Losing too fast

While we all want to lose weight fast, this is not always healthy. This became obvious a few years back when my mom tried the cabbage soup diet. I should tell you that the soup smells terrible. It is successful encouraging you to avoid food because it smells bad and the taste isn’t welcoming either.
It is very possible to drop 10 – 15 pounds in the first week or two. The few people who make it more than a month on this diet usually have impressive weight loss – sometimes as much as 30 pounds.

This might sound ideal but I’ve noticed that most people I’ve know who lost weight that fast found themselves weak and ill at the end of the month. You see all that weight loss was water and muscle – rarely fat. That diet is similar to starvation.

The end result of this diet – rapid weight gain when you stop the diet and weak muscles.