you can do the Kick Start Diet
While health experts offer an endless array of weight-loss methods, these plans often take time and, being impatient, we lose hope. Now a new short-term eating plan may help people who are overweight to kick-start their weight loss.
Below you will find the recipe and seven-day eating plan for stage one of the Kick-Start Soup Diet. At the bottom of the page you will find links to the complete Kick-Start plan.
*The information in this fact file was updated on August 4, 2003.
The Kick-Start Soup Diet recipe
(Makes enough for one person for two days.)
INGREDIENTS
3 tomatoes
2 large cans of crushed tomatoes
2 cans of liquid stock (beef, chicken or vegetable)
2 cups of water
1 packet of vegetable or French onion dry soup powder
1 bunch spring onions
1 bunch of celery, including leaves
2 cups of green beans
3 green capsicums
1kg carrots
2 stock cubes (chicken, beef or vegie)
METHOD
1. Chop all the vegies into small pieces and put them
in a big pot with the remaining ingredients.
2. Add salt and pepper (not too much salt).
3. Boil rapidly for two minutes and simmer until it's
nice and tender.
4. If you want it thinner, add a bit more water.
Have as much of the soup as you want, whenever you want.
Seven-day eating plan
The quantities recommended are per day.
Avoid toast and cereal for breakfast while on this plan. Stick with the recommended foods for each day.
You should only follow this seven-day eating plan for a maximum of three times in six months.
DAY 1. SOUP AND FRUIT: Eat any fruit except bananas because they are high in kilojoules. Eat as much as you want. If you don't want soup for breakfast have a fruit salad instead.
DAY 2. SOUP AND VEGIES, NO FRUIT: Eat as much fresh, raw or lightly steamed vegies as you like. Leafy greens are great but avoid peas, corn and beans as they are high in sugar. Reward yourself at night with a jacket potato, a little butter or better still, some yoghurt.
DAY 3. SOUP, VEGIES AND FRUIT: Eat all you want but no potatoes.
DAY 4. SOUP AND BANANA SMOOTHIES: Make a banana smoothie with low-fat or skim milk - it's a great source of potassium. Have a maximum of three large bananas per day.
DAY 5. SOUP, BEEF AND TOMATOES: Eat a piece of lean beef or a skinless breast of chicken no bigger than a deck of cards with six luscious tomatoes. Vegetarians can substitute tofu. These quantities are per day. You can go easy on the soup today.
DAY 6. SOUP, BEEF AND VEGIES: Eat plenty of beef (or skinless chicken or fish) and vegies today. Again, vegetarians can substitute tofu. You mightn't need soup as much but your body will tell you. No potatoes.
DAY 7. SOUP, BROWN RICE, VEGIES AND FRUIT JUICE: You might need more soup today.
Remember: do not eat any bread, fried foods or oil on the seven-day plan.
Drinks
While on the plan, do not have any soft drinks or alcohol.
You can drink unsweetened fruit juice or cranberry juice; black, green or herbal tea (you can have skim milk with black tea); coffee; skim milk and plenty of water - six to eight glasses a day.
Side effects
Because you're not consuming many carbohydrates, some may find the glucose in their bloodstream becomes too low, causing hypoglycaemia.
This can cause a range of symptoms, such as headache, sweatiness, anxiety, irritability and drowsiness.
Don't worry, it might sound awful but it's easily fixed.
Have a sandwich with whole-grain bread, a slice of low-fat cheese and a bit of ham but no butter or margarine. Vegetarians can try a low-fat cheese and tomato sandwich. But only have a maximum of one sandwich per day.
If these symptoms occur repeatedly consult your doctor.
Stage two
So what happens if you haven't cheated?
By the end of the seven days you may have lost as much as 4-6kg, if you haven't put on those walking shoes and gone for a daily walk you won't have lost as much.
If you lose more than 6kg on stage one do not attempt this stage again for a few months. Go on to stage two.
You should only follow this seven-day eating plan for a maximum of three times in six months. Once you've reached this maximum take six months off the plan and follow the low-GI program.
Once you've completed the seven-day eating plan it is time to move on to stage two - a long-term, low-GI eating plan.
Before starting any new eating plan you should consult your doctor to see if it is right for you, particularly if you are taking any medication.
OR YOU CAN TRY THIS ONE
3 day diet
This is the 3 day diet plan, If you follow it correctly you can lose up to 10 lbs. in 3 Days Remember to keep the weight off you must continue some sort of healthy diet plan.
Instructions
Drink water or diet soda or any diet drink without sugar (only diet sugar).
You can switch the diet food around any way you wish or replace the foods you see for another with the same caloric value... this is a calorie diet.. as long as you eat the same amount of calories in any type of food you will lose weight.
You can add the following to your food: dry or natural herbs, salt, pepper, diet sugar, lemon, vinegar, Worcestershire, soy sauce, mustard, ketchup.
DAY 1
BREAKFAST Black Coffee/Tea, 1/2 Grapefruit or Juice + 1 Toast with 1 Tbsp. Peanut Butter
LUNCH 1/2 Cup of Tuna, 1 Toast, Black Coffee/Tea
DINNER 3 oz. any lean meat , 1 cup green beans, 1 cup carrots + 1 apple + 1 cup regular vanilla ice cream
DAY 2
BREAKFAST Black Coffee/Tea, 1 Egg, 1 Toast + 1/2 Banana
LUNCH 1 cup cottage cheese or tuna, 8 regular saltine crackers + Black Coffee/Tea
DINNER 2 beef franks, 1 cup broccoli or cabbage, 1/2 cup carrots + 1/2 banana + 1 apple +1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream
DAY 3
BREAKFAST Black Coffee/Tea, 5 regular saltine crackers, + 1 oz. cheddar cheese, 1 apple
LUNCH 1 boiled egg, 1 toast + Black Coffee/Tea,
DINNER 1 cup tuna, 1 cup carrots, 1 cup cauliflower 1 cup melon + 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream + 1 apple
2006-08-17 03:43:50
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answered by scotchmist_au 2
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Yes you can, it depends on you. Usually younger people can lose weight rapidly.. If you do some intense work outs(30 min of running/swimming/cardio) every other day and go for long (3-6 mi) walks on the alternate days, you'll lose weight quickly(probably more than 20 lbs). Don't cut out meats completely though, if you eat grilled chicken or fish it will help rebuild your muscle and you won't be craving (which leads to binging). So... if you don't want to work out very much at all... buy a jump rope, jump rope 200 times in the morning 200 in the afternoon and do about 100 crunches a day (that is an extremely easy workout routine). No matter what you do, don't cut out protein, just eat less fatty meats... otherwise you'll binge.
2006-08-17 03:51:22
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answered by hontouniungaii 2
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Don't know about rapidly, but you can lose weight. Several years ago I was really sick and eating fruit and soup only. I lost like 15 lbs in about two weeks.
2006-08-17 03:44:19
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answered by tw0cl0n3m3 6
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Eat only fresh fruit in the mornings as for breakfast, the fruits is what helps clean our bodies, you can drink juice if you want but only fresh home made juice ( Not from a can or bottle) Around lunch time you'll want to eat above ground veggies like corn, peas and green beans. Those kind of veggies. These are what gives us energy during the day. Please nothing from a can. They won't do u any good at all.
Supper time you'll want to eat those veggies grown below ground like carrots and potatos. Here's the catch The only thing you can cook is the potatos and I would suggest slowly baking those, Everything needs to be eaten raw. The heat in cooking kills the things we need to make us healthy. Nothing processed at all is allowed you'll be defeting the purpose. only clean water to drink ( no tap water , thats some nasty stuff ) no coffee no tea no beer or whiskey no soft drink of any kind.. Abosolutley nothing that is processed and at your best don't cook any of it. at least if you have to cook it cook at extreamly low heat and not for any lenght of time. Oh you can have peanuts almonds ectt... raw no salt sorry no salt or butter to any foods either.
2006-08-17 03:44:25
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answered by herbs411_42719 5
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A well-balanced diet alone is ideal! Eating only fruit and vegetables is not considered a balanced diet and it is an artificial method of losing one's weight but how long one could stick to that kind of diet. And, once you stop that and switch to another type of diet, you may get back all that artificially lost weight! In fact, it may stage back faster than the way one loses weight, and may lead to adding to the original weight!
2006-08-17 03:50:23
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answered by Sami V 7
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here is a great diet for losing weight quickly:
breakfast - slimfast
snack - 1 piece of fruit with fat-free, sugar free yogurt for dipping
lunch - lean cuisine (lunch portion)
snack - 1 vegetable sliced with fat-free plain yogurt for dipping
dinner - lean cuisine dinner selection (bigger portion)
30 mins per day of exercise (walking is okay), and a vitamin supplement, tons of water
this really works, but you probably won't keep the weight off if you go back to eating normally once you lose. anyway, good luck!
2006-08-17 03:47:06
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answered by Trisha 2
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eating fruits and veg. are geat. they are mostly water and filled with vitamins. so they are great. if you have fruit salads and other things for a meal that would be great but also you need your other nutrients lik protein and other things that you will not get from fruits and veg.
but if you want to lose the way fast you also have to do exersizes along with eating right. mostly cardio if you want to lose the weight.
Good Luck
2006-08-17 03:44:00
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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purchase an under desk pedaling machine like the stamina 15 0125 instride folding cycle 70 stamina products com
2016-03-17 22:27:51
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answered by Jenny 3
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probly not with fruit and vegi's. fruit = sugar and vegi's = carbs which turn into sugar. try atkins, you will lose 10 lbs in the first 2 weeks.
2006-08-17 03:44:52
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answered by sisy j 3
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Chew thoroughly chewing each bite 30 times before swallowing
2016-01-22 19:28:41
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answered by ? 3
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replace your scale with a tape measure aim for 32 1 2 inches or less for women and 35 inches or less for men
2016-02-07 19:53:41
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answered by ? 3
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