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Are you ready to kickstart your health goals in 2025? This Weight Loss Soup is the ultimate recipe for a healthier, happier you! If you’re looking to shed a few pounds without sacrificing flavor, this nutrient-packed, low-calorie, high-fiber soup will become your go-to. Let’s dive in!
Table of Contents
- What is Weight Loss Soup?
- Ingredients for Weight Loss Soup
- How to Benefit from Weight Loss Soup
- Will I Gain All My Weight Back Afterwards?
- Substitutions for Weight Loss Soup
- Instant Pot Weight Loss Soup
- Seasoning Suggestions
- Frequently Asked Questions
- More Healthy Soup Recipes
- How to Make Weight Loss Soup
- Weight Loss Soup Recipe
What is Weight Loss Soup?
Weight loss soup is a combination of two classic recipes: Weight Watchers Garden Vegetable Soup and the Cabbage Soup Diet Soup. We’ve amped up the protein kidney beans for protein to keep you fuller longer. Feel free to mix and match vegetables to suit your taste, but avoid starchy vegetables like potatoes and corn for maximum benefit.
We call this soup “magic” because it’s worked wonders for us. Unlike bland cabbage soups of the past, this heart, low-carb soup is packed with flavor and keeps you satisfied while staying on track with healthy eating.
Ingredients for Weight Loss Soup
- Chicken broth: The flavorful base for this soup. Use low-sodium if you are watching your salt intake.
- V-8 juice. A nutrient-rich flavor booster.
- Diced tomatoes: Canned Italian tomatoes for a rich taste and texture.
- Onion. Finely chopped to add a savory depth.
- Garlic. Minced for a healthy, aromatic touch.
- Mushrooms. Thinly sliced for texture.
- Vegetables: Carrots, zucchini, and squash, all sliced evenly for consistent cooking.
- Green beans: Fresh or frozen, your choice!
- Kidney beans: Rinsed and drained for added protein. Swap in another bean or lentils for variety.
- Cabbage: Finely shredded for a nutritional base layer to the soup.
- Italian Seasoning: The perfect blend to tie it all together.
How to Benefit from Weight Loss Soup
To lose weight healthily, make sure you check with your doctor or nutritionist for the optimal amount of calories you need for the day. Here’s a plan that has worked for us, but please adjust this to fit your specific caloric needs. Disclaimer: We are not weight loss experts or doctors. This is simply a vegetable packed, low-calorie recipe that can help with weight loss.
- Breakfast: Start your day with a protein-rich breakfast.
- Lunch: Enjoy a hearty bowl of Weight Loss Soup.
- Snack: Savor another bowl to curb hunger.
- Dinner: Pair the soup with a lean protein (like grilled chicken) and a serving of whole grains (like brown rice).
- Hydrate: Drink plenty of water throughout the day.
- Exercise: Aim for 30+ minutes of activity, 5+ days a week. Again, consult with your doctor or trainer to determine exercises that will work best for you.
Will I Gain All My Weight Back Afterwards?
Our experience is that following this soup plan for seven days gives us a powerful kickstart to a healthier diet. After that, transitioning back to a balanced diet using the soup intermittently for meals helps to maintain weight loss momentum. The secret to this soup is it is loaded with vegetables that are filling, yet low in calories.
Pro tip: Eat a bowl of soup before your regular meal to help with portion control. You’ll feel full and eat less overall.
Substitutions for Weight Loss Soup
- Vegetables: Try kale, spinach, or celery for extra nutrition. Avoid starch veggies like potatoes, corn, or peas.
- Broth: Use beef or vegetable broth instead of chicken. Low-sodium or homemade are great options.
- Protein: Switch kidney beans for white, black, or pinto beans. You can even add lean ground beef or ground turkey (just note the higher calorie count).
Instant Pot Weight Loss Soup
Looking to save time? Samantha shared her Instant Pot method:
- Sauté onions, garlic, carrots, green beans, and mushrooms in olive oil
- Add broth and scrape the bottom to deglaze.
- Stir in kale instead of cabbage, then cook 5 minutes.
- Quick-release, add zucchini, stir, and top with tomatoes. Cook another 5 minutes and quick-release.
Her tip: Skip the beans and V-8 juice, and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese for added flavor.
Seasoning Suggestions
Take your soup’s flavor up a notch with these seasonings:
- Basil
- Oregano
- Thyme
- Parsley
- Sage
- Red Pepper Flakes
- Tony Chachere’s Cajun Seasoning
“Wow!! Just made this! I’ve never made soup before and it tastes AMAZING!! Thank you for sharing this delicious recipe!”
-Kristen
Frequently Asked Questions
This weight-loss soup recipe makes about 20 cups of soup, so you will have plenty to eat all week long. It stays fresh in the refrigerator for up to seven days and freezes beautifully for up to 3 months.
Variety is key for balanced nutrition. Use this soup to kickstart your diet and incorporate it as part of a balanced meal plan.
Results vary based on factors like exercise, hydration, and body type. Use this as a tool in your overall healthy lifestyle tool belt for best results.
More Healthy Soup Recipes
How to Make Weight Loss Soup
Try this soup today and jumpstart your journey to a healthier you! Share your results and favorite variations in the comments below – we’d love to hear from you!
Weight Loss Soup
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 32 ounces chicken broth you may use low-sodium
- 3 cups V-8 juice *see recipe notes
- 28 ounces Italian diced tomatoes
- 1 small onion
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 3 carrots peeled and sliced
- 1 zucchini diced
- 1 yellow squash diced
- 2 cups green beans fresh or frozen
- 14 ounces kidney beans drained and rinsed
- 3 to 4 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- In a large frying pan sprayed with cooking spray, saute garlic, onions, carrots, and mushrooms for about 5 minutes.
- In a large crockpot, combine sauteed garlic and vegetables with the remaining ingredients.
- Cook on high for 2-3 hours, or until vegetables are fork-tender.
- FREEZING INSTRUCTIONSThis makes a large batch of soup. If you would like to freeze portions of it to use later, undercook the vegetables just a little. Pour the soup into freezer Ziplock bags and let as much air out as you can. Lay the bags flat on a cookie sheet and freeze. Once the soup is frozen flat, it is easy to layer in your freezer and won't take up much room. To thaw, place the bag in the fridge for 24 hours and then reheat.
I am wanting to calculate the new WW SmartPoints. What is the grams of sugar?
We haven’t calculated the grams of sugar. You could probably use a nutrition calculator to find it! Hope this helps!
Amazed at the dozens of “same”questions asked about a very clear and detailed recipe and procedure. It sounds really good and am going to try soon,and my two questions were answered,by scrolling through! Thanks for it,even if I don’t lose weight ,will enjoy.
This soup is delicious! I wasn’t too fond of it until I pureed it to make it “creamy” and now I love it! I added spinach and celery along with the ingredients in the recipe. Yum!
I even put it on pasta as the sauce for my kids dinner and they loved it!
Thank you!
Great idea putting it on pasta for the kiddos! Personally, I like it pureed, too 😉 -Erica
How many ounces/cups of soup equal “one serving?”
This is not the 1st time I ran across your many great recipes, but I just had to say This Soup Looks Delicious, & I sure hope it will help me loose a few Pounds off of my Menopause Belly !
I can’t wait to give this a try. I need a little jump start on Losing some weight. But I could find where it said the serving size per meal?
Thank you
Here is the nutritional information per 1 cup of soup:
57 calories
11 carbs
0 fat
3 protein
398 sodium
Thank you!
I have this cooking right now and it smells amazing. I tried in my crock pot and I guess it was not big enough. Had to transfer over to a stock pot on the stove top. I thank you for this I have been looking for something with more vegetables. Need to add more to my diet. Not vegetarian, just want to add more veggies. I will have some before I go to work and take some for later. I don’t like texture of mushrooms so I substituted celery. I think this is the only change I made. Did use low sodium V8 and low sodium canned tomatoes as well as organic low sodium chicken broth. Thank you again. Will let you know how it comes out.
Update: I just had my first bowl of this soup. Absolutely my totally favorite from now on. I cannot see myself always having some of this on hand. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I feel empowered on this journey of getting more healthy. Cooked it on the stove only for about 1 1/2 hours. So flavorful and the veggies still had a little crunch to them. Thanks again.
Thank you for sharing this Kathleen! All the best to you on your journey to getting healthy!
I made this soup, however, I did not use the mushrooms, but diced up a sweet potato. I ate a bowl for lunch only. I usually eat a low cal dinner such as fish, that is why I only ate the soup for lunch. I will say this. It was very tasty and satisfying. I felt full most of the afternoon. After five days of eating this I felt good, and know I at least lost a pound or two. The next week I did not eat it. Didn’t feel as good as I did when I was eating it, so, with that said; I’m going back to eating the soup everyday for lunch.
Thank you for sharing your experience. You just can’t go wrong with eating a lot of vegetables and this soup is a great way to get them in each day. I really appreciate your feedback!
It doesn’t say how big of cans for the broth, this would be helpful information to have and I would appreciate it. Please email and let me know, thank you.
Thank you for asking! The cans are 14.5 ounces.
Hello! I made this soup before and LOVED it! But I noticed the second time I bought the ingrediants that the italian diced tomatoes has sugar listed in the ingrediants. Is there any way to do it without sugar and was this taken into consideration for the nutritional content? I haven’t been able to find any italian diced tomatoes without sugar. I use wegmans organic italian diced tomatoes. Thank you so much!
The sugar content of the diced tomatoes was taken into consideration when calculating the nutritional content. If you don’t want to add canned tomatoes, you can add fresh diced tomatoes and some Italian seasoning to the soup instead. Fresh tomatoes are delicious in soups, it just adds a little more preparation time. Hope this helps! Thank you!
hi, this sounds really good but, I aondering could meat be added to the soup.
Yes, you can add meat to this soup. It will, of course, change the calorie content, so adjust your diet plan accordingly. Thanks for asking!
Hi all, I’ve recently been making this soup and it’s really tasty. I haven’t tried the full diet with it yet, but I’m thinking about doing so. Do you know how many calories it is and what is the serving size? My problem is that one bowl does not fill me up, and I’m usually hungry within a half hour or so. I fill the bowl to the top too, so I’m assuming it’s about two cups of soup. I will measure it next time.
Any ideas on what healthy sides I could eat with it so it’s a little more filling? I’ve mainly been eating lettuce with fat free dressing and then snacking on almonds or something later.
Thanks for your help and great recipe!
You can check our “light and tasty” category on the blog for ideas or we have a bunch of ideas in the Weight Loss Magic Soup E-Book!
i am diabetic (type2) and need to lose weight. Would love to try this to get me started in the weight loss. Do you think this would be a problem in helping me get started?
You would need to ask your doctor or nutritionist that question. This soup is full of healthy ingredients, but I’m not familiar enough with diabetes to know how it would be best to incorporate it into your diet.
Chris, I am type 2 diabetic also and I gave my Doctor a copy of this recipe and he said he let the Nutritionist look it over and it is fine. In fact he said that they use the same recipe for heart patients who need to drop some weight to have heart surgery. I am using this diet plan and Magic Soup recipe to help me lose the weight I need to lose. My Doctor seems to think that if I can lose 10% of my weight my diabetes will be controlled and I won’t have to take those pills for it just watch my diet. This is the best solution I have come across and I am taking advantage of it. Thanks Echo for keeping this site updated and answering all those repeat questions. Have a nice day as I will when my soup gets ready!
Thank you for sharing the approval of your doctor and nutritionist! It is helpful to know. You just can’t go wrong with vegetables. I wish you all the best as you start your journey to control diabetes. I know you can do it!
The soup sounds great, I think it would be better with a healthy splash of red wine and whole bunch of high fat content beef chunks, a cup and a half of bacon grease, and two hundred potatoes. A great side dish would include french fries, onion rings, cheese sticks and deep fried butter. I realize the weight would probably not come flying off at the rate you would expect by using the original recipe, but, my way tastes a whole lot better!
Would this soup work for the 5:2 diet? Thank you
Hmmmm. I have no idea what the 5:2 diet is so I don’t know how to best advise you :/
I just made it,it is delisious!
I left out the cabbage and added some cayenne pepper.
This sounds super delicious. I wouldn’t mind losing weight with this. And to do it again on and off when I am just trying to maintain the weight off. Thanks for your recipe. 🙂
it just 2 14.5 oz cans of chicken broth or is it more?
yes!
wow made this tonight it was soooo good. I used spinach instead of cabbage and grande Marsala instead of the Italian seasonings. Love it!! thanks so much.
Hi there-stopping in to let you know I made this last night. I have two little girls 10 and 7-they LOVED IT. I won’t have to worry about leftovers at my house 🙂 Hubs ate it also but he said add hamburger cause we you know how guys are. I said nope…we love it as is.
I subbed mushrooms for fresh broccoli and cauliflower and I also added two zucchini as I couldn’t find any yellow squash.
I thank you for sharing this-I needed a pick me up and something to get my veggie intake back up.
Even if I don’t shed a pound-I enjoyed this tremendously! 🙂
YAY!!! I am so happy you and your entire family liked it! It is always a WIN when the family can agree on something! Great substitution ideas, too. Thanks for commenting! 😀