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Cabbage Soup Diet

Cabbage Soup Diet

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The Cabbage Soup Diet is a very strict, very low calorie diet and isn't for the faint hearted. You eat mainly cabbage soup, fruit, other veg and some meat, but shouldn't stay on it for more than week. You can lose up to 10 pounds.

What is The Cabbage Soup Diet?

The Cabbage Soup Diet is an extremely low-fat, high-fibre diet that lasts seven days. By the end of the week, fans of the diet claim you'll have lost up to 10 pounds. It's only designed as a kick-start to help you lose weight quickly and is not supposed to be a long-term healthy eating plan.

How does The Cabbage Soup Diet work

It's simple - you make and eat as much cabbage soup as you want! You're also allowed a combination of different low fat foods on each day, mainly other fruits and vegetables. The homemade cabbage soup has virtually no calories so, hopefully, you'll feel full and still lose weight. 

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steph, 20 days

hi would someone please send me the recipe x

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shewolfy, 21 days

hello everyone i just finished making a big pot of cabbage soup and it was really good...one pot supper for me...cabbage,carrots,greenpepper,mushrooms,one pack of onion soup mix,pepper and a little season salt...i plan on eating it a week and then off a week and eating normal meals just to help clean out my system...please be careful with any diet..they all have there up's and down's as we all know...good luck to you all

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Claire Greig, 25 days

Please send receipes for soups - do you have to have for all 3 meals?

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Sophie, 28 days

can you send me the recipes

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Dianne, about 1 month

Tania, thanks im going to try your recipe tomorrow! mmmmmmmmmm!!!!!

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liz, about 1 month

please could i have the recipe? i crnt wait 2 try it

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tania, 3 months

i have just made a variation of the soup that tastes soooooooooo much better...i really disliked the original recipe...i saw on a few websites that you can add mushrums and carrots...also, i hope it's ok to use savoy cabbage and fresh tomatoes as it makes the soup taste so much better...make sure to chopp EVERYTHING finely as it seems to make a difference...this is what i used: 2 ready chopped packets of onions, probably about 6 small onions 1 bunch of celery about 6 FRESH tomatoes about 4 carrots a packet of closed cup mushrooms (probably about 6-8 mushrooms) 1 savoy cabbage 1 green pepper 3 cloves of garlic finely chopped a bunch of chopped corriander added 5 minutes before the end black peper vegetable stock powder (i use the organic one but i'm sure any one is ok, i do put as much as needed to make it taste ok, put a bit at first but keep adding as much as you need as you taste the soup while cooking) i just put everything in the pot and add water to cover, you can add a bit more once the vegetables have softened, make it as thick or watery as you like...anyway, i just made a big pot and i can't believe how much better it tastes that the original one...i think using savoy cabbage and fresh tomatoes is what makes it so much tastier... while before i had to force myself to eat one bowl of the soup now i am about to have a 2nd one because it is so much better...well, i hope you enjoy it...by the way my soup version is a bit sweeter (I think as i added some carrots and there is no too much acidity that you may get from the tinned tomatoes)...

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Pinder, 3 months

Can you please send me the recipe for this cabbage soup diet? Thank you!

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angela, 9 months

i too tried this lost 80lbs. using it off and on and i too had to have my gall balder removed

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Naw, 12 months

shredd ur cabbage, in a pan fry some onions without oil.(all u need to do is that u put the onion in the pan n allow it to get brownish. then add water chopped celery and shredded cabbage. and let it boil. adjust the seasoning. n ur soup is ready.

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dawn, 12 months

plz tell me the recipe i can cook soups quiet good and think i have an idea but just want to check as i have developed a thyriod problem and have gained a stone in 6 months help plz ...

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TRICIA BAKER, about 1 year

PLEASE FORWARD THE RECIPE. THX

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matt Evs, about 1 year

how do you make this?

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Siobhan Kay, about 1 year

hey, i found a low fat recipe for chineese cabage soup on the internet. it helped a women drop 3 dress sizes in 2 months, thought people might want it :) 1 x 350 g Tofu (cut into 1 cm cubes) 1 tomato (cut into 6 wedges) 3 leafs of Chinese Cabbage (cut in halves) 1 Green Onion (finely chopped) 1 tsp crushed ginger 1 tsp salt 13 cups of water 1 Tbsp Vegeta (Vegetable Powder Broth) This is what you do Boil water in a pot, and add Vegeta , ginger, and peppercorn. Ad the tofu, tomato and Chinese cabbage, and keep it boiling for half a minute. Spread the green onions and sesame oil over the soup.

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michelle forsyth, about 1 year

please could u tell me how to make cabbage soup, i am having fertilit problems and they put it down to my weight.

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Molly Brown, about 1 year

Could I please get the recipe for the soup

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priscilla chiundira, about 1 year

I would like to try the abbage Soup Diet. Am a size 14, but would like to loose weight and get back to my size 10. I have tried all sorts of diets but as far as am concerned, they are not working on me. Please send me some recipes on how you prepare the Cabbage Soup. i would be the most happiest woman on this planet an therefore will recommend it to my mates at work. Thank you

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Becca, about 1 year

Im thinking of doing this, my friend did this for 4 months and she lost 6 dress sizes. Im thinking of having soup daily as dinner, for lunch id have a sandwhich and fruit and a biscuit and a packet of crisps, id have special K for breakfast and a yoghurt. and im thinking of doing it while excersizing daily, im thinking of doing it for a few months as i need to loose a lot.

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kathy, about 1 year

please help me fit into my jeans

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Chelsea, about 1 year

this diet sounds great but how exactly do you make cabbage soup and whats the ingrediants? Can anyone help?

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Rob, about 1 year

i did this diet and at first it was great, the weight just dropped off, although i did alot of exercise as well, i did the diet a few times with breaks in between. on my last occassion i began to get really bad stomach pains so i stopped, a few days later i collapsed on my way to work. i was rushed to hospital where they told me that i had got a blockage in my stomach as the diet had stopped my gall bladder working properly, i was treated for toxic shock and spend 15days in hospital, it took me another month to recover after at home and 4 months later i had to have my gall bladder removed as another blockage developed, even tho i had no done the diet since.- my advice is the diet really does work well, but there is a change of problems occuring!

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janet richards, about 1 year

I have been on the diet for a week and have lost 9lbs which im so chuffed at as after having my baby have got very lazy with dieting. Want to lose more but has given me a kick start!

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Danny Middleton, about 1 year

Well i tried another soup before and that worked for me it has much the same ingredients as the cabbage soup and this is why i am looking at other soups so my advice is try it you will see a difference in a week

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Ollie, over 2 years

It was great

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