Beat the Bloat and Lose the Festive Flab!

How did it go? Have you managed to swing into 2016 without having overindulged and packed on a few pounds? Or was there simply too much food and drink everywhere you went and it all went a bit pear-shaped?

Don't despair, help is at hand! And yes, you guessed it - soup is involved! But, stick with me here as there are monumentally good reasons why....

Weight gain over the festive season is very often as a result of us retaining water which is why we don't just feel tired and a bit toxic but also why we feel bloated and uncomfortable. In essence, it's all about having had too much of everything over a relatively short space of time and our hard-working livers have struggled just a little to keep up their sterling work!

Many are tempted to detox - and there's no shortage of advice on how to go about this with the internet stuffed full of impossibly-strict diets every January - but I have said it before and I will say it again - it's a rocky (and sometimes dangerous) road and I urge you not to get swept into the crazy detox obsession. The liver is perfectly capable of doing its detoxification job when we give it a helping hand rather than forcing it into overdrive which tends to catapult it into a frenzy and make us feel pretty goddamned awful along the way. And, this is where soup comes in...

The best way to beat the bloat and reverse water retention is to increase our consumption of liquids which is why we need to stay hydrated with regular glasses or small bottles of still, clean water each day but we need nourishment along the way and a good soup is hard to beat on this front. Fluid and nourishment in the one mug or bowl - sorted!

So, here's the plan! I have devised a diet (click here for all the details), based on the principles of my Soup Can Make You Thin diet that you can launch into today and not only tackle any bloating issues that may have occurred over the festive season but also prompt some very satisfying weight loss from day one!

Have a go and let me know how it goes! 

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