List of Negative Calorie Foods

Here is a list of negative calorie foods. No that doesn't mean the
foods have negative calories ;) I wish lol. What it means is that
when you eat these foods raw or in some cases slightly cooked with nothing on them
your body burns more calories digesting and processing them than what
is in the actual food itself. For a healthy weight loss and a little
boost add some of these foods to your diet each day. Most are full of
nutrients and won't weigh you down.

Thought this might help some of you :)
Christin

Fruits

apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine

Vegetables

asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip

alright, so if i steam asparagus, not saute or anything, just steam it for as long as I want, it is still having the same effect on my body , righ?

This is worth bumping up...

This is worth bumping up...

Mango is, like, my all-time favorite food.

Awesome.... :-)

Aren't negative calorie foods just a fad?

I used to go by this ploy, and basically went on a clementine and carrot binge.... one of those huge boxes of clementines everyday 2 days, and at least note... AT LEAST... 1 bag of baby carrots/day. I definitely did not lose weight.

I think the whole "negative calorie" food thing just gives you an excuse to binge.

well with all this neg. calorie talk, im wondering what would happen to someone that ate just neg. calorie foods ? How long would they last ? lol.

I agree with Rebecca. Although the foods listed are EXTREMELY healthy and should be eaten as often as possible, moderation still plays a role. No food has a 'negative calorie' effect. But, if you only ate lettuce throughout the day, it'd be hard to eat enough of it to go over your calorie limit!

Many dieters make the very false assumption that after a day of pigging out, they can burn off their extra calories by munching on "negative foods." WRONG. Losing weight is about eating healther, smaller portions, exercising, or a combination. Don't try to mess with the law of nature. If you eat too much, Mother Nature will not zap off the fat. Simple as that. :)

Rebbeccakm, fruit, although negative calorie, still contains high levels of sugar. Thats probably why you didn't lose as much weight.
Although I'm not entirely sure that they work as actually fat burners, more like, alternatives as it were to other vegetables. I think that makes sense? I'm not sure, I was typing as I thought then....

This is a good thread; glad to see broccoli and cauliflower making the list.

There is something funky with the math, however.  If the principle is true that if I eat an apple, my body burns more calories than the apple contains to digest the apple, you'd think you'd get thinner (probably very slowly if you ate only apples).  You eat an apple, your body burns it up and a little more from somewhere to digest it.

But, tracy says that the sugar in the apple plays a role.  What, your body takes it and turns it into fat?  But, if your body is burning up all those calories digesting the apple, where is that energy coming from?

It also seems weird that if these "negative calorie" foods actually do operate the way it's suggested that it would be possible to just eat them and expect weight loss.

The notion doesn't make total sense to me; there must be missing factors here in terms of the energy equation.

Why blueberries are not in the list? Just wondering? I see all the berries family except the blue ones:)

I don't want to be a bearer of bad news, but there is really no such a thing as a negative calorie food, since digesting the food does NOT actually use up calories (from a medical/physiology point of view).  I took a nutrition class back when I was in medical school, and they (MDs and nutritionists) put a very very strong emphasis on that.

I read in Glamour that there's no such thing as a negative calorie food since you can't actually burn more calories than you took in--or something like that. But I doubt you'd gain if you added these to your diet--unless you can ingest 3500 calories of spinach!

I am not so sure that these bloggers have been trying this diet correctly. The diet is not ' eat these two foods and only these two foods until your a stick!'. My approach to this diet was a large portion of negative calorie foods, and smaller portions of lean protien. I also cut out sugar, ( and i don't mean natural sugar like fruit, but things like sodas and candy) and started to drink lots of teas and water. I haven't completely cut out carbs either. Though i have found healthier versions of things like chips, ( baked eggplant or raddish thinly sliced with salt and pepper to taste). I think the whole idea is to just switch out about a third of your normal diet with these foods, excercise, ( i know it sucks) and drink lots of water and unsweetned teas ( that does not mean flavorless. I also sometimes put rasberry or lemon extract into my water or tea). Just use your imagination, you can come up with good recipes, and they don't have to be restricted to only negative calorie foods. You're gonna need protien anywho. I also suggest visting a few more calorie counting sites not just the negative. You can find some really useful info.

P.s. I started my version of this diet and lost some 40- something pounds in about two and a half months! So yes it does work, at least for me!               &nb sp;          Good Luck All!!!!!!!

Their are some negative calorie foods but their strictly restricted to raw greens, anything else and your going to be taking in calories just like anything else. Especially fruit, NO fruit is not negative calorie in fact fruit has quite a bit of calories..not necessarily bad ones but do to the sugar content you should probably try and only eat fruit once a day or once every other day, anymore and the simple sugars are going to spike your insulin lvls which makes you get cravings and in turn will activate your fat storing cells. This is the effect of all sugars, in large amounts and the sugar you get from fruit is no different.

Thanks!

okay in any activity you do whether its sleeping, walking, breathing or eating, your body has to have energy to do that specific task. so when you sleep you burn calories because your body has to keep you breathing, your heart beating and so on. So just think for a minute... when you chew food your using muscles, muscle need energy to contract right? okay so where do you think that energy is coming from..... the fat your body has stored ( i guess that the missing part you didn't factor in). So for anybody to say it makes no sense for certain foods to be negative in calories because the math is wrong , i will ask you this... how are you able to get up in the morning and do anything? it takes energy to do that if i'm not mistaken.

chur 3 years later

Original Post by laur3nmae:

chur 3 years later

this isn't the first one. Someone just posted on a three year old thread about a girl who couldn't poop.  I hope she had gone by now LOL

Original Post by christins73:

Here is a list of negative calorie foods. No that doesn't mean the
foods have negative calories ;) I wish lol. What it means is that
when you eat these foods raw or in some cases slightly cooked with nothing on them
your body burns more calories digesting and processing them than what
is in the actual food itself. For a healthy weight loss and a little
boost add some of these foods to your diet each day. Most are full of
nutrients and won't weigh you down.

Thought this might help some of you :)
Christin

Fruits

apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine

Vegetables

asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip

 

 

These foods actually have negative calories in them and being a wrestler in high school we have to cut weight constantly and diet. These are the foods we eat along with a very few select meats with proper exercise and dieting you will lols weight I went from 180 to 160