Fat Flush Soup

ecw3780

I did the good housekeeping amazing soup diet one winter and I did loose weight. However I was also counting calories and there was no "eat as much soup as you want" going on in my house. It was a nice change from my usual food and it gave me some good idea on how to mix things up. However, the plain soup base kind of sucked, so you definitely need to follow the meal options they give you. And no, there were not bathroom complications.

sandobr1

I too thought of the cabbage soup diet that I had tried (the soup anyway) probably in the mid 90's. The soup was actually good like others said, veggies, cabbage, beans. I think I used to make this often on WW as you could eat it as veggies, and with winter coming might be good to try a new soup recipe. Funny we used to say about the soup you could skip that pesky step of eating it and just flush it down the toilet, funny to think others sort of think it too.

surromom2010

well i consider success as if you lost any weight.... y would u eat 5500 calories worth of soup... just curious...

To flush out more fat

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californiagirl2012

Like others have said. All that flushes out fat is a calorie deficit. Diets are fads. I've done most of them. I yo-yo'd for 15 years on them. Learned the hard way. None of them are sustainable, and even in the short run they make you develop weird food issues. The only reason to limit certain foods is for health reasons.

These were the diets I tried and failed and did the diet yo-yo with for 15 years:

Low fat high carb, Slim-Fast, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Organic, Weston Price Diet, The Schwarzbein Principle, Eat Fat Lose Fat, The Ultimate PH Solution, The Makers Diet, A friends diet from a personal trainer/dietician

I finally just got sick of it all and made up my own diet with healthy foods I enjoy and smaller portions. I ate my meals from small desert plates and bowls. I stopped eating in the evenings (not that when you eat matters.) I started calling what I did mini-meals and mini-fasts and I lost 40 lbs. Then I found Eat Stop Eat and learned why it worked and everything took off for me at that point. But really all that matters is a calorie deficit and that is the biggest lesson I learned. What ever it takes to sustain a calorie deficit until the fat is gone.

Eat what you want, eat what you like, mostly healthy. Don’t deprive yourself of foods you love unless there is a serious health risk. Depriving yourself of food you love and creating extensive good food and bad food lists at some point borders on a mental disorder. It will drive you insane.

toddis

Be careful consuming large quantities of cabbage in a confined space. You can actually die from suffocation.

tequila09

yum this reminds me of a veggie soup i made a while back. i really should make it again!

LaLouve_RK

LOL ok some answers made me laugh...

One "flush" soup recipe I knew was from the Cardiology institute here. It was made to be light but filling, low fat, full of veggies and vitamins.. and of course, low cal.
"Flush" because most that begins eating it never really ate that much veggies, so, you flush!!

Eating like that help lose weight of course, but the diet didn't only included soup. For dinner a low fat meat and veggies were recommended. A few fruits... I think some people just brought that to the extreme...

I have tried it, and yes, I was less bloated, but didnt last because I got tired of one sort of soup every damm lunch time....

But there is nothing here bad for the health.... the real thing I mean!

bottomlesspurse

Hi

I did do this diet for six months a few years ago. It's not gimmicky and doesn't rely on the soup recipe. The idea is to eat only whole, healthy food and nothing processed (therefor soup is one of the recipes). You have to remove all additives from the diet, including salt, caffeine, sugar, etc with the idea that you are being supportive to your liver. You do a detox countdown before starting, then for the first part of the diet there is no bread, cheese, or any of the additives mentioned. Seasoning your food is done with some allowed spiced like cumin, coriander, paprika.
Day to day, it is really a healthy, low fat diet, with no processed food. I think the name of the diet is misleading, you don't flush fat out in any physical sense.
I was really well on it and did lose weight, but the killer was that there are loads of supplements that are recommended (CLA/GLA/Vitamin E/cranberries/flax/psyllium husks) and part of the diet relies on whey protein powder, which I didn't enjoy. It was all very expensive and very restrictive, though I have no doubt that I was eating a healthy diet. The online support was good and the members very friendly. The books themselves are not particularly easy to read with loads of clinical studies on the various vitamins etc. There's also an exercise method, where you bounce on a mini-trampoline with the aim of encouraging the lymph system to be more efficient.
I've now been at Slimming World (healthy, low fat diet) and achieving the same kind of results, so it's all good.