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Diets [Disordered]

A diet is only as worthy as you make it. Effort counts here! I encourage making up your own "diet." Set guidelines for yourself. Experiment. Here are some of the guidelines I set for myself:

minimum kcal intake: 140
maximum kcal intake: 700 (lowered to 500 after a few months and now I'm just working under 1,000 until I can stabilize my new eating style. I'm a vegan now. =) )

Negative Calories

The most effective diet in my opinion is the Negative Calorie Diet. It consists of eating negative calorie foods. Well what the hell is a "negative calorie food"??? The beauty of the thing is that these foods use more calories to digest these foods than what the food actually contains. Thus, you can burn calories simply by digesting this type of food.

Note: Calories are burned constantly.Never think that not exercising means that you are not burning calories. Energy expenditure increases the burn of calories.

Some negative calorie foods are:

broccoli
lettuce
lemon
celery
onions
papaya
spinach
mango
cabbage
carrots
cauliflower
garlic
chives
turnip
zucchini
asparagus
beets
chili peppers
cucumbers
chicory
apples
cranberries
grapefruit
oranges
pineapple
pears
tangerines
raspberries
strawberries
blueberries
artichokes
green/red/yellow peppers
scallions

Here's a sample of one of my meal plans:

Coffee - consisting of fat free milk, with sweet n low and International Coffee Delight creamer. OR, if I want to really avoid calories - Plain with sweet n low

Apple - sweeeeet! only 83 calories for a medium sized apple!

Carrots with low fat dip - or skip the dip if you prefer it raw

WATER - always

Vegetables - I love broccoli..leave me alone

Gum - speeds up digestion and distracts me

Altoids - major distraction..curiously strong ;) Will definitely occupy your mouth!

***If you'd like to keep a food journal, keep track of your exercise, etc - sign up for a free account at Fitday. It helps ALOT.