Cabbage Soup

Update...

Just an update.... I've been off the cabbage soup/sacred heart diet for a week now and have followed a moderate 1200-1400 calories/day diet emphasizing the same foods (fresh fruits and veggies, lean meats, low-fat dairy, and whole grains) but in larger quantities. I quickly lost the pound I regained after ending the diet and dropped two more by the end of the week (today). So while my total weight loss on the CS/SH diet (6 pounds) is less than some of the claims I read, I have kept it off and continued to lose on a more moderate plan. Again, I don't recommend this diet to anyone for long term, but it did help jump start me to what I hope will be a livelong better way of eating.
 
Sacred Heart Diet

Today is the end of Day 5 on the SDH and so far I haven't lost any weight. I stuck to the diet and didn't cheat at all - not even to take my chewable calcium supplement. :confused:
 
Ruth1028,

That is depressing.... :( Hope the diet worked in the end for you. If nothing else, I found it helpful to retrain my eating habits away from fried, sugary, processed etc... foods.
 
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The Cabbage Soup Diet

The Cabbage Soup Diet
Ahh, the famous Cabbage Soup diet. Most people interested in dieting have certainly heard of this one. many of them have actually tried some version of it. Since nobody has ever claimed to be the inventor of this diet, there is no definitive cabbage soup diet, but rather a string of versions floating around magazines and the Internet. Every expert who tried to promote this diet has either added or replaced an existing feature, which means that aside from that cabbage soup you can expect to see a wide range of other foods, although nothing spectacular.

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Not a great plan...


On a cold winter's day, a warm pot of soup makes a satisfying meal. But soup at every meal, day in and day out, for seven days straight is downright bizarre. There's nothing magical about cabbage—or a fat-free cabbage soup—that melts away fat. Zeroing in on one food to the exclusion of others is probably what makes you lose weight. But you'll undoubtedly become sick of the soup and eat less and less of it. Less food equals fewer calories, and fewer calories means weight loss.

Does the diet take and keep weight off?
Weight loss is a given since calories are so low, but it's unlikely that the pounds will stay off, particularly once you return to your old eating habits. And—no surprise here—there's not a shred of clinical or even anecdotal evidence to support the value of this regimen. All there is to go on is a vague statement in the book that "men and women across the world have had incredible success with this diet." Nevertheless, the author boldly claims you can lose 10 pounds in seven days. Is the diet healthy? No way. A diet that focuses on so few foods can't possibly provide all the nutrients you need. In fact, it lacks ample quantities of everything from fiber to protein to calcium.

What do the experts say?
"Sure, people lose weight with this diet. How much cabbage soup can anyone really eat?" asks registered dietitian Jackie Berning, an associate professor of biology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "My problem with the diet is that it doesn't teach people how to change the eating habits that made them gain weight in the first place." Oh, and the digestive repercussions of all that cabbage? "Your family will probably kick you out because of all the flatulence," Berning says. Baylor College of Medicine weight-loss expert John Foreyt, Ph.D., cuts to the chase. "It's silly," he says. "It's just about cutting calories. People will lose weight in the short term, but nobody can stick with it." Would he recommend it as a quick way to jump-start weight loss? "Of course not."

Who should consider the diet? Nobody. This regimen is unsafe.

Bottom line: Sure, eating a steady diet of cabbage soup will peel off a few pounds over the short term, but they'll come back. Count on it.
 
Soup is wonderful

Morning,

I adore soup (but not cabbage!). Just about every day one of my meals will be a soup with either beef or pork or chicken and veggies thrown in (along with bunches of hot pepper and ginger). It's a great way to have a warm filling meal.

Then again, I've been devouring soup now since the Ice Age, so perhaps I'm in the minority. But a good amount of my food intake is in the form of soup.

Now what gets me is the ridiculous claims of "cabbage soup diet pills." And I quote:

.... Thirty minutes before each meal, you’ll take two pills with an eight-ounce glass of water.

When your stomach breaks down the cabbage soup pill, the pill’s contents combine with the water to essentially create a bowl of soup in your stomach. It fills you up so you’ll eat less at meals, and you’ll still reap the metabolism-speeding benefits from the soup’s flavonoids.

You’ll be amazed how just two little pills can fill you up for hours on end, all the while increasing your metabolic rate!​

Utterly ridiculous. "Create a bowl of soup in my stomach"? Without even having the benefits of enjoying the taste?

I think not.

'Nuff said,

Barbara
 
he'll always be Dr Jeff Webber to me ...
 
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