Does eating spicy food help you to lose weight?

I have also heard others say that eating cold foods and drinking ice water speeds metabolism, but again, it is not really enough to make you lose weight, just because your body uses calories to warm it up.

Yes I can see it could be effective if you add spices to low fat nutritional food, rather than just eating more spicy food.

You dont want to drink cold drinks with anything with fat as it will turn the fat solid and thus harder to pass through system so stays on your body! Have a cup of hot tea with dinner, especially if eating anything fatty to help it stay non solid and pass through the system. As for spicy food its true but its the spicy not the food part. So if you eat something lean with hot sauce like a piece of chicken with rice then it will help. If you eat a spicy beef burrito then no. I add hot sauce when I have a late night snack of baked potato with just the hot sauce and it satisfies my cravings as well as I usually notice I have burned more off during my sleep than if I didnt eat it! I am not a big spicy food fan but I have one sauce I bought at a restaurant in Puerto Rico I love and I try and use it on my lean meat or fish at least 2 times a week and the baked potato at least 1-2 times a week as well and it definitely keeps like 5lbs off me. I notice that some veggies and fruit take my stomach longer to digest so if I snack on them at night I dont seem to burn them off. Get a dog if you dont have one so you are forced to walk 3-5 times a day!

That is a good explanation. I was surprised to see this recommended as a way to keep weight off. I don't think it is something many people would try. I like some spice in my food but not to take it to extremes so I would sweat all the time, and it would be important to keep drinking water to replace the loss!

Thank you for for the compliment. I would have done the same - enjoy the food and not for the sake of thinking it will help in losing some of my weight. Cheers,

There is and doubt ever will be a simple formula for loosing weight exept the reversal of the one that put it there in the first place. i.e eat too much food compared to your energy output and your body will store the excess as fat. Eat too little food compared to your energy output and you will lose weight. It is honestly that simple. No magic foods, powders or tricks. Sorry this post is rather blunt and to the point but the subject of dieting and losing weight has been plagued by the smoke and mirror brigade for so long. Its time we each looked at our own individual lifestyles and hard as it is to accept, we have to change what we are doing to ourselves.. Yours Adrian

I agree with you that is the best way. Even if you are not trying to lose weight a well balanced diet is rquired. I try only to eat natural food and I use herbs and spices in preparing my food.

me too. i have no idea if this one is true. but i don't want to eat spicy food any more though i really loved it before. one thing i hate with the spicy food is my body had odor when it perpire so i now i have really avoided it successfully. i t was difficult for me to stop eating spicy foods. guess i had enough of spicy food now. that i can stay from it. during the time i eat a lot of it, i smell bad after after eating eat. my sweat smell bad because of those spicy food. i tihnk or believe that those ingreadients like the onions and the chillies are responsible for the smell of the body during perspiration and even when we are not perspiring. i just want to smell great always that is why i have avoided it already.

I know that food containing a lot of salt, animal fat and oil will be harmful to the heart. Spice should be used in place of those bad ingredients, not in addition to them.

yes, you are right!just telling the possible implications of using too much spicy food.

Eating flavorful foods tends to make us want to eat more. Some "experts' suggest taking these things in a capsule, but there is nothing that seems to really back it up. It may have a placebo effect. Eating lots of fruits and vegetables that have a high fiber content are really a better choice. It is propaganda to say these things make you lose weight.

This is what I thought would happen, I didn't think the information could be right.

That's what I thought.

I think you are absolutely right about that!

Well done! I have read that about capsicum peppers, and I know some of them are used in traditional herbal remedies. Thanks for sharing.

I had not heard of it and that is why I questioned it. I like a little spice in my food, and I avoid eating salty, sugary and fatty foods.

I thought the information was misleading when I read it. I would not try it myself.

Maybe it is a myth that has been passed around. I agree the best way is to eat sensibly, with a well balanced diet and regular exercise. I make my own low fat meals, and I only use a little spice to replace unhealthy ingredients.

You may be right. I add spices in place of salt and oily ingredients, so in that way it works too.

I doubted it when I saw it. I think the person who wrote it had not done enough research and had limited knowledge of the facts.

I have no doubt about what you said, I know you are right.

But what I said comes from esperince,so there is no reason to doubt it...*smile*.....

Although I am not trying to lose weight, I eat only good natural food and I exercise daily. I was just surprised to read that information, and I thought it was possibly untrue.

I don't believe a chilli a day would keep the fat away, but it's a good rhyme. Happy myLotting.

That would not be pleasant! Eating the right foods with a little spice would be better for health.

noooooooooooooo!!!!!!! it worked for meee i sweaaar!!! one day i woz soo hungry an dre woz no food at hme so i had to eat da day befores spicy take out and i luv it wud chili sauce an also n da night i had take out which is reali bad i no bu i had loadsa chili wid it becoz it made me feel less bloated aftawards da next mornen i felt looser n my clothes it woz crazy.. ive been doing it everyday now for the past 6 days an i came to see y its happening here on the net and then i saw ur page trust me it works bu u hav to eat loads of it wud each meal except breakfast u wont lose extremely fast but u will feel lighter an ur stomach will shrink im still expermimenting so if u want al giv u any more detail on how im getting on

You are right, it's the quality and quantity of food you eat that makes the difference.

Yes you are right. To lose weight you would need to eat less food and have a healthy diet.

I don't believe believe it works, but now I do know some spices will help to increase metabolism. These will only help if they are part of a good diet.

It is important to eat sensibly and not to have too much of anything.