Burn More Calories with Negative Calorie Foods

or the Negative Foods Diet ? I recently ran across an article detailing these diets and how negative calorie foods can help in weight loss. I don't recommend eating these foods alone, however, but making these foods a significant part of your diet can help to reduce calorie intake and boost your metabolism.

Negative calorie foods are fresh fruits and vegetables that, when eaten, takes more energy to digest. For instance, celery is a negative calorie food. If you eat a few stalks of celery, the energy used to chew it is more than the calories it contains. It then has to go through the process of digestion, which takes even more energy. Thus, more calories are burned by eating celery than if you haven't eaten celery at all.

Apples

Asparagus

Beets

Blueberries

Broccoli

Cantaloupe

Carrots

Celery

Chili Peppers

Cranberries

Cauliflower

Cucumber

Endive

Garlic

Garden Cress

Grape Fruit

• Before each meal, eat a salad or your choice of the foods listed above. Eat enough that you can still have a small amount of dinner and a glass of water and be satisfied, not stuffed.

• If you're hungry shortly after dinner, eat a -calorie fruit.

• Have them for snacks

• Eat them before going to bed if you're a late night muncher.

• If you're a busy person, like myself, prepare and place them in sandwich bags for a quick grab on the go.

• Cut them up and place in food storage containers for easy access during the day.

These foods are a major part of my diet. I didn't realize that I was helping my body burn calories just by eating them. It's helpful and encouraging when you find out tidbits of information such as this.

You still need to include some fat, protein, and carbohydrates in your diet. It is not healthy to lose more than 2-3 pounds of body weight per week. In fact, you could be doing more harm than good.

You want to lose fat, not weight, exactly. Rapid fat loss is usually mostly water weight and muscle. Muscle burns fat, so you want to build lean muscle, and keep it. It also weighs more than fat, which is why the aim is not to lose body weight, but inches.

I devised my way of eating by combining several different methods. Being attuned to my body, I adjust according to my needs. The best lesson I've learned is that strict diets don't work. You can follow my links below for more information.

While I don't recommend using these diets solely, there is a wealth of helpful information contained in the books.