Negative calorie foods
evdenapoli
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I'm curious...do you log zero calorie foods in your diary? Are we supposed to?
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I log everything I eat. EVERYTHING. Even if I taste my MIL soup or something, I log it. Keeps me honest.0
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Do you have to eat back calories lost from negative calorie foods?0
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I log everything I eat. EVERYTHING. Even if I taste my MIL soup or something, I log it. Keeps me honest.
I log everything too... but someone mentioned it wasn't worth to log zero negative...so i'm curious0 -
Do you have to eat back calories lost from negative calorie foods?
Good question. LOL!
Was that a rhetorical question? lol0 -
When you look up your food on MFP, are they showing you negative calories? If so, I'd like a screenshot, please.0
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When you look up your food on MFP, are they showing you negative calories? If so, I'd like a screenshot, please.
No?:huh:0 -
Do you have to eat back calories lost from negative calorie foods?
I want to know this too.0 -
There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. Food has calories, even if they are very few.0
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I have never heard of such foods. What are they? Can they be found on this planet? I will eat them all day long, since all the food I log adds calories to my diary, not subtracts them!0
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There are no negative calorie foods. Food has CALORIES. Log them or don't be surprised when your scale doesn't show any results.0
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Water would be the only zero calorie food I can think of other than diet sodas.0
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I'm curious...do you log zero calorie foods in your diary? Are we supposed to?
This is what we call a myth.
I know what you are talking about, and this theory has been disproven over and over again.
That's like saying ice cold water has negative calories. The water itself has 0 calories, but because it's ice cold, the body expends energy to warm it up to body temperature, thereby burning calories.
It sounds nice in theory, but it's different in practice.0 -
A gallon of water weighs appx 8 pounds. If you drink it all and dont pee you will weigh 8 pounds more.
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I have never heard of such foods. What are they? Can they be found on this planet? I will eat them all day long, since all the food I log adds calories to my diary, not subtracts them!
i've looked into it..read quite a bit about it.
seems to exist 0 -
:I'm curious...do you log zero calorie foods in your diary? Are we supposed to?
This is what we call a myth.
I know what you are talking about, and this theory has been disproven over and over again.
That's like saying ice cold water has negative calories. The water itself has 0 calories, but because it's ice cold, the body expends energy to warm it up to body temperature, thereby burning calories.
It sounds nice in theory, but it's different in practice.
Thanks! I appreciate your input!0 -
Some lettuce would be one ( like a leaf of lettuce) 0
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I have never heard of such foods. What are they? Can they be found on this planet? I will eat them all day long, since all the food I log adds calories to my diary, not subtracts them!
i've looked into it..read quite a bit about it.
seems to exist
People still say that about bigfoot too, even got it's own show...still not buying it.0 -
I log everything, except for black coffee.0
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Everything has calories!!
BUT,
Some foods are so few in calories, it takes more calories (or same amount of calories) to burn and digest the food than there are calories in the food.
Examples...
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip0 -
The part that makes it 'negative calorie' e.g. your body using energy to burn it, is already counted in your TDEE.
If you don't count the calories in the food, you're counting that energy twice.
Say there's 5 cals in a stick of celery. Log it as 5 cals. Your body might use 7 cals to process it, but that's already counted in your daily burn in TDEE. If you don't log the 5cals you're 5 cals off.
Not a huge difference in practical terms, but it's not worthless.0 -
Isn't celery a negative calorie food0
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I log everything, that way I don't have to worry about it. I also like to keep up with my Vitamin intake. For example, I'm not eating enough potassium and realized that's probably why I have been having leg cramps! So it can have it upsides to log everything.0
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I think the point is to realize what, how much, and when you consume things. Then you can work on reproducing those better days, evaluate when you get the hungriest, etc. So, I think it's worth posting up there.
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Why do you people hate science?0
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I have never heard of such foods. What are they? Can they be found on this planet? I will eat them all day long, since all the food I log adds calories to my diary, not subtracts them!
i've looked into it..read quite a bit about it.
seems to exist
People still say that about bigfoot too, even got it's own show...still not buying it.
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Nnno.Everything has calories!!
BUT,
Some foods are so few in calories, it takes more calories (or same amount of calories) to burn and digest the food than there are calories in the food.
Examples...
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
http://caloriecount.about.com/negative-calories-myth-explained-b349703
http://www.acefitness.org/blog/695/do-negative-calorie-foods-really-exist
Here's an excerpt from an actual science-based article which debunks the "negative calorie foods" scam:The thermic effect of food (TEF, also known as specific dynamic action or SDA or Dietary Induced Thermogenesis or DIT) refers to the slight bump in metabolic rate that occurs after eating, due to processing and utilization of the ingested nutrients. For example, protein has to be broken down and processed in the liver which requires energy. As well, the simple act of eating protein stimulates protein synthesis in various tissues (organs, liver, muscle) as well. All of which takes energy. Carbohydrates get broken down to glucose, which goes through the liver, some processing, etc. Fat undergoes the least processing. There are exceptions such as medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) which undergo quite a bit of processing in the liver, causing a slight bump in metabolic rate (via TEF) in the process.
As it turns out, different nutrients have different individual TEF’s. Protein turns out to have the highest, to the tune of 20-30%. Meaning that of the total protein calories you eat, 20-30% is lost in processing. Carbohydrate stored as glycogen requires about 5-6% of the total calories. Carbohydrate converted to fat (which generally doesn’t happen in very significant amounts) uses up ~23% of the total calories as TEF. Most fats have a tiny TEF, maybe 2-3% (because they can be stored as fat in fat cells with minimal processing).
As stated above, the TEF of carbohydrates is approximately 5-6%. A 4-inch stalk of celery contains somewhere around 3 calories. The TEF will total up to 0.18 calories at most, leaving a net intake of 2.82 calories. Negligible, but it's not "negative calories". A large apple contains around 110 calories. The TEF will total up to just under 7 calories (6.6), leaving a net intake of 103.4 calories. Definitely NOT negative calories.0 -
As far as I know, ground unicorn hoof is the only negative calorie food, but it's very hard to come by, very expensive, and very perishable. It goes rancid very quickly. Nevertheless, I always put some in my shakes. Now you know my secret.0
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I gotta get me some of dat dere unicorn hoof, bruh! Think they'll have it on the shelf at GNC next to the raspberry ketones and green coffee bean extract???As far as I know, ground unicorn hoof is the only negative calorie food, but it's very hard to come by, very expensive, and very perishable. It goes rancid very quickly. Nevertheless, I always put some in my shakes. Now you know my secret.0 -
If I only eat negative calorie foods, at what point will I weigh negative pounds???
Damn I'm gonna be sooo skinny!
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The part that makes it 'negative calorie' e.g. your body using energy to burn it, is already counted in your TDEE.
If you don't count the calories in the food, you're counting that energy twice.
Say there's 5 cals in a stick of celery. Log it as 5 cals. Your body might use 7 cals to process it, but that's already counted in your daily burn in TDEE. If you don't log the 5cals you're 5 cals off.
Not a huge difference in practical terms, but it's not worthless.
^ This is the better explanation0
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