Sticking to a cabbage soup diet used to offer considerable rewards but it also used to require a lot of willpower.
That’s because the old approach to the cabbage soup diet was to make stuffing yourself with food so boring that for a week, at least, you just didn’t want to eat any more.
Fortunately, the new cabbage soup diet weight loss plan offers variety and is nutritionally sound
It’s a miracle weight loss plan that we don’t just think will help you take off the pounds, we can point to scientific research that proves it will take off the pounds.
The new plan is infinitely easier to follow than the old plan, but here are eight things to keep in mind.
1. It’s really all about the soup:
You have to eat at least a cup, and preferably a bowl, of cabbage soup twice a day to get the appetite-suppressant benefits of eating soup. There is no cabbage soup diet without cabbage soup.
2. You don’t have to eat cabbage soup for breakfast (although it would help):
You do have to start your day with something moist and juicy and low in fat, like a piece of fruit or even some unsweetened, organic applesauce. Get the moist food into your system before hitting the cabbage soup.
3. Don’t cook every single day:
You can prepare a soup stock without cabbage at the beginning of the week. Then when you heat up the soup, throw in a handful a different kind of cabbage every time you make the soup.
You get the benefits of cabbage soup without the monotony of eating the same cabbage soup each and every time. Also, you won’t be overcooking the cabbage, and you will receive more health benefits.
4. Limit the meat, fish, poultry, bananas, or brown rice you eat:
The whole idea of the new cabbage soup diet is to eat less, not more. Eat until you are satisfied, but don’t plan to overindulge.
Prepare a modest portion of protein food for the entrée you eat after you eat the soup.
5. Instead, add healthy fats:
In You on a Diet, Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen say that healthy fat reduces appetite. One source of healthy fat is nuts (and peanuts). Try adding a tablespoon of slivered almonds to your green/white cabbage or Savoy cabbage soup, or about 20 organic peanuts to your diet cabbage soup with red peppers.
The healthy fat in these nuts will send a signal to your brain that you are full, and you will eat even less without getting hungry.
6. Eat your cabbage soup about 20 minutes before the rest of your meal:
One way to manage this at work it to carry your cabbage soup in a thermos and eat the soup at your desk before you go on your lunch break.
Or, at home, eat your cabbage soup while you are cooking the rest of your low-calorie meal. Filling up your stomach reduces the production of a hormone called ghrelin that tells your brain you are hungry. If you reduce ghrelin production before you eat, you will eat less.
7. Vary the ingredients in your cabbage soup as much as possible:
You make the soup stock ahead, but you add various vegetables only when you reheat the stock. Adding variety to your soup keeps it interesting and appetizing and makes it easier to stick to your diet.
8. Don’t stuff yourself silly:
Even one cup (240 ml) of cabbage soup, providing a single gram of fiber, will reduce your appetite for up to eighteen hours.
The new cabbage soup diet is nutritionally sound, easy to follow, and a sure way to take off 2 or 3 pounds a week as long as you need. Then it is a great way to keep those pounds off when you have reached your desired weight. These eight simple steps will enable you to stick to your diet and keep losing the weight just as long as you want.