Soup diet!?

in the end you will burn less calories on a soup diet because it takes less energy to digest and you dont have to chew... there is nothing about this diet that will improve your weight loss, just keep at a calorie defecit and it will work.

There is nothing magical about soup. Why would there be? At the end of the day your calorie intake(in soup form or otherwise) and exercise will determine whether you lose weight.

Good luck
Phil

I haven't called it a 'soup diet' but I use soup often to fill up on a low-calorie healthy food. I make a variety of vegetable soups and eat a small serving before meals pretty often. Plus, they're really easy to make in huge batches and freeze for lunches/emergency snacks. My normal recipe is dead simple and cheap. Sautee an onion, add a box of chicken or vegetable broth, a box of frozen chopped spinach and a box of frozen chopped broccoli. Bring to a simmer, and either eat as is or blend smooth.
cons: high sodium
Might be bland for some, but I love it and dress it up lots of different ways.

Even higher calorie soups with meat, beans or cream are generally lower calorie for their 'filling'ness than other foods because of their water content. Experiment!

Lots of these are really good, and Cooking Light has nutrition information for their recipes on the left sidebar!
http://www.cookinglight.com/food/quick-healthy/healthy-soup-recipes-00412000070018/

If I recall correctly the goal behind the soup diet was that they tend to be low calorically, so you would have less trouble staying within your daily limit.

Canned soups tend to have a metric ****ton (yes that's a scientific measurement) of sodium so if you go with those try to find ones that are low in that area.

Best bet for soups is to make your own at home. You can vary the ingredients to make sure you're getting everything you need nutritionally.

All that being said, the soup diet is just a diet, if you don't plan on sticking with it forever you may want to consider picking up a diet that you can sustain indefinitely.

I would make my own soup because canned soup is loaded with sodium. I ofter make it in the winter. I usually make it in my slow cooker. I usually start with a chicken carcass and cook the meat off it, remove the bones and throw in whatever veg I got in the fridge. I usually put lentils in as well. Then I make some wholemeal rolls. Makes a nice meal.

I'm loving all the soup recipes!

Agree with others who say its just a good way of filling up on relatively low calories. I always tend to want something to chew on with it, so I go for chunky soups, and a mini pack of rice cakes or oatcakes.

When I did slimming world this was a lovely recipe which would last all week (and /or freeze). I liked it chunky but its also good smooth. hmm might have to go shopping and make this soon.

12 speed soup

1 can mixed bean salad
1 can green lentils
2 cans chopped tomatoes
1 can baked beans
Handful of split lentils
2 large leeks
1 large onion
4 medium carrots
2 parsnips
Green, red & yellow pepper
Butternut squash
Garlic to taste
2 beef or chicken or vegetable stock cubes
Salt pepper
Mixed herbs
Water (enough to cover all ingredients)

1) Find your biggest pan
2) Throw that aside and find something bigger(!)
3) Chop everything up, chuck it all in, bring to boil and simmer for 30 minutes.

You can, of course, halve the ingredients pretty easily. I tended to do use frozen onion and peppers as a time saver, and it doesn't really matter if you mess about with more or less of any of the ingredients. Sorry I don't know calorie content, it would need working out.

Fake Heinz tomato soup
2 tin tomatoes,
1 tin baked beans,
1 tin carrots, drained
1 tsp chicken stock,
half cup water,
1 medium pickled onion (secret ingredient, must be pickled!)

Blend all of the above until smooth and warm through.
Blitz together in food processor and heat

I also love a bit of carrot and coriander soup, or leek and potato. mmmmm.

in the end you will burn less calories on a soup diet because it takes less energy to digest and you dont have to chew... there is nothing about this diet that will improve your weight loss, just keep at a calorie defecit and it will work.

Except this is wrong. The difference in calories from digestion and chewing isn't substantial enough to make a diet succeed or fail (hence why the celery diet doesn't work either).

in the end you will burn less calories on a soup diet because it takes less energy to digest and you dont have to chew... there is nothing about this diet that will improve your weight loss, just keep at a calorie defecit and it will work.

Except this is wrong. The difference in calories from digestion and chewing isn't substantial enough to make a diet succeed or fail (hence why the celery diet doesn't work either).

im not saying it will necessarily make a significant difference but it wont make a difference to weight loss either if the calorie intake remains the same.

Given the clarification...withdrawn.

Love spicy (curry powder) parsnip soup, but made with semi skimmed milk and a vegetable stock cube..............Mmmmmmmmmmm

Not sure how healthy that is!! It does seem so............And I think its low in calories.

I don't think there is anything in the idea that we don't expand any energy in eating soup; I mean how much energy does it take to eat or digest anything! Wouldn't think it was a great deal.
Keep thoughts and ideas simple.......Surely less calories equals less weight! More exercise means more weight loss too!

I'm not doing well regards weight loss so I am going to try soup and salads....... for lunches at least Spring makes it easier to eat salads For me anyway!! Good luck everyone.