Everyone is talking about how much weight they lost on the cabbage soup diet. Well, ok, maybe not everyone, but there is a lot of buzz about it right now.

Basically, the diet is simple in terms of what you can and what you can’t eat - you’re eating cabbage soup, and a heck of a lot of it. Granted, there are variations of the diet that allow more flexibility and eat other things (like fruits and vegetables), but you’re still eating a ton of cabbage soup.

The idea is to consume as much cabbage soup as you want through out the day, and especially before the hunger starts to set in. Cabbage soup has very little calories, so consuming quite a bit of it still doesn’t equate to much calorie intake, and thus you lose weight.

The weight loss claims have been very high, and probably overly inflated. This diet doesn’t offer much in terms of protein, so you tend to lose a lot of lean muscle.

Then you have to look at how sustainable the weight loss will be on the cabage soup diet. I mean, come’on, how long is it going to take before cabbage soup makes you sick to your stomach? My experience has shown me that these types of super restrictive diets only work very temporarily, if at all.