Negative calories?!
Negative calories?
i heard that certain fruits and veggies are "negative calories"...
last week i started being vegan so basically my main foods are fruits and veggies, also soy, whole grains, some nuts, and oats and i never have junk food. so why am i not loosing weight or atleast toning if im eating alot of negative calories and healtly foodS and i excersise a little??????
Answers:
There is no such thing as "negative calories". It takes more energy to digest celery than the energy you can get from it under normal conditions. What this means is that if you eat nothing but celery your body will start using the protiens in it for energy instead of glucose or other carbs. This will increase the amount of Urea your body produces by a drastic amount and can make you sick.
If it is only a week i would stick with it. Sometimes it can take a while for results to show up. Increase the amount of water you are drinking, get extra potassium, and go on a bike or other aerobic activity at least once a day.
try celery the strands that you chew actually burn calories
Soy is bad for you. Celery requires more energy to digest than its yield. How bout I rephrase this. If you walk up to a well nourished Soy Plant you grew yourself , take a handful of Soybeans and then eat those...that is good for you. If you get Soy products you find in most stores they are bad. Why you ask? Over processing breaks down the "high Protein" of the Soy bean.. There are plenty of websites that will back up this claim with plenty of Research.
Soy is fine for you it's been around in cultures thousands of years..that's all I'm going to say, if you want to look up my past questions you can find my rants on soy I'm sure.
Toning comes from excersize only and takes months of dedication. Don't focus on weight..at all, ever. You may even have an epiphany when you realize you are who you are and you can't use weight loss as a scaleable judgement on how well you're doing. Focus on how you look and feel and your perfect weight will come naturally. Also focus on successfully making goals of completing excersizes..this is more important then the immediate results of body weight.
Just don't weigh yourself. It's only a number and you know what you'd be happy with looking like..so be dedicated, strong and stick to different routines till you wake up one day and see yourself how you want to be..don't let anything else effect you.
make sure you are balancing it all out with water and exercise
Hopefully, you haven't become a vegan to lose weight.
Everything that you eat HAS calories in it! No matter if it's a steak, or a bowl of peas. EVERY thing has calories. I don't know where you heard it, but do not trust that source again.
Maybe you're exercising too little? If you're eating healthy, than you have no reason to not drop weight, as long as you're exercising. If you just dropped meat and dairy all together, than you should have lost something, but the first week may not show anything. Maybe your problem is that you're not consuming any fats?! Your body REQUIRES some fats, and now that you're no longer eatng dairy or meat, you will rarely find your fats unless you attempt it. I'm not telling you to eat a bag of chips, but make sure you use some healthy oils!
Good luck! You should be fine.
it takes awhile to kick in
you need to eat more not less, you can eat all you want and still lose weight.