Showing posts with label cabbage soup diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cabbage soup diet. Show all posts

Friday, December 26, 2008

Pineapple Diet | Negative Calorie | Pineapple Detox Diet

The Pineapple Diet: A Negative Calorie Fad Diet

The pineapple diet (also known as the pineapple weight diet, pineapple detox diet, or the pineapple juice diet) is a popular fad diet based on the negative calorie diets that are increasingly popular, just like the pineapple diet, which I just mentioned. Now I'm not a doctor, trainer, or anything, but I've heard a lot of good things about the pineapple diet and since I like pineapple I thought I'd write about the pineapple diet and what other people have to say about whether or not the pineapple diet works or if the pineapple diet actually doesn't work.

The pineapple diet is considered a fad diet, and it is true to some respect. One thing about this type of diet and eating plan that that throws a lot of people off is that there isn't a simple laid out eating plan for the pineapple diet the way there is for say, the cabbage soup diet, which is another diet based off of the idea of negative calories. So one person's version of a pineapple diet will be a lot different than a different person's version of this negative calorie diet. This is often true with fad diets, and the pineapple diet is a fad diet, but one that could work really well for some people.

Some people have referred to the pineapple diet as a three day fad diet, while others have said that they've done a eating plan similar to the cabbage soup diet, only with pineapple, and that it worked well. There is also argument over whether you have to have fresh pineapple or if canned pineapple works, and want the actual eating plans are. So I guess in a way there really isn't one pineapple diet, but actually a lot of pineapple diets, plural.

In the three day version, or at least in one three day version of the pineapple diet, you eat nothing but one entire fresh pineapple the first day (and drink a lot of water), on day two you do the same thing but also eat two cans of tuna for protein, and on day three you do the same as day one: just pineapple and lots of water (ice water is said to be better, I guess.)

In addition to a lot of arguments that detractors of this diet have, they point out that a great supplement like an herbal colon cleanse does the same thing as this diet, but is much safer.

This is a fad version of the Metzger pineapple diet, although when Joann Metzger created the pineapple diet, she also used a lot of tablets that contain a special amount of pineapple, and she claimed to lose over 40 pounds of fat in just 6 weeks and kept it off. I don't know if this is true or made up, but I love pineapple so this is great news if it is true!

Another version of the pineapple diet is a three week version where you eat three small sensible meals a day that are low calorie, low fat, and have pineapple as a side, and you have 2-3 snacks a day of pineapple. Pineapple is a negative calorie food, at least it's one of the fruits listed on the negative calorie diet, so that would make sense that this fruit would make a good diet food.

There are many claims about pineapple and pineapple diets that haven't been figured out yet, and there is a lot of criticism that the pineapple diet has no scientific basis and is just a poorly disguised starvation fad diet that will lose weight, but not necessarily fat, and thus might not be very healthy for you at all. But others say they've lost weight, gone to a healthy eating plan after, and kept it off, so in the end who really knows about the pineapple diet or negative calorie foods in general?

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Negative Calorie Soup | Negative Calorie Foods Diet | Negative Calorie Diet Soup

Negative Calorie Diet Soup

A lot of diets recently have been taking a book from the page of the Negative calorie foods diet. Diets like the Cabbage Soup Diet borrow from the principle of negative calories, and it's the cabbage soup diet in particular that has a lot of people interested in finding a quality negative calorie soup. While it's nearly impossible to make a soup that is completely negative calorie (at least one worth eating) a hearty soup full of negative calorie foods can keep the belly full while burning off nearly all the calories that you eat. It's a great way to lsoe weight while avoiding starving yourself and having to deal with that pesky appetite that will keep cropping up in most low calorie diets.

The way to make a low calorie, or even negative calorie diet soup is simple: make a basic vegetable broth for the soup, no meat, and add in a wide array of negative calorie and low calorie foods. These can be carrots, celery, mushrooms, bell peppers, fresh green beans, tomatoes, beets, cabbage, and other similar foods. Spice it up with a lot of garlic, pepper, and other seasonings (although try to lay off the salts). You can even throw in some cayenne seasoning for a little extra kick. The more different seasonings, flavors, and veggies you have in your negative calorie diet soup, the more likely you are to enjoy it and be able to enjoy the negative calorie diet by extension.

There are several places to find recipes for negative calorie soup. There are books, there's the common negative calorie e-book that is available online, and then there's the cabbage soup diet. The reason you can eat an unlimited amount of the soup in the negative calorie soup diet is that the soup in this diet is a negative calorie soup. Otherwise the cabbage soup diet wouldn't make any sense at all.

There is no single one recipe for negative calorie soup. Basically look at the list of foods that are options, use some common sense, and the rest should be easy.


Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Celery Negative Calorie | Negative Calorie Diet Foods | Best Negative Calorie Foods

Celery Negative Calorie

Celery is one of many foods that is on the "Negative Calorie Foods List," and this vegetable is known for its quality dietary qualities, which made it popular even before the celery negative calorie connection was made. Celery is popular because it's easy to add to soup or salad for a little bit of extra flavor while filling up some of the empty space in your stomach that lettuce and spinach just won't fill.

Celery as a negative calorie food makes sense since this is a vegetable with an extremely high water content and very few calories. Celery alone is virtually impossible to gain weight from, and the sheer amount you would need to eat to even break even on weight is unrealistic for anyone to eat. The one big caveat to watch out for is the addings.

Carrots and celery with ranch dip is a popular snack, but that ranch dip is absolutely loaded with calories and fat and more than cancels out any negative caloric effect you would get from the celery to begin with.

While there are many negative calorie foods that can help supplement a diet, but they have to be implemented the right way. Adding a snack of negative calorie foods after a huge meal of fatty high calorie foods is like ordering a diet coke after eating two supersized value meals at McDonald's: at that point the damage is done and you're not doing well diet wise.

This is why there are many diets designed to use negative calorie foods to your advantage while maintaining a balanced diet. Negative calorie foods such as celery are great, but only if they are utilized properly. To maximize the effect of celery's negative calorie effect, look for more information like designed negative calorie diets and negative calorie cookbooks.