Instant Pot Weight Loss Soup (2024)

March 12, 2024March 23, 2023 by Erin

This Weight Loss Cabbage Soup recipe is loaded with fresh vegetables. It’s high in flavor, yet naturally low in fat and calories! Make this nutritional soup easily in your instant pot, slow cooker, or on the stove.

This soup is also called wonder soup, weight loss soup, miracle soup, and weight watcher soup. There are so many names for this soup!

Each cuphas only 71 calories (see nutritional info below). It’s a great way to get your vegetables in for the day and is very satisfying. After about a week of this eating plan, you should definitely see some pounds drop off the scale.

Basically, this soup is just veggies and some of my homemade “better than botox” bone broth (which you can make in the slow cooker or in the instant pot). You can also use store-bought vegetable, beef or chicken stock, just be sure that it’s low-sodium.

As for veggies, I kind of just threw in all of my favorites. Zucchini, carrots, celery, onions, tomatoes and some green pepper (red pepper also works). To add a bit more substance to the soup, a good amount of cabbage is added in as well.

Why cabbage?

The cabbage helps to keep you full and has detoxing properties to it.However, if you’re not a fan of cabbage, you could always swap in some baby spinach or kale instead.

I was sure to give my Weight Loss Cabbage Soup a good amount of seasoning with oregano, basil and red pepper flakes. I like my soup spicy, and reports show that spicy food can aid in weight loss, but if you’re sensitive to heat, feel free to leave the red pepper flakes out.

How much weight can you lose on the cabbage soup diet?

Most people lose between 5-10 pounds during the 7-day cabbage soup diet. However, everyone is different.

How do you do the 7-day cabbage soup diet plan?

The original cabbage soup diet allows you to eat all of the cabbage soup you like in addition to adding certain foods on specific days throughout the week (see below). Whats not allowed? Bread, alcohol and carbonated beverages, including diet sodas.

Be sure to drink lots of water while doing this plan, 8-10 glasses is recommended.

• Day 1:Any fruit (except bananas).
• Day 2:Any and all vegetables, baked potato with butter for dinner.
• Day 3:Combine Days 1 and 2 without potato.
• Day 4:Up to 6 bananas, skim milk.
• Day 5:10 to 20 ounces of beef or skinless chicken, can of tomatoes.
• Day 6:All the beef or chicken and vegetables you want.
• Day 7:Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices, and vegetables.

How I use cabbage soup for weight loss

I like to enjoy a cup of this Weight Loss Soup for lunch, again for an afternoon snack, and again for dinner with a bit of lean protein on the side.See below for my favorite suggestions.

My preferred lean protein sources

• Air Fryer Chicken Breasts
• Baked Salmon
• Sous Vide Salmon
• Air Fryer Shrimp
• Sous Vide Filet Mignon

Ingredients needed

• Cabbage
• Onions
• Carrots
• Celery
• Garlic
• Bell Pepper – You can use red, green or yellow bell pepper.
• Zucchini
• Canned Tomatoes
• Bone broth(or low-sodium vegetable broth)
• Olive Oil
• Spices – bay leaf, oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper

How to make it

Stovetop directions

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan set over medium heat.
• Add onion, carrots and celery and cook, until softened, 5 -7 minutes.
• Stir in garlic and cook for 1 minute longer.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Instant pot directions

• Heat Instant Pot to SAUTE and heat olive oil.
• Add onion, carrots and celery and cook, until softened, 5 -7 minutes.
• Stir in garlic and cook for 1 minute longer.
• Add remaining vegetables, broth, bay leaf, spices and salt and pepper.
• Cook on HIGH pressure for 4 minutes.

Note: This soup cooks in just 4-minutes in the Instant Pot. However, for timing purposes, you do need to take into consideration the amount of time it takes for the pressure to build, about 15 minutes.

Slow cooker directions

• Add all ingredients to a slow cooker.
• Cook on LOW for 8 hours or HIGH for 5 hours.

Recipe tips

There’s quite a bit of chopping involved, so prep time is a bit time intense. If you’re short on time, you can use pre-chopped bagged veggies, frozen veggies, or, if your store has a salad bar, you can grab a combination of veggies from there too.

If you’re not looking for the weight loss properties of this soup, but still want to enjoy this amazing vegetable soup, you could bulk it up with a can of kidney beans or some ditalini pasta. If you’re using pasta, just add a cup of it to the instant pot before you seal it and cook it for 5 minutes instead of 4 minutes. Or, simmer it on the stove in your soup for about 10 minutes.

How to make ahead & store

This Instant Pot Weight Loss Soup recipe makes about 14 cups of soup. Store the leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one week. Or, freeze for up to three months.

Weight Watchers points

• If you follow Weight Watchers, this soup has 0 points.

Recipe variations

Want to switch this Instant Pot Weight Loss Soup recipe up a bit? Try adding in some of these:

• Broccoli
• Green Beans
• Fire-Roasted Tomatoes
• Chickpeas (will add calories)
• 1 or 2 Chipotle Peppers
• Shredded chicken or browned ground turkey (will add calories, but also protein)
• Roasted Red Peppers

More healthy recipes

• Juice Cleanse Recipes
• Farro Salad with Basil Lemon Tahini Dressing
• Zucchini Pizza Boats
• Chicken Gyro Bowls with Quinoa
• Instant Pot Dal with Split Peas

More soup recipes

• Curried Butternut Squash Soup
• Red Cabbage Soup
• Hungarian Mushroom Soup with Fresh Dill
• Instant Pot Broccoli Cheddar Soup
• Tomato Bisque Soup

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This recipe was originally published in 2018. It was updated in 2019 to add a video, and again in 2023 to add new photos. The original recipe remains the same. Enjoy!