Have you lost weight eating lots of soup?

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It's always put forward that soup is healthy and good for weight loss. Now it's getting cold. I thought I'd give this a go to help me lose a stone.

Low calorie soups are never very filling - yes, you’ll likely lose weight but you’ll also be hungry!

Yes, soup was essentially my diet as a broke student and it was a cheap way to lose and maintain my weight. Soup can be very filling especially those fresh tubs from M&S

Yes, I often make Butternut squash and sage soup, it's low cal and filling enough, I sometimes have it as my main dinner. Homemade soups are more filling and healthier than the shop bought ones.

I lost about half a stone over winter buy not doing many changes except taking home made soup into work for lunch rather than having a sandwich or other leftovers. They are chunky soups with veg and beans or lentils. No bread with them. Then take a banana for a snack later....

If you want to go hard, avoid the really starchy veg so stick to broccoli / cauliflower / greens / leeks but make it nice and creamy with soured cream swirled in at the end - and make sure you have some protein on the side so eg a sliced cooked chicken breast.

I actuallly have a large zip lock freezer bag that I add all the ends of broccoli, middle of cauliflower, leftover veg, parsley stalks, wilting celery etc then when it's full, I fry a chopped onion / celery / carrot then chuck all the veg in. Cover with water and a load of bouillon power or just vegetable stock and add a couple of handfuls of lentils. Thyme and white pepper are good for adding depth.

Then half an hour later blitz it and add water / splash of milk until correct texture.

I met someone who lost a couple of stone by predominantly eating those New Covent Garden soups.

Yes-lost a lot of weight eating the healthiest and most filling soup called ribollita-Italian peasant soup.

I blend a tin of white cannelini beans into all my soups. Fills them out and high protein makes you feel fuller and you can't taste the difference.

Yes, I lost a stone eating Weetabix for breakfast and soup for lunch every day for a couple of months, it was a bit boring but I could still eat a normal dinner and lose weight

So much inspiration! Great to know and very encouraging.
I'm going to go down the filling soup route as I want to avoid bread (sob) and I love lentils and beans anyway.
Let's see how much weight I can lose by the end of October. My coat is a bit tight so this is a necessity now

I love the odds and ends idea! I will do this as I often make soup. Presumably you keep the bag in the fridge not freezer if there are fresh herbs?

@DiscoBeat nope I put everything straight into the freezer. Parsley stalks seem to cope ok and generally it's texture that's buggered by freezing so that doesn't matter once it's cooked and blitzed

Yes. Fridge Soup fan here - left over and soft veggies rolling around in the bottom of the fridge. Give them a new lease of life. I don't even bother with a stock (too salty for me) - just add herbs - then boil to death and blitz to consistency of choice. Freezes well so can be a quick meal too. The colour can sometimes be a little depending on the veg.

Similar to a poster above, fruit and yoghurt for breakfast, soup and wholemeal roll for lunch and normal evening meal (but mindful of portion size).

I also make red pepper and tomato soup (thickened up this also makes a good pasta sauce base), potato and leek soup, sweet potato, carrot and tomato soup, parsnip and apple soup, cauliflower, courgette and chickpea (this one, for some reason, acts like a mild laxative for me so was always a favourite the night before weighday ),

I only stick to plain vegetable soup, and I try to go easy on the salt an d oil. If it's too tasty, I can't help but go back for a few more bowls!

I only stick to plain vegetable soup, and I try to go easy on the salt an d oil. If it's too tasty, I can't help but go back for a few more bowls!

Weetabix then soup and a normal dinner- now that's a diet I could do.
Like the white canneneli beans idea too
Thanks both

Yes - I’ve been having a meal replacement shake for breakfast and soup for lunch. I’m losing weight steadily.

This is a favourite but I replace the canned lentils with 115g dried red split lentils.
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Oooh thanks -just Google it -looks good!!

This is inspiring.

Yes. I make big batches of carrot and coriander soup with some red lentils thrown in. Very tasty.

I don't eat bread with the soup, but will have two pieces of fruit afterwards and also a handful of almonds.

I am going to try this this week too. Lost weight with it before. Going to make some soup but also I love oxtail soup so got a few tins of that too. My home made soup is not always great but got a new recipie. Last time I sometimes did have a bit of bread but just the 50 cal bread or I dipped a rice cake in.

Oooh 50 cal bread??? Where do you buy it?

Hi. It is warburtons no added sugar wholemeal. Tbh not much to it but I break it up in to the soup. It does feel like proper bread though. Sometimes i may have half a slice of normal bread. Have used thins too. Sorry its 55 not 50 cals.

Spicy lentil tomato soup!
game changer! It is divine! Weight fallen off me for the first time ever :)
berries, nuts, chia seeds and yogurt for breakfast
titally filling and delicious!