You’ve probably heard of the cabbage soup recipe diet. It is also known by various other names, such as the Mayo Clinic Diet, the Sacred Heart Diet, the Military Cabbage Soup, the TJ Miracle Diet, and the Russian Peasant Diet. It’s also called the banana diet and I’ll tell you why a bit later. The reason the diet is so famous is the promise it makes that you can lose ten pounds in one week by following the diet. Is that possible? I can tell it’s because I did it myself. And you get a lot to eat and a variety of different foods, so it wasn’t that hard to follow.
Is this diet a sensible long-term eating plan? Not really. It’s a short-term way to lose a few pounds, that’s all. Don’t you know that sometimes you need to see quick results to stay motivated or to motivate yourself? That’s what this eating plan can do: help your motivation by allowing you to drop a few pounds quickly.
You might think that the cabbage soup diet is just eating cabbage soup for a week. It’s not fun, huh? You can actually use all kinds of cabbage soup recipes to provide some variety. But that is not at all. You can actually eat all the cabbage soup you want throughout the week, but there are many different foods you can eat during the week. It is not a starvation diet at all. You eat certain foods every day, and the foods change every day. When you consider that you can eat all the soup you want, there is little chance that you will actually get hungry. The downside is the absence of several of my favorite dishes from the meal plan. No brownies, ice cream, sweet potato casserole, or pizza. Oh good! Like most fat loss diets, you don’t get breads or pastries.
The meal plan includes fruits, vegetables, meat, milk, and bananas. All right, here’s the banana part. On the fourth day of the diet, you eat up to eight bananas and all the skim milk you want plus the soup. That’s why I call it the banana diet!
