
As much as you might be comfortable with your body and your belly you want to look good in short shorts when you are lounging on the beach this summer. Sometimes it's pure vanity. Sometimes you just want a reason to show some skin and call yourself a third wave feminist. Either way, it's getting nice out and a lot of us have a winter belly we might not love.
Recently, I went on my first crash diet of my life. I was in a situation where I had to hav my shirt off in front of strangers way too early in the season and needed to drop 10 in a week. So I got really gay, fell into every insecurity perpetuated by women's magazines, found some lame justification, and dedicated myself to finding the most effective way to starve myself for the next week.
Everyone told me to do
the Master Cleanse, but honestly that scares the crap out of me. I was also really intrigued
this year's GOOP "cleanse", aka the crash diet for the stars, but it seemed really expensive since it involved lots of coconut, alfalfa, and other boutique produce totally out of my budget. Once I came to terms with the fact that I wouldn't lead a charmed life like Gwyneth Paltrow, I asked a friend's mom. She told me she once did
the cabbage soup diet.
What's the cabbage soup diet? It's one of the more disgusting options out there to lose weight but still actually eat food. Basically you make this cabbage soup out of V8, carrots, onions, celery, and a buttload of cabbage. You can eat as much of that as you want, and there's a schedule of other foods that you adhere to each day.
I kept a quick log of how I felt each day. I started on a Sunday and finished the 7 day program the next Saturday.
Day 1:
Jesus I am so hungry I could eat the carpet. Just 6 more days. I can do this. Surprisingly not feeling too gassy considering all the cabbage passing through my system here.