Can you lose weight if you only eat soups?

Answer 1

The answer is probably "yes" but here are some more effective suggestions from my 360 Blog of September 10.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Some soups can be either high in fat or calories. Avoid cream based and soups that are made form high fat meats such as short ribs or a lot of bacon. Weight loss comes from eating less calories than your body uses. Eating too many calories, even from soup, can result in weight gain.

Answer 4

Actually, many soups have a lot of calories, and worse, a lot of fat (unless it's the low fat kind). Also, it has a lot of sodium, which retains water in the body, adding to your weight. Also, you're not getting all your food groups by eating just soup - and, don't forget the vegetables in the soup are all boiled, so you're not getting any fresh raw veggies, which is better for you. Best thing to do is eat foods from all food groups, trying to incorporate as many low fat foods as you can.

Answer 5

Well it depends on what typs of soup you eat. Some are high in fat and carbs not to mention sodium. It's best to go for home-made soups rather than cans of processed soups you buy at the store, but still you need to include other foods in your diet so you can get the essential nutrients your body needs,

Answer 6

There's arguements both ways....I found that when I was forced to be on a liquid diet because of surgery, I lost over 90 lbs in about 4 wks. Not something I suggest...very unhealthy.

Answer 7

Yes! obviously....if you burn more calories than you consume (and soup doesn't have alot of calories) then you'll lose weight...but you'll put it back on once you start eating normally agian.

Answer 8

yes, you can i used to weigh aroun 250lbs. and in 9-months, i got down to 145lbs., and all i ate was soup and fish anything baked, stay away from fried foods, and fast food places, you ca have steamed rice in place of the potatoes, trust me any questions my e-mail address is: [e-mail], it really works or you e-mail me in 9-months, also exercise is good, but if you do not like to exercise like i don't then get a mirror and just dance for and hour in front of it.

Answer 9

they would need to be thin soups not 'cream of' and i wouldnt stay on that diet too long as you will not get much fibre and could become constipated.Eat plenty of fruit too for the fibre and vitamins

Answer 10

while i was in the hostpital for a surgery i could only eat broth beef and chicken I lost tons of weight!