Cabbage Soup Diet. What your experience? Thoughts?

NikkiL0v3L1f3

Tomarrow Im starting the cabbage soup diet. Im wondering what others experiences are with this diet. No bashing please

Mia_RagazzaTosta

I promise you'll feel so much better eating regular food in moderation.

meeper123

Cabbage is very smelly that is my opinion lol

dsalveson

Just.....why?

PinkNinjaLaura

I tried it probably 20 years ago, and my experience is that by the end of day 1 you're never going to want to see that soup again. You start out thinking "oh this isn't so bad" but that doesn't take long to change. 20 years later I still kind of shudder thinking about that soup.

JilloftheDead

Cabbage soup is yummy.. cabbage soup every day for a week, not so much.

wheird

My thoughts are that it is ridiculous, but I support your right to do it!

DeltaZero

Just thinking about it make me almost purge myself and want to go on a cleanse.



And eat pizza.

NikkiL0v3L1f3

Hmm, Wel I like cabbage soup so Im going to give it a try.

eylia

Cabbage actually upsets a lot of people's stomachs. Why not just make up your favourite vegetable soup, and replace one meal a day with a nice bowl of that? Extreme diets don't often help much in the long run, I'd honestly suggest you try for a more long term approach. If you're determined, just make sure you stay hydrated and aware of your body; if you're unwell from it, don't try and push on.

tiddlebit11

I havnt done it, as i dont think its a good idea, but what i suspect you will endure:

GAS!!! heaps of GAS!!!!! (and thus bloating)

Severe deterioration in health

Short term weight loss but long term gains

Total mess up of your bodily systems, especially hormonal system

Conclusion: DO NOT attempt

mockchoc

It's fine to eat as long as you eat tons more the rest of the day to make up for the lack of calories. Having too big a deficit is very bad for your health.

1longroad

Never done the cabbage soup diet, but when I did WW they had a very similar soup you could make and eat as much as you wanted the first week of weight watchers. I love cabbage, love vegie soup, but wouldn't want to go without protein with it personally.

NikkiL0v3L1f3

My idea is to this diet and stick it for the week, and eat lots of fruits and vegies and everything else i can have on my days besides just the soup. After my 7 days is up start exercising daily and go on a more long term healthier diet. I am aware that I should feel like crap being on this diet, therefore i wont have the energy to exercise during it. Its just for a week,,It shouldnt hurt to try right?

jynxxxed

Instead of eating cabbage soup, why not consume the same amount of calories worth of various delicious foods and still lose weight anyway?

NikkiL0v3L1f3

And there are 2 days where I get to have meat, and thats protien

sweetchildomine

DONT DO IT!!! DONT DO IT!!! lol I've tried every fad diet you can think of so I too have gone the route of the cabbage soup diet. It's NOT worth it. I actually LOVE cabbage so I thought it would be ok but believe me, after the 2nd day it's pretty much torture. It's not even worth it because I only lost about 3 pounds which I could have lost eating different types of foods, just watching my calories. Go ahead and try it but believe me, it's not going to be fun and it's not worth it lol.

Mia_RagazzaTosta

My idea is to this diet and stick it for the week, and eat lots of fruits and vegies and everything else i can have on my days besides just the soup. After my 7 days is up start exercising daily and go on a more long term healthier diet. I am aware that I should feel like crap being on this diet, therefore i wont have the energy to exercise during it. Its just for a week,,It shouldnt hurt to try right?

Wrong. You're only setting yourself back 7 days by doing this.

NikkiL0v3L1f3

Im bad at thinking of low calorie foods, lol.

Phoenix_Warrior

And there are 2 days where I get to have meat, and thats protien

You have to go 2 days without protein? Pass!!

navyrigger46

I for one would like to congratulate you on your upcoming epic fail, sounds like you have it all figured out, special starvation diet and all. Best of luck.

Rigger

jynxxxed

Im bad at thinking of low calorie foods, lol.

Perhaps that's what you should post then! Ask for some like-minded friends with open diaries who are also eating at a deficit. Plus, you don't have to only eat low calorie foods. You can eat higher calorie foods just in smaller portions as well.

Mia_RagazzaTosta

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants?hl=Sexypants

NikkiL0v3L1f3

6ish monthes ago, i was eating low calorie diet. (1300 calories) and worked out hard every single day for 2 monthes. i lost 5 pounds that whole time. I saw no improvements in my body.

jynxxxed

6ish monthes ago, i was eating low calorie diet. (1300 calories) and worked out hard every single day for 2 monthes. i lost 5 pounds that whole time. I saw no improvements in my body.

I can bet that you were eating at too much of a deficit. Which is essentially what this crash diet you're contemplating will consist of..

Ed98043

How is cabbage soup any different than any other soup? It is supposed to have special properties somehow?

jenilla1

Everyone I've ever known who dieted ended up fat and flabby. I prefer to maintain a consistently healthy lifestyle instead. It works for me. Good luck with your soup, though. I love cabbage. In fact, I often use shredded cabbage in place of lettuce in salads.

mockchoc

My idea is to this diet and stick it for the week, and eat lots of fruits and vegies and everything else i can have on my days besides just the soup. After my 7 days is up start exercising daily and go on a more long term healthier diet. I am aware that I should feel like crap being on this diet, therefore i wont have the energy to exercise during it. Its just for a week,,It shouldnt hurt to try right?

Yes a week will hurt. It only takes 3 days for your metabolism to drop then you'll have to keep eating like a bird.

nataliecarter28

losing 5 pounds in 2 months is actually a very healthy weight loss. congratulations on that!

I foolishly tried the cabbage soup diet a few months ago. I couldn't make it past day two, I had no energy and my body was craving real food so badly. I wouldn't recommend it.
but I will say this, the first day will clear you out and you'll probably lose a pound or two of water weight. I pooped like 10 times that day!

Phoenix_Warrior

How is cabbage soup any different than any other soup? It is supposed to have special properties somehow?

This makes me want to try a chicken tortilla soup diet.

Qski

I too did it years ago (and another variation with a different soup) but pretty much the same thing. So has my mum and lots of other women she was friends with.

I think it's fine to do it if you really want to. But it is essentially a super low calorie diet, the combinations of food and the soup itself doesn't really do anything different that having the same calories per day would do (or any other VLCD like meal replacement shakes, etc)

Maybe if it was something where you just wanted to lose to fit into a dress in a week or something like that and the quirkiness of it would help you to stick to it it would be good.

I know how you feel - because I wanted to 'jump start' my loss too I thought it would help me from a motivation perspective if I saw an initial big drop and then I could do the whole sensible thing. [I chose optifast not the cabbage soup diet]. And initially I did ok I think I dropped more than 2kg (4.4lbs) in the first week, but I ended up just feeling super hungry and not motivated at all and getting to a point where I signed up to weight watchers (about 3 weeks before I signed up here) took me about 2 months and the loss was gone.

I have been doing weight watchers and tracking my calories here for 10 weeks in total now and have lost 4.7kg (10.3lbs). I have been exercising, and I am super motivated, excited about my improvement in fitness and quite confident that I can do this and stick to it long term. (average over the last week 1495 calories) Have had chocolate, candy, cake, vodka, beer mmmm beer), and even a vienna hot dog with fries.

If you really think, you need that initial kick try it and see. But sometimes if you are that focussed on just numbers it won't make you feel any better anyway or help your motivation. I think you just need to accept losing weight safely and properly takes a while, and if you are already here, you want to do well and you can. You really don't need the cabbage soup diet to help you, or if you really love the soup - make the soup and have other normal food within the calorie allowance for you (ie make your own cabbage soup diet).

Good Luck!

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