I was wondering what u thought of a soup diet. Eating soup as a meal 3-5 times a day. Low cals and not so bad for u rite? I plan on doing this while taking protein shakes (mixed with 2% milk). 1-1.5 grams per body weight a day. Will i lose wieght and maintain muscle? I workout 3-5 days a week and have football twice Plus 1 game. And cardio on top of that. ideas/suggestions?
Sounds like you’re trying to do a low-carb diet (except what you’ll get from the milk) in addition to reducing calories? From what I’ve read on this forum, a lot of milk is not conducive to leaning out, and I have actually virtually eliminated it from my diet as I’m working on leaning out too. It sounds like enough protein to preserve muscle, but you probably won’t gain much (bulking and fat burning are, unfortunately, pretty much mutually exclusive) The only thing I can say is, depending on the kind of soup you’re eating, the diet may be somewhat nutrient-poor (i.e. you don’t want to live on Campbell’s Chicken Noodle or some crap like that). If you’re making your own, then you can make it as “healthy” as you want to. I think you will want some more fiber also. You might run a search on this site for the “Meltdown” diet, I think it’s called. Also, Tampa Terry has a thread on here somewhere that talks about carb-cycling (alternating high and low-carb days) for fat burning. Keep the cardio intense and brief, like <20 min. (use something like HIIT, which will smoke your butt).
Give a little more detail about your plans and there are plenty of nice T-folk here who will help you out. Also give some info on your stats (height, weight, bf%, etc.)
Good luck!
There are a lot of diet choices here on this site that would be much better than a soup diet. Sounds like one of those fad diets that never works. I think you’d be much better off trying something like the T-Dawg diet.
Is that like the cabbage diet?
I say great idea as long as you dump a bunch of meat and vegetables in the ‘soup’
Sounds like a good way to ruin your performance. You’ll need a higher carb diet, not necessarily a high-carb diet though, to support glycogen stores for football training and games.
It all depends on what type of soup you are talking about. I make a mean chicken soup. It has chicken (of course) carrots, celery, onions, mushrooms, brown rice and spices. I don’t know the macros but it is low in fat (just the chicken), only good low GI carbs and lots of protein (8 breasts). The times I have made it I eat it 2-3 times a day for my main meals and use LC grow the other 3.
im 6’0 205 lbs 12% fat and 18. Ill take the protein with water i sposse. I want to cut to about 8 percent fat but not lose muscle. I may look into purchasing some grow! or surge to fill in for the nutrient gaps as well as taking multivitamins. I work out pretty heavily so im not to concerned about losing muscle with all the protien im taking but it wouldnt hurt to gain some as well. What do u think? by doing this can i lean to 8% in a few weeks?
i get the idea that you think by taking in tons of protein (and going low-cal) you will not lose muscle? that is not the case… you are working out very intense: football, cardio, weights… if you go low-cal/low-carb on something like that you will lose muscle (even if you take in 20000grams of protein)
my opinion would be to find a time where you can go light on football and cardio (say a 3 week period) and during those 3 weeks do something drastic (ie low-carb…fat fast… etc)… but given the intensity you train, low-carb/cal will be bad
you should shed the weight in the offseason is what im getting at…
also, if you were cutting, low-carb grow tastes FUCKINGGNGNGNGNGNN AMAZING in water alone… so no need for milk to make it taste good
peace
I have no offseason. This is an allstar team… which ran from march till the middle of august. I than have 1 week off before highschool football summer camp starts and than regular season first week of sept.