Why soup?

Although some weight loss plans involve special techniques like cutting out carbohydrates, most people still tend to think of eating fruit and salads as the best way to lose weight. Apples, lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes are very low-calorie foods. You can fill up a whole plate with these items and still consume only 100 Calories. It seems logical that if you only eat 100 Calories for lunch, you must lose weight. Right?
       Well, maybe. The big problem is that most people who use this approach can't stick with it for very long. After bingeing on chocolate a couple of times and giving up the diet in despair, these individuals (and you are probably one of them!) usually blame themselves for their "weak willpower".
       In fact, we now know that there is a very good reason why this type of diet is doomed from the start. Salad foods are cold. Too much cold food can make you feel depressed, especially if you are a chilly individual and feel the cold easily. Depression is also a "rebound" effect of excessive deprivation. It leads to an overwhelming desire for comfort foods - most of which are of course loaded with excess calories. This is a physical desire. It has nothing to do with being greedy or weak-willed. Your body is desperate to get warmth and energy and it forces you to crave foods that will quickly satisfy those needs. Modern weight-loss science is just beginning to recognize this problem, and to work with it rather than against it.
       In fact traditional oriental wisdom has understood the problem all along. In oriental medicine too much raw or cold food would be considered to encourage weight gain as it depletes the body's "fire" or Yang energy (metabolism).
       The warmth of soup makes you feel full as salad rarely can. Soup itself is a comfort food. But owing to its water content and healthy ingredients, this is a low-calorie comfort food and there is no problem with extra helpings. You won't eat any more calories than in the average salad. But the results are far superior:

• Fewer cravings for sweet, starchy and fatty food
• Much improved ability to stick to the diet
• Faster, more successful weight loss

More information in Linda Lazarides' book:
The Big Healthy Soup Diet

• Amazing new soup research
• Ingredients that keep you feeling full
• How to control the hormone that makes you fat
• How cream soups might actually be good for you!
• How cabbage soup works
• Power foods which aid weight loss
• How Yin and Yang are involved in weight loss
• How water retention can be a major cause of excess pounds
• Which supplements can aid weight loss

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