Cabbage Soup Diet Plan Review

If you want to get fit and need to lose fast a few pounds for some special occasion, then the Cabbage Soup Diet is what you need!

Every fad diet starts like that. Well, I admit the Cabbage Soup Diet is a fad diet, but it will help you lose weight for sure. I know that because my mom is a regular Cabbage Soup Dieter.

What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?

The Cabbage Soup Diet it is an extremely low calorie diet, prepared mostly with cabbage, combined with tomatoes, onions and variety of other veggies. It is designed to help you lose about 10 pounds for the 1 week diet plan.

How the Cabbage Soup Diet works?

The more soup you eat, the more weight you lose – that’s how it works.

For the 7 days of the Cabbage Soup diet plan you can eat as much soup as you want. That sounds great, because you won’t be starving, and yet losing weight.

Cabbage Soup Diet weight loss is not a myth

My mom diets every summer before the summer beach vacation. Every summer, for the last 6 years, she proves that losing weight with Cabbage Soup Diet is possible by succeeding to get fit for her favorite bathing suit.

The Cabbage Soup Diet Plan

The good news is that for 7 days you eat as much soup as you like whenever you feel hungry, in order to keep you away from tasty snacks. You must not snack forbidden foods. Yes, the diet is strict - there is a specific menu for each day, as well as some foods and drinks that are not allowed.

No alcohol or fizzy drinks, not even the diet ones!

Day 1 - eat as much soup as you like + all kind of fruits, except bananas; drink tea and coffee without sugar

Day 2 - eat as much soup as you like + raw or stewed veggies and one baked potato with butter; exclude dried beans and peas

Day 3 - eat as much soup as you like + fruits and vegetables, exclude bananas and potatoes

Day 4 - eat as much soup as you like + 8 bananas; drink as much skim milk as you want

Day 5 - eat as much soup as you like + 10-20 oz of beef* and up to 6 fresh tomatoes; drink lots of water

Day 6 - eat as much soup as you like + beef* and vegetable salads; exclude potatoes

Day 7 - eat as much soup as you like + brown rice, vegetables, and fruit juices with no sugar; no potatoes or any diet drinks

* You may substitute grilled chicken or fish for the beef.

The Cabbage Soup Diet recipe

Ingredients

• cabbage (chopped)
• onions (chopped)
• canned tomatoes (chopped)
• green peppers (chopped)
• carrots (chopped)
• celery
• mushrooms (thick sliced)
• beef or chicken bouillon
• water
• salt, pepper, parsley

Cooking

Sauté the onions in a pot with cooking spray; add the green pepper, cabbage, carrots and mushrooms.

Add the bouillon cubes and about 12 cups of water (if you don’t use bouillon cubes, season with parsley, salt and pepper to taste), cover the pot and simmer for at least two hours.

Bon appétit!