The Soup Diet...

[Temple]

Anyone heard of this????
I was getting my nails done yesterday and it was all I could do to keep a straight face. The nail chick is ALL excited about it as you can lose up to 15# in a week and trust me she's got 15 to lose.
Day one
Some soup you make that has only vegetables in it - she says its delicious, you eat this all day long
Day 2
soup and fruit
Day 3
Soup
plus for dinner you get a large baked tater with butter and sour cream
Day 4
Soup and fruit
Day 5
Soup
Day 6
Soup and
20 oz of Round steak "by this time your body needs some protein"
(bwahahahahaha that is the part where I had trouble being nice"
Day 7
Soup

And there you have it girls...the miracle diet
Now, the nail gal said she is going to have a problem with this because it is NO alcohol so I told her to just have a glass of dry white wine with it every night as it will improve her insulin sensitivity...

 

[b fold the truth]

Soup goes great with Nachos and Ice Cream...

B True

 

[Fonz]

Anyone heard of this????
I was getting my nails done yesterday and it was all I could do to keep a straight face. The nail chick is ALL excited about it as you can lose up to 15# in a week and trust me she's got 15 to lose.
Day one
Some soup you make that has only vegetables in it - she says its delicious, you eat this all day long
Day 2
soup and fruit
Day 3
Soup
plus for dinner you get a large baked tater with butter and sour cream
Day 4
Soup and fruit
Day 5
Soup
Day 6
Soup and
20 oz of Round steak "by this time your body needs some protein"
(bwahahahahaha that is the part where I had trouble being nice"
Day 7
Soup

And there you have it girls...the miracle diet
Now, the nail gal said she is going to have a problem with this because it is NO alcohol so I told her to just have a glass of dry white wine with it every night as it will improve her insulin sensitivity...

After 5 years of trying to correct people's dietary mistakes,
because they ASKED me........

I gave up. It is NOT WORTH THE HASSLE.

I just nod and smile nowadays.

Mean? Maybe. But still better than getting blamed
for somebody elses mistakes.

Fonz

 

[naturally anabolic]

this is probably based against the old "cabbage soup" diet that some hospitals instituted for a while. it supposedly helped aid weight loss.

 

[Ceebs]

Re: Re: The Soup Diet...

Mean? Maybe. But still better than getting blamed
for somebody elses mistakes.

I think it was Dan Duchaine that said "good advice not followed may as well be bad advice". So many women I used to train would ask me about quick fixes like this, and I consistently told them that you can't undo months of sloppy eating in a few days.

 

[b fold the truth]

Re: Re: Re: The Soup Diet...

... you can't undo months of sloppy eating in a few days.

So VERY VERY true!!!!!

I still that that if you have 3-4 Slim Fast shakes in between meals...it is great!!!

B True

 

[Temple]

Re: Re: Re: Re: The Soup Diet...

So VERY VERY true!!!!!

I still that that if you have 3-4 Slim Fast shakes in between meals...it is great!!!

B True

Bfold...
How many calories a day do you consume and do you know the meaning of the word cutting diet???

 

[b fold the truth]

I have cutting dieted before...many many years ago.

I used to bulk and train heavy for 3 weeks followed by 2 weeks of cardio, cutting, and a bit higher reps. I would shoot to gain 10 and lose 8...or so.

I'll cut when I am big enough...till then...eat. My lifting and event training keeps me in pretty good shape...

B True

 

[JJFigure]

I think my Mom tried this diet once. She lasted for about a week.

My response to the quick diet thing - you spent 10 years putting on the weight; why do you expect to take it off in a week? That usually gets people thinking.

 

[circusgirl]

this is probably based against the old "cabbage soup" diet that some hospitals instituted for a while. it supposedly helped aid weight loss.

I believe the hospitals gave this diet tho to morbidly obese folks who needed to be operated on NOW and were too fat be go under the knife. As in, "we don't care how unhealthy it is, being dead is even unhealthier".

D'ya know anyone who considers ketchup a vegetable??? I do. "I had fries with ketchup today - that's 2 fruit and veggie portions!". Yeah, um.....

 

[vixenbabe]

Reading and hearing about these type of diet's just makes me sad.....

 

[MS]

" D'ya know anyone who considers ketchup a vegetable"

Hey, I got REALLY worked up a few months ago when our 14 year old came home from school and pronounced that today they learned in school that ketchup was, indeed a vegetable and that it counts as part of their "5+ a day" quota! On one level I knew he was right....tomato products are very high in lycopenes. But all that sugar and salt UGGGHHH. How can a parent compete when the schools are teaching that kind of crap?


FONZ
"After 5 years of trying to correct people's dietary mistakes,
because they ASKED me........

I gave up. It is NOT WORTH THE HASSLE.

I just nod and smile nowadays.

Mean? Maybe. But still better than getting blamed
for somebody elses mistakes.

I couldn't agree more. This is why I've retired from the diet discussion board. Between the 'fad of the week' dieters and the low-carb evangelists that have usurped the board, it's just not worth the hassle.

 

[makedah]

" D'ya know anyone who considers ketchup a vegetable"

Hey, I got REALLY worked up a few months ago when our 14 year old came home from school and pronounced that today they learned in school that ketchup was, indeed a vegetable and that it counts as part of their "5+ a day" quota! On one level I knew he was right....tomato products are very high in lycopenes. But all that sugar and salt UGGGHHH. How can a parent compete when the schools are teaching that kind of crap?

Ah yes, the famous Reagan Administration effort to get ketchup counted as a veggie for school lunch programs in 1981. It failed. So I wonder who's teaching the kid this?

 

[MS]

Well, we don't live in the US, so it won't have anything to do woth the Reagan administration!

 

[makedah]

Dang - I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing (not being able to blame it on a lame-brain policy idea, that is)!

 

[SteelWeaver]

I love soup .....

 

[SteelWeaver]

Creamy potato and leek soup.
Carrot and pumpkin soup.
Gazpacho.
Thick hearty vegetable soup.
French onion soup.
Artichoke soup.
My number one fave, creamy tomato soup.
Corn soup.
Walnut and basil soup.
Pea soup.


All eaten with large hunks of fresh nutty homemade wholemeal bread.



BTW, this diet doesn't work. I know, because at uni I lived on lentils and rice and various soups, and don't remember my weight/fat changing at all. Heh heh. I wonder if maybe I was eating MAINTENANCE CALORIES of soup, lol.

 

[SteelWeaver]

Or that tough German black bread ....


Or a nice heavy rye ....


BTW, MS - I, for one, miss you on the diet board - I know it's full of kooks and faddists, but if they never get to hear the other side of the story, they can't learn different opinions, can they?

 

[StRoNg_WoN]

People just aren't ejumacated in diet etc...

I tell people this... if you don't put ANY gas in your car, you aren't going to go too far... (i.e. no eating, or "Soup-Dieting".

However If you put efficient high octane gas in your car (Healthy food etc...) You will get better milage, and funtion better...

I try an enforce that it isn't as much the amount, as the types of foods that are eaten... (This is when speaking to overweight people that eat craploads of processed stuff all day...)

They seem to like this analogy better...

I mean think about it... if you starve, anything that you put in your mouth will be stored...

 

[MS]

This thread motivated me to make a creamy pumpkin soup last night. It's not quite finished (I'll finish making it tonight), but I'm pretty sure it will be nice all on it's own-no bread required. Yum.

 

[JJFigure]

Are you gonna share the recipe? Definitely soup time around here - it was nice and chilly this morning.

 

[SteelWeaver]

Mmmmmm ..... PUMPkin soup. Well, hell, I'd even be happy with just a bowl of pumpkin soup right now, no bread - although ... the bread has always made it for me. I love bread.

That's it. Decided. It's gonna be a soup winter

 

[MS]

It's from "The Greens Cook Book" and it's called "Pumpkin soup with Gruyere cheese".

First you roast a humongous pumpkin. At the same time you make a veggie stock outta all of your leftover choppings and peelings from whatever veggies you've eaten lately (they specifically recommend carrots, celery, turnip, plus the seeds and scrapings from the inside of the pumpkin). Season it up with some bay leaves, parsley, thyme, sage and salt to taste. Bring to boil and simmer for 25 minutes. Strain out the veggies and feed them to your earthworms.

Peel the roasted pumkin and fry up some onions in some butter. Chuck it all together in a BIG pot and simmer for another 25 minutes before pureeing the whole pot's worth. Stir in some light cream, then top with grated Gruyere cheese and fresh thyme leaves scattered over the top. Eat several bowls full. Bread is optional.

 

[MS]

Of course I should point out that in the true spirit of cooking (like weight training) I didn't EXACTLY follow the recipe. I just used it as a guide. I didn't have any turnips on hand, but I had bits of zucchini, mushroom, cabbage, green beans and swiss chard that I threw in instead. I didn't have any Gruyere cheese either! But hell, it still tastes damn good to me. I've made it before where I used pretend bacon bits instead of the Gruyere and it was SUPERB!!!!

Anyway, I'm sure that this recipe (or any of it's variations) is NOT allowed on the "soup diet" (with or without bread).

 

[w84me]

MS - - sorry - - never roasted a pumpkin, can you share the oven temp & how long (probably kind of like a turkey, so many minutes per pound)?

 

[circusgirl]

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However If you put efficient high octane gas in your car (Healthy food etc...) You will get better milage, and funtion better...
[/B]

I couldn't agree more with this. For the lst 3 days I've been getting less protein than I'm used to, as has the hubbie - we have been eating out or round at friends' for social reasons, and/or running outta meat and having pasta + pesto for dinner. Well, both of us are lethargic this morning - not tired as such, just that foot-dragging feeling. And I KNOW it's the lack of protein. Especially as 1 can of tuna later, I feel much better.

 

[JJFigure]

Thanks MS - I'm not a strict recipe follower either. I like to play in the kitchen - it's my one creativity outlet.

 

[StRoNg_WoN]

CircusGirl... I understand... I went to Canada's wonderland with friends last year ate ate crap all day... the next day I had the same exact feeling...

Sux eh?

 

[MS]

Wow W8, it's just like roasting any other veggie. Cut the pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds and pithy stuff, smear the cut face with a little oil and place cut side down in a baking tray at around 400 degrees. Cook until a knife slides through it like butter....about an hour depending on the size of the pumkin. When cooled, remove skin and MUSH.

I think you could get away just as easily with boiling the pumpkin though. This is a quicker and easier way to make this type of soup. And you could also just use store-bought veggie stock. It depends on how much time you have and how much of a 'perfectionist' you are.

For me, I consider carbs to be high octane fuel, and protein is medium octane (fat is low octane or more like diesel). Everyone is different, but pumpkin soup gives me more energy that a can of tuna!

 

[w84me]

great timing for the season
all those jack-o-laterns out there ... beware ... you will become soup

 

[SteelWeaver]

"place cut side down in a baking tray"

Ha! That's clever! I always put it cut side UP with foil on it, but your way makes FAR more sense - save the foil, and I'll bet it dries out less. Indeed it is going to be a soup winter - so easy to get lots of nutrients, and it sure tastes a lot better than plain steamed veggies. Although they have their place ....

Mmm - noodle soup - that could be good. One could even go Asian style and add some egg whites to clear noodle soup - there's a balanced pro/carb meal all ready to go, without the ick taste of the eggs.

I wonder how that pumpkin soup would be with a glob of smooth cottage cheese in it. Or I suppose one could use ff sour cream, if one can buy such a thing where one lives.

And if one didn't feel like going to all the trouble of actually making soup after baking the pumpkin, you could just sprinkle some cinnamon and Splenda, with a tiny dash of nutmeg, and ta da! Carb portion READY!