Apr 13, 2006

Found something interesting for ppl like myself....

How can a food be a negative calorie? All food has calories; however, these are foods that take up more caloric energy to digest then the calories that are in them. Your body has to expend energy in order to digest and absorb foods, in fact, 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. So these "negative" calorie foods are foods that take more calories to digest then actual calories in the item of food. Here is a brief list of negative calorie foods...remember though, this is for the raw version of the food, adding butter, etc, to any of these things will eliminate the negative calorie effect.

Negative calorie list for vegetables

Asparagus
beat
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chicory
Chile peppers (hot)
Cress
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
Leek
lettuce
onion
papaya
Peppers
radishes
spinach
Tomato
turnip
zucchini

Negative calorie list for fruits
Apple
Apricot
Blackberry
Cantaloupe
cranberries
grapefruit
Honeydew Melon
lemon
Mandarin
Mango
Melon
orange
Peaches
pineapple
Plums
Raspberries
Rhubarb
strawberries
tangerine
Watermelon


If you want to try foods that will regulate your blood sugar levels as well as up your metabolism you'll still have be aware of the fat and calorie content when adding these fat burning foods to your diet, as well as the quantity you consume.

Super fast fat-burning foods
Apples
Porridge
Oats and oat cakes
Lentils
Pumpernickel bread
Oranges
Wholemeal spaghetti
Skimmed milk
Chick peas
Soya beans
Kidney beans
Cottage cheese
Lean roast chicken
Almonds
Sunflower seeds
Canned tuna
Tofu

To lose weight quickly, never skip a meal. Your first meal after waking starts your metabolism. Your metabolism then speeds up for about eight hours and then starts slowing down until you go to sleep when it goes to low until you wake and eat and start the cycle again. Skip breakfast and your metabolism doesn't get started until lunchtime. You've just missed three or four hours of fat burning time. When you skip meals during the day, your metabolism also slows down. Weight loss through the burning of stored fat is all about eating enough of the right kinds of foods so you stay full and your metabolism stays as high as possible. Remember, if you feel hungry, your metabolism slows down. Stay full with healthy, nonfattening foods and your metabolism will continue to burn your stored fat as fast as your body will allow.


Wao.... I did most of them but y still so fat!?

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