Could this be the best diet ever?
By grandpa_lash
@grandpa_lash (5225)
Australia
November 13, 2008 6:41pm CST
My partner and I are both quite unwell and unable to keep up any significant level of physical activity, and since we both seem to have the "fat gene" we are bordering on clinically obese. So, we are going to try a diet of our own devising, because all the other diets we have seen are either risky, unhealthy, don't work, or are as boring as hell.
At the moment we have cereal and fruit for breakfast, soup (no creamed or thickened) for lunch with home baked low GI bread, and a cooked meal for the evening. We will continue with that for the next 14 days, then weigh ourselves and begin the diet.
The diet is so simple: We will simply substitute a second soup meal for our evening meal for 14 days, then go back to normal for 14 days, then back to the double soup for 14 days, and so on.
What do you think? Will it work?
Lash
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9 responses
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
17 Nov 08
I visited a health food store the other day and she gave the recipe for this vegetable broth/soup but have not tried it out yet. Since I am also on the fat side, she recommended her 'magic' soup that could reduce the weight if taken faithfully. I thought I would try it out but always procrastinate and never really have serious thought about it. Thanks for bringing this topic, it inspires me to go for it, for health reason that is.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
3 Dec 08
Well zandi, I would try that soup. This is not an official update, but I have already lost 8lbs in 7 days.
Lash
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
14 Nov 08
Well I really hope it works as I cannot exercise enough to lose weight and that is the only way I know that works. When I was losing weight before I was walking 3k or more at a fast pace every day plus doing exercises and working out on my exercise bike or treadmill for 30 mins a day at level 3.
Now I cannot walk faster than a shuffle and that for only 5 mins max and I can only do 7 mins on the exercise bike at level 1 which is not even a warm up. So I am desperate to find some way to reduce my calorie intake without starving.
I love soup and that sounds like a wonderful way to lose weight without starving. I can see that you might have concerns about fresh vegies and protein etc but those diet shakes do not have these things and doctors recommend them so I think the soup is a reasonable alternative.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
27 Nov 08
IT HAS BEGUN
We weighed ourselves this morning, 248 lbs (112.5 kgs) and 185 lbs (84kgs). Our targets are 175 lbs (80 kgs) and 140 lbs (64 kgs), so we have a long road in front of us. Our first checkpoint will be December 9th, when we will update the wights and hopefully have some decent progress to report.
Lash
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
22 Nov 08
I am type 2 diabetic - believe me, we are already on a low fat diet. But thanks for the advice.
Lash
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@Denise_Tung (647)
• China
14 Nov 08
Hi lash. I believe it will work since you keep an eye on your diet and it seems very healthy. I am not an expert on this, but I suggest to eat enough at breakfast so that you will not tend to eat too much at lunch. Fruits and vegetables are very good for health and will not cause fat. Soup is also good because it will make you feel full and we girls often choose it as a diet when getting some extra pounds, heehee. Try and remember to update the result.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
14 Nov 08
Isn't it funny that nobody is out there promoting the eating of soup as a diet? Probably this is so because there's no profit to be made: you can't seel your diet pills, or diet books, or diet shakes, or surgeries. I will definitely write updates as we begin to see the effects, although don't expect the first till early December.
Lash
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@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I don't know whether or not your diet will work, but I once worked with a girl who lost a lot of weight by only eating soup. I'd say your diet is worth a try.
@dtp882 (110)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I could see it work, soup is very healthy, but I don''t think your days will work, because, you take away 14, but then add 14 again. Yuh know? May I suggest 14 days double soup, or something like non-fried fish. and then 7 days of "cooked meals".
I''m not a dietcian(?) by any means, but this is my two cents.
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
14 Nov 08
The 14x14 is an experiment, and it may turn out that you are right. On the other hand, 14 days on soup should have the benefit of shrinking our stomachs, in which case the 14 days of normal might see us eating less than we normally do, and there may not be a lot of backsliding. I would expect to lose significant weight in that first 14 days, and I really can't see us putting back on much more than a pound or two on the normal diet. The main reason for going back is two-fold: I am not certain that soup alone will be nutritous enough over longer periods, and there is the boredom factor, which is an issue with us, we are used to a broad variety of semi-gourmet meals, and plain soup may drive us bananas if we do it for too long.
Lash
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
5 Dec 08
In our normal diet we tend to have problems with portion control, so the shrinking stomach, which is a very minor part of my thinking, will possibly help us reduce the size of our meals whenever we return to our normal pattern. But our diet to date has been very well balanced (I am a trained cook), and the only alteration we have made is to drop the large evening meal and replace it with soup.
I would agree that cooking our own soups would be preferable, but frankly my arthritis and my partner's CFS make cooking a real chore. On top of that, cost is an issue, and while soups are relatively inexpensive in a commercial kitchen, because often they are by-products of other dishes, with the constantly rising cost of ingredients here due to both extended drought in many of our agricultural areas and the economic crisis it would be nearly as expensive as continuing with our normal diet. A side benefit of this plan we have is that our food costs will drop dramatically.
Lash
@oldboy46 (2129)
• Australia
23 Nov 08
Soup is very good if you do not add cream or thickener to it plus it can be very filling as well. During the cooler months when I am away from home truck driving I would take soup for a couple of days a week to have as my mid-day meal. Yes it is always home made soup and my partner uses our own home grown organic vegetables so I know it is healthy as well. I have it for meals not so much to lose weight, although I could do with that too, but more so I don't gain any weight. Sitting in a truck driving for 10-12 hours a day does tend to be unhealthy and although I do exercise (walk for up to half an hour) when stopped for a break, a little bit less food intake is even better.
A few years ago there was a soup diet going around because my now ex-wife did the diet on and off for some weeks. From memory it was cabbage but cannot remember what else but she would eat it for the entire day for so many days. Always seemed darned unhealthy to me but she was prepared to do it and I had to be prepared to put up with her being cranky.
Good luck to both you and your partner with the diet and let us know how you go and if it works out as yiou expect and hope.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
23 Nov 08
We had a fridge full of food when we decided to try this diet, and we can't afford to waste that, so we have to finish it off before we start. But that food runs out in a couple of days, and then it's onto soup for 14 days. We will definitely keep you all up to date.
Lash
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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4 Dec 08
How are you doing and feeling. My BIL went on a soup diet and lost 2 stone. Only problem was that he then started to eat normally again and the pounds piled back on. So back on the diet etc etc. I call him the yo yo. LOL. I am jealous you understand as the only pounds that I seem to lose are the ones in my wallet!
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
13 Dec 08
Ah that is one of my concerns. We are back on normal food just for this week and no change but at least I did not gain any weight. Still the temptation to slip back to old eating habits is there.
I think we will have to make sure that it does not happen by making the soup diet a normal part of our living. At least while we are sick. I mean if I ever get better and can do normal exercise again maybe I could consider it but I can barely exercise off a cup of coffee at the moment.
That is good for my health I am told but it is a waste of time as far as losing weight is concerned. You need to exercise off hundreds to lose weight if you want to eat normally.
That is good for my health I am told but it is a waste of time as far as losing weight is concerned. You need to exercise off hundreds to lose weight if you want to eat normally.@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
5 Dec 08
Early results are promising. Next week we will have a week back on our normal pattern, so we will get some idea of whether the weight will return. But one side effect already is a slight increase in energy, which hopefully will increase as we lose more weight, and this leads to increased output, and hopefully more weight loss. A positive cycle for a change.
Lash
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
27 Nov 08
Well I have always been a soup addict so I think it might actually work for me as long as I do not get too hungry. But if I make sure there is no bad food in the house to snack on it might work.
I went on a hard boiled egg diet once and that turned me off eggs for ages. It was 6 eggs a day, 2 for each meal. They were filling but really boring. Still that is the lowest calorie diet I know as it is only about 500 calories and eggs can be filling.
It was 6 eggs a day, 2 for each meal. They were filling but really boring. Still that is the lowest calorie diet I know as it is only about 500 calories and eggs can be filling.2 people like this
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
17 Nov 08
Yes, I understand. The idea for this came up from thinking back to a period when I had mouth ulcers and could only eat soup and soft white bread for two weeks. Back then I was eating powdered stuff, lots of additives and mostly 'creme of' type things, but I nevertheless lost about 10 lbs in two weeks. The soups we sre looking at for this diet are tinned soups with a good blend of protein and vegetable and very little thickening, so I'm expecting far better results in the long run.
Lash
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