After Beyonce did a breakthrough using lemonade diet or also known as beyonce diet (instead of master cleanse diet), my faith for these fasting diets have risen dramatically.
Indeed my experiences with the fad diets have been an
enjoyable one.
I lost 10 pounds using the modified cabbage soup diet recipe
and another ten pounds from the predecessor, using a modified and safer
lemonade diet recipe.
However most of the time, I don't recommend these fad diets
for people looking to lose weight unless time is their enemy. Today I stumbled
upon a lot of diet website dedicated for fasting diet, and I noticed a similar
diet method to the cabbage soup diet.
It's called the Sacred Heart diet. I will post the complete
sacred heart diet soup recipe below as well as my comparison review between
sacred heart diet and the cabbage soup diet.
The sacred heart diet origins come from the name of a
cardiology department at Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital where this sacred heart
diet was used to treat overweight heart patients.
But the hospital has issued a press release at 2004 (french)
that said "no nutritionist at the Hospital took part in the development of
this diet".
Since many dieters have reported 10 - 17 pounds decrease
within a week doing this diet, all the negative facts have been forgotten and
this diet became very popular.
Ingredients:
4 tomatoes
4 large green onions
1 can of beef broth
1 cup of celery
2 cups of green peas
2 package of lipton soup mix
2 cups of Carrots, shredded
2 Green Peppers
100 grams of Cauliflower, stewed and chopped
Salt and Pepper and Worchestershire sauce to taste
Optional: Zucchini and mushrooms.
Instructions:
Just mix all the ingredients in a hot boiling water and let
it boil for 10 minutes, then turn into low heat and let it simmer until all the
ingredients are soft. Don't forget to stir it consistently.
Now the meal plan is the same with cabbage soup diet meal
plans.
Drink: 8 glasses of water, cranberry juice and black coffee
with skim milk.
Day 1: Consume the soup as much as you want, eat only fruits
(no banana).
Day 2: Only vegetables and soups allowed, no fruits. One
baked potato for dinner.
Day 3: Only vegetables, fruits and soup. Nothing else.
Day 4: Only bananas and soup.
Day 5: Eat 300 - 500g of beef and soup.
Day 6: Still the same with day 5.
Day 7: Brown rice, soup and fruits.
Let's do a comparison study with the soup. I made the soup
without doing the diet and I have to admit that this soup taste better,
although this soup contains lesser amount of vegetables than the cabbage soup.
The ingredients used for this soup are negative calories
ingredients. Look at celeries, peppers, and onions. So by eating this soup you
will lose more calories. Sounds very good isn't it.
Perhaps it's due to the fact that this soup allow you to add
more flavoring to the soup. I even tried this soup for my breakfast with hot
coffee and it tasted quite good that I want to make this soup for the whole
family.
The problem with this diet is the lack of nutrition like the
cabbage soup diet. And unlike the master cleanse diet, this diet is not
cleansing your body at all so there's no health benefit you receive.
The advantage that this sacred heart diet has over the
cabbage soup diet is the higher success rate. Yes, the soup taste a lot of
better and not disgusting like the cabbage soup diet, so your chance in
finishing the diet succesfully is higher.
Sometimes there's a situation that requires us to lose
weight fast regardless the cost. If such situation happens to you then by no
further ado you should do the sacred heart diet.
In fact you can occasionally serve this sacred heart soup
for your family or for your beloved one, if you are a vegan just replace the
beef broth with vegetable broth.