How to switch up your diet routine:

First, it’s important to know that as you lose weight, your body will need fewer calories. So if your routine included specific foods that added up to 3,000 calories, and then you drop 10 pounds, you’ll likely need to readjust your calorie intake to a lower and more appropriate number.

Next, cabbage soup is not enough. Diets like the Cabbage Soup Diet that require you to eat one type of food and one type of food only are extremely tedious on your body. Your system craves different colors, shapes, textures, and food groups; if you give it no variety at all, it’ll rebel by giving up on the weight loss or by going overboard on satisfying those cravings with sweet, fatty foods.

The Fix:

•    Eat small, balanced, colorful meals throughout the day. The more color you add to your meal, the more likely you’ll hit up different food groups with varied nutritional value. It’s also nice to eat colorful food—begin to enjoy the presentation on your plate!
•    Try not to repeat foods throughout the day. Eggs are healthy, but eggs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner are a bit much. It’s not a good idea to eat too much of a good thing—it’s boring and it deprives your body of nutrients found in other foods that you’re ignoring.
•    Adjust your meal size to match how hungry you actually are. If you always order and eat a soup and sandwich for lunch, it’s possible that your body eats the same amount every day out of habit, not hunger. Pay attention to your hunger signals. Could be that after a bigger breakfast, you’ll need a smaller lunch.

Day One: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas) plus the soup.

Day Two: Eat vegetables, all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice but stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter.

Day Three: Mix of Days One and Two, no baked potato.

Day Four: Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat up to eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup.

Day Five: Beef And Tomatoes: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomatoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken (no skin) instead of beef.

Day Six: Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart’s content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.

Day Seven: Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Be sure to eat your soup at least once today.

Here are some of the benefits:

• It doesn’t require a lot of special foods or supplements

• Its good to cut back on white bread and desserts

• Most people feel better when they cut back on food intake

• The scale does drop about 10 pounds in a week

• The real benefit to a plan like this is the fast results can motivate you to make eating and lifestyle changes