The Cabbage Soup Diet

Excess weight is a problem for most of the people. Every one tries to use different types of diet to loose weight. At times while selecting the diet we forget to find out if it is beneficial for our health or are we just harming our body on the name of loosing weight

One of the healthiest, effective and fast ways to loose weight is the cabbage soup diet. This diet is a low fat high fiber diet that helps to get rid of excess weight. The cabbage soup diet should be followed for seven days only and not longer than that. When you are following the diet you should drink lots of water and follow the diet religiously

While doing the cabbage soup diet you can also take multivitamin tablets. You must have as much soup as you want and don?t make yourself starve else you would get tempted to break the diet. You can add different spices to make your soup more interesting and appetizing.

The soup itself, for the cabbage soup diet consists of cabbage, tomatoes, and onions, which are all high in fiber and help to burn fat. You can add any vegetables you wish, such as peppers or celery and season with whatever spices you have available. To add a little more flavor you can also add some chicken broth. Along with the soup you can have fruits of all kinds except for bananas, because they are high in sugar. On the first day of the cabbage soup diet you should drink unsweetened tea.

The second day menu consists of cabbage soup, vegetable and a single baked potato. It is up to you if you wish to add spices and onion to the baked potato. However try to abstain from taking dry beans, Corn and peas.

The 4th day of the cabbage soup diet you can have a banana and milk but keep on eating the soup and plenty of it; you want to make sure you are getting full. The 5th day you will add tomatoes, fish or lean meat and of course, the soup. On the 6th day of the cabbage soup diet you should have soup, many green vegetables and meat.

For the final day of the cabbage soup diet, take soup, rice, fruit juice and vegetables. During this period, you cannot take bread, alcohol and carbonated drinks at all. Instead you can have black coffee, unsweetened tea and fruit juices, cranberry juice and skimmed milk. Just by adopting this diet, you can lose 10 to 15 pounds within a week.

The healthiest way to do this diet is to follow it for a week and then take a minimum break of one week and if you wish you can start your diet again. The cabbage soup diet is surely a successful and quick way to loose the unwanted fat.