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.
