Over the past 12 weeks, RayZha and I embarked on a diet challenge to see how much weight I could lose and how much weight he could gain. Given my unbelievably bad will power and love for all things containing at least 50% saturated fats, this was possibly one of two of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do (the other was watching Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift). 

I am also cheap and I like quantity. Those frozen weight watcher meals from the supermarket are rip offs and nothing even comes out when bulimics try barfing it back up.

Enter Campbell’s Country Ladle canned soups.

Not only were they cheap at less than $2 for a 300g can (and even on sale many times during my 12 weeks), but I found their 300g can to be a great size for lunch. Here’s what my lunch generally consisted of on most days.

12.30pm lunch time @ work:

• 300g can of soup (my favourite was the Creamy Chicken. The Chicken & Sweet Corn and Minestrone are probably better for weight loss though)
• 2 slices of toast with ‘healthy’ butter (Flora Pro Activ Light) and Vegemite
• Orange

Pretty healthy right? Damn straight. Which is why I allowed myself to have 1 off day per week. 1 off day = 3 off meals. These were the days when I could make use of the McDonald’s coupons on the back of the shopping dockets to get 2 cheeseburgers and large fries for only $4.95. Brilliant! 

Sticking to this diet and 12 weeks later………..

The outcome: -4 kilos. Booyah baby! Now I can go back to eating crap and gaining it back on.

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Author’s Notes

I’d be lying if I said I lost all that weight on soup alone. Here were some other things that were quite essential to my weight loss:

• Support crew: these are the people that you end up hating because they make your life miserable by only giving you half an m&m when you have a chocolate craving. WiFi you bastard.
• Exercise: watching anime ensured I was on the treadmill for at least 20 mins so that I could finish the episode. 
• Dehydration: a great way to make you feel better when you’re weighing yourself. 
• Shaving and getting a hair cut: I must be a hairy mofo because after shaving, I swear the scales said I was 200g lighter…at least people have now stopped posting my photos here.