Project: Progresso

[amdforever2]

Imagine, if you will, someone so insane, so evil, so broke, and so desperately in need of weight loss......

Someone who would eat

1 non fat yogurt for breakfast (100 calories)
A can of progresso soup for lunch (200 calories)
2 cans of progresso soup for dinner (400 calories)
and drank
only water



Imagine the weight loss effects (combined with 1 hour of excercise per day).


Where is the flaw in this masterful plan? Where?

I already bought like 50 cans of the stuff on sale for 98 cents, so this better work.

Lack of variety not withstanding, the stuff provides low fat, low calorie food with some small amount of protein.

Where is the flaw?

 

[JasonK]

Plan your funeral now.. lol

 

[amdforever2]

Explain!

 

[Orsorum]

Sodium... and the fact that your body will eventually start working off fewer calories (not sure what this is called... they've tried it in numerous experiments, and any drastic reduction, say from 2500 to 1000, eventually results in the subjects actually gaining weight because the body's metabolism slowed down so much).

 

[minendo]

What's the sodium level like in those cans of soup?

 

[Manzelle]

Not enough nutrition for an hours worth of exercise per day not to mention canned soup is extremely high in sodium.

 

[amdforever2]

80% of recommended daily intake of sodium per can


however

what does salt do thats so horrible?

won't drinking just water aid me in removing sodium from my body?

 

[Orsorum]

Seriously, I'm aiming for 1 pound a week over the next year; I'm limiting my calorie consumption to roughly 1500 calories a day, which is about 800 less than I need at my body weight (not even accounting for activity level); so far I'm at 234 (according to my scale... it might be broken, though). My eventual goal is 185-195.

 

[amdforever2]

Originally posted by: Manzelle
Not enough nutrition for an hours worth of exercise per day not to mention canned soup is extremely high in sodium.

That's the idea

I'll be running a defecit of calories and just about everything
leading to massive, rapid weight loss

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: amdforever2

Originally posted by: Manzelle
Not enough nutrition for an hours worth of exercise per day not to mention canned soup is extremely high in sodium.

That's the idea

I'll be running a defecit of calories and just about everything
leading to massive, rapid weight loss

... you need proper nutrition, malnutrition != healthy weight loss

 

[Manzelle]

Your body needs some type of fat from time to time. This diet is not healthy at all and I would drastically consider researching cheap, effective diets plans before diving into this soup.

 

[JasonK]

Im no expert, but like everyone else is saying, theres alotta salt in those soups, and your basically gonna be turning yourself into a pile of mush eating like that. I think it would be better to vary what you eat. Althoouuughhhh you could make a documentary out of this and make some money! Like Supersize Me movie.....

 

[Silverbullet28]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
Sodium... and the fact that your body will eventually start working off fewer calories (not sure what this is called... they've tried it in numerous experiments, and any drastic reduction, say from 2500 to 1000, eventually results in the subjects actually gaining weight because the body's metabolism slowed down so much).

Hey Orsorum, do you know off hand where you read about any of those particular experiments?

 

[amdforever2]

I do not care about healthy weight loss.

I will have a sixpack damnit, whether or not I must follow in the doomed footsteps of Mary Kate!!

 

[Manzelle]

Originally posted by: amdforever2
I do not care about healthy weight loss.

I will have a sixpack damnit, whether or not I must follow in the doomed footsteps of Mary Kate!!

No you won't. In fact, I am willing to bet vital parts of my anatomy to the fact that you will not go through with this diet.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: amdforever2
I do not care about healthy weight loss.

I will have a sixpack damnit, whether or not I must follow in the doomed footsteps of Mary Kate!!

No you won't, not with this method. Let's say that your excercise is 400 calories/day. You're eating only 700, so you have a net intake of 300. This is massively and wildly below maintenance calories for the day. The effect of this will be massive weight loss, as you say, but the problem is in the terrible effects to your health (you will be suffering from malnutrition if you keep this up for a long time), and tons of lean muscle loss.

If you don't care about healthy, well that's fine, but you will never look good at the end of this because you'll have no muscle left whatsoever and your metabolism will be utterly shot.

Taken to its natural conclusion you'd look not like somebody ripped, but somebody like
this.

In any case, let me assure you that unless you have a psychiatric disorder (which we'll refer to as anorexia), there is no way in the world you can keep this diet plan up for long, so this argument is entirely moot. I have more willpower than the vast majority of people for keeping calories low, and I could never begin to keep them at 700 day while excercising for more than a very short while.

As always: excercise + eat less = healthy weight gain. "eat less" does not mean starve yourself. Instead of starting this ridiculous plan that you have absolutely no chance in all of hell of actually following through with, why don't you start it off properly?

 

[Orsorum]

Link (short news blurb regarding malnutrition)

lol I'm tired and focusing on other things, I'm sure someone else has heard about this. If I have time tomorrow I'll find a scientific study to corroborate my claims.

 

[Manzelle]

Didn't Brad Pitt recommend the Progresso and water diet to anyone who wanted to achieve the same physique as him? I believe I saw it on E! True Hollywood Stories...

 

[amdforever2]

So what's the minimum I can cut to then?

If not 700, how low can I go?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: amdforever2
So what's the minimum I can cut to then?

If not 700, how low can I go?

I've heard you should shoot for roughly a pound a week.

 

[Lovepig]

You could survive on 700. Not healthy though.

And too rapid of weight loss leaves big flabs of skin. Lose fast but not that fast. Exercise 1 hr per day first eating just what you eat now. Then start moving to healthier foods, then lower the quantity gradually.

All water is a great idea though (maybe with 1 glass of milk and 1 of juice daily - especiallya dieuretic like grapefruit juice, or even grape or orange!)

 

[Doboji]

You should look into the Ramen Noodles diet... much cheaper... you could cut your food bill by like 9/10ths... and still get the same nutritional input... just pop some multi-vitamins, and you're good to go.

-Max

 

[Saulbadguy]

That is a filling, nutrious meal plan.



If you were a prisoner in the holocaust. They got about 500 calories a day. You are not too far off.

 

[edro]

Here are some basics to get started.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Oh, and I guarantee you won't stick to it. You will get too hungry.