Negative Calorie Foods

Negative Calorie Foods: Eat As Much As You Want

Negative calorie foods are foods that you can eat without worrying about the consequences on your waistline!

None of us would have a problem eating out if restaurants and cafes served these foods without lashings of mayonnaise, sugar or sauces.

Let’s take a look at these amazing negative calorie foods and find out what they can do for our weight loss.

Can You Live On A Negative Calorie Food Diet?

Negative calorie basically means that you use more calories in eating and digesting the food than it is made up of, bearing in mind that we burn calories all of the time in our day to day lives, even when we are asleep. The term is also used for many very low calorie foods.

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One of the most widely known negative calorie foods is celery. It is very low in calories and takes time and energy to eat, but only if you eat it whole and chew on all of the stringy fibres. If you ate celery like this all day you would not gain any weight, but it would not be good for you. You would not receive the nutritional requirements that you need and you might even starve.

People who suffer with anorexia often will only eat negative calorie foods, which is a clear indication that it is not healthy to eat nothing but these types of foods.

List of Negative Calorie Foods

Negative calorie foods make great snacks. To get the best effect for weight loss, be sure to chew them thoroughly and do not make them into soup or juice. No calorie foods are best eaten raw, when ever possible.

This is easy with fruits like apples, berries, pineapple and grapefruit which are all low calorie, high fibre foods. Do watch out when eating other fruits as they can be more calorie-dense.

Eating vegetables raw is more of a challenge, and not always necessary. However, many foods can be grated or chopped-up into smaller pieces. Take a look at this list of negative calorie vegetables and you will see that most of them could be prepared for raw eating:

• asparagus (break it into bite sized pieces and add to salad)
• beets (grated)
• broccoli (mix them in a food processor with a couple of tomatoes as dressing)
• carrot (grated or whole)
• cauliflower (like broccoli)
• cabbage (used raw in coleslaw, but don’t add any mayonnaise!)
• celery stalks
• celery root (grated)
• cucumber
• lettuce
• red onions (sliced thin)
• spinach
• tomato
• zucchini (grate or use a spiralizer to create long pasta-like strings)

A big salad made from five to seven of these ingredients would give you an excellent low calorie snack that would keep you eating and feeling full for a long time. You might also want to consider doing a raw or negative calorie detox for a few days but do discuss this with your doctor first.

LOSING WEIGHT AND NEGATIVE CALORIE FOODS

You do need to be careful when eating a lot of negative calorie foods.  Many foods contain substances that can be damaging if consumed in excess, such as the acid in pineapples and grapefruits. Other negative calorie foods can cause allergies or diarrhoea if eaten in large quantities.

Take advantage of apps like My Food Diary. This highly-acclaimed food database contains over 100,000 foods to improve your diet and the exercise log can calculate calories burned for over 700 activities to help you achieve your weight loss goal.