Cabbage diet for weight loss for 10 days
The Cabbage Diet was originally developed for patients who have undergone surgery and are in the recovery phase. However, like most diets, the cabbage method of losing weight is "to the taste" of people who seek to lose weight. Therefore, its various options have been developed and they are successfully used today by many nutritionists.
The diet is based on eating cabbage. There are many options for the cabbage weight loss system. Some of them are strict, while others, on the contrary, spare the digestive system. However, at the heart of every diet is one single food - cabbage. It is eaten raw, stewed, fermented, soups are made from it. Cabbage dishes can be supplemented with protein products: meat, eggs, vegetables, but there should be a minimum amount of fat in them. The tougher options for the cabbage diet include: cabbage-potato, cabbage-curd and cabbage-kefir diet. In this case, you can eat only those foods that are present in the name of the weight loss system itself.
The daily calorie content of the cabbage diet is equal to 1200 kcal. Such a diet should last no more than 10 days, since it is not balanced, and therefore not able to cover all the physiological needs of the body.
With this diet, you can lose up to 5 kilograms per week, the result will depend on the initial weight. You can repeat the diet only after two months.
Content:
- Choosing a variety of cabbage
- Cabbage week menu for 10 days
- Allowed and prohibited foods of the cabbage diet
- Cabbage diet options
- Cabbage Diet Recipes
- Pros and cons of the cabbage diet
- Contraindications
- Reviews of those who have lost weight
Choosing a variety of cabbage
During the cabbage diet, you can eat the following varieties of this vegetable:
- Cauliflower. It has a minimal energy value, is rich in tartronic acid, which slows down the processing of carbohydrates. As a result, fat will accumulate more slowly.
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White cabbage. This variety of cabbage is the most budgetary; you can buy a vegetable at any store. White cabbage can be used to prepare a wide variety of dishes.
- Brussels sprouts contain indole-3-carbinol, which has the ability to destroy cancer cells. In addition to the fact that a person will lose weight by eating Brussels sprouts, he will still have the opportunity to improve vision.
- Broccoli. This cabbage is incredibly popular in the west. It is used in a wide variety of diets. Broccoli is eaten fresh and is used as a smoothie.
- Kohlrabi. This variety of cabbage resembles a turnip. Kohlrabi contains a lot of ascorbic acid. So, for comparison, lemon contains 10 times less vitamin C than this variety of cabbage. Kohlrabi allows you to regulate the work of the intestines, having a beneficial effect on its functioning in general.
- Peking cabbage has the positive properties of other varieties, retains a high content of vitamin C during long-term storage. It also effectively removes heavy metals from the body and supports immunity.
Cabbage week menu for 10 days
| Day | First meal | Second meal | Third meal |
| Herbal tea, apple | Cabbage with different types of cabbage | Vegetable salad, white cabbage | |
| Coffee, orange | Stewed cabbage and boiled egg | Baked cauliflower in egg | |
| Herbal tea, berries | Baked fish, cabbage salad | Stewed cabbage and other vegetables, apple | |
| Tea and fruit | Cabbage, vegetable salad | Kefir | |
| five | Oat flakes steamed in boiling water, green tea | Boiled chicken breast, sauerkraut |
Vegetables and cabbage in the form of a salad |
| Coffee and apple | Grilled vegetables, fresh cabbage, boiled egg | Boiled egg, salad | |
| Fruit salad, herbal tea | Boiled fish, cabbage salad | Vegetable stew | |
| eight | Coffee, peach | Casserole with egg and cauliflower | Cottage cheese |
| nine | Oatmeal, coffee | Cabbage with different types of cabbage | Salad with white cabbage and butter |
| ten | Fresh cabbage rides throughout the day | ||
Allowed and prohibited foods of the cabbage diet
During the diet, it is allowed to include the following products on the menu:
- Soups with different types of cabbage: cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, white cabbage, red cabbage, broccoli, Peking cabbage, kohlrabi, sea.
- Vegetables: tomatoes, leafy salads, carrots, zucchini, radishes and onions, radishes. Only potatoes should be discarded. Vegetables are eaten fresh, and fermented or stewed.
- Low fat meat: rabbit, beef, turkey, chicken. You can eat no more than 200 g of meat products per day.
- Allowed Diet Fish: All low fat river or saltwater fish.
- Brown rice.
- Whole grain bread, but not more than 100 g per day.
- Chicken eggs.
- Fermented milk drinks.
- Cottage cheese.
- Vegetable oil.
- Unsweetened fruits.
- Fruit juices.
- Still mineral water, herbal tea, green and black tea, rosehip decoction.
Foods that are prohibited during the diet:
- Bread and other baked goods made from wheat flour.
- Sweets.
- Fatty meals.
- Sugar and salt.
- Mustard and mayonnaise.
- Hot spices and seasonings.
- Alcoholic drinks.
Cabbage diet options
On cabbage soup
For a week on cabbage soup, you can lose up to 7 kg of excess weight. The menu is based on cabbage soup, which can be prepared from a variety of cabbage varieties. In addition, throughout the day, it is allowed to eat fruits, boiled lean meat. The amount of soup is not limited by anything, you can eat it as much as you want. The recipe for cabbage soup is presented below, in the Recipes section.
Cabbage and beetroot
Adhere to the cabbage-beetroot diet for 6 days, but no more. It is not recommended to practice it more than once every 6 months. During the diet, you can drink juices from vegetables that you prepare yourself. It can be carrot, pumpkin, celery juice. It is also allowed to drink mineral water without gas, or green tea. Coffee should be discarded in this diet option.
Cabbage and beetroot mix is the main course of the six-day diet. To prepare the dish, you will need the following products: 0.5 kg of cabbage, 2 beets, garlic - 5 cloves, one onion and two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Finely chop onions, garlic and cabbage, boil all vegetables in water with the addition of vegetable oil for 30 minutes. Then for another hour the vegetables are infused under a closed lid. The mixture is ready to use. Serving sizes provided are for the whole day.
On cabbage juice
It is recommended to combine cabbage juice with your main diet. Its use allows you to remove harmful substances from the body, and also promotes the breakdown of fats. Drink juice 30 minutes before the main meal.
To prepare cabbage juice from the head of cabbage, remove the top leaves, remove the stump. Then the cabbage is passed through a meat grinder, the juice is squeezed out of the resulting pulp. You can also use a juicer.
It should be borne in mind that the consumption of cabbage juice can lead to increased gas formation. To avoid this problem, you need to drink fresh cabbage at the same time as apple or carrot juice.
Kefir-cabbage
Kefir-cabbage diet is simple. During breakfast, they drink coffee, this drink is limited to the entire meal. For lunch, they eat fresh sauerkraut or stewed cabbage. You can fill it with vegetable oil, or add green peas to it.
At dinner, it is allowed to eat 0.2 kg of chicken breast or fish. Also in the evening you need to drink a glass of kefir. In between main meals, you can drink green tea without sugar. This menu should be followed for 5 days, but no more.
Cabbage and potato
The cabbage and potato diet can be continued for a week. If you independently increase the duration of such a weight loss program, then this can lead to health problems. The cabbage and potato diet menu is not rich in nutrients, so the body will be deficient in them. During the diet, it is forbidden to salt dishes.
One cup of coffee, 4 baked potatoes and 0.5 kg of cabbage are allowed per day. It is either boiled or steamed. You need to eat cabbage and potatoes throughout the day, dividing the specified amount of products by 5 times. In the evening, you can add a teaspoon of vegetable oil to the potatoes. Be sure to drink 1500 ml of water throughout the day.
On cabbage brine
There is also a variant of the cabbage diet during which cabbage pickle or broth is used. To do this, for 10 days during breakfast, they drink cabbage pickle. No other food is eaten. A serving of brine is 0.25 ml at a time.
To prepare cabbage broth, you need to pour 0.2 kg of cabbage with 150 ml of water and cook for a quarter of an hour. Cabbage broth is substituted for dinner.
The diet lasts for a week, during which time you can lose from 3 to 5 kg of excess weight.
Cabbage Diet Recipes
Cutlets with cabbage
To cook cutlets, you will need the following products:
- A kilogram of cabbage.
- 50 g butter.
- 80 g semolina.
- A glass of milk.
- 3 chicken eggs.
- A little salt.
Cabbage leaves are boiled for 10 minutes, passed through a blender. Then this mass is stewed with butter for another 5 minutes, milk, salt and semolina are added, covered with a lid, and allowed to brew. When the mixture cools down, eggs are introduced into it, mix thoroughly. Cutlets are formed from minced meat, put them on a baking sheet, greased with protein. Cutlets are cooked in the oven for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C.
Lazy stuffed cabbage
To cook stuffed cabbage, you will need the following products:
- 150 g of white cabbage.
- 600 g chicken fillet, twisted into minced meat.
- 50 g onions.
- Boiled rice - 50 g.
- One chicken egg.
- A little salt.
Cabbage and onions are scrolled in a meat grinder, mixed with minced chicken, egg and rice, and salted. From this mass, cabbage rolls are formed, which are baked in the oven at 190 ° C for half an hour.
Cabbage and carrot salad
To make a salad, you need the following foods:
- A pound of cabbage.
- 200 g of apples and the same amount of carrots.
- Lemon juice and black pepper.
Grate apples and carrots, finely chop cabbage. All the components of the salad are mixed, poured with lemon juice, a little pepper.
Salad with cabbage and mushrooms
To make a salad, you need the following foods:
- Champignons - 0.3 kg.
- Cabbage leaves - 0.25 kg.
- Boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
Cabbage leaves are boiled, along with mushrooms, bringing them to half-readiness. Eggs are cut into cubes, vegetables are chopped in the same way. Add dill to them, mix. Salad ready.
Cabbage soup recipe
To make the soup, you need the following foods:
- 0.6 kg of white cabbage.
- Bulb onions - 6 pcs.
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
- Brown rice - half a glass.
- Green onion feathers - 6 pcs.
- Carrots - 5 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Celery stalks - 5 pcs.
- A little salt.
Cut the onion into half rings, diced celery and pepper. Peel off the tomatoes, put all the vegetables in a saucepan, add water and cook for 10 minutes over low heat. Then cover the pan with a lid and cook until the vegetables are soft. Rice is boiled separately until fully cooked, introduced into a saucepan with vegetables at the end of cooking. Turn off the heat, sprinkle the soup with chopped green onions.
Pros and cons of the cabbage diet
Pros of the cabbage diet:
- You can eat cabbage as much as the body requires.
- Don't go hungry after 18:00. However, in order for the process of losing weight to be faster, it is best to stop eating 3 hours before a night's rest.
- During the diet, it is possible to improve kidney function.
- During the diet, the liver is cleansed and restored.
- Cabbage is a source of minerals, vitamins and fiber.
Cons of the cabbage diet:
- During the diet, the following health disorders are possible: deterioration of the digestion process, upset stools, nausea, headache, loss of energy, insomnia, drowsiness, apathy, decreased performance, increased irritability.
- During the diet, you need to take vitamins and minerals.
- The diet is not balanced, so not only fat, but also muscle can be burned.
- During the diet, breakdowns are possible, since cabbage dishes are somewhat "boring".
- The process of losing extra pounds is due to the burning of muscle, not fat.
- Since cabbage is weak, this diet may not work for working people.
- If you do not follow the drinking regime, there is a possibility of dehydration.
- With prolonged adherence to the cabbage diet, an excess of mineral salts will form in the body, which will negatively affect the state of health.
Contraindications
Contraindications to the cabbage diet:
- Senile and childhood. Menopause and menopause.
- Breastfeeding, carrying a baby.
- Disorders of metabolic processes, disorders of water-salt metabolism in the body.
- Diseases of the endocrine glands.
- Diseases of the digestive system.
- Pathologies of the reproductive, urinary and hepatobiliary systems.
- Allergy to cabbage.
- Diseases of the heart and blood vessels, high blood pressure.
- Exacerbation of chronic diseases.
- Obesity in its terminal stage.
- Diabetes.
- Anorexia and bulimia.
Reviews of those who have lost weight
Tatiana: “I followed a diet on cabbage soup, because I can't live without hot one. During the diet, she ate meat and fruits. She did not suffer from bouts of hunger, there was no nausea or headaches. If I really wanted to eat, then cabbage leaves saved me. I ate them raw.
Of all the varieties of cabbage, I opted for white cabbage, but it gave me a lot of puffiness. However, then I realized that in order to prevent increased gas formation, you need to choose early varieties of cabbage. They contain more vitamin C and U, folic acid and 16 amino acids. I stick to a cabbage diet for 5-10 days, during this time it takes 4-6 kg, although much depends on the rate of metabolic processes in the body, as well as on the initial body weight.
Larisa: “The cabbage diet was easy for me, as it is my favorite vegetable. In a week I managed to lose 5 kg. If you have enough willpower, then you can safely adhere to this system of weight loss."
Evgeniy: “I decided to lose weight before going to the army. Mom advised me a cabbage diet, in 5 days I lost 4 kg with her help. The diet was easy for me, when I wanted to eat, cabbage leaves helped me out. All my friends were very surprised how I lost weight so quickly. Thanks to my mom and the cabbage diet for my appearance."
The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist
Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).
