Do juice or soup diets help with weight loss?

[peace-love-couture]

My goal weight is 100 lbs but I'm short, so it FITS perfectly

My main, main goal is to thin my legs out. They're pretty muscular now & I'd like to make them thin. I do the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred along with jogging 2x a week. So aside from my exercise, would a soup diet help?

I take a multivitamin, fish oil pills and a biotin supplement everyday if it helps :P I'm also on a low cal diet but if I go on a soup diet it would also be low cal like cabbage soup

When I say thin legs out, I mean small and thin with shape like these: link

Ignore the terrible outfit lol link

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If you aren't going to actually answer the question, DON'T bother submitting some bs answer.

[xzinax2]

juice is high in sugars-i wouldn't drink anything except water if I were you-it's not THAT hard,they didn't have soda back when we lived in caves.

soup doesn't have everything you need to ya know-live! digestion is serious business,and so is protein-you need to eat. a calorie is a unit of energy-not fat.

you're short,you might seem stocky because of your height,you can't compare yourself to tall models,find someone your own height to look up to,lord knows there are pro-ana blogs of every size.

i've recently gone down to a 105 lbs (this is BAAAD when you're 5'6-7) and only now do my legs look like theirs (at a healthy weight-my calves are muscular and my thighs are at least as thick as my knees) and I feel like crap,getting that skinny-is painful. no energy,no strength,my collarbones are so boney I could stab someone with them-just...don't. you can get skinny by not eating or eating very little (people may say it causes weight gain cause of a slowed down metabolism-but they're bullsh*tting you,starving people get skinny,it's a fact) but is it worth it if your quality of life goes down?

[xzinax2]

also,to sa230e's answer-you will lose muscle if you lose weight-firstly,you'll lose the fat which often makes legs look bulky,which would leave mostly muscle- and then-anorexics usually lose muscle when they go too far,they feel burning in their legs from muscle loss. I realize that may be triggering-but info is info

[sa230e]

Interesting. I guess it makes sense since anorexia is associated with high cortisol levels which catabolizes muscle. Not that I would ever recommend such a thing. Hypercortisolism has other effects too (see Cushing's Syndrome).

[madmisskelly]

You can't spot lose, so even though you intend on it thinning out your legs, it may not. Do be proud of your muscular legs, they are fabulous. Nothing wrong with them. You did work hard for them after all.

Don't do juice/soup diets. You'll just be hungry all he time, not take in enough calories, and due to the lack of solid foods, you will also have no solid BMs. At the same time, you will be taking in a ton of salts. The only way to get around that is to make SMOOTHIES and not juice it. You want to keep all your fiber. You can do a ton of fruits and veggies so that you are getting a decent amount of calories. However, you do not want to go under your BMR. So calculate your BMR and don't go under that.

Keep in mind though too, that your body may not be able to get to that point. Some bodies are simply built to be more athletic and some are built to be more slender. You can try to get there, and if you do, great, but if not, don't beat yourself up and don't do it in an unhealthy way.

[sa230e]

I'm not sure about the soups but I wouldn't recommend the juice. Most juices have sugar content comparable to soda pop (at least that's what I've seen here - I doubt things are much different in the U.S.)

Also, I'm no diet guru so you might want to take this with a pinch of salt but I don't see how a low calorie (fat burning) diet helps you lose muscle, let alone jogging. If anything wouldn't jogging build up your leg muscles? I'm not sure what the "30 day shred" involves.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be self-righteous or anything but I just can't help but think it would be counter-productive or at least ineffective given your goal of thinner legs. Perhaps I'm missing something here?

[peace-love-couture]

I'm missing something too which is why I'm asking a question, but no one ever properly answers it because they don't approve of my goals

And the 30 day shred is interval training basically. Running builds leg muscles but I always read jogging slims them

[sa230e]

But, it's still exercise though which creates the small tears which leads to mitosis and therefore would create new muscle tissue though, right?

[Longshot]

I would say juice is a problem. If you stick to soups you have to be careful about sodium. I would say soup + lean protein + fruit + veggies will get you there as long as you're at 1000-1200 calories a day. I have been at 1500 calories a day for 7 mos + walking and lost 50 pounds. I did eat soups a few times a week, some of which I made.

[peace-love-couture]

I'm not raising my calorie intake to 1000

[madmisskelly]

A woman should NEVER go below 1200 calories a day.

[kheserthorpe]

Juice has no place in a severely calorie restricted diet.

If you're going below 1200 calories, you should be eating almost nothing but protein and fibrous vegetables.

Soup is fine, but eating small portions of meat + drinking water vs. soup doesn't matter much.

I'm kind of thinking of homemade soup. A lot of commercial soups have very high salt, which will cause you to retain water. If you care about the number on the scale, that will make you sad.

[peace-love-couture]

I'm talking about homemade soups...I hate store bought soups for some odd reason. But I have 100 lbs in mind hopefully by the end of the summer. I don't care if I have to run outside with a sauna suit on, I want to lose weight!

well my calorie intake has been about 700 on a daily basis for over a month and I want to keep it around there or maybe lower if I can train myself. aside from veggies, what protein is low in calories besides salmon?

don't say any exotic meat like lamb or goat

[kheserthorpe]

Do you want to lose water weight or fat? sauna suit won't remove fat

chicken breasts are your new god. there are more, I'll post later

[peace-love-couture]

I just want to get down to 100 and to thin my legs out. I don't want muscle, I want skinny-fat

[scar1]

high protien or even better all protien would be the best and unless you plan to starve your self or use an apetite suppressants you will eat the same amount of calories, a calorie is the amount of energy food contains, when you run out of energy you get hungry. so your low cal diet stupid is pointless if you are eating less and soup will help if low in carbs and fat or no carb and no fat soup(wich would be better)

[Morningglory3]

I'm crazy but I'm going to suggest Tracy Anderson's dance cardio one more time. You learn small dance combinations beforehand and then do as many combinations as you can up to 45 minutes. It's high impact so it's not dancing like zumba, more like jumping around. Her dance cardio is to prevent bulking up, because it's not the same exact movement over and over. Good luck.

[Mellinda]

i tried something like that, oatmeal for breakfast and soup for lunch and dinner. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I got really tired, I did lose some weight but gained it back because at the end of the diet I had a huge binge. Also you would be missing out on a lot of nutrients like iron and protein for example

[Anonymous]

Research Juice fasting. It's very effective for weight loss and healing. I wouldn't do soup, unless it's low sodium. And when juicing, try to do more vegetables than fruit. Carrots taste amazing juiced, and I don't really like them whole.