Has eating soups daily/regularly helped in your weight loss?

About a month ago I noticed my male cousin was a lot thinner. I mentioned it to his wife and she said he started making and eating soup all the time for lunches and even in the evening when he wanted a snack. It's homemade soup. I'm sure it could work as long as you ate careful what kind of soup.

I'm feeling about 80% better now--but I'm still making soups daily, because I'm really loving it. I wish I'd make this discover in the fall and winter though--don't know about how good soups are in the summer--unless I start making those cold soups!

I make watercress soup in the summer. Good hot or cold and watercress is super good for you. I also LOVE gazpacho and cucumber soups. Perfect for hot days and very low calories.

DD gave me a ham bone from Easter dinner. today it went into the soup pot,after I cut away / discarded the fat & diced the lean. Added large size chicken broth,pepper,sage,bay leaf & thyme.After an hr,diced carrots,onion & celery,along with 1 1/2 lbs of Great Northern beans.Brought to a boil,then cover & simmer on low till beans are tender,adding water as needed to keep beans covered.

if you simmer the beans for an hour before draining & adding to soup,won't take too long.So good & so easy.

I make soup often because it keeps good & easy to freeze. Use zip lock bags,put measured amount in bag,then put on a pan ,flat. When frozen .....easy to stack .

I find having a homemade soup (usually vegetable with some legumes, low sodium broth and tomatoes) on hand makes it less likely I'll grab something higher calorie for lunch. It's filling, healthy and easy to throw into the slow cooker every week. For me it gives more calorie leeway in planning dinner.

In the cold weather months starting around mid-Sept. and through April, I eat soup every morning for mid-morning "snack". I make mine homemade with organic chicken stock (sometimes I add white or dark meat chicken, ham, pork neckbones, turkey legs and wings, sausage or other meats whatever I have on hand for flavoring), sometimes I add a little rice or a handful of various beans, depending on what kind of soup I am doing, mushrooms, various vegetables (peppers, broccoli, squash...) whatever I have on hand, fresh onions a little clove of garlic. A variety of spices whatever I have on hand for taste, no salt, fresh cracked pepper. I simmer that up in the crockpot early in the morning so that by mid- it's done. I also do a sort of jambalaya soup using fish (tilapia, sole or haddock), chicken, sausage, couple of shrimps (high in calories so go easy) with lots of veggies and chopped up tomatoes.

Very low in calories and yes this helps curb my appetite and helps me with my weight loss and also if I have beans in there, that's fiber! Sometimes I add some apple cider vinegar in there just to zip things up. I recommend making your own and avoiding canned or store bought. Too much salt and processed garbage in those. You can even make a huge batch on a weekend and freeze in small containers for during the week. One thing I never add is pasta. The pasta does not freeze well. Rice freezes well. It is a great "cleanse" the more veg you add in there the more "cleanse" you will get. It is also good to ward off colds and flu since chicken stock has antibiotic properties. Try to get the stock that comes in a box not a can and organic if you can find that. If not, it's okay or you can make your own stock.

I have a mixed opinion of soup. If I make a winter soup in my crock pot and that's dinner with a salad and I eat it a few days, yes, I'll see the difference. But in the winter, I also eat the canned stuff, especially the ones in the microwave cups that I can bring to work. I find that I have to be careful tracking because one of those microwave containers is actually 2 servings, so I'm not eating 120 calories, say, which it says on the container, but 240. And with cream or bean/meat based soups, the total calories could be over 300. Also, I find the weight gain from the water retention from sodium sometimes negates the low calories of commercial soups. That being said, in winter if I'm in a hurry, I always have a few stocked to bring to work. It's still better than a sub or fatty meal from the cafeteria.

I love soup with croutons. I find it helpful in weight loss because I can always keep a few cans/boxes/dehydrated pouches in the pantry. No time to make lunch for work? It takes 5 seconds to grab soup and maybe 30 more seconds to weigh and bag my croutons. This helps me with weight loss because I work in a building with a deli. If I don't have a lunch, I'm tempted to get a veggie burger with fries, which is way more calories. Since I go the pre-packaged route with soup, I do have to watch serving size (1 can = 2 servings, usually) and sodium content. I will often dilute thicker soups to fill me up more/stretch out the soup so that I can eat it longer.

My favorite soups are these vegan split pea with barley soups that come in pods in the pasta/soup aisle, plus the organic tomato and quinoa soup from Costco (fridge section). Costco also has a really good vegetarian French onion soup in the freezer section that is often on sale.

Another soup eater here! I currently have three different types stored in my freezer so I can pick and choose which I want for lunch at work.

Hint: For those that eat soup at work, look into one of these. I received this as a gift two Christmases ago and it has been a life saver at work: http://www.amazon.com/Crock-Pot-SCCPLC200-PK-20-Ounce-Lunch-Warmer/dp/B006H5V7ZY

665 reviews and 4.5 stars can't be wrong!

Or, if you don't have access to a plug, http://www.amazon.com/Sistema-656-ml-Soup-Mug/dp/B005D6Y1OM/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1398360032&sr=1-1&keywords=microwave+soup I have 2 of these so that if one is in the dishwasher, I have a spare.

I love making middle eastern red lentil soup. Lots of protein, easy to make, super filling, and low-calorie.

(Also cheap... Very cheap. It only costs about $4 to make a 2.5-gallon pot full. :drinker: )

I love soup and I always have cheese cravings. So I just mix chicken broth, cut up cubes of cheddar cheese, spinach, tomatos, peppers and chile's and it cames out as a spicy nacho-like soup xD

Homemade soup in winter. Texas is too hot for soup at any other time.

Homemade soup in winter. Texas is too hot for soup at any other time.

word. :indifferent:

I have soup very often for lunch at work because it is so easy to cook a batch, freeze it in individual containers and freeze it. Grab and go in the morning and the bonus is, it's frozen so it doesn't leak in my bag LOL.

I find it filling, convenient, a great way to get in a ton of veges (not that I have a problem eating veg!) and tasty