Cabbage soup diet....it works amazingly!!!

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  • yaddayaddayadda
    yaddayaddayadda Posts: 430 Member
    Your story sounds very familiar to me...

    WhenI was in high school, losing weight was easy for me. I could go on any type of crash diet and lose a large amount of weight very quickly. I used the Cabbage Soup diet and the Grapefruit Diet, and the Eat One Meal a Day Diet, and anything else that came along...

    That type of dieting doesnt work for me any more. :sad: :sad: That's why I'm here. My advice is to maintain a safe calorie intake and combine that with exercise to change your lifestyle for long-term healthy living. It has worked for me since my last child was born... 20 years ago.

    If you like cabbage soup, eat it. But don't limit yourself to only cabbage soup day after day. You might lose weight quickly, but it could be bad for you in the long term.

    Good luck!!
  • MrsJax11
    MrsJax11 Posts: 354 Member


    If you like cabbage soup, eat it. But don't limit yourself to only cabbage soup day after day. You might lose weight quickly, but it could be bad for you in the long term.

    I love cabbage soup. I have used it as a filler food while trying to slim down and it worked really well.....I absolutely ate other things, too, though. I had one serving from every food group at each meal, small snacks that combined carb/fat/protein, and as much soup as I wanted. I was put on that plan by a nutritionist, and felt great at the time. Looking at the link to the 7 day plan...I would have to add in the healthy cheats -- like protein on the all veggie days...I bookmarked the recipe:) I am not saying that I will follow the 7 days, but I do see some yummy cabbage soup in my future! Thanks for reminding me of it, OP!
  • JStarnes
    JStarnes Posts: 5,576 Member
    She's not 18, she's a married 26 year old woman who used it in the past... and she wants to add it into her present diet... sheesh.
    That is so not healty and people under 18 should not diet. Period.
    Think that poster was referring to her doing it before her prom - ie: under 18.
  • JDMPWR
    JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
    So I remeber in high school I bought this beatuiful dress for prom and 2 weeks before prom it was too tight, so my mom put me on a cabbage soup diet and I drank nothing but water until prom and I dropped 9 lbs in 2 weeks. I'm probablly gonna start adding the cabbage soup in my diet again...just a thought for anyone else that likes cabbage soup and haven't heard of this yet it does work amazingly!!

    Recipe for Cabbage soup

    http://www.cabbage-soup-diet.com/recipe/

    might as well drink water all day...all you are is starving yourself of protein and nutrients that cabbage soup does not give you....smh
  • LisaKyle11
    LisaKyle11 Posts: 662 Member
    not even going to read this post. LIMITING YOURSELF TO ONE TYPE OF FOOD IS NOT HEALTHY! YOU NEED A HEALTHY BALANCED DIET AND YOU NEED TO GET ALL THE NUTRIENTS FOR YOUR BODY.


    Yep, I agree. And once you start eating real food, the weight comes back. I'll take hard work, determination and a healthy meal plan as my tools.
    YEP
  • brucedelaney
    brucedelaney Posts: 433 Member
    Ah man everyone is going crazy.... READ her first post she wants to ADD it to her current diet :)

    This, She wants to add it to her diet, Cabbage soup is a vegetable soup that is very filling. Adding it to any diet is a great way to get more nutrients, fiber and to help you feel full to curb other appetite deficiencies.
  • Newmammaluv
    Newmammaluv Posts: 379 Member
    The whole diet is actually a selective diet not one if eliminating things all together. You can other things but in selective order. My grandfather did it at the recommendation of his dr and lost right around 90lbs. His dr actually had to tell him to go off because it was working too well. When he starts to gain he pops on for a couple weeks for maintenence and that's it. He has kept the weight off for 7 or 8 years at this point and he is 75 years old and just re roofed his own house last month. This falls under the category of whatever works for you.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    I prefer to not have painful gas ripping around in my lower intestines. :tongue:
  • Alissa_Sal
    Alissa_Sal Posts: 141
    I think that adding some homemade veggie/cabbage soup to your diet (but eating other healthy things throughout the day too) sounds like a fine plan. Eating nothing but cabbage soup is a bad idea, but that's not the way that I took the OP's post.
  • JStarnes
    JStarnes Posts: 5,576 Member
    I prefer to not have painful gas ripping around in my lower intestines. :tongue:
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Ajontheguitar
    Ajontheguitar Posts: 695
    All respect to whatever is being said, and I'm sure it's a supplementary diet however....

    When I first read only the subject, all I thought was:

    Yeah, that's called being POOR.
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
    I love message boards.
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
    All respect to whatever is being said, and I'm sure it's a supplementary diet however....

    When I first read only the subject, all I thought was:

    Yeah, that's called being POOR.

    You are nice!!
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    All respect to whatever is being said, and I'm sure it's a supplementary diet however....

    When I first read only the subject, all I thought was:

    Yeah, that's called being POOR.
    Nah, that's the hotdogs and government cheese diet. I lived on that as a kid. LOL
  • Heatherbledsoe
    Heatherbledsoe Posts: 106 Member
    That is so not healty and people under 18 should not diet. Period.

    is this serious? what do you have against teenagers dieting? even if one is overweight, huh? smh...
  • Heatherbledsoe
    Heatherbledsoe Posts: 106 Member
    Ah man everyone is going crazy.... READ her first post she wants to ADD it to her current diet :)

    This, She wants to add it to her diet, Cabbage soup is a vegetable soup that is very filling. Adding it to any diet is a great way to get more nutrients, fiber and to help you feel full to curb other appetite deficiencies.

    what can I say, not everyone knows how to read, lol.
  • atomdraco
    atomdraco Posts: 1,083 Member
    Hum, know you all make me thinking about making a cabbage soup for dinner. I found a better and healthier version of the recipe (no processed crap in it):

    http://www.grouprecipes.com/18460/cabbage-soup.html

    # 1 1/2 cups sliced carrots
    # 1 cup sliced celery
    # 1 cup diced onions
    # 2 cloves of garlic smashed
    # 8 cups of cubed potatoes
    # 8 cups shredded nappa cabbage
    # 3/4 cup fresh chopped tomato added only at the end
    # 14 cups chicken stock
    # 4 cups shredded chicken
    # 2 bay leaves
    # 1 tsp allspice
    # 4 sprigs fresh thyme
    # 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley chopped
    # salt and pepper to taste
    # 1 tsp sugar
    # 1 tsp vinegar

    Got to put this in my blog, so I can find it when I need it.

    BTW, stop fighting :P
  • Ajontheguitar
    Ajontheguitar Posts: 695
    ...you think I was saying that as a knock to the poor? You have it backwards.
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    Results might be faster if you do you cabbage soup and Brawno instead of cabbage soup and water. More electrolytes that way. It's what plants crave.
  • atomdraco
    atomdraco Posts: 1,083 Member
    Results might be faster if you do you cabbage soup and Brawno instead of cabbage soup and water. More electrolytes that way. It's what plants crave.

    lol
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    Results might be faster if you do you cabbage soup and Brawno instead of cabbage soup and water. More electrolytes that way. It's what plants crave.

    Ive found it to be much more effective if you use Leeks instead of cabbage and replace all the water directly with Brawndo. If the Plants crave it, it has to be healthy.
  • halobender
    halobender Posts: 780 Member
    @ FaithHopeTrust : if she did not want peoples' opinions she shouldn't have posted here. No need to be rude.
    Yeah, if she didn't want us telling her what's right for her, she shouldn't even come near the internet! What the hell is wrong with you people who seem to think that you should be able to have any sort of opinion that wavers from the MFP indoctrination? We don't need no stinkin' reading comprehension.
  • ChantalGG
    ChantalGG Posts: 2,404 Member
    I did it when i was 19 for 3 1/2 days dropped 7 lbs. It was awful. I ended up gaining 11 lbs back within the next two months.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Just a side note... I'd drink pee for two weeks to fit into "THE" dress. Doesn't means it's a sustainable diet, but I get what the OP was sayin about the prom dress :)
  • gingerfoxxx
    gingerfoxxx Posts: 267 Member
    my mom did this diet when my brother and i were little. It turns out, me and him both love cabbage soup, and would eat it all.

    So on the plus side, that soup is tasty!

    but honestly she never kept that weight off, and is still overweight like 20 years later. but man i am craving that soup now...
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Yes, it works because you are eating very little calories. Not healthy and not sustainable.
  • 27strange
    27strange Posts: 837 Member
    When I was a kid my parents used to do the cabbage soup diet a few times a year for a few weeks at a time. It worked while they were on it, but no lasting results, just like any diet fad....if you follow it it works for awhile but its not sustainable because inevitably you will fall off the wagon.
  • yaddayaddayadda
    yaddayaddayadda Posts: 430 Member
    Just a side note... I'd drink pee for two weeks to fit into "THE" dress. Doesn't means it's a sustainable diet, but I get what the OP was sayin about the prom dress :)


    LOL... Almost anything, but not pee!!
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    Ive found it to be much more effective if you use Leeks instead of cabbage and replace all the water directly with Brawndo. If the Plants crave it, it has to be healthy.

    If this is the case, I think I would try Miracle gro...
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    Just a side note... I'd drink pee for two weeks to fit into "THE" dress. Doesn't means it's a sustainable diet, but I get what the OP was sayin about the prom dress :)

    LOL, I think I'm in love ... or at least with your posts!
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