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If you have a special occasion coming up, or you simply need to lose weight fast, the Cabbage Soup Diet may be just what you're looking for.
Although not suitable for long-term weight loss, the Cabbage Soup Diet is a low-fat, high-fiber diet that will help you get into shape fast before you embark on a more moderate long-term eating plan.

Pros and Cons of the Cabbage Soup Diet

The species of Homo sapiens is such that we tend to look for excuses and reasons to be lazy. We go to any extent to talk ourselves out of some hard work. That may not be true for all Homo sapiens, but it applies to quite a few of us. So when we do not wish to exercise those muscles, we invent these myths. Heres another one

Myth #3: Muscle Turns to Fat

Anorexia No, its not Anu, Rex and Zia at the coffee shop together. Its one word only and it is a medical term for people obsessed with losing weight by eating very less. It is a word few Indians would identify with. It is something that till now only the Western people used. But with our obsession about everything phoren only increasing by the day, it was not unexpected that Anorexia hit Indian shores (and how). In a recent article on the popular tabloid Mid-Day, it was speculated that our very own Kareena Kapoor is Anorexic. Now you may ask what next?

Carb control is what the famous Atkins Diet promoted as the panacea for weight watchers. Many people have been able to shed kilos and pounds by controlling their carb intake. Ask anyone what is the quickest way to lose weight, and the standard asnswer will be Cut down on your carbs. But how healthy is a carb-controlled diet? Critics have ripped away the Atkins Diet on many counts. So should you really go for the carb controlled Atkins Diet?

No Carbs, Excess Protein

So you just weighed yourself and oops! You have gained a Kilo rather than losing it. So you go giving gaalis to all those sugar free sachet manufacturing companies and the treadmill which sits broodingly in that corner of your living room. Oh God! Why this injustice? Why is the neighbor Sunita so slim and trendy while you are cursed with these genes which make you look like Mount Everest?