Negative calorie foods

laurenatholen
laurenatholen Posts: 32
edited October 7 in Health and Weight Loss
So apparently apples and other vegetables and fruits are negative calories. Should I still track them when I eat them? I feel like I should but I just don't even know if the whole negative calorie thing is true

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  • heartshines
    heartshines Posts: 53 Member
    I track everything I eat just to have record. It helps me stay on track.
    If anything I eat burns off calories, then that's an added bonus!

    Keep up the good work!
  • FionaAnne22
    FionaAnne22 Posts: 178 Member
    Yeah I would still put them in, celery is also negative
  • TeresaC79
    TeresaC79 Posts: 316 Member
    i get 80 calories when i eat an apple.....where does it say it is negative calories?
  • TeresaC79
    TeresaC79 Posts: 316 Member
    Found this in a google search:

    http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1896439_1896359_1896346,00.html
  • SavCal71
    SavCal71 Posts: 350 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food.
  • pretty_ribbons
    pretty_ribbons Posts: 154 Member
    These are foods that use more energy to digest that the actual food has, right? i would add it but just dont feel so bad when u have loads, like, 10 apples LOL!
  • Nerdy_Rose
    Nerdy_Rose Posts: 1,277 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food.

    ^ This.
  • CLotfy
    CLotfy Posts: 31
    I know Weight Watchers doesn't normally count most fruits and vegetables towards your daily Points, but I've always logged everything that goes into my mouth.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food.

    ^ This.

    Just to drive the point home...
  • mill1295
    mill1295 Posts: 120 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food. Apples are around 80 cals, more if they're big. Some vegetables have very low calories but even a single calorie is a lot of energy and your body is an efficient machine..
  • debikay55
    debikay55 Posts: 61 Member
    Hello i track every thing :)
  • chicky89
    chicky89 Posts: 260 Member
    If there were negative calorie foods, when you look up the nutrional fact, it would say 0 or -40.

    They are certainily calories that are good for you, and are best if you need to snack on something with very little or no calories left.
  • meg7399
    meg7399 Posts: 672 Member
    this is a LIE! there is no such thing as negative calorie food!!!! such a damn dieting myth that people are dumb enough to keep believing! If its a food it has calories!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • kenyonsmom10
    kenyonsmom10 Posts: 97 Member
    if you eat it, log it. the end.
  • kenyonsmom10
    kenyonsmom10 Posts: 97 Member
    this is a LIE! there is no such thing as negative calorie food!!!! such a damn dieting myth that people are dumb enough to keep believing! If its a food it has calories!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    ^ exactly. if you eat it, you record it.... it was a consumption of food=calories!
  • meg7399
    meg7399 Posts: 672 Member
    in case you don't believe me....here is some trusty internet facts!!
    http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1896439_1896359_1896346,00.html
  • tpenha
    tpenha Posts: 19
    absolutely!!
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Isn't lead paint a negative calorie food?
  • rmpratt1
    rmpratt1 Posts: 2 Member
    As someone else said there is no negative calorie food - it is a food that the process of digestion & eating costs more than eating the food. Which works for small quantities of any food however if you fill your stomach with celery it will not be a negative calorie food.

    The calories you are allocated as your daily resting burn rate effectively take into consideration the energy it takes you to process food.
  • Suziq2you
    Suziq2you Posts: 396 Member
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food.

    ^ This.

    Just to drive the point home...

    And again.
  • Allyson1985
    Allyson1985 Posts: 148
    There is no such thing as a negative calorie food.

    ^ Agreed. Amen.
  • Jo2926
    Jo2926 Posts: 489 Member
    The calories you are allocated as your daily resting burn rate effectively take into consideration the energy it takes you to process food.

    This.
  • Starlage
    Starlage Posts: 1,709 Member
    if you eat it, log it. the end.

    ditto. No such thing- log everything you eat even if it's like 10 calories. It's not a good habit in my opinion to eat something (even something as healthy as celery) and have the mental attitude of "don't need to log that...". Don't you think that could lead to not logging other things? Hell, I put cinnamon powder on my sugar free pudding last night and even logged that (1tsp is like 3 calories, lol)
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