How to Do a Cabbage Soup Cleansing Diet

On the Cabbage Soup Cleansing Diet, you can eat unlimited amounts of cabbage soup in combination with a specific low-calorie diet. It's one of the most popular weight-loss programs right now. Designed as a 7-day plan, the Cabbage Soup Cleansing Diet is easy to follow, especially since you're encouraged to create your own delicious variations of the recipe. Follow these steps to find out how you can eat cabbage to lose weight.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Multi-vitamin
• Computer with Internet access
• Food ingredients necessary to follow the diet

Prepare to Do the Cabbage Soup Cleansing Diet

1. Pick a 7-day period when you will not be under a lot of stress. Avoid times when you'll be expected to dine out often or attend many parties, like during the holidays.

2. Choose a multi-vitamin to take during the cleanse, preferably one made from all-natural ingredients.

3. Take the time to research the many variations of the cabbage soup recipe online at the "Cabbage Soup Diet" Web page (see Resources below). Choose the recipe that sounds the most delicious to you. After all, you'll be eating a lot of it.

4. Choose organic ingredients. They may cost slightly more; but most of the ingredients for cabbage soup recipes are very inexpensive to start with.

Begin the Cabbage Soup Cleansing Diet

5. Make plenty of cabbage soup in advance, following whatever recipes you've chosen. Most of the recipes ask you to cook the soup for a long period. Give yourself plenty of time.

6. Follow the daily guidelines of the diet strictly. Pay special attention to restrictions placed on starchy foods like bananas and potatoes.

7. Eat as much cabbage soup as you want. This will help you to avoid feeling hungry during the cleanse.

8. Learn as much as you can before you start this cleanse. Find books about cabbage cleanses at Amazon.com (see Resources below).

Tips & Warnings

• The diet is designed to be implemented for no more than 7 days at a time. You can start a new one after a 2-week break if you want.
• This is an inexpensive cleanse.
• Always check with your doctor before beginning any program that will potentially help you lose weight fast. Side effects with this diet may include dizziness, nausea and headaches. Seek medical help immediately if you start to show any of these symptoms.
• The cleanse is not recommended for pregnant women or people who are more than 20 pounds overweight.
• Visit your doctor immediately if you discover blood in your urine or stool.

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[kochmm]

on 11/7/2009 Has anyone tried this diet during the last few weeks of pregnancy?

[jennylo]

on 9/8/2008 If I have been diagnosed with acid reflux disease should i do the cabbage diet?

[jlaw831]

on 8/7/2008 WOW, I'm glad I saw your comment Flynn. I am on day 4 myself of the Cabbage soup diet. I thought i was having a heart attack yesterday because of the incredible pain in the middle of my chest that kept coming on as contractions IT WAS AWFUL!!! I was considering going to the drs. but after a couple hours and myself relaxing after work, the pain went away. I have eaten 2 bananas today so far this morning, lunch is in an hour I hope the pain doesn't come back once I start the soup again.

Have a great day!

[InLikeFlynn]

on 7/29/2008 I tried a cabbage soup 7 day diet a while back. After about the 4 day, I gave up. I week or so later I began experiencing severe pain in the center of my chest (like someone was stabbing me). I went to my doctor who ran a complete blood workup and sent me to have a special scan taken (I had to drink this chalky medicine and then the injected me with iodine and did a scan). I also had a chest x-ray. All of the test were normal and the doctor gave me a perscription for an acid reflux medication (which didn't seem to help the pain). After about 2 weeks, the pain went away and I have been fine since. I was wondering if anybody who has tried this diet experience similar side effects or if my pain had nothing to do with the diet and was just a coincidence.