The sacred heart diet.?!
The sacred heart diet.?
has anyone been on the sacred heart diet? if you have please give me your thoughts and results of the diet.
Answers:
I've tried the Cabbage Soup Diet, which is supposedly similar. Lost weight, but it made me so hungry I could've bitten someone's hand off if they'd gotten between me and my tomato (the tomato and beef day). You'll only lose water, if you lose anything at all. Most who've followed CSD can't stay on it for more than a couple days due to the intense hunger. Here's what I found out about Sacred Heart (it's not from Sacred Heart or any valid healthcare source):
"The Sacred Heart Diet is a fad diet that has been circulating for many years. The diet was supposedly thought to come from the cardiology department at Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital where it was used for overweight heart patients. However, like most of these diets - this is an urban myth.
The Sacred Heart Diet has been called a number of different names (such as the Spokane Heart Diet, the Cleveland Clinic Diet, Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital Diet and the Miami Heart Institute Diet). The diet also bears a striking resemblance to the cabbage soup diet.
Background of the Diet
The Sacred Heart diet is a soup-based diet, and claims that you will lose 10-17 pounds in the first week. This may be true, but most of the weight will tend to be water - and will be gained right back very soon after the diet.
This diet is very clearly an unsustainable fad diet, but is not as nutritionally unsound as similar diets. Most of these diets claim some magical fat-burning science is involved, or that there is something special about the combination of foods. This is simply untrue - it is nothing more complex than a reduction in calories!
This diet is not recommended!!"
Source(s):
http://www.everydiet.org/sacred_heart_di...
I'm currently on the Sacred Heart Diet. I'm on day four, and am only allowed banana's, skim milk and the soup. I find that I'm feeling great, despite the lack of variety today. I will be honest, I have not lost any weight yet and am starting to feel discouraged, but I will keep going for the seven days. The soup is tasty if you like veggies. I add hot sauce or worestershire for a change. A pot lasts me and my husband about two days. I'm optismistic about this and will keep a daily journal as too my progress. I hope this helps anyone who's struggling with "baby" weight as I am.
I tried the modified cabbage soup diet which follow EXACTLY the same meal plans with the sacred heart diet. I lost 10 pounds in a week of fasting diet. However my soup recipe uses salmon so it's way more nutritious than plain sacred heart soup or cabbage soup.
The meal plan is actually a balanced meal with less emphasis on fatty and carbs foods.
But I tried cooking the sacred heart soup recipe, although I didn't do the diet, actually it tastes GOOD!
Here's the recipe of the sacred heart diet and the salmon soup diet:
Sacred Heart Soup:
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
-- See that I used a pretty huge number of seasoning there ;)
The salmon soup
Ingredients:
? 1 Bombay onion or garlic
? 6 green onion leaves
? 1 big cauliflower
? 6 fresh tomatoes
? 2 pieces of paprika
? Celery
? 1 fillet of salmon (without skin)
? Salt and pepper
? Oregano powder
? Water (adjust the amount to your preferences)
Instructions:
First sprinkle the salmon fillet with salt and pepper, add a sprinkle of oregano. Leave it for a few hours.
Chop all ingredients
Then put all of the ingredients into the water and boil it. Leave all the ingredients in the boiling water for 10 minutes.