Cabbage Soup Diet

The Cabbage Soup Diet is a very strict, very low calorie diet and isn't for the faint hearted. You eat mainly cabbage soup, fruit, other veg and some meat, but shouldn't stay on it for more than week. You can lose up to 10 pounds.

What is The Cabbage Soup Diet?

The Cabbage Soup Diet is an extremely low-fat, high-fibre diet that lasts seven days. By the end of the week, fans of the diet claim you'll have lost up to 10 pounds. It's only designed as a kick-start to help you lose weight quickly and is not supposed to be a long-term healthy eating plan.

How does The Cabbage Soup Diet work

It's simple - you make and eat as much cabbage soup as you want! You're also allowed a combination of different low fat foods on each day, mainly other fruits and vegetables. The homemade cabbage soup has virtually no calories so, hopefully, you'll feel full and still lose weight. 

Cabbage Soup ingredients

6 large onions, chopped
2 green peppers, diced
2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)
250g mushrooms, sliced
1 bunch celery, chopped
1/2 head cabbage, chopped
3 carrots, sliced
1 package dry onion soup mix
1 or 2 cubes bouillon (optional)
Salt and pepper
For added flavour: Cayenne pepper, curry powder, mixed herbs or any other seasoning.

Cabbage Soup recipe method

1. Use spray oil to fry the chopped onions in a large pot.
2. Add the green pepper pieces and cook for one min.
3. Add the chopped cabbage leaves, sliced carrots, celery and mushrooms.
4. Sprinkle over a little cayenne pepper or curry powder.
5. Add 12 cups of water and any additional stock cubes.
6. Cook over a medium heat until the soup is the vegetables are tender and the soup is the right consistency.

Detox Soup Diet

The soup:
The heart of the diet is vegetable soup. Excluding potatoes, you can use any veg you like - experiment! - but the simplest version of the recipe is this:

Take equal portions of
Spinach
Carrots
Celery
Onions
Green peppers
Tomatoes

Chop them up, chuck them into a pot, cover with water and cook! Once cooked, blitz the softened vegetables in a food processor. You could also throw in some fresh herbs or spices for a bit of extra flavour. And there you have it - a unique, tasty and filling vegetable soup that you'd never find in a can!

No tinned!
Don't just buy tinned vegetable soup - the sodium content is through the roof and they often don't contain many vegetables. And many vegetable soups contain potatoes, which are high in starch and have a high GI. Leave them out as your goal is to lose weight!

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17.Can pills help you lose weight?

There is not, of course, a definitive answer to that question. A certain supplement might help ‘you’ to lose weight but it may be of no help to another person. That person may find a certain pill works for them - but it wouldn’t work for you.

I have heard many stories from people who have found some success with pills such as Honey Garlic and Vinegar tablets, with pills that bind fat and with pills that lower their stress levels and therefore decrease their overeating. If you are suffering from a nutrient deficiency then a supplement of that nutrient could also help.

The main thing to bear in mind is to consider what the cause of your weight gain has been - and to ask yourself whether the supplement is the right answer for you.

Many people hope that a pill will solve the weight problem so that they do not have to change their lifestyle or the ways they act and eat in any way.

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16.A ‘healthy’ diet is actually very simple and is the best way to maintain a healthy weight

Sugar is highly addictive and makes you put on weight. It even makes you hungry.

Pure sugar is the worst but the sugars/carbohydrates found in white breads and white pasta, for example, have a similar effect on your health and weight.

To simplify things completely, a healthy diet should contain plenty of whole foods that you cook yourself. That means brown breads and pasta and rice - sometimes if not all the time. You need a good amount of protein with most meals rather than just eating starch. Each meal should ideally be made up of roughly 30% vegetables.

Also eat fruits, nuts and healthy olive oil.

A small amount of sugar each day is fine for most people. A constant craving for sugar foods is a tell-tale sign that things are not good!

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15.Drink plenty of WATER - NOT low-calorie drinks

There are several quite complex reasons why drinks (and indeed foods) containing artificial sweeteners can make you put on weight. There is both the way in which they alter your relationship with eating and drinking - as well as the direct physical effects it has on your body.

Eating and drinking should be about feeding your body with the many different nutrients it needs to remain healthy - as well as the pleasure of the experience. If we try and cheat the system and have our cake and eat it then this healthy attitude can be thrown out of balance.

From your body’s point of view itself, when you drink something like a can of diet lemonade, your body is fooled into believing that what it must now deal with is high in calories and sugar. This not surprisingly causes all kinds of confusion, incorrect processes and can lead to you craving the wrong kinds of foods to compensate.

Drinking water, on the other hand, helps your body to eliminate toxins and wastes and keeps it in better health. Insufficient fluid intake can lead to many problems including a reduced metabolic rate.

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14.It’s not just OK to snack between meals, it can help you lose weight!

Many of us have been told through the years that snacking between meals is a sure fire way of putting on weight. Yet this is exactly the opposite of the truth.

(Depending to some degree, of course, on what snacks you choose...)

Whenever we eat, our metabolic rate increases for anout 90 minutes afterwards. The more often we eat, therefore, the higher our metabolism throughout the day.

Somebody who eats five meals of 300 calories each, therefore, will burn more fat than somebody who eats three meals of 500 calories.

Secondly, the longer you wait between meals, the hungrier you are likely to be when the meal comes and you may end up eating a lot very quickly.

Finally, the longer you wait between meals, the more likely your body is to sacrifice muscle tissue to the production of energy than burning fat instead.

As I’m sure you already know, fruit and nuts make very good snacks but are not the only things you can eat. A small wholemeal sandwich with a healthy filling would do very nicely as well.

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13.Avoid filling your kitchen with lots of diet foods

Foods like diet bars and low-calorie foods can be treacherous. Not only are they seldom actually a healthy option, but they can actually lead to you eating more because you think it’s ‘sin free’.

Experts have also discovered that when people are surrounded by lots of different foods that they can eat and choose from, they end up eating more. This has been cited as the reason why the Atkin’s Diet worked well for people during its hay day when the diet you were told to eat was simple - but then became less effective when marketeers cashed in on the craze with low-carbohydrate foods of any variety you felt you might want, or they were able to persuade what you wanted.

It’s also the reason why a lot of people sware by the empty cupboard approach to eating a healthier diet. If you don’t see it, you won’t eat it!