Negative Calorie Foods....

Audimama1
Audimama1 Posts: 2 Member
edited January 23 in Food and Nutrition
I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here.....

I just read an article about negative calorie foods, meaning that your body burns more calories consuming the food than calories in the food itself.

Does anyone here use this rule of thumb and not count these calories in their Food Diary?

http://gabrielwilson.hubpages.com/hub/Zero-calorie-foods

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  • lawkat
    lawkat Posts: 538 Member
    Just record your calories as you normally would. There is no such thing as negative calories.
  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    The amount of calories we need to eat in a day (e.g. whatever MFP tracks for you) already includes the calories expended from digestion (and living in general), so while the calorie amount is quite small for those foods, they still count.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Negative calorie food is a myth. If I eat 3000 cals of these so-called negative fruits and veggies I will still put on weight.
  • chelseascounter
    chelseascounter Posts: 1,283 Member
    No, I still count celery. 1 stalk is 10 calories I think.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    Just record your calories as you normally would. There is no such thing as negative calories.

    This.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    just no
  • 3laine75
    3laine75 Posts: 3,069 Member
    TDEE includes the calories you burn digesting foods already so...log them!

    e.g. the salad i have regularly contains 57 cals or 117 if i add oil - WW for example, would have me not count them - i've seen me have that salad 3 times in a day :S
  • Audimama1
    Audimama1 Posts: 2 Member
    Wow! Good thing I checked ;)
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