Has anyone tried the cabbage diet?

Sometimes I feel like a "career dieter" and I did do this a few times in college. As some of the sites mention, it's great for a one week kick-start to kind of cleanse the system and drop a few starter pounds. Frankly, I got tired of the soup -- although some of the variations look a little more interesting -- vafter the third time and decided I could just do more crunches and cardio.

That being said, if you can stand the soup (and some friends really have enjoyed it), it does seem to work as promised. I recommend some hot sauce, at least. Good luck!

I've really thought about it. I do have a metabolic disorder and I have to be really careful about what I eat. Some diets are just completely out because of the amount of carbs in them.

This one seems like it would fit in with the way I eat, and I've been very interested in trying it; I like cabbage and eat a lot of it anyway as one of the "safe" vegetables I can eat. You'd want to make sure you upped your vitamins and take a liquid mineral supplement while doing this, because diets that have a diuretic effect can unbalance your system on a cellular level. You don't want to be messing around with the components of the Krebs cycle!

Yeah. Easily. Cabbage has almost no calories.

Live off the stuff, and your body will consume itself because it is getting no nutrition. It's the same as any kind of starvation diet.It's easy to see major losses in weight in the short term, but then, your body will go in to starvation mode, and after your week is up, it will come back very quickly as your body will store everything you eat as fat. But, it's worse than that.

On a starvation diet, it's not only the fat that goes away. The muscles will too. Less muscle = less strength, less calories burned while you're doing nothing, higher body fat percentage, looking worse, and feeling worse.

You'll also be miserable and have no energy. Something like cabbage soup is a fine part of a well balanced diet (filler for when you've eaten your share of calories but are hungry, really), but if it's all you eat, even for a week, it's not going to do any net gain for you except the illusion that you've jump started your diet.

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