The cabbage soup diet is best known for its diuretic and slimming properties. Your body is cleansed of its toxins and you lose quite a lot of excess water resulting in a very rapid loss of pounds. It also reduces your cellulite.
Cabbage soup
Ingredients
- 6 onions
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 cans of peeled tomatoes
- 1 white cabbage
- 2 green peppers
- 1 stalk celery
- 6 carrots
- Olive oil
- 3 liters of water
Preparation
- Cut the onions and garlic into small pieces and fry in a little olive oil.
- Finely chop the white cabbage, peppers, celery and carrots and add them to the onion and garlic.
- Also add the 2 cans of peeled tomatoes.
- Dilute with three liters of water and bring to the boil.
Tip: Resist the temptation to add salt or stock cubes to the soup. These will cause you to retain water and cancel out the effect of the soup.
Slimming soup
In the drugstore and in the health food store you can also buy ready-made cabbage soup (for example Slimming soup from Phar-GMS ). You can certainly use this as a substitute if you have less time on a day, but try to eat fresh cabbage soup whenever possible. Also on the market: cabbage soup slimming capsules.
Program
| Day 1 |
| cabbage soup + fruits (except bananas) |
| Day 2 |
| cabbage soup + vegetables |
| Day 3 |
| cabbage soup + fruits + green vegetables |
| Day 4 |
| cabbage soup + 1 banana + skimmed milk |
| Day 5 |
| cabbage soup + beef + tomatoes |
| Day 6 |
| cabbage soup + whole grain rice + vegetables + fruit juice |
Benefits of the Cabbage Soup Diet
- Very cheap
- Fast results
- Don’t go hungry, because you can eat as much soup as you can eat
- Cleansing effect on the body
- Positive effect on cellulite
Disadvantages of the cabbage soup diet
- Risk of deficiencies and therefore risk of fatigue and weakness.
- If your body is heavily polluted, you may suffer from headaches and even fever in the first few days. This means that the cabbage soup is doing its job.
Tip
Areas with cellulite are best treated during the cabbage soup diet with roller massages so that stubborn, sticky cellulite can be loosened and thus more easily removed through the diet. You can do these massages yourself or you can go to the beautician ( Lipomassage , Endermology ). Lymphatic drainage is also well in place at this time.
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The Magic Cabbage Soup Diet . With professional advice from doctors and culinary ideas from master chefs.