If you have been thinking about going on the cabbage soup recipes diet, chances are the question has crossed your mind “How can I possibly keep from getting hungry if all I eat is diet cabbage soup?”
What you need to know about the new cabbage soup recipes diet is that, no, cabbage soup is not the only thing you will be eating, but cabbage is the key to controlling your appetite. There are two scientifically verified diet principles that explain why this is so.
1. Soup is more than just good food. Soup satisfies your appetite better than any other food.
Dr. Barbara Rolls of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University has explained in over 170 articles in medical and nutrition journals that it is not the calories in food that satisfies our appetites, it the volume of our food that makes us feel full. Food that leaves us feeling hungry even after eating is more dense calories, and food that leaves us feeling us feeling full is less dense in calories.
As you may expect, the cabbage soup recipes diet emphasizes low calorie dense foods.
What does calorie density mean? Here are two examples:
A 1-oz serving of a regular cheese stick is worth 100 calories. A 1-oz serving of salsa might be worth 10 calories. Regular cheese is ten times as calorie-dense as salsa. Even zero-fat cheese still has 50 calories and is 5 times as calorie-dense as salsa.
But for a diet cabbage soup diet, cabbage is king. A 1-oz serving of cabbage soup only costs you 5 calories, so you get not just 5, but 10 times “fuller” by eating cabbage soup than by eating zero-fat cheese sticks, and 20 times fuller than if you ate regular cheese sticks.
Dr. Rolls published a study in the journal Appetite finding that eating any kind of soup before a meal reduces consumption by an average of 134 calories-even when higher-fat foods were offered with the entrée. In the journal Obesity Research she published a finding that making a habit of eating 100 calories in soup rather than 100 calories in a snack pack twice a day resulted in 50 per cent greater weight loss at the end of one year.
2. Variety is the enemy of weight loss. Eating the same food every day reduces your motivation to eat food.
At least 105 studies in the medical literature report that variety in food choices impairs the ability of dieters to stick to a low-calories weight loss plan. The cabbage soup recipes diet bypasses this issue completely.
People who tend to have weight problems also tend to be novelty-seeking adventurous eaters, and nothing does more to undermine diet discipline than access to a smorgasbord of foods that changes every day. The cabbage soup recipes diet provides a filling cabbage soup for two meals every day, filling you up and keeping you focused on weight loss rather than culinary exploration.
People don’t “pig out” on high-fat foods because they can’t control their appetites. People consume too many calories when their foods are too dense in calories. Sensors lining the gastrointestinal respond to volume, and water-rich foods like those on the cabbage soup weight loss diet stretch the stomach so that it tells the brain it is full.
No eating plan is easier to stick to than the new cabbage soup recipes diet. And since cabbage is nutritious, delicious, inexpensive, and available all year round, no diet plan is easier on your budget than the miracle cabbage soup diet.
References:
Ello-Martin JA, Ledikwe JH, Rolls BJ. The influence of food portion size and energy density on energy intake: implications for weight management. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 Jul;82(1 Suppl):236S-241S.
Epstein LH, Robinson JL, Temple JL, Roemmich JN, Marusewski AL, Nadbrzuch RL. Variety influences habituation of motivated behavior for food and energy intake in children. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Mar;89(3):746-54. Epub 2009 Jan 28.
Nicklaus S. Development of food variety in children. Appetite. 2009 Feb;52(1):253-5. Epub 2008 Oct 2.
Rolls BJ, Roe LS, Beach AM, Kris-Etherton PM. Provision of foods differing in energy density affects long-term weight loss. Obes Res. 2005 Jun;13(6):1052-60.
Rolls BJ, Roe LS, Beach AM, Kris-Etherton PM. Provision of foods differing in energy density affects long-term weight loss. Obes Res. 2005 Jun;13(6):1052-60.