"Diet Fat Burning Soup" Legit?

Azdak

I have a feeling that this is based on the "Negtive Calorie Foods" list. I'm sure you've all seen it circulated around. The list of foods that contain less calories than you burn consuming them.

All in all, it won't work. Well, it will, but you'll gain in all back as soon as you jump off. Just like the 72hour Hollywood Juice Diet, Cabage Soup Diet, Grapefruit Diet.....

Not only do "negative calories" "not work", they cannot work as advertised. It is impossible for a food to "burn up" more calories than it contains.

I think that some foods actually contain less calories than your body uses to digest them. Celery, for example? And maybe cabbage.

Again, that is impossible. The myth comes from either a misunderstanding or deliberate distortion of the TEF concept. The TEF is a percentage, not a fixed number. So even if a food contained only 1 calorie, it would still expend a surplus of energy. This is the same concept that disproves the "many small meals per day increases metabolism myth". Google "negative calorie myth" for more detail.

It's likely this idea evolved because certain foods contain very few calories and a lot of bulk. So you can eat them in virtually unlimited quantities. Eating a high volume can lead to feelings of fullness without eating a lot of calories. It is easy to see where one might think these foods have "negative" energy.

But they don't.

ninerbuff

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kdeaux1959

I knew a couple of family members who touted the cabbage soup diet as a LIFESTYLE CHANGE. Yeah, I'm going to eat nothing but cabbage soup for the rest of my life. NOT. the only soup that actually burns calories is EXERCISE SOUP. Take a little walking and mix in some Zumba and weights and running and spin along with some yoga and stir it all together and you have one mean fat burning soup.

GreatDepression

Those vegetables are healthful and can be filling but eating small bits of it with mostly water/salt is basically a fast. These ultra-low short term diets are useful in getting the scale to read a lower number due to you losing water weight but be forewarned that they also usually put in a catabolic state in which your body will burn some of your lean muscle mass to fuel itself. This results in a lower metabolism and once you start to eat "normal," you'll find that you'll gain fat more easily.

Wetcoaster

Those vegetables are healthful and can be filling but eating small bits of it with mostly water/salt is basically a fast. These ultra-low short term diets are useful in getting the scale to read a lower number due to you losing water weight but be forewarned that they also usually put in a catabolic state in which your body will burn some of your lean muscle mass to fuel itself. This results in a lower metabolism and once you start to eat "normal," you'll find that you'll gain fat more easily.

No...it does not lower your metabolism.

RaspberryKeytoneBoondoggle

My guess is like any fad diet, you will initially lose the weight but when you get off the diet, and you will have to because it is unsustainable, you will gain all of the weight back and probably more.

Yes. *nods head*
The soup is tastes good to eat once in a while though!

neandermagnon

well it's unlikely anyone will gain eating that because it's just vegetable soup and that's a low calorie density food

but it will give you *some* calories

and this "the more you eat the more you lose" thing is incorrect.

the negative calorie food thing is based on the idea that some vegetables require more calories to be digested than you get from eating them.... the digestive system is an energy expensive one, but eating vegetable soup isn't going to make it burn that much more energy than not eating vegetable soup. The energy used by your digestive system comes under your BMR calories, and a bowl of vegetable soup isn't going to increase your BMR.... if you compare someone who eats a high protein, high fibre diet who also gets all their carbs from starches rather than sugar, their digestive system would burn very slightly more calories than someone who gets their food from white carbs and protein powder..... but that difference is only really measurable when you consider the diet as a whole. Additionally, liquid foods are easier to digest, so whatever miniscule increase in the amount of calories your digestive system burns in digesting vegetables is negated by the time you make it into a soup. And there's not a huge difference anyway.

The main benefit from this soup is that it contains a lot of micronutrients. It's also a low calorie dense food that has a high water content, so that makes it a good food choice for someone who's eating for fat loss. But that's as far as the benefits go. If someone wants their digestive system to burn more calories, a high protein, high fibre diet would do that, and eating more starch and fewer simple sugars. But the difference will be tiny - the main health benefits of more protein, starch and fibre have to do with things other than how much energy your digestive system is burning.

Branstin

This great fat burning soup recipe is too restrictive and sound miserable.

KimiSteinbach

I did it once 6 years ago and lost about 10lbs then I started eating healthy from then on. It was a good jump starter.

sadiebea25

SIX LARGE onions, and only a half of head of cabbage? You may lose weight, but you'd probably lose your friends too! That's a lot of onions.

jjwilde265

any diet works on the same thing really. burning more calories than you consume. trouble is if you dont eat protein you will lose muscle. so when you eat normally again your metabolism is lower so you will gain weight. pick a diet that suits you and you can follow but i'll say always make sure any diet contains protein in it. :-)