The Cabbage Soup Diet
Losing weight isn’t always easy and people often find it hard to stay with a diet that they choose because of the time consuming process of actually shedding pounds. Many fad diets, diets which raise and decrease in popularity, promise quick weight loss and so does The Cabbage Soup Diet. Being able to lose up to ten pounds in one week is a great accomplishment, and with The Cabbage Soup Diet, you can do just that.
The Cabbage Soup Diet consists of seven days of meals where on each day you are allowed to eat unlimited cabbage soup along with something else for the day. On the first day you begin with cabbage soup accompanied by any fruit other than bananas. The next day consists of cabbage soup along side other vegetables, including a baked potato with butter for dinner (potatoes are off-limits on other days). The third day you can include other fruits and vegetables. The following day eat as many bananas and drink as much skim milk as you can along with your daily cabbage soup. Next you can eat six tomatoes and up to fifteen ounces of meat or fish. After this you can eat as much beef and vegetables as you would like. On the final day you are allowed to consume as much brown rice as you please and pure fruit juices and veggies. During this whole process you are not allowed to eat any bread products, carbonated beverages or alcohol.
Barrington M. Robinson, a former treasurer and vice-chairman of the British Charolais Cattle Society, of Lodge Farm in Rochford, England, personally fought gaining weight during a time when he was seriously ill. He created the cabbage soup diet, and having found out it worked, he came up with an idea to cut back on the preparation, cooking, and storage of the soup, by making it i...
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