At the Emmys, Jamie Pressly of the show My Name is Earl said she did the Cabbage Soup Detox diet twice when she was asked about how she dropped her pregnancy weight.
Cabbage-soup cleanse aficionado Jamie Pressly looks great but is her preferred method a safe way to drop weight?
The Cabbage Soup Recipe.
- 2 onions diced
- Spray olive oil
- One head of green cabbage shredded
- 16 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 2 green peppers diced
- 4 stalks of celery chopped
- 2 cups broth (vegetable, chicken or beef)
- 2 cups vegetable juice
- 5 carrots chopped
- ½ pound green beans
- fresh herbs like thyme, basil, rosemary to taste
- balsamic vinegar to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
- In a stock pot spray with a little olive oil.
- Heat stock pot and then sautee onions until almost clear.
- Add cabbage, canned tomatoes green peppers, celery, broth, vegetable juice and green beans.
- Heat to a boil. Add vinegar, herbs, salt and pepper to taste.
The Plan.
- The soup above can be eaten as much as you want on all of the days of the Cabbage Soup Detox Plan.
- No bread, carbonated beverages, or alcohol.
- Drink plenty of water.
Here is what else you can eat each of the seven days on the diet:
- Day one: Unlimited fruit except no bananas.
- Day two: Unlimited fruit except no bananas, plus vegetables raw or cooked. One baked potato with a smidgen of butter.
- Day three: Unlimited fruits and vegetables raw or cooked. No baked potato.
- Day four: Up to six bananas and unlimited skim milk.
- Day five: Ten to twenty ounces of low fat protein (beef, or chicken). Unlimited vegetables.
- Day six: Unlimited low fat protein (beef or chicken).
- Day seven: Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice and vegetables.
Cons of the Cabbage Soup Diet.
- This diet is not a long-term diet and will probably not result in long-term weight loss.
- On some days the diet is very low in protein and that can be a problem for some people.
- Eating the soup several times a day for a week can get boring.
- This diet is very low in fat, probably a little too low.
Pros of the Cabbage Soup Diet.
- This diet is high in vegetables and fiber. This is very cleansing and detoxifying to the digestive system.
- This diet is high in antioxidants.
- It is a good alternative to some other cleansing or detox diets out there.
- There is plenty to eat on this plan and it is not as boring as a liquid fast or detox.
Helpful tips.
- If you do not do well without protein, add half a pound boiled, shredded chicken breast to the soup.
- Take omega three, primrose oil and flax oil supplements every day you are on this diet. Take 7,000 mg of oil supplements or more daily.
- To keep from getting bored with this diet, make smaller batches of the soup and change it up with red cabbage instead of green cabbage, parsnips instead of carrots, asparagus instead of green beans, and different mixes of fresh herbs.
- Do not do this diet more than four times a year or more than once every three months. It is not a long-term solution to weight loss.
- Use as much organic produce as possible.
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