Are you sold yet? Defining Negative Calorie Foods Typically celery tops this list, followed by lettuce or cucumbers. So theoretically you would “burn calories” by eating them and therefore offset the calories you are ingesting. Supposedly, negative-calorie foods take more energy to digest than they do to eat.

“I can eat foods that burn more calories than I take in? Hmm, this could work.” But could it? So you Google the latest weight-loss tactics and see the idea of “negative-calorie” foods. Sounds great, right? You’ve been doing this for about four weeks, but the scale won’t change like you want it to.

Imagine you consistently meal-prep, set aside an hour each day to workout, and regularly get seven to eight hours of sleep a night.