Negative aspects of the cabbage soup diet

1) What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?

The Cabbage Soup Diet is a diet based around the idea of consuming  cabbage soup. Dieters can literally eat as much cabbage soup as they like, this is especially true since it contains little to no calories. On certain days (and at certain times) other foods such as fruit, vegetables and beef are allowed to be eaten also.   Therefore, because of this fact the Cabbage Soup Diet is "technically" not a starvation diet -- although it is as close to being a starvation diet as is possible without actually being one.

2) What are the negative aspects of the Cabbage Soup Diet?

Although dieters are allowed to eat as much cabbage soup as they want each day, they will probably not want to eat much of this cabbage soup at all due to its bland taste. Those people who have tried cabbage soup know that it is neither tasty nor filling, it's like eating empty space. Also, because this diet is basically a starvation diet then the actual weight loss that results will be in the form of mostly "water weight" (along with some muscle tissue and some fat tissue). As soon as a dieter quits this diet and begins to eat and drink normally again, the weight lost with this diet will come back in no time.

3) What are the positive aspects of the Cabbage Soup Diet?

Well, this is a tough question to answer. To suggest anything positive about this diet (which is based around the consumption of cabbage soup) may be a difficult thing to do since there are no real positive aspects about the Cabbage Soup diet. It is not a good diet to try.

4) How much weight loss can dieters expect each week using the Cabbage Soup Diet?

Weight loss on this diet will be in the form of mostly "water weight" and muscle tissue, with only limited amounts of actual fat tissue being lose.  A dieter could possibly lose weight at the rate of 5-10 pounds the first week, since it's mostly water weight being lost and not real fat tissue. After the first week all weight loss would come to a halt because the body would realize that it is being "starved" and so it would begin to hold onto its fat tissue by slowing down your metabolism (for survival purposes).  This is commonly known as reaching a dieting "plateau".

5) What are some alternatives to the Cabbage Soup Diet?

Any diet is a better alternative to the Cabbage Soup Diet, in fact, just about any diet ever developed is probably a better alternative to this diet.