How to Follow the Watercress Soup Diet
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You Will Need
- Watercress soup
- Fruit
- Skim milk
- Fat-free yogurt
- Vegetables
- Chicken
- Fish
Steps
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Never change your diet without first consulting your physician.
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Step 1
Eat soup and fruit
Eat as much watercress soup as you want, as well as fruits with high-water content such as apples, grapefruit, kiwi, melon, peaches, pineapple, and oranges, and drink 8 ounces of skim milk or fat-free yogurt during the first day.
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Step 2
Eat more soup and vegetables
Eat an unlimited amount of soup, along with vegetables including asparagus, beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, cucumber, lettuce, as well as one baked potato and 8 ounces of skim milk or fat-free yogurt on the second day.
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Eat no more than 1,500 calories a day during the diet.
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Step 3
Continue eating soup, fruit and vegetables
Continue eating unlimited amounts of soup, as well as fruit and vegetables and skim milk or yogurt, but no potato on the third day.
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Step 4
Eat soup and bananas
Eat unlimited soup, plus five bananas, and drink eight 8-ounce servings of skim milk for day four.
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You can substitute yogurt for one milk serving on day four, but only one.
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Step 5
Add chicken and fish
Eat as much white fish or skinless chicken as you want in addition to the soup, plus six tomatoes, and drink 8 ounces of skim milk on the fifth day.
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Step 6
Soup and chicken
Eat as much fish and chicken as you need, along with vegetables including tomatoes, and drink 8 ounces of skim milk or yogurt in addition to eating watercress soup for day six.
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Step 7
Eat soup, fruit, and vegetables
Eat unlimited soup, as well as fruit and vegetables and your 8-ounce glass of skim milk or yogurt to finish your first week.
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Step 8
Increase calories
Continue eating soup, fruit, vegetables, chicken and fish, and drinking skim milk, but gradually reintroduce other a variety of foods, slowly moving toward a diet you can maintain over the long term.
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Watercress may act as an antibiotic.
