What is The Cabbage Soup Diet?
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup
Calories from Fat 29
Total Calories 71
% Daily Values*
Total Fat 3.26g 5%
Saturated Fat 0.62g 3%
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.975g
Monounsaturated Fat
1.414g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 316mg 13%
Potassium 399mg
Total Carbohydrate 7.69g 3%
Dietary Fiber 1.7g 7%
Sugars 4.04g
Protein 3.92g
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 24%
Calcium 4%
Iron
3%
The cabbage soup diet is a short-term diet, followed for 7
days. While following the diet, you strictly limit your intake a vegetable
& cabbage soup, consume only calorie-free beverages, and dine upon low calorie foods.
Rapid Weight Loss: This diet is often used to lose weight
and lose it fast, the cabbage soup diet is for you. Individual results vary,
but most people tend to lose about 10 pounds (4.5 kg) over the course of 1
week, which is at least triple the weight than could be achieved from most
other diets in the same period of time.
It is a consumption diet, meaning you can eat as much as you
want of certain foods, there’s no measuring, weighing, or reading food labels.
You eat the soup anytime and enjoy the strictly controlled fruit and vegetables
on the remaining days. After the week you go back to your normal eating habits,
which may be your downfall, you must continue on a sensible diet combined with
an exercise program to continue losing weight. Consider the Cabbage Soup diet
as a Kick Start diet. After your week on
the Cabbage Soup diet a balance food combining diet would work extremely well.
Veggies: This diet regime requires a lot of planning and
frequent shopping trips to the supply of vegetables and fruit. For many people
it will involve cooking and eating separately from other family members not
following this eating regime. The high amounts of colorful vegetables like bell
peppers and tomatoes provide your body with plenty of healthy antioxidants and
fiber during the diet. However, if you take multi-vitamin supplements continue
to do so as the diet like most will not provide all which your body may
require.
Many find the diet boring: the tedium of eating cabbage soup
everyday makes them enjoy their meal less than they did before. This is the
reason I have come up with the Chef Ks version of the diet. Seven days of eating
the same main meal are tedious, my plan offers the cabbage soup, but it is
presented with international flavorings.
This a Low-Calorie diet: Cabbage soup is very low in
calories, about 71 per cup. Because cabbage soup will be the foundation of your
diet, your caloric intake will range from 800-1,200 calories per day. The
caloric shortage is large enough that it accelerates weight loss, bringing on a
rapid drop in pounds.
My doctor says, and of course my culinary training tells us that
fiber helps curb appetite and keep you feeling fuller and satisfied after
meals. The Cabbage Soup diet is packed
with high-fiber vegetables, bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes, bringing to an
end to high calorie cravings.
One study shows while another does not, that dining out
frequently was strongly correlated with weight gain. Consuming high fat and
high calorie foods will cause weight gain, a simple fact of life (a chef or
cook can gain as much as five pounds a year just by breathing in the cooking
oils from the kitchen fryers) therefore dining out upon such meals will result in weight gain, sensible dining
will not. Because the meals in the cabbage soup diet plan can’t be found in
restaurants, it requires one to cook at home, our plan will just provide variety and
simplicity in home preparation of the meal plan, which is a good thing.
Be organized and get geared up before the diet starts, make
sure your kitchen is stocked with the ingredients you’ll need -not as you go. Try
to remove any diet killing food stuffs from your home, stay away from dining
out, you will be on a strict and very limited diet, why tempt yourself? Don’t be
a cheater, after all, you only hurt the one you love, that is you. It’s important to strictly follow the diet for
the full 7-day period. A single high-calorie cheat can spoil results.
7-Day Limit: Because the diet is so intense, it’s not advisable
to follow the diet for more than 7-days at a time. Any longer than that and you
could be setting yourself up for nutrient deficiencies. Your consumption of leafy greens and non
starchy vegetables like green beans,
broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, cucumbers, carrots, mushrooms, and celery aids
in weight loss and weight management since fiber fills you up quickly and
staves off hunger. Eating a diet rich in fiber can also help lower cholesterol
and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke so from this point of view the
cabbage Soup diet will assist.
Starchy vegetables like sweet and white potatoes, winter
squash, peas, and corn are high-quality carbohydrates that are rich in
vitamins, minerals, and fiber, however starchy vegetables are higher in
calories than nonstarchy vegetables so
it’s important to moderate your portions, especially if you’re trying to lose
weight, the Cabbage Soup diet allows just one baked potato during the seven
days. There is no fat usage at all, good, bad, trans or olive, all are
forbidden during the seven days, except just a minute amount for that lonely
baked potato.
Drink a lot of water, tea, or low calorie unsweetened beverage,
stay away from sodas of any kind (yes even diet). Diet sodas trigger insulin,
which sends your body into fat storage mode which leads to weight gain. They increase hunger which is often only
satisfied with high calorie, high fat food stuffs, leaving you stuffed and with
a ruined diet.
Do not consider that the soup plan will be a cost saving
measure, in the dead of winter vegetables ounce for ounce, can be more costly than
most proteins and you need to eat a lot of vegetables on this diet.
Typically the 7-day Cabbage Soup plan is:
Day 1: Cabbage soup and any fruit (except for bananas).
Consume plenty of calorie-free fluids like tea and coffee (unsweetened).
Day 2: Cabbage soup, and more and more non-starchy
vegetables. A baked potato is allowed at one meal, with a teaspoon of butter.
Day 3: Cabbage soup, fruit, and non-starchy vegetables.
Day 4: Cabbage soup, 2 glasses of skim or soy milk, not fat,
non sweetened Greek yogurt and fruit which is only bananas.
Day 5: Cabbage soup, 15 ounces of lean meat like chicken,
lean pork, or fish and any non-starchy vegetable. Use a light pan spray to
grill the protein and season with any one of Chef K seasoning blends.
Day 6: Same as day 5.
Day 7: Cabbage soup, up to 2 cups of rice, (long grain,
short grain, Basamati or Jasmine but brown rice is best), and unlimited fruits
(except bananas) and vegetables.
