Are you ready to hear about a quick fix diet that has been helping people lose up to 10 pounds in a week?
Not only that, this diet has staying power. It’s a secret people have been using for decades to lose weight fast.
It used to be called the Model’s Diet.
The best part is:
It’s cheap and super healthy.
In today’s post, I’ll list each step for losing weight with the Cabbage Soup Diet
If you’re reading this guide right now, chances are you need to lose weight and lose it fast.
If
that’s the case, please tell me you’re not reading this while gorging
on a bag of processed junk food. If you are eating something you have no
business eating, please A) dispose of it and B) consider the back of
your head smacked. (If you have more time to lose the weight, check out
this 17 Day alternative.)
The Best Diet No One’s Talking About
The
Cabbage Soup Diet is a quick fix solution and considered by many to be a
bit of a miracle that can help people lose up to 10 pounds in a single
week.
When someone first mentioned The Cabbage Soup Diet
to me, my first thought was that this was NOT something that I would
ever want to try. However, I am not completely opposed to cabbage, and
other diets haven’t worked for me so eventually, I did give this one a
try. It is an amazing diet plan that really works…
After its
popularity in the 1950s, the cabbage soup diet was forgotten for a time
but then revived in the early 1980s as the Dolly Parton Diet, Trans
World Airlines (TWA) Stewardess Diet, and the Model’s Diet.
No
doubt these modern monikers were given to the diet because it was known
that models, actresses and flight attendants back in the day would have
periodic weight check-ins and, if they were overweight, risked losing
their jobs.
Here’s the long and the short of it:
1. It’s dirt cheap
You’ll
spend a few dollars on inexpensive vegetables (cabbage being the
vegetable most used) and throw them into a pot and making soup so anyone
on any kind of budget can give this diet a try. You could say it’s a
super cheap way to lose weight.
2. Nutrient Rich
Cabbage
doesn’t get the love and respect it deserves as a superfood. It’s a very
healthy vegetable that offers a ton of vitamin C (F *ck off scurvy) and
a lot of fiber. You’ll see in a minute why the high fiber content is so
important.
3. Cabbage Fills You Up
Satiety is the feeling
of fullness after a meal and the feeling that lasts between meals.
Satiating foods increase the feeling of fullness makes the feeling last
longer.
Did you know?
Eating low-calorie foods that make
you feel full is one of the secrets naturally skinny people use to fight
cravings and eat less overall.
It’s not known exactly why high
fiber foods, such as cabbage, increase satiety. Most scientists agree
the slower process of digestion of these foods tricks your body into
feeling full longer.
Many studies have confirmed the importance of
highly filling foods for appetite control. This one combined the
results of multiple studies to conclude that by eating more fiber,
people do eat few calories and they burn more fat. It seems that by
adding 14 grams of fiber for 2 or more days people reduced calorie
intake by 10%.
You can see in the Nutritional Value section above that you’ll be adding almost double this amount of fiber per batch of soup.
Did I mention?
The people in the study weren’t actively trying to cut calories.
It happened naturally because they weren’t as hungry.
4. Works as a Cleanse
Fiber
not only helps you feel fuller if you often have trouble “going” –
you’ll probably have an easier time of it this week and find your
intestinal tract cleared and cleansed. Win/win, no?
A study published in the Lancet showed a 69% increase in the weight of bowel movements on a cabbage diet.
This might be gross, but:
It kind of makes you wonder how long that extra stuff had been in there before the cabbage came along to carry it out.
Be
careful because the diet is not something that you should continue for a
long time. In fact, it is more of a cleanse than a diet. But, I happen
to have lost 15 lbs on the diet myself… so I am a believer.
5. It’aa Whole Food Detox
A
cabbage soup diet is a form of intermittent fasting that gives your
body a break from all of the usually processed garbage you shovel into
it.
On this diet, you spend 3 days or more replacing crap with pure whole food–the kind that comes straight from the earth.
After
a week of eating whole foods, your body feels refreshed and renewed as
it has time to adapt to an absence of the many toxins it usually
receives on a daily basis. Many people report diminished cravings for
sugar and refined carbs.
6. A Form of Intermittent Fasting
Starve a little to lose a lot.
You may have heard of the eating, fast, eat diet–or any other diet that relies on fasting as a means of calorie reduction.
The cabbage soup diet is a quick and dirty version of an intermittent fasting diet.
Fasting diets are scientifically proven to help you lose weight and improve health:
You
can read more about it here. If you wanted to keep up the weight loss
over a long period, do the Cabbage Soup Diet just one a day a week for
as long as you like after you complete the initial phase.
7. It’s Simple.
You
can make a whole batch of the soup and store it in your refrigerator
and just heat it up for later. This is so much more convenient than
having to, say, juice fruits and veggies three times a day and clean the
juicer each time.
Are You Up to the Task?
The Cabbage Soup Diet works for the person who just can’t seem to stick to any diet for any real length of time.
Let’s face it:
We’re
a society of instant gratification hounds, and you KNOW you’re one of
them. Most diets require you to be on them for four to six weeks before
you see any real results.
Although the Cabbage Soup Diet is NOT
intended as a long-term solution, what’s great is that by losing
significant and noticeable weight in one week, you’re much more
motivated to get into shape. It’s the perfect jumping off point for true
long-term lifestyle changes.
This person swears by it for the long term with success:
I
have been on the cabbage soup diet for a year (on and off). I’ve done
it about six times and I’ve lost over thirty pounds. I do NOT like
cabbage or most vegetables, for that matter. But, I bought a blender,
blend it up REAL well and I drink it. I’m used to it, now.
The other person who this diet is perfect for:
The
person who really doesn’t give a rat’s an** about making lifestyle
changes, they just desperately need to lose 10 pounds in a week so they
can fit into their bridesmaid dress and avoid armpit fat rolls.
