Cabbage Soup Diet is a diet that can help you in weight loss. The diet is also known as a fat burning soup diet because contains very little calories. Hence, the more you consume, the more weight you will lose as it fills your stomach and is basically an empty calorie diet making weight loss possible. The recommended consumption of this Cabbage Soup Diet is by planning to consume it for a week straight. You can expect to lose up to 4 pounds of weight by the end of the week by following this diet.

However, before you move on to start preparing your first soup, do consult a physician or your family doctor first to properly evaluate your current physical condition and check whether this diet plan is suitable for you or not. Due to the nature of this diet which tend to affect the amount of calories intake, certain active or heavy physical day-to-day activities that you are bound to might be affected. Besides, it could also result in malnourishments too.

So what is the cabbage soup diet plan all about? Cabbage Soup Diet plan is basically a rather simple and straight forward plan. Basically, dieters are allowed to consume as much cabbage soup and as much water as they want and although dieters are also allowed to consume other foods besides purely cabbage soup, the intake of other foods are somewhat controlled. The complete diet plan for the week is as follow:

• Monday - Cabbage soup with fruits (except bananas).
• Tuesday - Cabbage soup with some vegetables and a potato with butter for dinner.
• Wednesday - Cabbage soup with fruits and vegetables (except bananas).
• Thursday - Cabbage soup with low-fat milk. Have up to 6 bananas.
• Friday - Cabbage soup with 6 tomatoes and 450 grams of meat or fish.
• Saturday - Cabbage soup with 450 grams of meat or fish and some vegetables.
• Sunday - Cabbage soup with fruit juice and vegetables plus brown rice.
  
  Dieter should also drink at least 8 glasses of water each day.

Although the diet looks quite simple and is only for a period of a week, dieters typically need a lot of strength and willpower to follow this diet strict. One should not give up through mid-week. Despite the diet could be a boring one to many, it is in fact a very good diet to take as dieters are encouraged to consume many types of vegetables particularly cabbage, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes and cauliflowers. These vegetables have anti-cancer properties and is good for health.

There the list of recipe that you need to make your own cabbage soup.

• 1 cabbage
• 6 onions
• 6 green onions
• 2 green peppers
• 6 carrots
• 100 grams of celery
  

Cut the cabbage and slice all the other ingredients into small pieces and then put them into a pot. Add some water until it covers the pieces of vegetables and then set it to boil. Once boiled, slow the heat and simmer for ten minutes. Leave the cover open while simmering. After that, close the cover and simmer again for about 15 minutes to soften the vegetables. Then add table salts and peppers to taste.

Eventhough there are many benefits by following this diet plan, especially the ability to lose weight quickly and effectively, it is however not a solution for long term weight loss since it lacks many nutrients that our body needs. It is in any way, not a proper and balanced diet.