Using the Cabbage Soup Diet to Lose Baby Weight

by Lisa P | More from this Blogger

28 Sep 2007 05:29 AM

Jaime Pressly, an actress known for her roles in such blockbusters as Joe Dirt and Death to the Supermodels and recently for her part in the unlikely hit "My Name is Earl" had a baby in May of this year and decided to use the cabbage Soup Diet to get back into her pre-pregnancy clothes.

When most people think about the Cabbage Soup Diet, they think of a fad diet. Jaime, in her defense expands on the fact that the Cabbage Soup Diet has been recommended by doctors to their patients preparing for surgery. According to a quote by Jaime at Skinny Celebrities:

"I went on the cabbage soup diet which is a detox diet, and it is definitely all about high protein and low carbs. And I started working out at the gym with my trainer 10 days after the birth - five days a week for two hours every day. Today I went to MCDonald's and ate two cheeseburgers. You have to treat yourself every now and then."

High protein and low carbs? There must be another version of the Cabbage Soup Diet that I haven't seen yet and I have looked everywhere! It could be that she stuck to a low carb/high protein diet while she was off the Cabbage Soup. The Cabbage Soup Diet is high in vegetables, hig in vitamins and high in sodium but not high in protein at all.

Now before you start thinking that the Cabbage Soup Diet alone can get you looking like Jaime Pressly just back the crock pot up.

1. She started working out only 10 days after giving birth to her son.

2. She had a personal trainer.

3. She worked out for two hours a day, five days a week.

4. She used the Cabbage Soup Diet twice.

Jaime definitely put in the time and sweat equity to shape up so I say, more power to her!

Related Blogs: Original Cabbage Soup Diet

Low Sodium Cabbage Soup Diet

(When I first tried the Cabbage Soup Diet, I actually gained three pounds from all the sodium in it. Onion Soup Mix and Bouillon are very high in sodium. After that, I looked around and finally found a low sodium version of the Cabbage Soup Diet. On that diet, I found that I lost about a pound a day.)

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