The diet with cabbage soup is a seven-day low-calorie diet. This diet is
popular because you can lose weight very quickly (about 5kg for 7 days).
How it works?
Some people claim that cabbage has the capacity to burn calories. To
feel the power of this diet, you need every day to eat cabbage soup combined
with specific additional food. The soup contains very few calories, and
additional food is different every day.
This diet is great choice for those who constantly feel hungry. Because
the amount of food you enter is not limited, you can eat as much as you want
soup and allowed foods. From beverages you can drink tea without sugar, coffee
and water.
The Cabbage Soup Diet recipe:
Ingredients:
- 6 large onions, chopped
- 2 green peppers, diced
- 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)
- 250g mushrooms, sliced
- 1 bunch celery, chopped
- 1/2 head cabbage, chopped
- 3 carrots, sliced
- 1 package dry onion soup mix
- 1 or 2 cubes bouillon (optional) Salt and pepper
For added flavour: Cayenne pepper, curry powder, mixed herbs or any
other seasoning.
Preparation:
Instructions:
- Use spray oil to sauté the chopped onions in a large pot.
- Add the green pepper pieces and heat for a minute.
- Add the chopped cabbage leaves, sliced carrots, celery and mushrooms.
- Sprinkle over a little cayenne pepper or curry powder.
- Add 12 cups of water and any additional stock cubes.
- Cook over a medium heat until the soup is the vegetables are tender and the soup is the right consistency.
The Cabbage Soup Diet meal plan:
Day 1: Unlimited cabbage soup and fruit (excluding bananas). Water and
sugar-free fruit juice to drink.
Day 2: Cabbage soup and additional vegetables. One potato with butter
for dinner. No fruit at all.
Day 3: Unlimited cabbage soup plus any fruit and vegetables you choose
(excluding potatoes or bananas).
Day 4: Unlimited cabbage soup and skimmed milk. Plus up to eight
bananas.
Day 5: Unlimited cabbage soup and 565g of beef and 6 tomatoes. Drink 6-8
glasses of water today to flush extra uric acid from your body.
Day 6: Unlimited cabbage soup and limitless beef and vegetables
(excluding potatoes).
Day 7: Unlimited cabbage soup with a little brown rice, vegetables and
sugar-free fruit juice.