How To: Follow the watercress soup diet

Looking to drop a few pounds? There are some out there that swear by the watercress soup diet. Get the information you need on how to follow the watercress soup diet.

You Will Need:
• Watercress soup
• Fruit
• Skim milk
• Fat-free yogurt
• Vegetables
• Chicken
• Fish

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.

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.

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.

Step 4: Eat soup and bananas
Eat unlimited soup, plus five bananas, and drink eight 8-ounce servings of skim milk for day four.

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.

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.

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.

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.