Cabbage Soup Seven Day Diet

The cabbage soup 7 day diet is one of the most popular short term diets and has been for several decades. While the 7 day cabbage soup diet can no longer be considered a fad diet, due to its long term popularity, it is definitely considered a crash diet. Because of its simplicity, there is very little to prepare. Because it is almost entirely based on vegetables, it’s very inexpensive to pursue. In fact, many people may choose to follow this diet simply to save money with losing weight only as a bonus! But what makes it so very popular is a combination of its effectiveness and the fact that you can eat as much as you want while on it.

Because the diet focuses almost entirely on vegetables and fruits, the caloric intake is very low on most days, no matter how much you eat. The soup itself is largely just water, cabbage, and onion, with other vegetables being permitted most days, and V8 juice and Lipton Onion Soup powder being among the seasonings that are allowed.

Though you may eat as much as you want on this diet, the soup itself, and the fruits and vegetables days are not very filling. And because this diet is not nutritionally complete, your body will very likely begin to rebel and start craving other foods. Fat and protein are essential to a healthy diet, but there is very little of that allowed on the diet. If you’re accustomed to processed foods, your taste buds may be craving starches and sugars, not to mention that many of the chemicals and additives in processed foods are addictive, which means that your body will be going through withdrawal while on this diet. This may actually be a good thing, and is likely why the cabbage soup 7 day diet is often referred to as a 7 day detox diet. In a technical sense, this isn’t really a detox diet, but purging your body of processed foods for 7 days (for this, you wouldn’t be using the V8 or the Lipton soup mix, though possibly organic versions would be alright) will essentially detox your body. Be careful, though, detoxing is not a pleasant experience, no matter how good you’ll feel afterwards!

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