August 8, 2008--Fat Burning Soup

If you Google Madonna, the world’s most Googled celebrity, 128 million items appear; God turns up 670 million; and a cluster of those queries that involve dieting and weight control yield a number in between—more than 154 million.

In any of these cases, there’s enough information available on the Internet to keep you occupied for at least a millennium. With the exception of those associating with how to lose weight—for these, since you would have to take food and noshing breaks, they could keep you going for even longer than that.

So you can imagine how exciting it was when rummaging around in the recipe box that we found on the kitchen counter of the house in which we are staying that among various family recipes for muffins and meatloaf there was one for Basic Fat Burning Soup.

I had never heard of this kind of diet before so before rounding up the ingredients so I could make a batch, I Googled Fat Burning. Among other things I learned that there’s lots to know—in fact 387,000 items popped up. Not quite Madonna numbers, but still impressive.

Fat burning, if this is as unfamiliar to you as it was to me, is a form of rapid weight loss dieting. The most popular diets claim that they will lead to the loss of at least 10 pounds in 10 days.

Here from The Diet Pill Institute are some of the most frequently asked questions:

How Do Fat Burners Work?

Most Fat Burner supplements contain a stimulant such as Green Tea, Synephrine, Yohimbine, or very commonly – caffeine. These ingredients increase the body’s metabolic rate and consequently help you burn more calories.

Are Fat Burners Safe?

The safety of a Fat Burner depends on the ingredients. Fortunately trial and error have made safe and available some very effective fat burning ingredients.

Which Ingredients are safe and Effective in Fat Burners?

The best and safest ingredients found in the top-rated fat burners are: Green Tea, Yerba Mate, Advantra-Z, Guarana, PEA, Chocamine, Synephrine, and Chromium Polynicotinate.

Got it? Good. Now, back to the fat burning soup recipe. If you want to give it a try, here it is:

6 LARGE green onions
2 green peppers
1 or 2 cans tomatoes
1 bunch celery
1 large cabbage head
1 pkg. Lipton Soup mix

Season with salt, pepper, curry, parsley, boullion or hot soup. May also use Old Bay.

Cut vegetables in small pieces and cover with water. Boil fast for 10 minutes. Turn to simmer & continue until vegetables are tender.

This soup can be eaten any time you are hungry. Eat as much as yo want, whenever you want. This soup will not add calories. The more you eat the more weight you will lose.

And then there is this:

If eaten alone for an indefinite period you will suffer malnutrition.

A few things—honesty such as we find here at the end is refreshing. I’m not sure that Dr. Herman Tarnower, the infamous inventor of the Scarsdale Diet added such a caution to his diet ,which, I seem to recall, was largely based on eating lots of cabbage and grapefruit.

But the fact that his diet and the one I found here for the fat burning soup both emphasize cabbage, I have been wondering, in Diet Pill Institute terms, what is the real secret ingredient that leads to our being so starkly assured that “The more [soup] you eat the more weight you will lose.”

A couple of possible clues—in the list of ingredients large in
“large onions” is only item capitalized. So could it be that it’s all about the onions?

Then what about the Lipton Soup mix? This seems to jump off the recipe card, doesn’t it? That is, unless maybe the mix contains a stimulant that increases the body’s metabolic rate and consequently burns off calories.

Whatever, we’ll give it a try.

But not of course for an indefinite period. It’s a good thing, therefore, that we have this place for just another three weeks. I’m not sure that three weeks qualify as indefinite, but I don’t want to take any chances.