Dieters are supposed to follow specific menus for
each day of the diet, with the understanding that an
unlimited amount of cabbage soup can be eaten each
day.
Day One: Eat only the cabbage soup and all the fruit
you want (except bananas). Cantaloupe and watermelon
are recommended. Permissible drinks are water,
black coffee, cranberry juice, or unsweetened tea.
Day Two: No fruit. Raw or cooked vegetables can be
eaten in unlimited quantity along with the soup,
except for corn, peas, and beans. A baked potato
with butter can be eaten at dinnertime.
Day Three: Unlimited fruit or vegetables, but no
baked potato.
Day Four: Eat at least three and as many as eight
bananas, and drink an unlimited amount of skim
milk. Day Four is supposed to curb a desire for sweets.
Day Five: Eat 10-20 oz of beef and up to six fresh
tomatoes (or one can of stewed tomatoes. Cabbage
soup must be eaten for at least one meal. Drink 6-8 glasses of water to flush acids from the body. Baked
or broiled chicken (without the skin) or fish may be
substituted for beef at one meal.
Day Six: Eat cabbage soup at least once during the
day; otherwise, an unlimited amount of beef and vegetables
can be consumed, but no baked potato.
Day Seven: Eat an unlimited amount of brown rice and
vegetables and drink an unlimited amount of unsweetened
fruit juice. Cabbage soup must be eaten at least
once during the day. No bread, alcohol, or carbonated
beverages (including diet soda) are allowed.
Additional instructions
Some Internet versions of the cabbage soup diet
include additional instructions for the dieter:
-Follow the diet religiously
-Drink at least four glasses of water each day
-Only follow the diet for seven days
-Eat unlimited amounts of cabbage soup to prevent
hunger
-Take a good multivitamin supplement every day
-Try different spices to liven up the soup and add
variety
Cabbage soup diet pills
Diet pills available on the Internet supposedly
represent the cabbage soup used in the diet in dehydrated
form. Discovery of the pills is credited to a
woman who works in a food processing plant that
makes meals ready to eat (MREs) for the military.
She is said to have tried dehydrating cabbage soup in
the ovens for preparing MREs and ended up with a
powder that tasted like the original soup when warm
water was added. A local manufacturer of homeopathic
remedies supposedly began packaging the powder
in pill form. The cabbage soup diet pills claim to
speed up weight loss, melt fat, curb appetite, cure
depression, detoxify the digestive tract, boost the
immune system, and protect against cancer.
