Negative Calories

fierce_winds
fierce_winds Posts: 4
in Health and Weight Loss
OK so we all have probably seen the list of negative calorie foods. My question though is how much of the food would be negative because watermelon may be negative calories but if you eat a whole thing you best believe those calories are ON YOU.! so can someone please tell me? is it talking about a cup? half a cup? and for apples would it be small medium or large or ALL the above?? thanks
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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    No
  • leahraskie
    leahraskie Posts: 260 Member
    Watermelon actually has a lot of calories...

    Don't count things as negative calories because they really aren't, just track all your calories and even if you go over with fruit it's not a huge deal.
  • ThickMcRunFast
    ThickMcRunFast Posts: 22,511 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. The calories burned digesting is all part of your TDEE.
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    No
    ^
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Wtf is a negative calorie food? Watermelon has cals.
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  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    Negative calorie food? How? What? Huh?
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Eat watermelon. It's delicious and nutritious.

    (and yes, it has calories, don't over complicate things, just create a reasonable calorie deficit)
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    There's no such thing as negative calorie foods in any amount. The amount of energy it takes to digest the food is factored into the equation when determining how many calories something has.
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  • solskinnzombie
    solskinnzombie Posts: 122 Member
    negative calorie foods do not exist. your body will burn some of the calories chewing things like celery and the digestive fibers in apples will burn calories as well. But negative calories is a myth, one i wish were true haha, but it is false. Just make healthy choices and know that your body will thank you for it.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    No food has negative calories.

    I may not record every strawberry I pop, but I know it has a few calories. :)
  • 115s
    115s Posts: 344 Member
    LOL I remember when I saw that watermelon helps boost the metabolism and whatnot... Hahahaha... I gained like 10lbs in a week. No.
  • lynn1982
    lynn1982 Posts: 1,439 Member
    Why on earth would you think watermelon has "negative" calories?? WTF.
  • dedflwrs
    dedflwrs Posts: 251 Member
    After reading several posts today about negative calories, raw foods, magic calorie numbers, etc I have reached a conclusion: I will begin a roasted unicorn and raw ambrosia diet. I believe if I just eat these two items, making sure I keep them to just 1200 calories all together, don't eat them after 5:37 PM and maybe fast on full moon days I will surely lose my entire body weight and just be a being of light which is what I long to become.
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    Ok, reading your post you seem to know that the foods have calories.

    If they truly were negative calories, then the more you ate, the more you would starve. Obviously that's not true.

    Try and find the legitimate calories for these foods and log them. Or eat so little of them it doesn't really matter, depending on your diet approach.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,268 Member
    6,000,000 Americans believe the government are actually alien insects, so yes you'll probably find people that believe foods with calories miraculously change state and become negative calories.
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  • briannewiseman
    briannewiseman Posts: 9 Member
    After reading several posts today about negative calories, raw foods, magic calorie numbers, etc I have reached a conclusion: I will begin a roasted unicorn and raw ambrosia diet. I believe if I just eat these two items, making sure I keep them to just 1200 calories all together, don't eat them after 5:37 PM and maybe fast on full moon days I will surely lose my entire body weight and just be a being of light which is what I long to become.

    Love it!
  • mzbek24
    mzbek24 Posts: 436 Member
    Yes, you're right, they do count. Apples definitely have calories too, and not exactly low. If you went to log any of those, you'd find out pretty quickly they have calories, and those calories count towards your daily goal. I suggest you weigh and log all of your food, fruit & veg too. The only thing with negative calories is water or Green tea etc.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    6,000,000 Americans believe the government are actually alien insects, so yes you'll probably find people that believe foods with calories miraculously change state and become negative calories.

    Now you are just joking - how can 6 million rational thinking people be wrong?

    Of course they are alien insects! Here to harvest our magical watermelon!
  • ElkeKNJ
    ElkeKNJ Posts: 207 Member
    ok, as the US virtually rules the world, and you are governed by very smart alien insects, could you please ask them, or Lay's, to make a negative-calorie version of chips? Preferably paprika flavour.
    The rest of the world will thank you.
  • tbrain1989
    tbrain1989 Posts: 280 Member
    just going to draw a line in the sand here.

    ive heard it all now.. it all.

    calories is a calculation of how much 1 gram of food (when burnt) changes the temperature of 1 gram of water.

    the calories we measure are actually Kcal so 1000's

    there is a chain of thought that states that chewing and or digesiton of certain foods actually expend more energy then the foods themselves provide.

    that is only an equivalence though, its not like for like. therefore there are no negative calories.

    if you ate 8000 calories of celery, you would gain weight.
  • lillyrose2020
    lillyrose2020 Posts: 178 Member
    I had a delicous bowl of air for breakfast, even that didn't have negative calories, it just had 0.
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    Nop, never seen the list of negative calories and as someone righteously mentioned before me:
    WTF is negative calories?
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Free samples don't have calories, right? Right? RIGHT?!!!!


    Seriously though, what you're looking for does not exist.
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    Free samples don't have calories, right? Right? RIGHT?!!!!


    Seriously though, what you're looking for does not exist.

    what you mean free samples don't have calories???
    All the free samples of protein shakes i had have no calories?!?!? You mean I actually lost gains after a work out??
    That's it - my bodybuilder career has just been flushed down the toilet along with all the calories and gains :sad:
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Free samples don't have calories, right? Right? RIGHT?!!!!


    Seriously though, what you're looking for does not exist.

    what you mean free samples don't have calories???
    All the free samples of protein shakes i had have no calories?!?!? You mean I actually lost gains after a work out??
    That's it - my bodybuilder career has just been flushed down the toilet along with all the calories and gains :sad:

    Yup. You're just gonna have to suck it up and BUY your protein shakes. Otherwise, it doesn't count.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Seriously?
  • Allterrain_Lady
    Allterrain_Lady Posts: 421 Member
    After reading several posts today about negative calories, raw foods, magic calorie numbers, etc I have reached a conclusion: I will begin a roasted unicorn and raw ambrosia diet. I believe if I just eat these two items, making sure I keep them to just 1200 calories all together, don't eat them after 5:37 PM and maybe fast on full moon days I will surely lose my entire body weight and just be a being of light which is what I long to become.

    This made my day!

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