Anyone know any information on this diet? Said you are to lose 5-10 lbs. the first week and 3-5 every week after. Sounds kinda too good to be true.

How it apparently works is you eat a 5 calorie piece of celery.....
It takes your body 100 calories to digest it, start to finish.

But who eats a piece of celery and feels full???

I'm quite doubtful of this, you DO need SOME calories...
the whole "negative calorie" thing wouldn't work nearly as well as a balanced diet with regular exercise....

jenbry-

I tried this for a while and it does work. I just couldn't stick with it and found I was better off counting calories and exercising.

Negative Calorie/Catabolic Diet link:

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psycho.../catabolic.htm

The following was taken from the above web site:
"The catabolic diet is based on the concept that a person can eat “catabolic” foods that actually have a negative calorie effect. These are foods that supposedly take a person more calories to digest them than the food itself actually contains. Simply put, they are foods that burn fat instead of creating it."

"The foods are categorized under Fruits, Vegetables and Meats. Under Fruits are apples, kumquats, apricots, strawberries, limes, tangerines, blackberries, nectarines, currents, peaches, watermelon, cantaloupe, mangoes, and about twenty other fruits. Listed as vegetables are asparagus, green beans, cucumbers, peas, string beans, dandelion greens, celery, dill pickles, beets, carrots, leaks, lettuce, mushrooms, and almost every other common vegetable. The meat list is very sparse because, “most meats are not on the catabolic food list because they are not catabolic.” However a dieter is allowed to eat sea bass, crabs, oysters, buffalo flounder, frog legs, cod steaks, mussels and terrapin."

Thanks Mac! for your informative reply. I will look the website over.

OMG that's hilarious. Instead of just saying "no meat," it lists the world's most difficult items to find.

"Honey, while you're at Kroger, will you pick up another pound of terrapin and some of those frog legs?"