Cabbage Soup Diet. What your experience? Thoughts?

Cabbage is very smelly that is my opinion lol

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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..

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.

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!

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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