White cabbage is rightly classified as a low-calorie product. This is due to the fact that in 100 g of cabbage there are only 20 kcal. When processing this product, the body spends more energy than when it is absorbed. Thus, you can eat any amount of cabbage at absolutely any time of the day, while losing grams of excess weight. Of course, if you eat this product, eating it with fried potatoes with cracklings, pasta or the like, then a beautiful silhouette will remain only in dreams.

There is a wide range of methods for losing weight. And among them is the cabbage diet, which is very easy to use. This unique native Russian vegetable has always been on our table. Maybe that’s why our great-grandmothers were slender, like Aphrodite?

Cabbage helps to stop the growth of malignant tumors. Vitamins, minerals, fiber, which allows cabbage to be easily absorbed in the body, make it simply an indispensable vegetable at any time of the year. The cabbage diet is not considered hard or exhaustingly long, while it benefits diabetics by normalizing the functioning of the liver and kidneys, removes toxins, and helps to normalize weight.

By following this diet, you can lose up to 7 kg in one week.

Consider the pros and cons of such a diet.

Pros:

Of course, one of the main advantages of white cabbage is that it contains quite a lot of different minerals that protect the heart from many diseases. These are substances such as enzymes, potassium, phytoncides. Cabbage also contains a large amount of vitamin C. This product is recommended for those people who need to improve the functioning of the kidneys and liver, who have gastritis or stomach ulcers, as well as those who want to reduce blood sugar levels. In addition, cabbage is useful for mastopathy, gout, colds, pain in the spine and joints. Cabbage also helps to get rid of apathy, headaches. With it, you can get rid of nervousness, thereby delivering less stress to the body, so if you eat cabbage before any significant event, it will benefit.

It is also important that during the processing of cabbage in the body, elements are released that inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Scientists discovered this property of white cabbage relatively recently.

Diet rules:

salt is not added
volume is not normalized, the product fills the stomach, satisfying hunger,
two liters of non-carbonated mineral water are drunk per day (it is allowed to drink green tea),
the period of compliance with the cabbage diet is from seven to ten days, during this period of time seven to eight extra pounds go away.
We start the morning with coffee without milk and sugar or unsweetened green tea. Both drinks are beneficial.
Lunch will be cabbage soup or salad with cabbage and carrots without salt, seasoned with a spoonful of vegetable (olive) oil. You can add an egg to lunch, but not every day.
Dinner will be kefir in the amount of two hundred grams (you can replace it with a portion of boiled fish, lean chicken meat equal in grams).
Cabbage diet without hunger

When hunger begins to torment you, and there is still a long wait until the next meal, eat cabbage.

How to make cabbage soup

Cabbage, bell peppers, carrots, onions, tomatoes are chopped, poured with boiling water and simmered under the lid for 15 minutes. There is no salt in this soup, as with other weight loss diets. You can add your favorite herbs to the soup, grate the celery root. But forget the potatoes!

If you’re a natural cook, experimenting with different varieties of kale will give you plenty of options for this soup. Use red cabbage, white cabbage, Savoy, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kohlrabi, Beijing, even sauerkraut is allowed.

And now for the cons:
Before you use the cabbage diet, you need to carefully consider how healthy and strong your body as a whole. And then go to the store. Since eating vegetables in large quantities aggravates stomach problems, this diet is contraindicated in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Also, this diet is dangerous for those who have kidney disease, obesity or diabetes.

In the event that you do not have such contraindications, it is necessary to take into account a number of disadvantages of the cabbage diet. These disadvantages include the fact that cabbage does not contain fatty acids that are beneficial to the body. It does not contain trace elements and vitamins that a person needs, which is typical for any one-component diet. As a result, if you follow this diet, it can interfere with the work process, as headaches, general weakness and fatigue may appear. Thus, it is recommended to start cabbage diet during a period when you do not need a good reaction, concentration or focus, for example, during a vacation.

In the event that it is not possible to follow a diet during the holidays, you can do this on weekdays, but not more than 1 time in 1-2 months. A weighty fact is also that if you follow this diet for more than 1 week, the body will begin to produce the necessary energy using your muscle mass, and therefore, the body will lose elasticity and become flabby. That is why it is not recommended to follow this diet for more than 1 week.

Since the cabbage diet is not characterized by a variety of products, you will need a lot of self-control. It should also be borne in mind that even if you followed the entire diet and did not succumb to various temptations, and at the end of it you pounced on sweets and flour, which you deliberately ignored for such a long time, your hated kilograms will soon return and it turns out that all your tortures were in vain. In addition, plus to the previous ones, additional kilograms may appear.

Now directly about the cabbage diet (it is designed for 10 days):

In its classic form, the cabbage diet is a breakfast of coffee with or without a sweetener, then lunch in the form of a coleslaw salad with unrefined sunflower oil (1 tablespoon of oil). After one day of dieting, you can enter 1 chicken. hard-boiled egg. Dinner is supposed to be 1 tbsp. yogurt (drinkable, without additives, natural) or kefir. Or, if desired, you can have dinner with fish or lean meat (200 g).

It should be clarified that only green tea or plain non-carbonated water (up to 2 liters every day) is allowed to drink during the cabbage diet. In no case should you add salt to food or add any spices and spices. Sugar must be completely eliminated. And if you want to eat, then you can unlimitedly use only cabbage.

It is recommended to stick to this type of diet for no more than 10 days. At the same time, it allows you to get rid of 7, and in some cases up to 10 kg.

Four Day Diet

With its help, you can lose up to three kg (much less than with the classic diet), but it is more useful because it allows you to eat well 3 times a day. Thus, this type of diet is considered to be softer. What does she represent?

Day one – have breakfast with low-fat cottage cheese (175 g), to which you can still add a slice of wholemeal bread and watercress. Eat kvash. cabbage (200 g), fried pork (100 g) and pear (these ingredients must be stewed all together). Do you have a salad for dinner? fresh cucumber, 150 g kvash. cabbage, 4 radishes, ? white radish. You can fill the salad with yogurt and nuts (1 tsp of ground nuts and 75 g of yogurt).

Day two – breakfast with a banana with yogurt and oatmeal (1 tablespoon of cereal and 150 g of yogurt). Dine on kvass soup. cabbage (in two hundred g of sauerkraut, pour one hundred ml of broth from a cube, 50 g of apple juice, and 5 minutes before readiness, add 2 pods of chopped pepper). Have dinner with a salad, in which 200 g of sour. cabbages are mixed with fried salmon (150 g), which can be salted and a drop of lemon juice added.

Day three – have breakfast with a salad of 150 g of cottage cheese with a fat content of up to 5% and 1 medium orange, into which you can pour a small amount of sunflower seeds, peeled. Dine 150 g kvash. cabbage and 150 g of fried saithe. Have dinner with a salad of 100 g of kvass. cabbage and 4 grapes, as well as potato pancakes from 3 potatoes.

Day four (final) – breakfast 30 g of Gouda cheese and 1 bran bun, and you can also eat a few pieces of an apple. You have lunch with beef (pre-fry 200 g of beef and then stew with a small amount of pineapple and sauerkraut). You have dinner with a salad, in which 125 g of lean pork, 3 tomatoes and 100 g of cabbage leaves are mixed.

Restrictions

The cabbage diet prohibits drinks with gas, alcohol, flour products, sweet, smoked, salty, fried, fatty.

The result obtained with proper nutrition in the future is stored for a long time.

To consolidate the result, repeat the cabbage diet after two months, but in the future cabbage dishes should always be on your menu. Lose weight deliciously with cabbage, and the slender body of Aphrodite is guaranteed to you!