Cabbage soup diet

[MellieMac]

I know, I know but I have done this diet in the past and it's a great motivator. Quick weight loss and I peculiarly feel really great afterwords! Cleansed somehow. Anybody got any bright ideas to make the fruit and veg only days a little more interesting???

[pikawicca]

Well, at least cabbage is in season right now. But who wants to eat hot soup in the middle of summer? How about the heirloom tomato diet?

[MellieMac]

Fortunately, I love soup all year round! I plan to take advantage of tomato season on the veg days! And their is a beef an tomato only day!

[piccola]

I actually like cabbage soup cold, too. Especially if you make it a little spicy (hey, hot peppers boost your metabolism).

For the veggie days, check out raw foods recipes like these: http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/
I like to have crudités with salsa; lettuce wraps (make a veggie stir-fry or chopped salad and wrap it in lettuce leaves); large salads; or zucchini "noodles" with fresh tomato sauce.

For the bananas day, freeze a couple bananas, then purée them with a little skim milk to make a great "frozen yogurt".

The fruit days are pretty easy. I'd load up on watermelon and whatever berries are in season where you live.

[MellieMac]

Struggling through fruit day at the moment! Once I get through it I am good to go! What a great idea re the lettuce wraps and zucchini "noodles". Cant wait to try! Thank you!

[piccola]

Oh, see, I have to be careful not to eat too much fruit in normal life (mmm...grapes...). Maybe if you grilled some - peaches, pineapple, mango - or froze some - grapes, berries - you would find it easier to eat. And yes, you eat the grapes/berries still frozen.

[madkittybadkitty]

i never went on this diet but made the cabbage soup for my mom-in-law, i ended up eating it all because apparently it made her too uh, flatulent.
i love me vegetables, not to lose weight or anything. what about
1. cucumber noodles http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/foo...
2. asparagus and peas with mint
3. crudites with grilled red pepper dip (puree grilled red pepper, add whatever you want)

[salsailsa]

Have you tried the cucumber noodles? It looks kind of interesting.

[im_nomad]

urgh.......i have done this a couple of times in the past....by day four or so, i was so nauseated, that I couldn't eat anything , soup or otherwise, everything was unappealing to me. The couple of times i did it, while i went down a belt notch, I didn't feel "great"......i felt like I needed a couple of days to recover. and i've got guts 'o steel and I love soup, even in the summer.

but if you must, I found things like roasted asparagus good on the veg days.

it's a great way to appreciate the potato. by the time you're allowed that thing, you'll think you'd discovered gold .

[scuzzo]

Do you have link, or details on the diet plan you are following???

[alkapal]

scuzzo, you don't want this diet. it is not healthful, and it made my sister faint.

[scuzzo]

Why is it not healthful?

[im_nomad]

it's extremely restrictive calorie wise, and you basically live off nothing but this cabbage soup (which ain't great) for days on end.

BTW what is with all of the restrictive diet-related threads on here lately ?

[alkapal]

um, my sister *fainted*.

[im_nomad]

perhaps scuzzo misunderstood and thought your sister fainted out of sheer joy at the thought of having to drink her 100th bowl of cabbage slop. :D

[KTinNYC]

LOL!

[melly]

I grill fruit and I always add garbanzo beans to my soup.

[luckyfatima]

Try kimchee soup! Add kimchee to whatever you are making.