Negative Calories, Empty Calories, Fact and Myth...

Um yeah I'm getting tired of people telling me that there is somehow a possibility of a negative calorie rather then a negative calorie balance at the end of the day, and that's why they're losing weight. It is just simply not physiologically possible.

I'm actually taking a break from school, yt, etc for a while and headed into hosp for a bit, but there's a few videos I want to do before I get there, this was one of them.

There's a lot of misinformation out there, and what's unfortunate is that the correct information is often more difficult to find then the false stuff.

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[favea]

awe sis I love your medical advise and input... I mean I kinda knew that before but it's good to get a scientic answer.

500 cals vegatables and 500 cals chocolate... you gain/lose the same amount of weight (depending what else you've eaten that day/made sports), the only difference is what else is in there. the one is healthier for your body as the other. simple calculation there :)

love you hon xoxo

[beautywithin85]

thanks sweets I just got told I was making it all up. ARGH.

Yeah cals are cals we really should stop worrying about them.

[littlemisskeira86]

I never bought into the whole "negative cal" theory.

I always figured that the energy used in digestion was already accounted for in the BMR of a person so it seemed improbable to be able to work out that celery (or other neg cal foods) took x kJ to digest.

Great video!

[beautywithin85]

yep that's the one major problem with it, the other thing is that bulk of celery is not actually digested more kinda passed along the assembly line more like.

xoxoxo

[Evilcyber]

Great video! Yep, a calorie is a calorie.

People go on negative calorie diets, lose weight and think, "heah it's working", where in reality the "negative calorie foods" simply contained a lot less calories than their usual food and still filled them up.

[beautywithin85]

cool =P and yep science makes sense as long as all the steps are there and understandable, otherwise we all get lost and confuzzled!

[LilTeaBag]

ok, thanks a lot! it makes a lot of sense! Peace out ; )

[beautywithin85]

You will however lose vitamins and minerals (some of which need to be replaced on a daily basis), and electrolytes, so this is def a problem.

Basically the only benefit to eating that much celery is that you're right the bulk is extremely good for the large intestine/colon, it cleans it out and keeps it working effectively. People who eat lots of insoluble fibre have a much lower rate of colon cancer.

[beautywithin85]

By the time this happens it's b/c the body is not receiving enough calories.

Secondly, if you refuse to eat any fat at all, the body is capable of "making" glucose into fat via a very complicated process. Your cholesterol levels, and triglyceride levels will go down but you will not physically lose fat from the body until you're not meeting the body's requirements

Sooo as long as you are recieving your 2000 cals a day you won't lose weight or fat.

[beautywithin85]

For sure that such an awsome question!

Short answer is that if you are receiving enough calories in your diet through 2000 cals of celery no you won't lose fat.

Body's primary source of energy is glucose which it gets directly from food, secondary source of energy is glycogen which is glucose converted into another type of molecule stored in the liver for times when glucose is not readily avail. Only when these 2 sources run out does the body begin to take energy from fat stored in cells.