Cabbage Soup Diet Reviews

Like many quick fix weight loss diets, a cabbage soup diet has found many takers. Men and women opt for this diet in order to lose weight quickly. But does this diet really work? Let us see the reviews of this diet plan, but first the seven-day cabbage soup diet plan.

A cabbage soup diet plan is a seven-day plan. In this, a person can take cabbage soup as many times in a day as he wants. Drinking seven to eight glasses of water every day is mandatory.

Day 1
On the first day, along with the soup, you are allowed to eat as many fruits as you want, except for bananas. For beverages, you can take black coffee, unsweetened tea and cranberry juice.

Day 2
On the second day, besides the soup, you can eat as many vegetables as you want and that too in any form i.e. cooked or raw. Preferably, eat green leafy vegetables. In the night, you are allowed to eat a baked potato with a teaspoon of butter.

Day 3
On the third day, along with the soup, you can eat any amount of fruits as well as vegetables.

Day 4
For the fourth day, besides the soup, eat eight bananas as well as drink any amount of skimmed milk that you want. The philosophy behind fourth day's diet is that it will lessen your desire to eat sweets.

Day 5
On this day, eat six fresh tomatoes and around twenty ounces of beef, besides the soup. If you do not eat beef, you can replace it with baked chicken which has no skin on it.

Day 6
On the sixth day, eat as much beef as well as vegetables as you want, except for potatoes. Soup, as usual, you can have any number of times in a day.

Day 7
On the last day, you are allowed to eat brown rice and vegetables as well as take unsweetened fruit juices as beverages.

Reviews

Looking at the various results, the following review of this diet plan has been prepared, listing both its pros and cons.

Cons
If you look at the entire cabbage soup diet plan, you will see that it lacks substantially in the essential nutrients required for the body. Although, it does guarantee quick weight loss, yet it's a weight loss in an unhealthy manner. It lacks in many minerals and vitamins which are an essential requirement for a healthy body.

Another drawback is that there is no guarantee for how long the weight loss results will last. So, in short, it can be said that this diet plan, just like any fad diet, is beneficial only in the short run. Also, a cabbage soup diet is not without its side effects. Some of the side effects are flatulence, indigestion, dizziness and fatigue.

One more drawback is that the soup, which is the main food in this diet, is not directly responsible for weight loss as it does not have anything in it which causes weight loss. Lastly, if you look at any of the reviews, you will find that people find it very monotonous and thus, fail to continue this weight loss diet for long.

Pros
One of its main benefits is that this diet is very easy to follow. Anybody can follow this diet at home, as it does not require any kind of specific food preparations.

Another advantage of this diet plan is that the foods that have to be taken while following this diet plan are very affordable. That's why anybody and everybody can follow the cabbage soup diet, without spending much. Lastly, the cabbage soup, which is the main food, is almost minus any calories so while taking this diet, a person is not taking any of the fast foods or junk foods. Thus, in a way, at least for the time while a person is on this diet, he does not eat anything unhealthy.

Looking at the reviews of this diet, one can conclude that there are both advantages as well as disadvantages of taking this diet. So, in the end it is suggested that taking a multivitamin pill everyday to ensure that the body does not lack in any of the nutrients while taking this diet, adding spices to the soup so that it does not seem bland and making up your mind that you need to continue this diet only for seven days, are some of the things that you can do to utilize this diet's advantages!