Cabbage Soup Diet - Diet Plan Outline

The "Cabbage Soup Diet" is based on a fat-burning soup that contains negligible calories. The regimen relies on strange food combinations that force you to nearly starve yourself each day. Dieters are allowed all the water and "cabbage soup" they want, plus a very restricted set of other foods.

A running myth suggests that this diet originated at any number of American hospitals, but thus far none have claimed it as their own. It probably started at Sacred Heart Hospital in Brussels, Belgium as a way for seriously obese patients to lose some quick weight before surgery.

As far as for the average overweight person, the Cabbage Soup Diet is totally unrealistic if one is interested in more than very short-term weight loss. It is hard to imagine eating cabbage soup for an extended period of time. How fast is that temporary weight loss going to stick? This is not a nutritionally sound plan and certainly not one to live on. If you can't live on it, there doesn't seem much point in putting yourself back on the rollercoaster of weight loss frustration and heartache.