Omggg. My mom and grandma spent a lot of time alternating me between the cabbage soup diet and the tea and toast diet. Then me aunt went into weight watchers and I remember being 11 and bringing the points counter booklet to school with me. āCabbage soup dietā was like a sleeper phrase.
Iām a medical coder and the doctors often refer to patientsā hyponatremia/low sodium as being due to their tea and toast diet. I always thought it referred to the way some of these older people who just arenāt thriving and arenāt hungry ate. I didnāt realize it was an actual DIET at some point. š³
Clinical lab scientist, some people go wayyy to far avoiding salt. Which also leads to magnesium, phosphorus, and ALL other electrolytes related issues.
Potassium is the worst. Your muscles canāt work without it.
Well, I code inpatient/hospital charts, soā¦constantly. Itās a code I have memorized and use everyday. But these are obviously very ill (therefore hospitalized) people. With all kinds of severe diseases. I donāt know what kind of provider you are, but Iād guess for outpatient, itād be way less common.
ETA: If you mean hyponatremia due to a ātea and toastā diet, thatās more the patients who just donāt eat much due to something else, cancer, dementia, etc. If you mean hyponatremia in general, all the time every day all my life.
Disclaimer: not a doctor, not a provider, not claiming to be, just a reader/interpreter of the things doctors say š¬
Iāve been both dangerously underweight and way too overweight. People judged either way. Unfortunately I felt worse super skinny, but was much more accepted and treated better. As a far person people were outright shitty with me.
And if they didnāt say it, then the first comment would be about how men arenāt the only ones perpetuating abuse, and how itās women too blah blah blah.
Thank you. I'm trying to. It's still very hard to accept that I still have value as a currently overweight person. I find mys3lf apologising to people for my size and making excuses when I doubt anyone else cares.
I'm a fucking dumb dumb and my mom would go on bouts of feeling bad about herself and make that cabbage soup. I LOVE IT. I lost her recipe once and when I found it online listed as a diet I was laughing and laughing. My poor mom, I used to request it! I've never been thin (save a very unhealthy period during my 20s) so she probably thought I was judging her or me or both of us.Ā
You would literally just eat cabbage soup. Cabbage in a salty broth with no added meat or oil or potatoes, so it would be like 75 calories a bowl. The idea was you'd get full eating the cabbage soup 5x a day but not take in a lot of nutrition, so it was like starving yourself but you still got to eat. I did it when I was 10 and you definitely lost weight, however your digestive system would get wrecked
definitely not a joke or British specific unfortunately. it was a fad diet based around a cabbage soup that was basically just low cal vegetables and water. beloved by mothers with disordered eating everywhere for generations, passing it down to their daughters. I would wager most people who grew up with a bad relationship with food at some point encountered cabbage soup.
Speaking of moms, Taylor may be destined to inherit her momās body type. She can fight it, butā¦ it would be interesting to see how her mom looked in her 20ās. That might be stressing her more than some rand on tik tok
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u/Entire-Cow-1641 4d ago
Jesus Christ, love or hate Taylor Swift, itās not cool to admit to wishing an eating disorder on someone. So weird.