Lose weight quickly with the cabbage soup diet.

The promises of the method? Less than 3 to 7 pounds in one week and a cleansed body. The story is simple: you have successfully finished 2018 with a gastronomic orgy, so in early 2019, body and mind are on the diet. And especially to the monodiète, understand the consumption of a single food. Goals ? Eradicate the log 100% butter cream and (too) many glasses of alcohol that still weigh, and make peace with our stomach and liver.
Among the different paths that lead to diet and express weight loss, there is one of the most famous and oldest: the cabbage soup diet. Dating from the 1980s, the method continues to convince the most eager, ensuring a loss of 3 to 7 pounds in one week. Malignant or dangerous? The point on the case with Anais Lala, dietician nutritionist.
The cabbage soup diet, quèsaco?
The principle is simple: eat almost only liquid for a week, by eating the above soup, morning, noon and night. On the menu ? Cabbage of course, onions, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, celery and various spices to season. The cure lasts on average between three and seven days. During this period, fruits and vegetables are gradually added to their meal and then a little meat, beef or poultry.
The diet is absolutely not sustainable
The method undeniably makes you lose weight. And thank you, we will say. The diet is still to remove all sources of calories, fat, starchy foods, sweet products, and "live cabbage" for a week. Except that. "This diet works for a week but is absolutely not sustainable," warns nutritionist dietitian Anaïs Lala. The weight will be taken again, sometimes even with a small bonus, and this for two reasons: "firstly because this diet ensures almost no protein intake. To satisfy his needs, the body will draw on the muscles, which will melt. As soon as the feeding is resumed, muscle mass and therefore weight will be restored. Then, because the method does not ask to change his eating habits. If they were bad before adapting the method, they will remain so and will not participate in the slimming process, "says the professional.
Is it "fat burning"?
Just browse between the forums and slimming articles to seize one of the main assets touted by the followers: the alleged virtues burning-fat soup. At the risk of disappointing, there is no "fat-burning" food. And most importantly, fat does not burn, it is metabolized. "In other words, it is used by the body to produce energy," says the dietician. And the only two factors that stimulate this energy mechanism are sports and intellectual exercise, "rectifies Anaïs Lala.
Cabbage soup, ultimate detox?
To cleanse your body of toxins depends mainly on the hygiene of life
If cabbage does not eradicate insidious fat cells, it can still "cleanse" the body. "Like all crucifers, cabbage is rich in sulfur amino acids that stimulate the body's detoxification work," says the dietician. Is this a reason to make it an exclusive diet? Nothing is less sure. "Cleaning your body of toxins depends mainly on the overall health of life. Just move to promote blood circulation, drink a lot and regularly incorporate cruciferous in its diet, such as black radish, "advises the professional.
In short
Many dieticians and nutritionists agree that the cabbage soup diet is not suitable for anyone. He is unbalanced and draconian. Results? It starves, lightening in the short term, but regains lost weight as soon as a normal diet is restored. Not to mention the inconvenience caused by excessive consumption of cabbage, bloating and gas. What to lose weight, but also friends.
Performed on a day, it can instead rest the digestive system and stimulate detoxification of the body. As long as you make the monodense correctly. The dietician nutritionist is formal: "the goal should not be to lose weight. He must be resting his body and reconnecting with his sensations. During a day off, we take the opportunity to walk more, relax, do things that we like. Like a fast. "
If you want to fast for a day, Dr. Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, fasting specialist, gave us his advice in a previous article: throughout the day, drink between 1.5 to 2 liters of water. Drink different drinks: a quarter of fruit juice at midday, a quarter of vegetable broth at dinner. After lunch, take a break. Then take your afternoon with a physical activity. A hike of an hour and a half, for example, on foot or by bike. Always act according to your shape. Activities must be enjoyable. You can also meditate or read.
 

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