Soup Sippers Lose Weight - Raise Metabolic Rate

Lose weight by eating. Grazing stimulates your metabolic rate so that the body burns calories at a faster rate. My father was born in Poland. He loved soup and every Sunday we had Chicken Soup, Salad and the chicken used to make the soup. What a combination! Mom made sure we ate all those vegetables we normally would not eat. Everything was in the soup. Thanks to frozen vegetable soup mixes, we can have double the vegetables we had when I was a kid. Okra, green beans, carrots, celery, onions, garlic, oregano, and many more are already to drop in the broth.

You tell me you don't like raw vegetables but you love soup. Well that's the answer to your getting all the vegetables you need and feeling full, while lubricating your digestive system with delicious broth. Soup is easy and a great left over. You can always heat up just the amount you need to make you feel warm inside and get a full course meal in a bowl. Soup may be your best beverage when you want to watch TV and get a nutritious meal at the same time.

Throw out those fad diets and sip soup. Research shows that eating soup regularly has a lasting effect on weight loss. In one recent study, the group that ate soup lost more weight that those who didn't. The more soup -- the more weight lost!

Even if you're not into peeling carrots and dicing vegetables, and onions cause you to get all weepy -- you can buy frozen soup mixes that don't have all the preservatives yet contain all the nutrition you're looking for. And if you're a busy person you can microwave a bowl of soup in minutes.

You can use the stand-up roaster with the steel bowl at the bottom to collect the fat for the broth. Saute' fresh vegetables in that fat while simmering the package of giblets with a little oregano and a bay leaf. Enjoy the roasted thighs and drumsticks, then dice the chicken breasts for your soup. All the chicken bones, skin, (everything) goes into the pot with the giblets. Simmer slowly on a low heat with a slight bubble to the broth. Add about four cloves and a few peppercorns to give it that special flavor (that was grandma's secret Polish ingredient for a good soup). Salt and pepper to taste.

You won't need a humidifyer with soup on the stove and you'll drool with the aromatherapy of the combination of flavors. A little onion, some cut up celery and carrots and the magic is happening. Most of it is in the slow simmering process. In a couple of hours you'll be able to pour the broth through a seive to remove the bones and any other ingredients. Store the broth in the refrigerator over night. A good broth will turn into a gelatin, but not to worry if it doesn't.

Debone the chicken and store for the final mix. Make sure there are no small sharp bones in the final product. That's why the seive is important.

The next day heat the broth to a slight boil, add the frozen vegetable soup mix and the diced chicken and any chicken left over from the original broth. Add some fresh celery leaves, parseley, and your favorite pasta. I like the ditalini, tubitini or go big with kluski noodles or egg noodles. You're on your way. What a hit. It's a beginning. You learn through experimenting, by tasting and enjoying the aroma. I like a couple of crushed garlic in the mix -- but that's the Italian side of me. Some Italians make a very similar soup with tiny pasta and some even use Italian meatballs to make it an Italian Wedding Soup.

When you supply your body with a steady supply of fuel, you'll never run on empty and your metabolic rate will burn those calories. In fact when you're eating whole foods, lean protein and healthy fats and eating more often with mini meals -- you'll feel more energetic and it'll be considerably better for you. Soup keeps the body hydrated and the digestive track lubricated so that the whole system works better.

Eating multiple servings of vegetables in your soup can improve your health, reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and macular degeneration.

Better to build the fortress with strong building blocks than trying to repair it later.