The cabbage soup diet is sometimes called the cabbage soup heart diet. It’s also called other names including the Mayo Clinic Diet, Military Cabbage Soup, Sacred Heart Diet, TJ’s Miracle Diet, the Russian Peasant Diet and the Banana Diet. The diet is somewhat famous mainly because of the promise that if you follow the eating plan you can drop 10 pounds in a week. It will let you drop the weight fast.
If you are concerned about your heart, you know that excess weight is a big problem leading to stress on your heart and problems with blood pressure and a whole host of physical problems. But you need a long-term solution to your weight problems. Short term diets do not work for long term weight loss. You must change your lifestyle by combining exercise with sensible eating. How does the cabbage soup diet fit into a heart healthy eating plan?
It’s a quick, relatively easy way to drop up to ten pounds in a week. The main advantage to dropping several pounds fast is motivation. Many diet plans will only produce about one pound of weight loss per week. That’s pretty boring especially since your normal weight variation can be more than a pound a day. So you can be on the right track to lose weight over the long-term, but the scales show you’re gaining weight in the short-term. That’s very discouraging. In comes this diet to let you drop some weight fast. Then back you go to your long-term plan.
The cabbage soup diet is a great morale booster. And you don’t just eat cabbage soup either. You get a set food plan for each of the seven days of the plan. Over the week you get a variety of foods including fruits, vegetables, meats, even bananas one day. Plus all the soup you want each day. And you can vary the soup to suit your tastes.
Cabbage soup isn’t necessarily bland. You can spice it up as you like. But alas, no pastries or bread for the week. No brownies, peanut butter cookies or sweet potato casserole! No sweet desserts. But it wouldn’t be a diet without a little hardship would it. So the cabbage soup heart diet or whatever you choose to call it, is a short-term motivational diet to let you drop about ten pounds in a week. It isn’t a sustainable long-term plan but it could be a part of your overall weight loss and fitness plan.
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Does the sacred heart diet really work?My boyfriend is trying to lose weight for his return to AIT…and well i feel bad that I have suggested the sacred heart diet because i don't really know if it works or not. It is impossible to find anything reliable on the internet to answer this, so I am coming to you guys for answers.
Has anyone of you, or do you know anyone who did the sacred heart diet and what results came from it.
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I'll be the first to actualy ANSWER your question, I tried the cabbage soup diet and I lost like 4lbs in the first week. It sounds great right? The only problem is you kinda get sick of it, it simply isn't possible to eat that ONLY for weeks…it doesn't even taste good. But if you can, then my hats off to you and good luck.
*Edit: Never saw that last question you asked, yep I think you'd definately lose more weight the heavier you were, I wasn't overweight just tried it out to see if it works. My cousin was very overweight and she lost much more but then she couldn't keep it up either. Also keep in mind that when you do go off it and start eating normal food you'll put double the weight on.
It's all about calories my dear. Cabbage is very low in calories and it is filling so the diet works.
Yes, I've done it. My advice is to make sure to take a good multi-vitamin each day, don't eat too much salt with your cabbage, and drink plenty of water.
I lost about 10lbs in 1.5 weeks.
I was actually 10 pounds UNDER my ideal weight.
I didn't exercise.
I slimmed down, it wasn't water weight.
Remember like I said: all about calories. If your BMR (basal metabolic rate) is 1400 calories/day, to lose a pound (-3500 cals) in one week you would eat 500 calories less than 1400 each day for seven days (which would be a net loss of 3500 calories or one pound)
You could also burn 500 calories/day through exercise, but eating 500 calories less can be easier for some.
If you wanted to lose 2 pounds in a week, simply eat 1000 less than your BMR each day (-1000cals x7days = -7000 cals or net loss of 7000 cals which is 2 lbs)
Cauliflower soup diet works because cauliflower is so light in calories and the soup part makes it filling and seem hardy, but you are probably only consuming like 600 cals / day, so depending on your BMR, you will lose 1, 1.5, .5, 2 lbs in one week, etc.
Hope I've helped you.. I have plenty of diet/fitness tips and years of experience!