can assure you that it wont work. You will slow down your metabolism and your weightloss will come to a screeching halt soon after you start. Also, even if you do lose weight, it will be ALL MUSCLE and your body will naturally gain it all back once you start eating normally again.

Well sure you'll lose weight if you're not eating anything but watered down vegetables!

I wish I could rocket that diet along with the Master Cleanse into the sun and forever banish them from the Earth. It's useless, unhealthy rubbish

Fad diets don't work.  Even if you can manage to shed some pounds in the short term, you will gain it all back AND THEN SOME.  Not to mention this is wildly unhealthy.

I tried it. I didn't last longer than day 4 because I was ravenously hungry. I got so sick of the soup that I would rather have not eaten anything than more of that darn soup. Yes, I lost weight, but I gained it all back just eating regularly. Don't waste your time!

I wouldn't waste time on it either, BUT I like to make it simply because I enjoy eating the cooked cabbage. actually I just use like tomato juice with lots of different spices and cook my cabbage in it and add whole tomatoes to me it satisfies me because I can eat a ton of it and it has hardly any calories in it. with St patricks day coming we will do the whole corn beef and cabbage and I can usually water down the broth a bit and make a whole new head of cooked cabbage. I think it's a good thing to have if u LIKE cabbage and you just cant seem to get enough in your trap to get you thru the day :)

I can't say I'm not interested. Oddly enough, I was thinking about this today & then saw this post! I honestly don't see what it could hurt to try as long as you only do the 7 days and make sure to eat the minimum 1200 calories, right? Everyone is SO negative about it, though! ha ha

Well, why don't you eat 1200 calories of unprocessed, nutritious foods rather than a week of 1200 calories of soup?

The soup itself is a great addition to a well balanced and rounded diet as would any  lowfat vegetable based soup.  Like someone posted earlier, I too make a cabbage  veggie soup  with  canned tomato as the base, it is very yummy and filling and I eat it in addition to protiens, good complex carbs and healthy fats.

 

My co-worker did this diet a few years ago.  By  the 3rd or 4th day she was so sick!  Lower intestional distress is the polite way of saying it.  She ended up getting all run down and caught a bad cold/virus and never ended up loosing any weight.

A girlfriend and I tried this diet about 25 years ago. We lasted about 2 or 3 weeks.

I actually really like the soup. I make it every once in a while simply because I love the taste. As Zinniah said it's a great low calorie addition to a diet. It is far too low in calories to eat only the soup.

Did someone say CABBAGE!?

 *drool*

The soup is actually tasty, (I love cabbage) but seriously, think of the soup as WATER because that's mostly the nutritional benefit you'll get from it.

I didn't check the site either, but I remember this diet from 25 years ago when I was in high school, and back THEN, there was one day where you're supposed to eat some insane amount of beef.  And another day where all you get ALL day is the soup, bananas (something like 8-10 bananas in a day), and skim milk. 

If it sounds ridiculous, it probably is.

A friend tried a similar thing where all she seemed to eat was several boiled eggs, three times a day.  She lost weight OK but after a week she looked a little green around the gills.  And her farts..... Oh boy..... She was a one-woman sulphur factory.  Expect wall to wall cabbage would do something similar.

Any diet that wants you to eat the same food 24/7, excludes important food groups, offers a drink or other replacement for 'real food, or charges you to starve is a fad diet by definition.  AVOID!!!!

Hi!

I tried this diet in January. I was doing another slimming program as well. I lost 4 kilos. I was not strict on this diet, I ate rice and bread. But I tried my best to follow it. First it was really hard to stick to it. Then I read a lot about diet and low- calorie food, then when I was feeling hungry I ate a Bran Cracker or some low fat food. I didn't lose as they expected. But I lost pounds.

This is a quote from that website: "Some side affects of the Cabbage Soup Diet are; you may feel light headed, weak, unable to concentrate..." That does not sound healthy! A good diet does not make you feel that way; a good diet makes you feel physically better, not ill. You will most certainly lose weight in those first 7 days because you'll hardly be eating anything. But that will definitely hinder your long-term weight loss goal since it will make you ill and it will lower your metabolism. Don't do it!

Did it, lost 10 lb in 1 week, mostly water. Basically you are starving yourself. It sucked and I will never do it again. 5 of the 10 lb I lost came back a few days later and the other 5 about a week later.

HARD WORK IS THE ONLY TO LOSE IT AND KEEP IT OFF.

I really enjoy the soup diet. I have been on it for 2 weeks and lost 8.5 lbs.  My friend has been on it the same amount of time and she has lost 15 lbs.  You don't have to starve yourself. The point is to eat as much as you want as long as you follow the rules.  The only reason I haven't lost more is because I have cheated every single day except 1. Its a great diet if you are devoted and are commited to continueing to eat healthy once you've lost your desired weight.  That will help you not to gain it back. If you read for each of the seven days you are aloud to eat certain fruits and if you do the research you will understand why.  Most of the ingredients are zero-calorie fruits and veggies which actually burn all the calories up while your body digests them plus you get all the great nutrients.  I have been strong on the diet for 2 days now and jogging/walking 2-3 miles a day.  I have tons of energy and don't get dizzy or headaches.  Its just very very hard to stay completely devoted.  If you stay strong- its a great diet!!!! JUST FOLLOW THE RULES!!!

 

PS- all the weight I have lost is not water weight... its truely burning my fat up!!

It's unhealthy. If you’re going to torture yourself with an unhealthy diet of cabbage soup on a daily basis, surely you can have the will power to eat a normal healthy meal plan.

Single food diets don't work.  This has been proven time and again.  It's the path to yo-yo land.  It's not balanced nutritionally and sooner or later cravings due to the nutritional imbalance will set in.  It's these cravings that will drive you to break it. 

Too low a calorie diet and you're not burning fat, your burning muscle.  Women should not go below 1200 per day diet for that reason. 

 

2 cents,

M.

Hello :)

 

I have done this diet a few times. It is not something you should do for life, but if you need something to motivate you to lose weight before embarking upon a more healthy lifestyle change then this is perfect.

Basically Each time i did it i lost weight and good amount to!!! between 5-10lbs every time.

The thing is not to think of this as a way of life just as a detox for a week to clean your body from processed foods, or as i mentioned to kick start your weight loss journey.

There is a website http://www.theeasycabbagesoupdiet.com which has recipes for every single day of this diet.

The soup itself is nice and there are many ways to change it, using cabbage or not! Adding different spices etc.

I hope this helps!

Like most people here, I don't like "diets".  Once this or any other "diet" is over, you just go right back to your old eating habits and gain all the weight back.  I have no problem with cabbage soup, but I could not eat the same thing all the time.  Almost any soup recipe full of vegetables will do besides cabbage, there's nothing magic about the cabbage other than the massive amount of gas you're likely to get...lol.  

You could make this a much healthier diet by making different soups with a wide variety of vegetables, introduce some beans and grains for fibre and fullness into the soup.  You'd probably be able to stand it a lot longer and you'd certainly enjoy it more.   But again, what do you do when the diet is over?