Anyone know about the cup-a-soup diet? (2024)

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Gusto Brunt Posts: 12,351

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18/11/13 - 00:46 in Advice #1

Apparently one guy lost a stone in two weeks.

I don't understand it though. How many cup-a-soups should you have daily - they're around 135 calories per sachet.

Perhaps a few slices of bread with them might help.

What do you know? Thanks.

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xp95 Posts: 2,439
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18/11/13 - 01:06 #2
Don't do it is my advice as it can cause problems later on.
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18/11/13 - 01:14 #3
you would probably be starving, bored and full of e numbers and god knows what
in fact why not just eat a few kit kats every day they are low in calories
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18/11/13 - 01:15 #4
xp95 wrote: »
Don't do it is my advice as it can cause problems later on.
Thanks for replying.
By my calculations, you'd need at least 12 cup-a-soups a day.:eek:
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18/11/13 - 01:19 #5
Try soup with bread followed by fruit as a main meal instead.
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18/11/13 - 01:20 #6
Sounds like a very bad idea to me. You need a balanced diet and cuppa soups ain't going to give you that!
Why do you want to lose weight? Has a doctor advised you to?
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Gusto Brunt Posts: 12,351
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18/11/13 - 01:24 #7
BMR wrote: »
Sounds like a very bad idea to me. You need a balanced diet and cuppa soups ain't going to give you that!
Why do you want to lose weight? Has a doctor advised you to?
I'm not gonna do the diet myself. I was just intrigued by this guy losing a stone in 14 days.
Thanks.
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Gusto Brunt Posts: 12,351
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18/11/13 - 01:25 #8
Mint wrote: »
Try soup with bread followed by fruit as a main meal instead.
Sounds a good idea. But not cup-a-soups. More thick vegetable soup.
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18/11/13 - 01:28 #9
Gusto Brunt wrote: »
Sounds a good idea. But not cup-a-soups. More thick vegetable soup.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. 2 weeks eating only home made vegetable based soup would probably do most of us the world of good. I don't trust cup a soups, they're not even soup, they're just powder....not nice stuff.
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18/11/13 - 03:21 #10
A stone lost in two weeks is rather extreme. I bet the weight wont stay off. You are best losing it slowly, 1-2lbs per week.
Like all other extreme diets, this one sounds absurd.
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18/11/13 - 03:27 #11
Not a healthy rate to lose wight and completely lacking in so many vital elements. Malnutrition is not good!. It is more or less guaranteed that the weight will be quickly piled back on. Cuppa soup is basically a ghastly cup full of chemicals. Home made soup as part of a balanced diet yes.
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18/11/13 - 03:28 #12
You can lose weight easily by eating sensibly and being more active.
Ive lost 3 out of the 6 stone i need to lose, i just dont eat all the crap i used to, and cut portion sizes down.
Homemade soups are great, cheap and healthy, steamed chicken or fish with steamed veg is very good.
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Just make a tiny bit, rather than a pot full.
Always have apples in the fridge, skimmed milk and cornflakes, i can eat as much as i want of that as a snack.
I cant imagine lasting more than a couple of days eating only cup-a-soups.
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18/11/13 - 05:02 #13
Don't be so silly. You will lose mainly water weight and muscle mass. You will gain it all back.
Not to mention, cup-a-soup is full of sugar, chemicals and sh*te. They are actually bad for you.
Instead - try having some homemade soup in between your other meals to keep you from snacking. I have 2 bowls of homemade lentil soup between my meals a day and it stops me snacking on carbs and junk.
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18/11/13 - 12:08 #14
Gordie1 wrote: »
You can lose weight easily by eating sensibly and being more active.
Ive lost 3 out of the 6 stone i need to lose, i just dont eat all the crap i used to, and cut portion sizes down.
Homemade soups are great, cheap and healthy, steamed chicken or fish with steamed veg is very good.
Just make a tiny bit, rather than a pot full.
Always have apples in the fridge, skimmed milk and cornflakes, i can eat as much as i want of that as a snack.
I cant imagine lasting more than a couple of days eating only cup-a-soups.
The guy that did this diet is more than likely a moron, as only a moron would even consider filling their body will additives and all that sodium to lose weight. However, in relation to the post above, people think healthy eating needs to be bland, i.e.steaming everything, it doesn't! One of the quickest ways to fall off the wagon is through boredom, and who wouldn't get bored of steamed protein and veg? Don't be afraid of using healthy marinades and stir frying, variety will keep you eating healthily much longer.
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18/11/13 - 12:25 #15
You're talking as if cup-a-soup is a Class A drug. :eek:
Surely if they're that bad, they wouldn't be sold, and deaths would be caused because of them.
I do think consuming 12 cup-a-soups a day is extreme and not very good, but I do think you're all over-reacting a bit.
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18/11/13 - 12:52 #16
Gusto Brunt wrote: »
You're talking as if cup-a-soup is a Class A drug. :eek:
Surely if they're that bad, they wouldn't be sold, and deaths would be caused because of them.
I do think consuming 12 cup-a-soups a day is extreme and not very good, but I do think you're all over-reacting a bit.
It's not sold as a complete diet and lifestyle package is it? Which is what your 'friend' seems to be treating it as, and which is what's so stupid about it. Where is the 'friend' getting all of his other nutrients from? Oh, and having too much salt in your diet, which these soups contain in excess, is dangerous.
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19/11/13 - 00:59 #17
Darcy_ wrote: »
The guy that did this diet is more than likely a moron, as only a moron would even consider filling their body will additives and all that sodium to lose weight. However, in relation to the post above, people think healthy eating needs to be bland, i.e.steaming everything, it doesn't! One of the quickest ways to fall off the wagon is through boredom, and who wouldn't get bored of steamed protein and veg? Don't be afraid of using healthy marinades and stir frying, variety will keep you eating healthily much longer.
I said steamed veg because i love steamed food, i think it comes out perfect and tastes amazing, however i do fry, grill and bake veg.
I prefer steamed:D
Curry is healthy as well IMO, curry powder, Garlic, a bit of olive oil, onion, turkey and rice.
Theres very few things i dont eat due to losing weight, i just make it with less oil, fat.
In fact i dont look at calories, all i look at is fat, if all the ingredients have nearly no fat, i scoff it down, hence loads of apples and corn flakes with skimmed milk.:D
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19/11/13 - 06:25 #18
My friend once did a real soup diet. I Think it was normal breakfast homemade veg soup/lentil soup for lunch and tea. She did lose weight
I don't know if cup a soups have any real nutritional value?
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19/11/13 - 08:38 #19
topcat3 wrote: »
My friend once did a real soup diet. I Think it was normal breakfast homemade veg soup/lentil soup for lunch and tea. She did lose weight
I don't know if cup a soups have any real nutritional value?
I did something like that years ago. You could eat as much soup as you wanted and had alternate meals at night with only vegetables or chicken.
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19/11/13 - 12:03 #20
LoopyDog wrote: »
A stone lost in two weeks is rather extreme. I bet the weight wont stay off. You are best losing it slowly, 1-2lbs per week.
Like all other extreme diets, this one sounds absurd.
This is good advice. I have lost over 4 stone over the last 2 years. Funnily enough I have a cup of soup for lunch everyday but have a decent meal after work. On top of that I also swim and cycle. I am happy if I have lost a pound or two.
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19/11/13 - 13:57 #21
Just as a matter of interest, here are the ingredients for a Batchelors Chicken Noodle Cup a Soup:
Ingredients as served (greatest first): Water, Noodles (10%) (Durum Wheat Semolina, Salt), Chicken (4.6%), Leek (2.9%), Maltodextrin, Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-Ribonucleotides), Maize Starch, Potato Starch, Yeast Extract (contains Barley), Salt, Parsley, Natural Flavourings, Turmeric.
http://www.batchelorsrange.co.uk/range/cup-a-soup/
Not much nutrition there. Since each portion provides just 95 calories, yes, you'd lose weight if you consumed only a few of them per day and little else, but you'd certainly feel very hungry and perhaps also a bit ill and constipated. I don't think there's any magical ingredient in cup a soups that induces weight loss, and the so-called "cup-a-soup diet" is just another of the cranky low calorie diets that people come up with from time to time.
I see that the Batchelors Chicken and Leek cup a soup contains just 1.3% of chicken and 5.4% of leek. Perhaps it should be renamed as Batchelors Very Little Leek and Next to No Chicken Cup a Soup? I wonder what sort of chicken they use anyway?
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19/11/13 - 17:54 #22
I'd have thought the salt would be a major issue. I know whenver i have one cup a soup I have to have about a pint of water afterwards
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19/11/13 - 19:34 #23
Abriel wrote: »
I'd have thought the salt would be a major issue. I know whenver i have one cup a soup I have to have about a pint of water afterwards
I would have said that kind of level of salt would lead to water retention as well

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