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. “Cabbage soup diet” was like a sleeper phrase.
I’m a medical coder and the doctors often refer to patients’ 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 aren’t thriving and aren’t hungry ate. I didn’t realize it was an actual DIET at some point. 😳
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u/Strawberry_Coven 4d ago
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. “Cabbage soup diet” was like a sleeper phrase.