There are foods around that have a negative calorie effect. The dieter when they eat these food products does not include any calories and hence there can be no weight gain by eating these. This is because the calories and energy expanded in chewing, digesting, metabolizing and getting rid of these foods from our systems requires the energy that we gain by eating them. Hence, the ultimate score is negative calories.
For instance, if we were to take the example of celery, cucumbers, water melons which are predominantly made up of water and cellulose. Cellulose is a kind of fiber that our body can’t digest hence it will have to be excreted from our body.
All fibrous vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, apples, blue berries and cranberries all fall under this category.
That is what they mean when they say that you can eat all that you can. When you eat these specific fruits and vegetables you will be able to lose weight due to their negative calorie effect.
A negative calorie diet will allow you to lose almost two pounds per day. This is quite an amount of weight loss and you will need to be under doctor’s supervision. Hence, if you overdo this diet it will not be a healthy alternative. Too much of fibrous fruits and vegetables in your diet will leave you bereft of the other requirements of your body that is proteins and carbohydrates.
American doctors recommend that one must eat five servings of fruits and vegetables for women and nine for men per day. If you were to stick to this then you will automatically lose weight as the fruits and vegetables will fill you up and yet not allow you to put on weight. The water and fiber in them will work well for you. You will have no hunger pangs to fight with and still you will get your daily requirements of fruits and vegetables.
The negative calorie diet is a good diet however if it is taken to the extreme then it has detrimental effects on one’s health as sudden weight loss is not good. Fibrous fruits and vegetables are a must have in our diets but we cannot survive on these only.
Therefore, if you notice all the food that we eat has calories, some of them more and some of them negligible amounts of calories. Calories gained from negative calorie foods take longer time to break down and digest hence resulting in a tremendous benefit of helping us burn the fat from our bodies and still continue eating.
If we were to eat a sandwich which might consist of 500 calories however, to digest it we might expand only 200 calories. Now, the extra calories get stored as fat in our body. Where as a broccoli of 25 calories requires 80 calories to be digested and for our bodies to metabolize it.
There are several of these negative calorie fruits and vegetables for you to choose from.