This diet really is way off from what I'm normally doing when dieting, I have a question for someone and that is if I just do the soup a day and not do much fruit or milk or the rice, can I still lose? or is the combination here the key factor to this diet? When Im normally doing carbs I have to watch all this veggie intake, so this is alot of carbs for me, but should be less calories , I have no problem doing very strict diets so I guess what I'm asking is if I can do less here on this diet and still accomplish the weight loss.