Tagged As: Does The Cabbage Soup Diet Work
Question:
My sister found a diet where you can lose 11-18 lbs in the first week. And you get to stuff yourself! You make a cabbage soup thing and eat only certain things. Anyone ever heard of it? Any success stories? I'm 15, and a vegetarian, and my parents are worried I won't get all the vitimans and things I need, especially if I continue doing this diet. Can anyone back this up? Does the cabbage soup diet work?
Answer:
You must be talking about the Sacred Heart diet (also referred to as the Cabbage Soup Diet). I followed it for 4 weeks and lost 10 pounds. You can't follow it if you are vegetarian--Day 4 is Skim Milk and Bananas and Cabbage Soup all day; Day 5 and 6 is meat and cabbage soup all day (tomotoes on day 5 in addition; green leafy vegs on day 6 in addition). Get the book THE ZONE if you want a great diet book--nothing I've read compares in learning more about the body and food than from this book. Dr. Sears says if you loose more than 1.5 pounds a week, that part of that loss has to be fluid or muscle loss--for you can only loose, genetically speaking, a maximum of 1.5 pounds of fat a week. I'm continuing to eat the Cabbage Soup on the Zone diet but every meal is supplemented with enough protein to get the balance that Dr. Sears recommends
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