What's So Great About Fat Burning Soup Diets Anyway?

Fat burning soup diets have been around for many years and are still used by Hollywood celebrities today. Popular fat burning soup diets such as the cabbage soup diet gained popularity in the 1980s when they were widely circulated by fax machine, although no person or organization has claimed responsibility for inventing the cabbage soup diet.

The idea behind fat burning soup diets is that you fill yourself with low-calorie soup and a few other foods, which vary from day to day. Some fat burning soup diets recommend following the diet for one week and then eating normally for two before restarting the process. It is claimed that the soup has fat-burning properties.

Another very similar fat burning soup diet is the Sacred Heart Diet which supposedly came from the cardiology department at Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital where it was used for overweight heart patients. However, the Sacred Heart Medical Center disclaims any association with the diet as does the Sacred Heart Hospital in Montreal, Canada. The American Heart Association has claimed that the diet is a phony.

What no-one tells you is that these fat burning soup diets often provide no more than 800 to 1,000 calories a day which is on the border line of a starvation diet, especially considering the body needs on average 1,500 to 2,500 calories to function properly. In other words, you won't lose weight because of any magical foods in the fat burning soup but rather because you're starving yourself.

When you eat too little in this manner your body will try and conserve all the energy it has, which means it will rather hold on to fat than use it for energy. Also such diets can leave you feeling week, dizzy and undernourished. Fat burning soup diets are low in protein, calcium and healthy fats and have high salt/sodium levels.

If you go on fat burning soup diet you are not going to have an adequate carbohydrate intake and you will suffer many of the same side effects as low-carb dieters. This includes cravings, tiredness, confusion, mood swings and much more. The large amounts cabbage in fat burning soup diets has also been reported to cause abdominal discomfort and excess gas.

These fat burning soup diets are often used for a quick way to drop pounds for a special event or due to health concerns. Fat burning soup diets claim that you will lose 10 to 17 pounds in the first week. However, this weight loss has been attributed to water weight, which will inevitably be regained, and also lead to loss of muscle tissue.

When you lose muscle this causes your body's metabolism rate to decrease and future fat gain to be more likely. In fact, it has been shown that after following a very low calorie diet for one week, such as a fat burning soup diet, 30 per cent of the total weight loss is muscle, while the rest is fluid.

While it may be true that fat burning soup diets such as the Cabbage Soup Diet and the Sacred Heart Diet are effective in temporary and quick weight loss they are not safe and hinder your chances for losing fat long-term and keeping it off.

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Burning Fats Fast With the Cabbage Soup Diet

You have probably experienced having the "I have to lose weight fast!" moment. It doesn't matter what the reason might be - everyone experiences that moment and everyone has experienced thinking the same thought. What do you when that happens? Do you go on a crash diet? Unfortunately, a crash diet can only make you hungry. The next time you have this moment, you should consider the Cabbage Soup Diet.

What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?

The Cabbage Soup Diet is otherwise known as the Mayo Clinic Diet or the Sacred Heart Hospital Diet. Ironically, it not related to either the Mayo Clinic or the Sacred Heart Hospital. The names, however, has resulted from having both health establishments claiming the diet for their own.

The Cabbage Soup Diet is, as the name suggests, a type of soup diet which encourages fast burning of fats. The soup basically consists of calories that are completely negligible, so you burn fats fast. The more cabbage soup that you eat, the more weight you lose. In fact, you can eat as much soup as you want but you wouldn't have to worry about gaining weight.

The Cabbage Soup Diet lasts for a week. You are definitely assured of quick weight loss. The drawback, however, to this diet is that there are limited food choices which results to inadequate nutrition. Often, people who would initially try this diet would eventually drop it without finishing the diet duration.

Unlike other types of diet programs, you cannot get a personal program for the Cabbage Soup Diet. Rarely will you find exercise recommendations. You will find no recommendations on lifestyle changes or bad habits. The program is quite stark, mainly consisting of the meal that you have to stick with for 7 days. Sticking to the program will get you to lose at least 10 pounds in a week's time. You cannot continue with the diet though after you have finished the one-week program. You will have to wait for another week to pass before you can initiate another week of the Cabbage Soup Diet.

The One-Week Cabbage Soup Diet

Following the program, you can eat as much cabbage soup as you want. In addition to the soup, you can only eat the recommended food for the day. You could be eating fruits on the first day, vegetables on the second day, mixture of fruits and vegetables on the third day, bananas on the fourth day, limited serving of fish or chicken on the fifth day, limited serving of beef and unlimited serving of vegetables on the sixth day and rice and unlimited serving of vegetables on the 7th day.

If you want to try out the Cabbage Soup Diet, you should consider consulting with your physician first about the possible health issues that could arise. Remember that there are drawbacks to this diet. It may work fast but you should not place your health in jeopardy.

John Grant is a the author for a diet fads site where he is writing articles about the cabbage soup diet.

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