I can still recall the disgusted looks on the faces of my colleagues who had taken the cabbage soup diet challenge.
It was 15 years ago and losing weight quickly by eating cabbage soup was trending, as we’d say now.
Luckily there was no social media or it would have gone viral somewhere online.
But back to those disgusted colleagues, those wimps, who informed me they were not going to eat any more of that foul smelling soup.
There was no skin off my back; I had just told some of the people in the office that my wife had lost a lot of weight with the cabbage soup diet and they asked for the recipe.
I am pretty sure nobody lasted beyond the first day, and who could blame them.
This is a diet designed by heart surgeons in the USA who want overweight patients about to go under the knife lose weight rapidly.
But it’s a tough gig and I have to confess I have not lasted more than five days, even though I discovered the claims were true: you do lose a lot of weight.
All these wonderful cabbage soup memories came flooding back because the soup is back in our household
I know I ought to be a trouper and lend moral support by joining in, but I just can’t bring myself to do it – no matter how much I know I need to lose weight.
The cabbage soup diet program has you eating as much of the soup as you want and fruit on the first day, followed by soup and veggies the next day.
Day three is soup and fruit and veggies, followed by soup and as many as eight bananas and all the skim milk you can stomach.
And so it goes, but if you’re interested Google cabbage soup diet.
Me, all I can think of are the Top 5 things I’d rather put up with than consume cabbage soup…
Number 1. The look on my doctor’s face when he sees me jump on his scales. Priceless.
Number 2. Going to K-Mart to buy some item of clothing and finding out the largest size is not big enough.
Number 3. The ordeal that is pulling on some socks and tying your shoe laces.
Number 4. Hearing the hilarious euphemisms for “fat’’. People are so polite, sort of.
Number 5. Standing next to a person who’s twice your size and wishing you could take a selfie and send it to your mates with the message: See, I told you I wasn’t fat!
