Cabbage Soup Heart Diet
By
Al Bullington
The cabbage soup diet is
sometimes called the cabbage soup heart
diet. It's also called other names including
the Mayo Clinic Diet, Military Cabbage Soup,
Sacred Heart Diet, TJ's Miracle Diet, the
Russian Peasant Diet and the Banana Diet.
The diet is somewhat famous mainly because
of the promise that if you follow the eating
plan you can drop 10 pounds in a week. It
will let you drop the weight fast.
If you are concerned about
your heart, you know that excess weight is a
big problem leading to stress on your heart
and problems with blood pressure and a whole
host of physical problems. But you need a
long-term solution to your weight problems.
Short term diets do not work for long term
weight loss. You must change your lifestyle
by combining exercise with sensible eating.
How does the cabbage soup
diet fit into a heart healthy eating plan?
It's a quick, relatively easy way to drop up
to ten pounds in a week. The main advantage
to dropping several pounds fast is
motivation. Many diet plans will only
produce about one pound of weight loss per
week. That's pretty boring especially since
your normal weight variation can be more
than a pound a day. So you can be on the
right track to lose weight over the
long-term, but the scales show you're
gaining weight in the short-term. That's
very discouraging. In comes this diet to let
you drop some weight fast. Then back you go
to your long-term plan.
The cabbage soup diet is a
great morale booster. And you don't just eat
cabbage soup either. You get a set food plan
for each of the seven days of the plan. Over
the week you get a variety of foods
including fruits, vegetables, meats, even
bananas one day. Plus all the soup you want
each day. And you can vary the soup to suit
your tastes. Cabbage soup isn't necessarily
bland. You can spice it up as you like.
But alas, no pastries or
bread for the week. No brownies, peanut
butter cookies or sweet potato casserole! No
sweet desserts. But it wouldn't be a diet
without a little hardship would it.
So the cabbage soup heart
diet or whatever you choose to call it, is a
short-term motivational diet to let you drop
about ten pounds in a week. It isn't a
sustainable long-term plan but it could be a
part of your overall weight loss and fitness
plan.
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