In stead of meat, prepare two to four tablespoons of firm tofu, mashed with a fork.

In a small bowl or measuring cup, place about a half cup of water. To this, add a rounded tablespoon of miso paste. With a fork, whip miso until it is fairly well dispersed. Now add two fresh eggs and continue whipping.

When potatoes are tender but not real mushy, add miso and egg mix to pot, and stir in. Turn off heat. Let pot stand a minute or so, then remove from stove. Cooling can be helped with one or two ice cubes stirred in, or 3 to 5 minutes placement in refrigerator.

If miso has not added enough salt for your taste, add a small amount of salt. Personally, I almost never add salt while cooking, as most prepared foods have salt added, such as miso. These quantities were determined by trial and error. Vary to suit your own tastes.

This soup is a meal in itself, or divide and use as a side dish.

Bon appetit!

** Diet with FACTS, not MYTHS. **

Achieving such a balance of energy is a product of complex interactions of hormones with systems in brain that regulates food intake and energy expenditure.

1. The 'anabolic' system is activated during negative energy balance. This system increases food intake and decreases energy expenditure to regain lost energy stores. It is trying to return body to energy-saving mode.

2. The catabolic system is activated during positive energy balance. This system decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure.

So genuine catabolic system is activated only by a positive energy balance, which seriously contradicts Catabolic Diet, leave alone Negative Calorie Diet (tm) theory.

To make things even worse, there are direct experimental facts that during negative energy balance body decreases production of heat, thus decreasing energy expenditure.

Does this mean that Catabolic Diet doesn't work? I'm far from making this conclusion. I am just trying to say that it works differently than is spelled out by its founder and his followers now selling their Negative Calorie Diet (tm)

Next part: "The more you eat more you lose?" can be found at dietandbody.com/negative_calorie_2.html