Negative Calorie Diet: The Soup

This is a pretty simple diet to follow. Stick to it and you’ll average about a pound per day (usually more) weight loss. Don’t cheat! Cheating is the largest reason for failure. You’’ve got to get into the right frame of mind. Take it a meal at a time.

The first thing you’ll need to do to get started is to pick up some Negative Calorie foods. Get yourself a piece of paper – better yet, take the workbook to the store with you. While you’re shopping, please take the time to get involved with your purchase. Try to at least look at every food in the list. Fruit, vegetables, meats. Try to find the stuff you’ve never heard of before.

Once you find your picks for the week, pick them up. Hold them. Feel their weight. Smell it. Really smell it. This is your week. You’re in charge. I mean it. You need to be the one to buy your food for the week. Don’t have someone else do the dirtywork for you. You need to get involved. Why? If you approach this half-baked, not focused, you’re not going to make it.

Part of the plan working, is to get involved. As you shop for yourself, you’ll be programming yourself for success. It works! By the way, don’t combine shopping for your Negative Calorie foods with other shopping. This is a mission. Go out on your own and make this happen. You’ll feel better at the end for doing it.

During the week that you’re on this diet, you’ll be eating the ultimate negative calorie, fat-burning, metabolism increasing soup ever devised.

You will not eat this soup all by itself. That wouldn’t be healthy but you will eat some every day. Don’t worry, it tastes great. If you like vegetable soup, you’ll like this. I’m going to give you the directions on how to make it. Do not stray from the directions! Do not “implement” your own variations. Do you really truly want to burn your fat off? Stick to the directions!

Ingredients:

• 6 large green onions
• 1 cup fresh green beans
• 2 cups fresh spinach
• 5 medium carrots
• 1 large can of cooked or stewed tomatoes
• 1 medium head of cabbage
• 1/2 bunch of celery
• 1 clove of garlic (you decide)
• 1 green or red bell pepper (red gives it more color)
• 1 stalk of broccoli
• 1 cup of brown rice (uncooked)
• 1 package of onion soup mix
• FREE: your choice of salt, pepper, herbs, spices for taste

At first glance, some of you will look at the above list and think of the old cabbage soup diet. This is not that soup. The old cabbage soup diet did in fact help people lose weight, but there was a trade off in nutrition. The old cabbage soup diet was lacking in some areas such as protein, calcium, and grain. The Negative Calorie Diet makes up for these areas.

What does it taste like? If you like stew, you’ll like The Negative Calorie Soup. It’s not as boring as the old cabbage soup diet. Now you can add salt, pepper, herbs and spices to suit your particular taste. For instance, I like to make The Negative Calorie Soup with curry, salt, and pepper. After a two or three days, if I’m a little bored with it (it happens) I like to toss in some chopped or dried cilantro for a more tangy, Mexican flavor. I also love the broth that comes from the soup. I actually love to ladle some into a cup at night before I go to bed. Be creative with your spices. One last word here. When we say herbs and spices, we mean just that. Fresh or dried herbs and spices that contain little or no calories.

A word of warning. You’re going to need a large stew pot, so have that ready and standing by. Depending on your pick of the above ingredients, you’ll be making roughly one and a half to two gallons of this soup.

Clean all ingredients. Don’t peel your carrots. Simply rub the outside of them with your hands thoroughly under water until the dirt is gone. Cut all vegetables into small and medium pieces. Run the clove of garlic through a garlic press or chop it very very fine. Throw everything into the pot except the brown rice and fill with clean (preferably filtered) water. Fill it up to about two inches below the top. If the pot isn’t already on the stovetop, get it on there now. Turn the heat all the way up. Once the pot is boiling, throw in the brown rice. Now boil all the ingredients very fast for 5 minutes. Turn the heat down to a simmer and continue cooking until the vegetables are tender. This usually takes 4 to 6 hours. One tip, don’t add salt, pepper, herbs and spices without tasting as you add them! Too much will ruin the batch. Then you have to start all over again! This soup will be your main dish for lunch and dinner.

I usually like to start The Negative Calorie Diet on Mondays. It just makes sense to me. Starting at the beginning of the week makes you more aware of your progress. Just like going to work and working till the weekend. You sense the end coming and look beyond it.

The only problem is the weekend. No reward! Just two more days of being on the diet. So if you prefer rewarding yourself on a weekend, simply start the diet on a Saturday. This way, when the next Saturday arrives, you’re ready for your reward! But don’t go out and undo everything you just spent a week accomplishing.

I’ve talked to literally hundreds of people who have used The Negative Calorie Diet and a popular method of starting the diet seems to be on a weekend (Saturday) when you have a lot of chores scheduled to be done at home. You know, painting, mowing the yard, working on the car, crafts, etc. Maybe you want to just stay home and read a good book. The majority of the success stories I’ve been told about seem to hold true to this fact. Control your environment. It’s only a week. If you go out with friends or on a date, the temptation of eating something else may be too high. Only you know for sure, so think and plan ahead. This soup is very important. I cannot stress this enough. You really need to plan this out. Since it takes 4 to 6 hours to prepare, it’s important that you make a large amount to start you off. I usually have to make it twice during the week. Plan ahead! Don’t come home from work after 6:00 p.m. with no soup to eat. Plan ahead! If you run out during the week (I know I do), try to cook early in the evening so that it will be ready by the next morning.

If you’re like me and you have to eat lunch while you’re away from home during the day, be sure to have a large container to take your soup with you. If you have access to a stove or microwave, a plastic container with an airtight lid will do. No stove or microwave? Invest in a large thermos or a couple of small ones.

The point is that you maintain a large enough supply of the soup to get through the entire week. No excuses! This is your week. Don’t forget your soup and head out to the nearest fast food palace. Start figuring out now when you’ll have the time to make your second and maybe even third batch.

Beverages. What do you get to drink during the week? Water. What else? Water with a lemon wedge squeezed into it. No juices. No diet drinks. No coffee. No tea. No alcohol! Just water. Water with lemon. Oh, did I mention milk? No milk! Are we clear? Crystal, right? Again, you need to plan ahead. Make sure you have access to enough water to get you through the week.

It’s preferable to drink your water before and after your meals – not during. Notice I said preferable. If you’re the type of person that can eat without having something to drink, great! But if you’re like me, you’ll have to have your water sitting right there with you during your meal. Water consumed before and after your meals will aid in the digestive process. Water consumed during meals slows down your digestion. If you must drink during your meal, try to keep it to half a glass.

I know you’ve heard this before, but I’m going to tell it to you again. You need to drink a gallon of water a day! That’s right, a whole gallon. For myself, I find it’s best to have a container that’s 32 ounces. In fact, I use one of those 32-ounce travel mugs. They keep my water pretty cool throughout the day. I know when I’ve finished the first one; it’s one down, three to go, and so on…

I’m able to drink a gallon while I’m at work. Any extra water I drink is icing on the cake! Oops. Sorry about that. One more tip before we get into the actual day to day eating. Yes, we’re still talking about water. Water can really take the hunger pangs away. When you feel like having a snack during the day, go ahead and have the snack (an apple or celery), but really try to drink a glass of water before. It really works!

When cooking your chicken or fish, you need to bake or broil. No frying! Be sure to take the skin off your chicken! Do not consume any alcohol while you’re on the diet. No carbonated beverages, including diet sodas. Just water. Lots of it! I just had to say that again!

How long do you stay on the diet? Try it for 7 days at a time. You really need the 7 days to get the entire effect. Once the 7 days are over, stay off for at least a week before getting back on it. It could very well be that changing your eating habits after the diet is all you’ll need.

If you need to take off a lot of weight, this diet will do the trick. If that’s the case, you really need to think long-term. I don’t care what kind of diet program you use; it’s never advisable to lose large amounts of weight in a very short amount of time.

If you are looking to cut more than 10 pounds off your current weight, it’s preferable and more importantly, safer to spread the loss over a few weeks or even months. This is where goals come in. I know you want to do this quick. Everyone does. But we want you around for a long time, so take it slow.

With The Negative Calorie Diet, 3 to 5 pounds a week is very attainable. If you need to lose a lot of weight, make this your target loss per week. In other words, stay on the diet for a week. Now for

the next week, go off the diet, but eat sensibly! Keep at least 60 to 70% of your food intake Negative Calorie foods. Then get back on. This way you won’t be depriving yourself of some of your favorite dishes while you’re losing weight.

I also suggest you get a calendar and mark your days of dieting off as you move along. Draw a big red square around the last day! On the day after the last day, write down what your reward will be. Put it right in the middle of that square! Your favorite food? Your favorite restaurant? Go to a movie? You decide.

The Negative Calorie: by Matt Retherford

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