What is the vegetable soup diet is a common question for people who are just looking into it and looking to change their eating habits, life style and also their body shape, the vegetable soup diet when it is done well can let you lose your weight quite fast too while you are still eating healthy food all day every day.
This also means, in regards to eating healthy while on the soup diet you aren’t going to sacrifice your quality of nutrients you have and you should be able to maintain a reasonable amount of energy throughout the day, be “regular” for want of a better description and function normally except for a few cravings here and there.
The vegetable soup you can make for the soup diet is tasty, nutritionally sound and is made up of foods that are low in calories.
The vegetable soup is made up of many different types of vegetables in a soup and then eaten across the day in small meals, easy to make and also easy to get used to eating too.
The vegetable soup diet mostly should be used as a kick start to your weightloss diet, then the soup diet should only be used for a couple of weeks for best results, to get you used to eating cleaner and then you should carry on with a sound eating plan that is structured around your specific goals you have set.
The vegetable soup diet can be very similar to the cabbage soup diet as well, obviously just a different mix of vegetables in your day rather than just the one vegetable.
The vege soup diet can also be a great fast track diet too if needed and will work temporarily for some dieters if they need it to.
This means some people will lose weight with this way of eating really quickly, but for some, it may take slightly longer but it is definitely a great start point if you are looking to lose weight.
This quicker weightloss is great too if you are getting ready for your big day and want to fit into your wedding dress, your suit or new outfit for a weekend birthday party.
Vegetable diets are also a great tool to clean out your digestive system and are used by many as an easy way to detox and also improve their general health.
The meals keep you full for longer and so this in essence will prevent you from thinking about having those extra snacks throughout the day and also resorting to the mid afternoon munchathon that occurs by most people at their work.
It is generally a lot better to use fresh vegetables in your soup diet and to make your own soups as well.
This is because the canned soups are usually high in sodium (This is salt), have a higher calorie count due to extra fillers on top of the vegetables in the blend and are also usually filled with higher GI extra ingredients like potatoes to thicken them up.
Simple Vegetable Soup Diet 7 Day Plan ::
Here is a simple sample outline of a vegetable soup diet for you covering a 7 day period, it also includes a bit of fruit, protein and a bit of brown rice.
If you check out the Protein Recipe section of Protein Guy also, you will find many soup recipes as well as the simple one below.
Also I have included a bit of protein in this 7 day plan, you still have to take care of your protein needs and also if you are doing any type of training through this seven days, you’ll need the extra recovery benefits that extra protein in your diet gives you.
The timing of the meals below over the seven days should be spread across the day, breakfast, mid morning, lunch, mid afternoon and dinner as a guide.
Another thing to remember is that you must keep on drinking plenty of water during any diet program you are doing, this keeps you hydrated, moves all the toxins out of your system and also is great for energy and weightloss too and a lot more.
Day 1 ::
Eat all the fruits you want, except bananas, try to avoid all high sugar fruits today.
No soup for you today.
Day 2 ::
Eat all the veggies you want, a baked potato is allowed today without butter, no butter for you.
Eat or drink all the vegetable soup you want.
Day 3 ::
Eat all the vegetables and fruits from above, don’t have the baked potato on this day, no baked potato or butter for you.
Eat or drink all the vegetable soup you want.
Day 4 ::
Today you can eat up to 8 bananas.
Also 2 to 3 glasses of skim milk.
Eat or drink all the vegetable soup you want.
Day 5 ::
Eat one serve of meat today, grilled lean chicken breast is the best choice for you.
Eat or drink all the vegetable soup you want.
Day 6 ::
Another day of meat today, 2 to 3 serves of either chicken or steak with vegetables, such as broccoli or Beans or both.
Eat or drink all the vegetable soup you want.
Day 7 ::
Eat or drink all the vegetable soup you want.
Also have brown rice and separate vegetables if you want.
Basic Vegetable Soup Diet Recipe ::
Use this below easy vegetable soup recipe as a guide for the above days you are eating soup through the day, there are hundreds of different variations you can prepare in regards to soup, but the base ingredients usually don’t change and you can adapt it to include more of the vegetables you enjoy as well.
This recipe below won’t be just one meal, so be warned, it will make a fair amount of soup, but the benefit of the soup diet is you can make up a big batch that will last for days as you don’t want to be cooking all the time do you?
3 cups of crushed up tomatoes
6 x green onions
1 x bunch celery and tops
2 x cups of fresh green beans
1 x sprig of broccoli
2 x green capsicums
2 x handfuls of spinach
1/2 a cabbage
1/2 a cauliflower
8 x carrots, remember to cut the green thing off the top, it tastes nasty
2 x cups of beef stock, or more if needed to make the soup thinner
2 x tablespoons of chilli powder
1 x tablespoon chunky coarse salt
2 x tablespoons of paprika
1/8 of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1 x teaspoon ground black pepper
Prepare the vegetables by cutting them up, you can add more or less vegetables than this to the soup and also gauge how hot it will be as there is a fair bit of pepper and chilli in here too, this makes it a bit more of a weightloss kick starter vegetable soup as the spice will speed up your metabolism throughout the day too.
Put all of the ingredients into a suitable size pot and bring to the boil and simmer until pureed enough to suit your taste buds.
Eat a serve now or let cool and put into suitable containers to cover your next meals.
The good thing about vegetable soup is you can keep it in the fridge for the next day’s meals or you can freeze it and keep it for the following weeks, the more you make in one hit means you don’t have to make more later and it will save you time.
So there you have it, a quick brief outline of the vegetable soup diet for you, like I have said, adjust this to suit your needs and also your goals, the key is to monitor how it is working for you and adjust to suit.
Enjoy!
