The New Cabbage Soup Diet [Mass Market Paperback]

Margaret Danbrot (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1997

Need results in a hurry?
This dynamic diet plan lets you eat until your stuffed and lose up to 10 pounds!

Have the holidays left you with too tight pants? Is there a dress you need to squeeze into for next week's special occasion? Are you planning on putting on a bathing suit anytime soon? If you want to crash off pounds fast--before you start on that long-term eating plan--the New Cabbage Soup Diet is for you.

Featured in Cosmopolitan magazine, USA Today, and on the internet, the original Cabbage Soup Diet is a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Now brought to you in a new and improved version for healthier, safer weight loss, it is a program to count on.

It's quick! Pounds start to vanish from day one
It's easy! No special foods to buy, no complicated weighing, no counting fat grams or calories
It's low in fat, high in fiber--and safe, unlike some high-protein diets
It's hunger-proof! You can have all you want of filling, delicious, and nutritious foods
It's got doezens of dieting tips for making weight loss easier and longer-lasting that you won't find anywhere else.

You've heard about it. Now try it. It really works!

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Need results in a hurry?
This dynamic diet plan lets you eat until you're stuffed and lose up to 10 pounds!

Have the holidays left you with too-tight pants? Is there a dress you need to squeeze into for next week's special occasion? Are you planning on wearing a bathing suit anytime soon? If you want to crash off pounds fast-before you start on that long-term eating plan-the New Cabbage Soup Diet is for you. Featured in Cosmopolitan magazine and USA Today, the Cabbage Soup Diet has been a word-of-mouth phenomenon. This revised and updated edition for healthier, safer weight loss contains true stories from a number of successful New Cabbage Soup dieters, so that readers can find out what worked for them and what didn't.

· It also features a seven-day plan, a three-day blitz plan, and now for the first time, a maintenance plan to help you maintain your weight once you've reached your goal!
· It's easy! No special foods to buy, no complicated weighing, no counting fat grams or calories.
· It's low in fat, high in fiber-and healthier than some high-protein diets
· It's hunger-proof! You can have all you want of filling, delicious, and nutritious foods
· It's got dozens of dieting tips for making weight loss easier and longer-lasting that you won't find anywhere else

You've heard about it. Now try it. It really works!

--This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (February 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312962282
• ISBN-13: 978-0312962289
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It works, but consider some things before you try it, May 1, 2005

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layla - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Cabbage Soup Diet (Mass Market Paperback)

There's two important things to consider: First, this diet is pointless if you only do it for one week. Though you will probably lose 10 pounds after a week of this diet (I did), one week after you've finished, you'll be back to your previous weight, probably with some extra added on. To get anything long-lasting out of this diet, you'd have to do at least 6 weeks. Then you would need to gradually ease back into normal eating in increments as well as start to exercise at least an hour a day in order to maintain the weight loss.

Second consideration is that this is not a healthy diet to stick to long term. However, I had tried every diet out there and couldn't lose any weight. I had a BMI of 27, eating 800 calories a day and doing intense exercise three hours a day. After several months of this, I had not lost one single pound. The only method I could find that made me lose weight was starving. Then I tried this diet, was eating more calories than previously, and lost 10 pounds in a week.

As such, I do recommend this as a last resort for the overweight . If starving is the only way you can lose weight, this diet is a very good alternative to becoming anorexic. Just be sure to maintain the diet for six weeks and then adjust into a normal, healthy diet gradually while starting to exercise an hour a day when you have reached your goal weight. Don't forget your multivitamin.

If you're just not good at making yourself exercise and restricting food, or if you're a healthy weight and just want to be thinner, this is definitely not the diet for you - try French Women Don't Get Fat instead.

One last thing. This diet forbids milk except on Day 5. There is evidence (go to www.webmd.com and type in "milk weight loss" in the search field) to show that dairy food greatly speeds up weight loss. For that reason, I allow myself skim milk, cottage cheese and lowfat plain yoghurt (which I flavour with Davinci sugar-free syrups) every day, but otherwise stick to what the diet says. I'd recommend that adjustment.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lost 35lbs in this diet, September 15, 2004

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henna "henna" (San jose, ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Cabbage Soup Diet (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a great diet book. I lost 35 lbs in 5 months. I found about this diet in the internet and tried it. I lost 8lbs in the first week. After losing about 20lbs I found this book. This book is slightly different and better than the original version that I was following. I was doing this diet continuously taking 1 day break. Sometimes I was bored of drinking the soup everyday. This book has many ideas to spice up the soup. I definitely recommend it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cabbage Soup Diet, October 18, 2007

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Jake Wright (http://www.mycabbagesoupdiet.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Cabbage Soup Diet (Mass Market Paperback)

I think that this diet is one of the best things to ever happen! I loved the book and the diet too! Be careful because the diet is not something that you should continue for a long time. In fact it is more of a cleanse than a diet. But, I happen to have lost 15 lbs on the diet myself... so I am a believer.