Does The Cabbage Soup Diet Work?

Does the cabbage soup diet work where most other diets fail? Certainly the cabbage soup diet has been around for years often known by several different names. Here are my experiences and what you might expect.

Surely if one just ate cabbage soup for a week or so, that would be a painful way to lose some weight. Actually that isn't what this is at all. That cabbage soup functions just as a filler. Then other foods are eaten as well but only in a certain manner and on certain days.

You eat all the cabbage soup you want whenever you want it and that way you never really get that empty feeling that drives you to quit. Key to the plan is a strict schedule for what you can eat on each of seven days.

Each day you eat just certain foods and leave off everything else. The foods allowed on each day change as the week passes. If you look at the total variety of foods eaten in a week, there really is quite a choice. The challenge is sticking to just what is allowed each day. It's not at all that you get just a little to eat, it's the discipline to sticking to the plan and leaving off many foods that may be the real cause of your problems with weight.

Key to the fast weight change is what you can't eat. Clearly absent are breads, desserts and most, but not all, carbohydrates. What you end up with is a restricted calorie and restricted fat eating plan. That's the key to the results, not something magical in the cabbage soup itself.

Certainly not a smart long-term eating plan, this is a way to eat that shows fast results. Is that worth the trouble, especially since yo-yo dieting actually results in weight gain, not weight loss, over time? Could be... Here's my theory for your consideration.

Losing weight in a sustainable fashion is so slow, progress is almost impossibly slow. You change your eating and lifestyle habits and then see nearly no results. If you step on the scales every day, natural weight variation makes it look as if nothing is happening, when in fact you may be making good progress. It's just that it's so difficult to see. What is the temptation? Just forget it...

Another way to go is to throw in a short eating plan occasionally that will really let you see the scales move. Even thought the plan does not by itself result in long-term weight drop, it may fit within the perfect route to health and fitness.

So does the cabbage soup diet work?

It does, in my experience, let you watch the scales drop fast in a fairly painless manner. Blended with a long-term eating plan, the cabbage soup diet can serve as a useful part of both losing weight fast and losing weight slowly. It's more of a motivation than a weight loss break-through, but it's probably just about as good as many other more exotic and expensive eating plans available.

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