Eat 8 Celeri Stalks a Week
You might think this is a fib, but celeri (or celery for our friends in the U.S.) is actually a negative calorie count. How can that possibly be? Well, it goes something like this... It's got something to do with the way it's made, probably with all those stringy things that hold it together (and are a large part of the reason why I actually hate celeri -- those stringy things always get caught up in my teeth!) anyway, they make the vegetable very hard for humans to digest. So hard in fact, that it takes more energy from our bodies to process the celeri than the goodness that we finally manage to extract from it.
Why wouldn't those looking to lose weight not simply eat celeri all day long? I don't know. But I can hazard a guess that they'd grow pretty tired of it fairly quickly. Even rhinos, who don't strike me as particularly finicky eaters, don't like celeri. Well, I shouldn't generalise but I did witness one perfectly live rhino reject several lush celeri stalks, going so far as to take a few chomps of one then ungloriously spitting it back out toward the well-intentioned human.
So what should we do? Everything in moderation. This is the crux of this blog. Eight's a nice round number that keeps you coming back. A healthy number for a healthy cycle. So make sure you eat 8 celeri stalks per week. That's once per day and twice on Sunday! Those little negative bursts will keep those not-so-healthy things (that we should also do in moderation) in check.
Plus it's made up mostly of water... nothing wrong with that!
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