This easy-to-follow plan is designed to jumpstart your diet.

Eat as much cabbage soup as you desire for seven days and lose 10 to 15 pounds. The recipe varies slightly but includes a variety of low-calorie vegetables such as cabbage, onions and tomatoes, flavored with bouillon, onion soup mix and tomato juice. Each day of the seven-day program has specific foods that must be eaten, including potatoes, fruit juice, many vegetables and, on one day, beef.

• Quick weight loss.
  
  
• No limits to the prescribed foods.

• Diet low in too many nutrients (protein, minerals, complex carbohydrates) to continue for a lengthy period of time.
  
  
• Reports of dizziness, weakness and inability to concentrate.
  
  
• Short duration and restricted foods give little chance to change your eating habits long term.
  
  
• Weight probably will not stay off.
  
  
• The sheer volume of cabbage soup can produce excessive flatulence.