The cabbage diet ingredients are simple and inexpensive too. It's really surprising that these common items when combined properly can result in losing ten pounds in a week. But it works and has for a long time. One of the reasons so many people follow this plan is there's no starving. You get plenty to eat.
See the cabbage soup is used as a filler. You can eat all the soup you want at any time. That keeps the hunger away, but the soup is low in calories and fat too. The soup isn't magic. You can make it all kinds of ways. Below is one example recipe, but you can modify the recipes as you like.
The Classic Green Cabbage Soup
One half of a medium green cabbage
3 large onions
1 large bell pepper
1 head of celery
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 pack of onion soup mix
3 vegetable bouillon cubes
8-12 cups of water
*Optional - 1 8 oz. can of V-8 juice
*Optional seasonings: salt, pepper, garlic powder, cilantro, parsley, basil, oregano
Place washed, chopped vegetables in a large stockpot. Add water and stir in soup mix, bouillon and tomatoes. Add enough water to fully cover all the vegetables. Then simmer until vegetables are soft.
The other ingredients of the plan are as follows: fruit, vegetables, skim milk, beef or chicken, brown rice and unsweetened fruit juice. What's more, you can eat all of most of these that you want. But you can only eat certain foods on certain days. See, there are really no secret ingredients and nothing expensive to buy. The trick is in how the foods are combined. That's the key.
The cabbage soup diet ingredients are nothing special. The key to the fast weight loss is how the ingredients are combined. The best way to use this eating plan is combined with a long-term diet plan. Using the cabbage soup diet helps you get quick results so you're motivated to stick with your long-term weight loss.
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