Diet and Health FAQ

Tagged As: the ultimate cabbage soup diet

Question:
A friend of mine is on this ultimate cabbage soup diet that's going around and has lost about 30 pounds in about 3 weeks. I tried it, but the soup is disgusting. Has anybody got any advice that will help me get my weight down (and keep it down!) with that disgusting soup?!

Answer:
You could stay on WW the rest of your life and never use the ultimate cabbage soup diet unless you wanted to. On the other hand, there's a lovely no-point soup full of any kind of veggie you like, cooked in chicken or beef broth, with whatever spices you like (good old Lawrey's Seasoning Salt is enough for me) that you can eat in unlimited amounts whenever you want. WW is a highly flexible program. Do you really think your friend is going to keep off those 30 pounds lost in 3 weeks? That kind of ultimate cabbage soup diet is unhealthy from the get-go, and it encourages unrealistic dreams, short-term thinking, and ultimate failure. Stick around and ease on into a whole new way of life where you look at your weight long-range over the period of your lifetime and learn to make healthy and realistic food choices and add exercise to your daily living.