contemplating the cabbage soup diet

I am carrying about 15 lbs that I shouldn't be lugging around. That's a lot. That's the weight of my baby at 4 months. That's a lot.

So I am sort of thinking about doing the cabbage soup diet. Last time I did it (before I got pregnant with Aidan), it did not sit well with my family. I was so tired and moody from lack of food, especially carbs, that Pat threatened divorce if I didn't stop the diet and start eating normally. So I had to stop the diet to save my marriage. But before I stopped, I did lose about 10lbs in about 10 days and none of the weight lost came back. So, it's effective, if I am willing to sacrifice my marriage.

The cabbage in the soup also made me really gassy. I mean really gassy. And I was working at the time so I had to leave my desk very often to let it out, which was kind of inconvenient. And at home, no one liked my gassiness either.

So, given that I am a mother of 3 children, and a wife of a guy who threatens divorce when I am trying to appear my best, the cabbage soup diet is probably not a good idea. And I also don't have any cabbage in the fridge anyway.

So I decided to just make a vegetable soup, eat a lot of that, and cut down on the cheese cake, the ice cream, the bread, and the rice a little. Here's what's cooking:

Vegetable Soup Recipe in a crockpot
4 cups Chicken stock (I had home made chicken stock in the freezer!)
4 cups water
Vegetables in the fridge - cut into bite size pieces (I haven't been cooking much so I have a lot of vegetables from our CSA left over. We're getting more vegetables tomorrow so I am using what really needs to be eaten): zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, onion, eggplant, green bell pepper, tomatoes.
A little salt and pepper.

Cook on high for 5 hours.

I am cooking it right now so I don't know how it will turn out but am pretty sure it will be bland. This is going to be a lot of soup so my plan is to season the portion that I will be eating. So this means that I can vary the flavor according to how I feel at that particular moment.

Hopefully, eating this much vegetables and cutting down on luxury food items like excessive rice and cheese cake will help me get rid of the bulge around my tummy....