Showing posts with label 0 calorie foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 0 calorie foods. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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

The Famous Cabbage Soup Diet Thrives on Negative Calorie Foods

The negative calorie foods diet has gotten a lot of flak, as has the concept of negative calorie foods. Bash the marketing all you want, but the end all be all questions should be whether or not this diet causes you to lose weight. And the answer with this diet is a resounding yes. Even better, the ability to eat however much you want, as long as it's from a certain group of foods, which helps for those of us who have big appetites, and whose bodies throw absolute fits at 1,400 calories.

What is amazing to me, is that many will bash negative calorie foods, but then they admit that diets like the famous cabbage soup diet thrive on negative calorie foods. Now with that being said, the cabbage soup diet is not based solely and completely on negative calorie foods, but a huge amount of the weight loss from this diet does come from negative calorie foods.

The cabbage soup diet is a seven day diet that is repeated as often as needed until you lose all the weight you need. The use of negative calorie foods throughout this diet is huge.

Cabbage Soup Diet Soup Recipe Ingredients:

  • 6 large green onions
  • 2 green peppers
  • 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes
  • 3 carrots
  • 1 container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms
  • 1 bunch celery
  • 1/2 head cabbage
  • 1 package Lipton soup mix
  • 1 or 2 cubes bouillon (optional)
  • 1 48oz can V8 juice (optional)
    Season to taste with as much salt, pepper, parsley, garlic powder, cayenne pepper as you want

Green onions, garlic, green pepper, tomatoes, carrotts, celery, and cabbage are all negative calorie foods. Mushrooms are known for having very few calories, and veggie juice is never going to add the pounds. This is the reason you can always eat as much of the soup as you want: because most of the food in it will require you to burn more calories than you take in.

Day 1 of the cabbage soup diet allows you to eat as much fruit (minus bananas) as you want and as much soup as you want. Many fruits are negative calorie foods, so people who love oranges, strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, or kiwi are going to keep eating negative calorie foods.

Day 2 allows for as much cabbage soup as you want with any veggies, minus potatoes. This also means a good portion of food choices will be negative calorie foods.

This means at this point there are two days full of negative calorie foods, and the soup that you can eat an unlimited amount of every single day also are negative calorie foods. While the cabbage soup diet does work off higher metabolisms, and caloric cycling, without the negative calorie foods, this doesn't work.

For the cabbage soup diet to work, they must have negative calorie foods as a crux, which is all the more proof that a negative calorie foods diet can work.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Negative Calorie Food | Negative Calorie Foods Diet | Success with Negative Calorie Foods

When looking at the negative calorie foods diet, it's important to note the individual negative calorie food on there, and the effects that will have in your diet. Many people have had success with negative calorie foods, but they also understood the right way to add these nearly perfect diet foods to their normal eating habits. This diet is a supplemental diet, meaning that it shouldn't be done on its own, but should be added to normal eating habits. Negative calorie foods can jump start a diet, but if you ate nothing but foods off of the negative calorie foods list, you would eventually starve to death, so this must be supplemental.

There's only one major negative calorie foods ebook out there, but it provides a ton of information, including how to implement a negative calorie foods diet, a complete list of negative calories foods, and many recipes using negative calorie foods. This is very helpful, because negative calorie foods like pineapple, kiwi, green bell peppers, strawberries, cabbage, lettuce, blueberries, and the such may sound like good snacks, but making entire negative calorie food entrees can be much more difficult.

When you're looking for foods with no calories or 0 calorie foods, this is the list that can help out the most. Having a diet that is heavy in negative calorie food will help anyone to lose weight. The negative calorie diet is not a completely new idea, in fact it has been around in many other forms before, and there are diets that are even more extreme than this one - and far less healthy. Take a look at the cabbage soup diet or grapefruit diet as two examples of this.

Foods that cause you to lose weight the negative calorie such as green bell pepper negative calorie food or pineapple negative calorie are excellent adds to any diet, and absolutely essential for a negative calorie foods diet. This specific route to weight loss is becoming more popular, and while there are a lot of misconceptions about the negative calorie effect, and the metabolic negative caloric effect from the negative calorie foods diet, but in the end the question around a diet of zero calorie foods is whether or not it works, and the negative calorie foods diet does.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Negative Calorie Foods Diet

There has been a lot of back and forth on whether negative calorie foods exist, or whether it's all snake oil and wives' tales. One thing I've noticed while doing extensive research is that often times the people who are most adamant that "negative calorie foods" is a stupid concept seem to miss what the actual negative foods concept is about.

Negative calories foods are not foods that don't have calorie. All food has calories of some kind unless it's water. Negative calorie foods are foods belonging to a diet that empahsizes foods that are low in calories, but which the body takes more energy to burn than it receives. The theory is that the normal calorie burn from digesting the food and living a normal life will wipe out the calories eaten from these foods.

For example, if a slice of carrot had 10 calories, but took 12 to burn, that food would have -2 calorie effect on your body. That doesn't mean the carrots are -2 calories, but that the end result of this process is to lose weight. The idea with negative calorie foods, which are always certain types of fruits and veggies and are usually very high in fiber, and have a low number of calories to begin with.

These foods are excellent choices for a diet, since they keep you full, but don't add any calories whatsoever.

I repeat this because it's important: no foods have negative calories. The lowest you can possibly get is zero, which is water. But ice water requires the body to work to warm it up for use, meaning that although the calorie amounts burned are paltry (an estimated 50 calories for the recommended 8 glasses of ice water a day), that still creates a negative calorie effect since your body burned 50 calories to process ice water, which gave back 0 calories.

This is what is meant by "negative calorie foods." A more accurate description might be "Foods low in calories that produce a negative calorie effect because of how much energy it takes to burn them," but that doesn't sound very catchy. Meanwhile the term "negative calorie foods" gets the same idea across.

So as for the argument over whether these technically exist or not, negative calorie foods do what they are supposed to for a negative calorie foods diet: they make you lose weight. That's the entire point, isn't it?

The idea of negative calorie foods works for several reasons, and most of these foods have a few things in common that make this possible:

1) All of these foods are extremely high in fiber. This makes it much easier for your body to digest quickly, and use every nutrient while passing the rest straight on through quickly enough that it can't stick around to become fat.

2) All of these foods are either fruits or veggies. There is no other type of food on this list that falls into another food group. These food groups are commonly the healthiest types of food for you anyway, and almost never have any fat, though there are exceptions (like coconuts, which definitely do NOT make the negative foods list).

3) Most all of these foods will have a high water content. This makes sense since no matter how strong a metabolic effect a food has, the higher in calories it is the harder it will be to burn all of them off. Water has no calories, so fruits and veggies that are particularly high in water will have less calories and thus there is less to burn off while digesting.

This is just the beginning of many posts giving more details on the negative calorie foods diet, so keep tuned in for more updates.