Did you know there are actually foods that use up more energy to digest than the calories they contain? Here are suggestions of food plans to build against the hunger and help you lose the weight.
Avoid Hunger: The roadblock to lose weight.
The best way to fight hunger when trying to lose weight fast is with foods that use up more energy to digest than the calories they contain? These are known as negative calorie foods!
The best solutions is to eat more “negative-calorie” foods help you feel full while increasing weight loss. These foods actually take more energy to digest than the calories (energy) they deliver to your body. Some are nutrient dense, providing all kinds of phytonutrients, yet they are not sources of fat-packing calories. Again, you expend more calories eating them than they deliver to your body.
Because of their lack of calories, these foods can essentially be consumed in virtually unlimited quantities without you gaining weight (body fat). This is because your stomach senses when it is physically full, and it will trigger your brain to stop eating when you can’t handle more food. You know that “I feel stuffed” feeling? That’s your stomach (which has its own complex nervous system, by the way), telling your brain to tell you to stop eating.
Drink Water
This is why the simple act of drinking a glass of water before each meal is a proven weight loss strategy. It fills your belly with water, thereby reducing the amount of space left for other foods. Your stomach gets full more quickly, triggering the “stop eating” signals in your brain.
Eating an apple before each meal also works in much the same way. This is true even though apples are not (quite) a negative-calorie food. But they are rich in water, and water takes up space in your stomach. All negative-calorie foods contain a lot of water locked in a fibrous matrix. Apples are essentially “water fruits,” as are grapes and watermelons (hence the name). Many vegetables are also “water vegetables,” meaning that they’re loaded with water. Celery, for example, is the classic example of a water-rich negative- calorie food.
The more water you consume in your foods, the more quickly you’ll feel full and stop eating. Water, it turns out, is the most effective appetite control substance in the world. So here’s my list of the five best negative-calorie foods that you can enjoy every day as part of a healthy weight loss diet:
1.) Celery
One cup of celery (120g) contains only 19 calories. It takes far more than 19 calories to prepare, eat, digest and eliminate this one cup of celery, and that’s what qualifies it as a negative-calorie food. You can eat as much celery as you want, and you won’t gain body fat. Even though celery contains effectively no contributing calories, it does contain powerful medicine. Celery juice is very anti-inflammatory and one of the active constituents in celery (apigenin) reduces the risk of ovarian cancer, too.
2.) Lettuce (and other leafy Greens)
Lettuce is very high in water. One cup of iceberg, romaine, spinach, arugula and most other leafy greens (cilantro, parsley, cabbage, bokchoy, kale, etc.) contains less than 10 calories, meaning you can munch on this to your heart’s delight and you’ll never gain an ounce of body fat. Dark green leafy vegetables are, calorie for calorie, perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. They are a rich source of minerals (including iron, calcium, potassium, and magnesium) and vitamins, including vitamins K, C, E, and many of the B vitamins.
They also provide a variety of phytonutrients including beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin, which protect our cells from damage and our eyes from age-related problems, among many other effects. Dark green leaves even contain small amounts of Omega-3 fats. Greens have very little carbohydrate in them, but are high in fiber, which make them very slow to digest. That is why, in general, greens have very little impact on blood glucose. Greens are like “freebies” carbwise. When eating your green…. please understand: Slopping on 300 calories worth of fatty salad dressing changes everything!!!
Salad dressing is mostly definitely NOT something that encourages weight loss. In fact, salad dressings are often loaded with cheap soybean oils and even MSG (monosodium glutamate), a chemical taste enhancer linked to neurological damage and obesity. MSG is almost always found in “Ranch” flavor dressings, in particular. )-: Find other ways to eat your green…. steamed, in soups, smoothies or learn to enjoy them plain or with a bit of vinegar.
3.) Onions and Garlic
Onions and garlic contain less than 35 calories per half-cup and yet deliver tons of flavor, plus an amazing assortment of anti-cancer nutrients and immune-boosters.
Watch for our next article to find out the remaining top 4 negative calorie foods.
Dr. Beth Ley Knotts, Ph.D., Nutritonist
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