The Cabbage Soup Diet
Cabbage soup. I love cabbage, don’t get me wrong. But the idea of cabbage soup is not all that appealing. So what is the cabbage soup diet all about? The idea is that cabbage soup contains negligible calories, but that eating it causes a fat-burning reaction in your system.
The more soup you consume, the more fat you will burn. You are encouraged to eat as much cabbage soup as you want on a daily basis. This may sound appealing. The soup is made from cabbage, onions, onion soup mix, and tomato juice and flavored with bouillon and real tomatoes.
There is a specific regimen to be eaten on each day of the diet, complimented by lots and lots and lots of cabbage soup. For this diet to work, the cabbage is supposed to have fat-burning properties. Science has yet to prove that those fat-burning properties exist in cabbage. You may lose weight quickly during the initial stages of the cabbage soup diet, but like all other fat diets – it’s usually just as quick to regain when you get off the diet.
The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is another low-carbohydrate diet that focuses on limiting your diet to only eating about 40% of your calories from carbohydrates. The theory is that by limiting your carbohydrates you will reduce insulin and fat storage. As with other low or no carbohydrate diets, you will experience a quick, initial weight loss.
This is usually all dieters need to confirm that the diet is working. However, most of the weight is due to water elimination and most of that water is lost from the lean muscle mass, which is burned easier, and faster than the fat it promises to burn. The low fiber diet can be hard on the intestines and on waste elimination. There is also the worry about ketosis, which can lead to osteoporosis and calcium loss.