What is it?

The cabbage soup diet is a short-term weight loss diet. It involves consuming large quantities of cabbage soup. It can help you to lose up to 10 lbs or 4.5 KG in one week. If you want to lose weight fast, this is a diet for you. You need to follow this diet for seven days and then can help you to lose 10 lbs. during the seven days, you'll eat almost nothing but home-made cabbage soup. You are allowed to have one or two other foods like fruit or vegetables, skim milk and others.

This diet does not work as a starvation diet. Cabbage is a low-calorie food and when you consume more cabbage, your body needs to use more energy to digest the cabbage, thereby burning more calories. Your body burns more calories than the cabbage itself contains. So, the more soup you eat, the more weight you lose.

That diet is not intended to last longer than one week at a time. If you want to slim down before an event or if you want to jumpstart a long term diet plan, this is the diet which can help you to do so.

Does it work?

The cabbage soup diet is very low in calories and so it will help you to lose weight. The choices that you have in food that you can eat during this time is very limited and they are also low in calories. As a result of that, even though you consume a lot, it'll be very difficult for you to maintain your body weight.

A few things to know

It is very important to know a few things before you begin the diet. You need to know how to prepare yourself for success before you start the cabbage soup diet. You need to understand what to do during the cabbage soup diet to reduce side-effects or even to avoid them altogether. You also need to know what to do after the cabbage soup diet is over to ensure that you do not slip back into your old habits and regain the weight that you lost. You also need to know how to keep the new you even long after you have finished the cabbage soup diet. If you know all of these, the knowledge will help you to become successful in losing weight with the help of cabbage soup diet without any problem.

For success in cabbage soup diet, you need to follow a few rules. These rules will help you to become successful in following this diet and achieving the results you want. The rule is that you need to follow are-

• Follow the diet to the letter
• Drink at least four glasses of water everyday
• You need to follow this for seven days only
• Also complement the diet with equality daily multivitamin
• Eat plenty of soup. The more you eat, the more you will be able to lose. Do not try to cheat or starve yourself.

It will always be better for you if you become a part of a community that is trying to lose weight with cabbage soup diet because you will get loss of support and mentoring from other people and your journey will be easier for you. Find a community and get in touch with other people who have successfully used this method to lose weight and achieve the best shape of their lives.

References

1. Cabbage Soup Diet 2.0 – The Ultimate Guide
2. Sample records for cabbage soup diet
3. Improving Your Eating Habits