Daily Fit Tip: Soup, of course

by Bethany Sanders (Subscribe to Bethany Sanders's posts)
Dec 18th 2007 6:00AM

If you find yourself consistently overeating at meal time, try this little trick: Eat a bowl of low-calorie broth-based soup as your first course.

A recent study found that those who ate soup before a meal reduced their total calories for the entire meal by 20%. According to the study, it doesn't appear to matter whether the soup is chunky or smooth.

If you're out to dinner, you can order it as an appetizer. At home, try to eat the soup about 20 minutes before your main meal.

Five healthy soups(click thumbnails to view gallery)

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Melinda 12-19-2007 @ 8:39PM

Here's another tip we offer the LoneStart Wellness participants. Sit up straight to eat, and you'll eat approximately 10 percent less. Plus, you'll improve your posture.

Colleen 12-19-2007 @ 10:04PM

that, or when your full, place the napkin over your food so you 'bury' it, you can't see the food, your less likely to eat it. thats what i do and i don't pick at it.

mike n 12-19-2007 @ 11:23PM

Any type of soup broth is mostly water. Just stay away from the soups that are cream based. They are loaded with fat from the milk.

felicity 12-20-2007 @ 1:08AM

I started on some whole-food suppliments and started eating less cause I was not "hungry" for the nutritients I was lacking. I found a place that sells non-synthetic suppliments.. check it out here:
http://www.healthywize.com/myblast

I like The Blast & PSP the best, followed by Digest and Fucoidan and Probiotic. Read up on these things.. our bodies really need it.

laura 12-20-2007 @ 1:12AM

I did a liver cleanse that included many natural suppliments and found that I too was mal-nutritioned. I began eating less and had so much energy. Those whole food suppliments are THE BEST. I would never go with synthetic stuff again. I love that the juice that company sells; there is nothing like it.

joel 12-20-2007 @ 1:17AM

I don't know about all that cleansing crap or synthetic stuff but I do know that my wife takes that Blast Juice and she started growing her hair back after 4 months. also she doesn't have pms cramps anymore! thank god! haha

And broth? Who would do that? You'll be hungry again in no time. com on
Here's where we bought it: http://rosasdivinas.blogspot.com/2007/11/powerful-nutritional-supplement.html Its one of those blogs that talks about it.

yvonne 12-20-2007 @ 1:23AM

omg! I love Tblast! A girl I work with started me on it cause, I struggle with major belly fat. ugh! Aparently, the stuff is supposed to remove stress from your body, which stress is associated with cortisol and cortisol with belly fat. It took about 2 months taking it every day but I lost 5 inches around my waist and I have a ton more energy.
---Wait, but it didn't curve my appitite so sorry for rambling. But I would recommend anyone waiting results to try it. I bought it directly from a friend so I would visit one of those links up there.

felicity 12-20-2007 @ 1:28AM

wait!!! the digest pills DID curve my appitite! I forgot that was the point of my post. Yes because it is all natural and FULL of enzymes to help break down food. You will feel less hungry and will notice a change in bloating, gas, heartburn. It's all been so helpful. Not advertising cause I don't sell it but I do love it and wanna share that with you all. www.healthywize.com/myblast

kelli 12-20-2007 @ 1:35AM

I noticed on that blog that the girl writes about the Digest which Felicity claims curved her appitite. It's all pretty cool and interesting. It makes sense to say that all the foods we eat are free from enzymes and that raw fruit and veggies have only enough enzymes to break themselves down. Seems that our bodies pull from other areas to break down food and the thing that freaked me out it is that it will cause you to age faster. I bought some, am gonna give it a whirl. Prolly will try that juice too. I just wanna be healthy. THere is just so much stuff out there.
here's that girl's blog http://rosasdivinas.blogspot.com/2007/11/suggestion-for-digestion.html

good luck ;)

dougMD 12-20-2007 @ 1:44AM

That is a true statement about raw foods and digestion Kelli. Our bodies pull from out metobolic system to break down all the processed foods we eat. It leaves our immune systems weak and leaves us tired after we eat and yes this can cause over-eating & premature aging, to say the least. I have never heard of these Digest pills that everyone is talking about but I often recommend a digest suppliment cause they do give you an overall healthy digestive system. This could include weight-loss, more energy, stronger immune system. I like that these ones you all speak of are whole-food based.

Joana 12-20-2007 @ 2:08AM

I too was loosing my hair and used Yerba and it didn't work for me but it worked on my sister. I also tried the blast juice and I can't tell if it's gotten thicker but everyone keeps telling me it is so I guess they are right. I did notice in our family christmas picture you couldn't see as much white on my head. That was really cool. It's just embarrassing. My boss with the music group I'm in gives me bottles for free cause I'm paying for school right now and I need it. you can also buy them from the website. I also sleep less and have great energy. I am overweight and I do notice that when I have to eat and can't get away it helps my appitite.
http://www.mariachirosasdivinas.com/TunguskaBlast.htm
oh yea and my mom takes it with me and at work shes been asked by 3 people if she got a face lift.

Maria 12-20-2007 @ 2:30AM

I love soup. My mother used to make soup before every meal even in summer and none of us was ever heavy (there were 9 kids!) I still bring soup to work many days for lunch. I would buy soup out but the cost is too high and I don't know ingredients. I manke my own as canned soups usually have over 100o mg of sodium.

I bring my soup to work in the tupperware rock and serve container. I love tupperware and have far too much of it at home.

I buy most of my stuff (including my tupperware) at an online shopping mall that gives me between 5-55% back in cash on all my purchases. There are over 1000 stores including Sephora, Apple, The Gap, Target. Lands End, Tupperware and Macy's.
http://www.dailyoink.com The site is poorly organized...but I love getting the money back!