Lose weight by eating soup

Bowl of Carrot and Coriander soup

Lose weight by eating soup

Lose 50% more weight by eating  soup

By consuming two bowls of soup with a calorie controlled diet  (300 grams; 10.5 fl. oz. per serving) will cause you to lose 50% more weight than eating just one bowl, or consuming small amounts of high energy snacks such as potato chips. This is according to a research carried out at the Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. The reason behind this is that foods like soups provide high density and  low calories per serving, which decreases calorie intake and increases satiety (decrease hunger or filling).

How about Pumpkin soup for Halloween.

All subjects were instructed to follow a calorie restricted weight loss program. Subject's were assigned to one of four groups, (1) a dry snack diet with restricted calories, (2)  one soup a day and restricted calories, (3) two soup meals a day and restricted calories or (4) could choose their foods but still had to stick to the restricted calories set out by the nutritionist. The main finding of the trial demonstrated that consuming two servings of soup daily led to greater weight loss than consuming the same amount of energy as two servings of a dry snack food daily; after 1 year, weight loss in the two-soup group was 50% greater than that in the snacks group (7.2 vs. 4.8 kg). Substituting a type of food that was low in energy density for one that was high in energy density increased the magnitude of the weight loss.


Healty explorer doesnote that calorie control is the key to any weight loss program, however believes the soup diet is a great way to off set hunger as it is high in fibre, which takes longer to digest and releasing energy slowly into the body. This finding is something i am going to try out so i will be adding some recipes and how affective they are.

Let me know what soups you have tried and how you rate them on flavour and health.

Two bowls of soup a day study