My wife is a big fan of the famous – or should that be infamous – cabbage soup diet, and from time to time I succumb to her “suggestions’’ I should have a go at it.
It is true that if you follow it to the letter it’s the best way to lose weight quickly – you could lose 5 kilos in less than a week – but the problem is that it’s not as easy as it sounds to be a stickler for its rules.
For one thing it produces a very pungent aroma when heated, and in some people it produces a wind problem. I remember a very funny scene in an office I worked where female colleagues would screw up their faces and say: Nah, just can’t eat it anymore.
But it does work; we have just done it for a few days and I have to admit I was relieved when I finished the last bit of it and could finally wash the pot I made it in.
Basically it contains (all chopped up in little pieces) half a head of cabbage, a couple of green capsicums, green onions, a stick of celery, a tin of chopped tomatoes and a packet of French onion soup, but for the full recipe, if you’re interested, just go to Google and type “cabbage soup diet’’.
What’s your Top 5 diets?
Number 1. Obviously it has to be the cabbage soup, because you really do lose weight quickly. Apparently it was invented for overweight hospital patients in America – where else – waiting to undergo heart surgery.
Number 2: A friend once suggested eating meat but never having bread, pasta or rice with it. I now realise it’s sort of a poor man’s paleo diet. It didn’t last long.
Number 3: Remember the fasting diet of a few years ago some people swore by? Mind you, every time a new diet comes along the usual suspects – that will be shallow media personalities – swear it’s the best thing since, well, sliced bread. So this one had you not touching a thing, except water, for 24 hours. Pretty silly, but aren’t most fad diets.
Number 4. The fabulous carb diet, all the carbs you can eat folks. I forget how much weight I didn’t lose with that one.
Number 5. The best, most popular diet of all time for the most number of humans being is the seafood diet, as in see food and eat it. Awful pun, I know. Bon appetit.
