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Before revealing the essentials of how to go about implementing a cabbage soup diet that will help you lose amazing amounts of weight in a short amount of time, a disclaimer comes first. The cabbage soup diet is not intended to be permanent; the diet is designed to run for seven days and should not be repeated immediately. Ultimately, it should not be repeated, but can be repeated after two weeks of ‘normal’ eating. The cabbage soup diet is effective for losing large amounts of weight in seven days; it is not considered a permanent health fix and it is not considered a healthy permanent diet. This diet is for you if you need/want to lose weight in a week. If you are looking for permanent weight loss, you should look at slower methods of weight loss, which are more likely to stick.
The cabbage soup diet is comprised of, well, cabbage soup, in conjunction with a strict diet of other foods, which is stipulated by the diet. First, let’s talk about the other foods that you can eat on each of the seven days of the diet, and then the recipe for the soup itself will be given. On the first day of the diet, you can eat cabbage soup and as much fruit as you want. The exception to this is bananas (because one entire day of the diet is devoted to bananas. So day one is any fruit that you want, and day two is any vegetables that you want, including a baked potato. On day three you can combine any fruits and vegetables that you’d like, in addition to the soup; once again, bananas are not allowed. Day four is banana day; on this day, you should eat eight bananas and drink a lot of skin milk, as well as eating as much soup as you’d like. Day five includes six tomatoes and 20 ounces of meat, plus soup. Day six is made up of vegetables and the same amount of meat or fish as day five. The final day of the diet is for unlimited unsweetened fruit juice, vegetables, and brown rice. All of the foods can be eaten until you are satisfied, except for the foods that have weights or quantities with them.
In addition to these daily foods, you’ll have to make your soup. The best solution is to make a giant pot of soup and keep it in the refrigerator, warming it up as you feel the urge to eat it. The soup consists of cabbage, onions, celery, onion soup mix, canned tomatoes, green peppers and water. For the exact proportions, you can find them on the internet, but the amounts are relative. If you mix the amounts of each ingredient in the soup, you will not be altering your chances for weight loss.
Aside from the precautions mentioned above that referred to the fact that the cabbage soup diet is not a permanent solution to healthy eating, nor a permanent solution to weight control, there have been a lot of complaints about the cabbage soup diet about the unpleasant feeling that the diet gives the dieter, including an excessive amount of gas. Other common complaints are nausea and lightheadedness. If you are experiencing mild symptoms, you might choose to go ahead with the diet, but if you’re feeling lightheaded or dizzy, you should definitely discontinue the diet and possibly consult your doctor if you have any reason to believe that something could be wrong besides be missing some carbs. Keep the diet in perspective and use it for what it is, and then move on; it’s simply not a way of healthy eating.