The negative calorie diet works on the premise that if you make your body’s natural digestive system work harder, you do not need to take up a rigorous exercise program and you never need to grow hungry in order to shed all of your unwanted pounds and become slimmer, healthier, fitter, more energized, and better looking.

The negative calorie diet does not work by taking food away from your diet–as a matter of fact, it acknowledges that making yourself go hungry is the worst thing you can do if you’re trying to lose weight. It works by replacing foods that don’t induce high levels of thermogenesis (the generation or production of heat by means of physiological or biochemical processes) with those foods that do induce it. Once you have incorporated these foods into your diet and made them the dominant part of your daily diet, you can eat your fill anytime you feel hungry and still be losing weight–according to those who know the negative calorie diet, anywhere from one to three pounds lost per week (depending on your natural metabolism) until you have achieved your ideal weight and BMI (body mass index) score.

This is due to the fact that eating predominantly (or entirely) these foods causes your body to actually burn off more calories in a typical day than it takes in–and this is the only way to achieve weight loss no matter what your diet or exercise regime. Burn more than you consume and you lose weight. Fail to do this and no weight is coming off.