Satan's diet?

This is basically the Cabbage Soup diet. You fill up on a lot of fiber and feel so bloated that you don't eat a lot of calories during the seven days. You DO lose weight, but the weight PLUS more comes back on when you begin eating a normal, healthy diet again. It hurts your metabolism. The only way to lose weight is to increase exercise and decrease food intake. I hate hearing that too and have done every fad diet in the book. I think everyone has been a little guilty of looking for that quick fix.

If you have a big event in a couple of weeks and want to lose a little water weight/pounds quickly, I would recommend lowering carb intake(as in carbs only found in veggies and fruit) and upping protein intake....Also increasing cardio during this time. However, a diet like that can only be maintained for a couple of weeks and can potentially hurt any REAL progress made by slowing down metabolism. It's also important to remember that GOOD carbs ie; whole grains, beans and sweet potatoes, give us the energy we need to give our bodies strength to get through the sweat sessions ahead in losing weight.

My advice is to lose the weight slow and steady, but I know from experience....Sometimes it just feels nice to be at a certain weight/clothing size when you go to a special event. Best of luck to you!

Good luck!

Let me guess...........there's a deficit involved.

Let me guess...........there's a deficit involved.

you shut your mouth.



















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I know this is old, but I just want to add...

Lots of people eat "raw vegan" and they are healthy, so what's the problem with having a couple days of eating fruits and veggies?
It's 7 days, it's not going to do any long lasting negative damage to you.

I know this is old, but I just want to add...

Lots of people eat "raw vegan" and they are healthy, so what's the problem with having a couple days of eating fruits and veggies?
It's 7 days, it's not going to do any long lasting negative damage to you.

because it's unnecessary and possibly dangerous

all you do on diets like this is use up your glycogen stores, which results in loss of water weight, and you see a big drop in scale weight. it doesn't make you any thinner, and it doesn't make you any healthier. It, in fact, puts you at risk of health problems such as loss of bone density. there are no benefits to this diet, only a ton of risks, but hey they're really popular and lots of women are going to carry on doing them, because they love to see that great big drop of scale weight, because they think it somehow makes them a better person. It doesn't!!!

I lost 6lb in 2 days due to gastroenteritis. My skinfold was the same as it was before I got ill, in other words, none of those 6lb that i lost was fat. It was just glycogen and water that I lost. The only difference this loss of 6lb of glycogen and water made, was that my first workouts after getting sick really sucked bad and it took me about a week to regain my strength. Co-incidentally (not) my strength came back around the time I regained the weight I lost, because basically my body had finally replaced all the muscle glycogen that had been used up keeping my body going while I was ill and unable to eat anything, and so finally my muscles could function at their full capacity, instead of trying to function on an empty fuel tank. (glycogen fuels your muscles during exercise)

the sooner women stop basing their entire self esteem on a number of scale weight the better. Seriously.

I know this is old, but I just want to add...

Lots of people eat "raw vegan" and they are healthy, so what's the problem with having a couple days of eating fruits and veggies?
It's 7 days, it's not going to do any long lasting negative damage to you.

It will if you're trying to lift heavy *kitten* **** in the gym every day while doing this diet. I personally would rather not collapse while in the squat rack from lack of decent food....

good lord....