Have you heard of the Cabbage Soup diet? What about the Sacred Heart diet? Well look no further than the General Motors diet for all the details. Yes, these three crash diets are very well-known and extremely popular around the world – and although their back story differs somewhat, the diet protocol is exactly the same.
If you are thinking of attempting the General Motors diet, please proceed with this warning in mind: the General Motors diet, like any fast weight loss diet, will produce temporary results. You will certainly feel lighter, look better and achieve substantial weight loss, but if you want to lose weight and keep it off, you will have to change your eating habits for good. There, I said it. Let’s move on.
What I want to discuss here is the General Motors diet soup recipe. It forms the foundation of the 7 day eating plan and is allowed in unlimited amounts throughout the diet plan. Dieter’s are advised to create a big pot of the GM diet soup before commencing day 1, and to have it on hand for the duration.
I believe the success of the diet comes down to the soup – it’s full of fibre rich vegetables like cabbage and celery, the tangy tastes of tomato and peppers, and it’s pulled together by onions, soup stock and fresh herbs. It’s a calorie free meal and no doubt sustains the dieter throughout the programme as a guilt free comfort food.
The smartest dieters among us know that the nutrient rich liquid in a soup is digested quickly and rapidly sends signals to your brain that you are full. Soups are scientifically proven to keep you fuller for longer than most other meals.
It’s for this reason I think that the General Motor’s diet soup a handy dish to have in the fridge or freezer at all times. Add half a can of cannelini beans to a bowl of warmed General Motor’s soup and you’ve just constructed a nutrient dense, protein rich meal for less than 150 calories. Add a crusty wholegrain bread roll, a fresh salad and some fruit for dessert and you’re dining like a king for under 300 calories.
It’s also the meal that will keep you from picking up that greasy take-away dish when you are too tired or lack the ingredients to pull together something healthy at home. Just pull out a container of the General Motor’s diet soup from the freezer, plonk it in a saucepan and you’re away.
Most health-concious eaters have a few low calorie meals up their sleeve to balance out their wining and fine dining and I am no exception. Most Sunday nights, I create a vegetable soup not unlike the General Motor’s diet soup and freeze half of it in portions. Not only have I created a few fast and healthy meals for the week, i’ve also made Sunday night’s dinner the perfect meal to lighten the load of what’s usually a very indulgent weekend 
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