Soup diets?!
Question: What are the Ingredients? What was your/someone else's weight loss?
Answers: What are the Ingredients? What was your/someone else's weight loss?
Don't go on a soup diet. Diets don't work. Consult a nutritionist and exercise instead.
In the mean time,
- Have some protein with every meal (about the size of the palm of your hand) so that you will stay full longer and have less of an urge to snack between meals
- Eat smaller portions on smaller dishes and eat them slower so that you know when you're full. Savour your food.
- Get some low-fat dairy every day
- Take a 30-minute walk every day - just start walking and don't stop until 30 minutes have passed
- Limit the amount of junk food you eat - ex. one piece of cake per week
- No soda - water instead. Diet soda is especially bad because it's all just chemicals that the human body is not designed to digest.
- If you can, cook your own meals. If you eat out or eat processed food, you have no control over what goes in it. A salad from a restaurant can have more fat than a Big Mac.
- Speaking of which, NO FAST FOOD. If you eat it alot, stop for a few months. When you eat it again you'll be able to taste the preservatives. It's actually really creepy. (McDonald's fries taste like metal, for example.)
- Get all the bad food out of your house and replace it with good food.
- Consider the colour of your food. If it's mostly beige, you're getting way too much carbs. (Carbs are not bad, but there is a limit to how much you can have.) Having lots of fruit and vegetables will bring colour into your diet, and thus nutrients. Try to eat seven colours a day.
- You burn calories while digesting celery and complex carbs. (Remember - complex - carbs.) Try to eat one stick of celery every day.
- If you can't read the ingredients in your food, unless you know it's a word of foreign origin, don't eat it.
- If any of the first five ingredients are enriched wheat flour, high fructose corn syrup, saturated fat or artificial anything, don't eat it.
- Fruit juice is concentrated and thus has more calories than just eating the fruit itself.
- Chew gum while you cook so that you don't snack while you do it, and do not cook any more than you need.
- Sneak your own food into the movie theatre. Only take what you can fit into an average-sized purse.
- Fat is not a bad thing as long as you are getting it from the right places. Natural oils that are liquid at room temperature are the best fats.
- Remember that toxins are stored in fat. You are not just losing weight, you are cleaning your entire body.
- Keep a food diary so that you can remind yourself how much you have eaten and how many calories you have consumed.
You'll get bored if you just eat soup every day. This has a lot more room for variety and it's very easy once you work it into your daily routine. Healthy eating habits account for 80% of weight loss, but this does not mean limiting what you eat to a few specific items.
Make soups by blending fresh vegetables and drink lots of water.
But soup alone is only good for detox,not a long term diet.