Veggies - Artichokes, Asparagus, Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Endive, Lettuce, Peas, Spinach
Fruit - Apricots, Cantaloupe, figs, grapefruit, Huckleberries, Mangoes, Oranges, Pineapple
Meat - Abalone Clams, Crab, Flounder, Mussels, Shrimp
If anyone is interested in more just let me know... I'll be happy to help....
And even the vegs and fruits?
Creating new math with calories will cause you to undercount and eat more than you should. Mixing activity calories (digestion) with food calories to create negative calorie foods is playing hocus pocus with BMR (which already takes into account the calories it takes to digest the apple). If you really believe it's true, start eating at buffets. Eat your normal balanced meal first, then pile up your plate with those negative calorie mangos, mussels and crab. Go ahead, gorge yourself, and see what happens. [I'll warn you beforehand that I gained a lot of weight eating unlimited mussels and clams].
All that said, the foods on the list are very good ones for a diet in general (I'd question eating a lot of mussels, pineapple and mangos, though). If you count +60 calories for a small apple and +15 calories for an apricot, and +60 calories for 1/2 cup canned pineapple you'll do OK.
Oh sweetie..
Yes, it is technically true that some of these items require more calories to digest than others. There are a few caveats to this, however.
1) Plants are made of cellulose, which tends to be low on calories because of our inability to digest it. This is more true of vegetables than fruits however, because of my next reason
2) Fruits contain fructose, which our body converts to glucose in order to undergo glycolosis, which is how our body produces energy. If the body does not require this energy at the time then the energy is stored as glycogen, which can eventually lead to fat. This conversion from fructose to glucose does not take a lot of energy, which is why things like orange juice contain so many calories while vegetable juice contains fewer; it is the presence of fructose which is increasing the calorific value of a food.
3) Even vegetables contain a lot of calories; it is the process of activating the digestions system that drains energy. It is for this reason that many diets recommend snacking; it keeps the digestion system working constantly and as such is constantly burning calories. So, when a "calorie negative" food is being considered, the test is taking a serving of the food, by itself, and running it through the digestive process. Adding additional food to this process at the same time reduces the calories expended.
Keep these things in mind when considering the "negative calorie" diet.
This IS the real deal!!
Okay,... for all of you naysayers, I know you mean well, but you are WRONG!!! I've been on the negative food diet for a month now. Before that I was on a normal exorcise and 1,200 to 1,500 calorie diet. I was losing on average 2-3 ponds a week, and found it really hard to stick with it because sometimes I would falter.
As I said, I've been doing the negative diet for a month now. I eat what I want every other day (sensibly between 1,500 and 2,500 calories), and then eat nothing but apples, cantaloupe, and strawberries (with light whip-cream and some Spenda) as much as I want (don't overdo the whipping). Those are the only fruits I have tested so far. My time frame is between 12 midnight and 12 midnight the next evening. Yours can be whatever you want as long as it's 24 hour periods. I weigh myself every other day (the day/morning after my fruit diet) when I wake up. I've been losing 1 and a half to 2 pounds every two days for a month!! This thing is for real!! I recommend drinking 1 to 2 (full) cans of V-8 every day (I drink one before bed -- I'm not big on Veggies -- never have been) and take one multivitamin.
Okay, so every second day you eat between 1500 and 2500 calories. Let's say 2000 calories on average. The other day, you eat all the fruit/veg you want. Realistically, fruit/veg is bulky for the calories. You're probably only consuming 800 or so calories on the fruit/veg day. So, between the food day and the fruit/veg day, you're averaging 1400 calories/day. This is how 'diets' like this 'get' you. You do what they say and you'll automatically be on a low cal diet. That's why it's working - not because of the 'negative calories'.
Also, by cutting down on the processed foods in your diet, you'll have reduced your sodium intake and will be flushing out some water weight. Sorry, but fruit does not have negative calories nor do meat or fish. Celery comes close but that's about it.
Hope you didn't pay for that eBook because it's pretty much a scam. Granted, the foods you listed are healthy but nothing really has negative calories because in reality it really doesn't burn THAT MANY calories to digest food but, if believing this makes people feel better, by all means - ignore me! Ha Ha.
The idea that digestion burns calories is part of the reason so many diets recommend eating smaller meals more often. However, even this benefit is pretty small. The calories used for digestion are already a part of your daily 'burn.'
Also, your body doesn't work with this one-to-one ratio. An apple doesn't equal 'x' number of calories to burn. When you eat a meal, your body does all kinds of cool stuff, releases chemicals, hormones, metabolizes stuff, stores stuff, etc. There's thermogenic effects, and calories used. And that whole process might add up to more than 100 calories, but unless all you ate was an apple, you're not negating everything you ate, even if it was all of this list. If you are 2 apples, that doesn't mean it takes 200 calories to burn, it doesn't compute like that. And if you did just eat small amounts of fiber filled food per meal, thats not a magic negative calorie diet, thats just a diet.
Once again you are WRONG!! It isn't because I've changed my diet. I've actually went one day eating, one day not each for a month at a time (there was no sodium/salt in my diet when I didn't each those days), and only lost 0.7 pounds every two days. That is hard (not eating)!! With the fruit (negative diet) I am losing between 1.5 and 2 pounds every two days. The first day, I eat what I want, and the second day I eat all the fruit (apples, cantaloupe, strawberries) I want.
I'm not sure why some want to discredit this idea (when it works for anyone who tries it). Let me ask you this. Why is it that not one on this board has came out and said they tried it and it didn't work. I think this board speaks for itself in that fashion.
"Realistically, fruit/veg is bulky for the calories. You're probably only consuming 800 or so calories on the fruit/veg day. So, between the food day and the fruit/veg day, you're averaging 1400 calories/day. This is how 'diets' like this 'get' you. You do what they say and you'll automatically be on a low cal diet. That's why it's working - not because of the 'negative calories'. "
NOT TRUE!!! I said on the day I eat normal food (whatever I want) I consume anywhere between 1,500 and 2,500 calories. What I did not say is how much calories in fruit I'm averaging. I've done the math now... I'm averaging on the fruit (cause I hate veggies) 2,300 calories. Anyone who has done their research on losing weight knows that 3,500 calories equals a pound. You have to eat under 2,000 to lose any weight. Anything over 2,000 (24 hour period) you gain weight.
So, your math would show me negative -700 calories over a two day period (1,400x2=2,800 calories) (3,500-2,800=700 calories). That's not even a half of a pound. Half of a pound would be -1,750 calories.
So if I'm consuming (an average - cause that's what it's been lately - eating out and all) at least 2,400 on the day I eat out/whatever. Even if I didn't eat anything the next day, that would equal -1,600 (once again not even half a pound).
The only estimate on the internet that I can find on negative calories in an apple is -20. It supposedly takes 120 calories to eat a 100 calorie apple. I'm not so sure that I agree with that math. I'm thinking it's possibly a lot more than that (according the the weight I'm losing). And no, it's not water (the weight I'm losing), it's fat (the mirror doesn't lie)!!
Well if we're going to use math you should know that the body can only metabolize so much fat in a day. This is one of the reasons that max healthy weight loss is only 1% of body weight a week. If you're losing as much as you state you are certainly not adhering to a healthy weight loss plan (see CC rules), and you are not losing fat. You may be losing lean mass due to malnourishment.
Original Post by bojenski:
I'm not sure why some want to discredit this idea (when it works for anyone who tries it). Let me ask you this. Why is it that not one on this board has came out and said they tried it and it didn't work. I think this board speaks for itself in that fashion.
Why discredit this idea? Because we don't particularly want impressionable teenagers trying this and subjecting themselves to malnourishment.
As to the question you shouted, how about 'because nobody else here has been so desperate as to try this 'diet' that defies the laws of physics'.
The main problem with the rest of your math is that you're using the 3500 calories to a pound of fat conversion - which is fine, but I don't believe for a second that it's all fat you're losing and a pound of water weight = 0 calories while a pound of muscle is only 600 calories. So, if you have a deficit of 1200 calories, no, you can't lose two pounds of fat - but you sure as heck can lose two pounds of muscle. And, since you're getting no protein on the fruit/veg days, that's what you're losing.
Either that or the placebo effect strikes again.
yes i have herd of this before too but its a lil hard to strictly eat these foods.
in the book "skinny bitch" it says to start eating fruit for breakfast and wait 30 minutes before eating anything else because it...
1)gives you a chance to digest your food.
2) you are fuller when you eat next.
hope this helps, i do this every morning and its pretty good for me.
The Negative Calorie MYTH Explained was covered in a recent blog post. The myth was created to sell books (i.e. take your $$$$!)
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