Weight Loss Magic Soup is the perfect recipe to a healthier you in 2021! If you are looking to drop a few pounds this low-calorie, high-fiber soup is healthy, flavorful, and really fills you up!
Weight Loss Soup
Weight Loss Magic Soup is a combination of a couple of weight loss soup recipes that have been around for years – Weight Watchers Garden Vegetable Soup and the Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe. We added kidney beans for protein to help feel fuller for a longer period of time. Feel free to add or subtract vegetables to your taste. The benefit of this soup is that it tastes great and it really does help you lose weight.
Why is it Called “Magic Soup”?
We call this soup “magic” because we have all incorporated it in our diets at one point in another with terrific results! It’s so much more than a bland cabbage soup or vegetable soup. It is hearty, flavorful and keeps you full and on track with eating.
Do I JUST Eat This Weight Loss Soup? All Day, Every Day?
No. You still need to get some calories in (about 1,200 a day) to lose weight at a healthy rate. For best results here’s what we have found to work:
- Eat a healthy breakfast in the morning, focusing on lean proteins.
- Eat a bowl of Weight Loss Magic Soup for lunch.
- Have another bowl of the delicious vegetable soup for an afternoon snack.
- Then, at dinnertime, eat a bowl of the weight loss soup along with some whole grain crackers.
- Drink lots of water during the day to stay hydrated, and most importantly,
- Exercise at least 30 minutes 3-5 days a week for maximum results.
Will I Gain All My Weight Back Afterwards?
It’s important to note that we don’t recommend following this strict diet for more than seven days. After a week, be sure to maintain a healthy diet, having this soup intermittently until you reach your desired weight. Think of this as a positive kick-off to your diet, a way to shed pounds and gain some confidence as you continue your lifestyle change. A great way to help with portion control is to eat a bowl of soup before you eat your regular meal. The soup will fill your stomach with healthy vegetables, and you will feel less hungry for your meal.
How Many Calories are in Weight Loss Magic Soup?
Each cup of Weight Loss Magic Soup has only 57 calories! It is such a satisfying way to get your vegetables in for the day. If you are worried about sodium content, feel free to use low-sodium V8 or even use tomato juice (homemade or store bought). You can also use fresh veggies instead of canned or low-sodium broths to reduce sodium as well. One cup of soup contains:
- 57 calories
- 11 carbs
- 0 fat
- 4 protein
- 225 sodium
How Long Does Weight Loss Magic Soup Last?
This Weight Loss Magic Soup recipe makes about 20 cups of soup, so you can eat on it all week. It stays fresh in the refrigerator for up to seven days, and freezes beautifully. Make a double or triple batch and store in the freezer for up to three months.
I don’t Like (Insert Vegetable Name Here). What is a Good Substitute?
You can substitute any vegetable really. Just try to avoid starch ones like potatoes, peas or corn if you can. Kale, spinach and celery are delicious and filling substitutions.
This Soup Recipe Has A LOT of Veggies. Am I Going to be, You Know, Running to the Bathroom Often?
If this is something you’re worried about, or if you find yourself hitting up the bathroom too much for your liking, eat the soup along with some whole-what toast, brown rice or even a banana. That should help!
More Healthy Recipes to Kick Off the New Year
Start your New Year off on the right foot with a few of these deliciously healthy recipes. Happy cooking!
Oven Roasted Vegetables Golden Detox Smoothie Fiber Crunchies
- Golden Detox Smoothie
- Weight Loss Magic Smoothie
- Fiber Crunchies
- Lettuce Wraps
- Cool Cucumber Green Smoothie
- PB&J Energy Bites
- Easy Vinegar Marinated Cucumbers
- Guilt Free Oatmeal Cookies
- Oven Roasted Vegetables
How to Make Weight Loss Magic Soup
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
- 3-4 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large frying pan sprayed with cooking spray, sauté garlic, onions, carrots, and mushrooms for about 5 minutes.
- In a large crockpot, combine sautéed 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.
Equipment
- Crock Pot Slow Cooker
Tejaswini D says
Awesome post. It was great to read as you explained in detail about magic soup and that too simple which are easy to prepare. Thanks for sharing it.
Favorite Family Recipes says
Thank you!
Derrick Brannon says
Thanks for sharing!
Erica says
can i have protein for breakfast. Also, can i put a small amount of chicken in the soup?
Echo says
Yes, on both questions. Protein is always helpful when you are trying to lose weight. Thank you for asking!
Lisa Ellis says
I saw this recipe on Facebook, looked at it and decided, No, because of some of the vegetables. But I just kept seeing it, and decided to look again. I wrote down the ingredients (without the mushrooms) and made it, I was so surprised of how much flavor it has. It is very filling. I make extra to freeze, I eat it often, and started taking Probiotics. I feel better and so far I have lost 26 pounds. I may drink one soda a week, but water with lemon and eating better. Thank you very much!!!
Echo says
That is AWESOME, Lisa! Thank you for sharing this and a BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your weight loss!!!
Sarah says
Besides the kidney beans, is this recipe Whole 30 approved? Anyone know?
Britney says
Soup is delicious. I followed this for exactly seven days and noticed a change with a daily exercise for a hour and eating 4xs a day. Drinking only water and snacking on fruits and nuts I feel so much bettter. It was so my guy followed with me. This will be my go to meal any time I’m snowed in. Thanks!
Echo says
Thank you for sharing this Britney! I’m so glad this Weight Loss Magic Soup is working for you!
Carey Clark says
THANK YOU! for providing a recipe for this that doesn’t have dry soup mix. How is that even healthy??? This is wonderful. Can’t wait to try it.
Echo says
I hope you like it! It really is a healthy soup and I agree – using real onions flavors it better than the salty soup mix.
Robert says
I have a 1.8 litre (10 cup) warm+cook rice cooker that goes unused for like 350 days of the year. And what to put it to good use.
If I would half the ingredients, would that fit in to my rice cooker?
Also, what cooking time should I substitute for the 2-3 hours cooking time?
Cheers!
Barbara says
ok enough with terrible reviews. I’m pretty sure they do not mean; eat this soup all day, every day and weights falls off. Yes you still need to be conscious of what goes in your mouth, along with drinking plenty of water and exercise. This soup is quite delicious and I can honestly say I have lost 5 lbs in 3 days eating this soup with the assistance of a regular exercise regimen (and I do not mean busting my tail for hours on end in a gym), drinking lots of water and eating breakfast. This soup is to help you lose weight, you still have to do the work, like like any other healthy diet. But for the negative reviewers just be quiet, people want words of encouragement and motivation.
Erica says
You are absolutely right.. you definitely don’t need to eat ONLY this. You still want to eat enough calories to keep you healthy. This is just something to help you feel satisfied thoughout the day without consuming many calories. Thanks so much for your comment! We are thrilled that you lost 5 Lbs. in 3 days! That is awesome!!! Congrats!!!
Charlotte says
I am wanting to calculate the new WW SmartPoints. What is the grams of sugar?
Erica says
We haven’t calculated the grams of sugar. You could probably use a nutrition calculator to find it! Hope this helps!
Friogjune says
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.
VK says
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!
Erica says
Great idea putting it on pasta for the kiddos! Personally, I like it pureed, too 😉 -Erica
AAKMullins says
How many ounces/cups of soup equal “one serving?”
Karen Howard says
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 !
Jamie P says
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
Echo says
Here is the nutritional information per 1 cup of soup:
57 calories
11 carbs
0 fat
3 protein
398 sodium
AAKMullins says
Thank you!
Kathleen says
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.
Kathleen says
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.
Echo says
Thank you for sharing this Kathleen! All the best to you on your journey to getting healthy!
Emma says
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.
Echo says
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!
tammy brown says
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.
Echo says
Thank you for asking! The cans are 14.5 ounces.
Trisha says
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!
Echo says
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!
debi says
hi, this sounds really good but, I aondering could meat be added to the soup.
Echo says
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!
Amanda says
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!
Erica says
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!
Chris says
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?
Echo says
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.
Gayla says
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!
Echo says
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!
Howard Brutschy says
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!
s patterson says
Would this soup work for the 5:2 diet? Thank you
Erica says
Hmmmm. I have no idea what the 5:2 diet is so I don’t know how to best advise you :/