How many calories burned shivering and
leanjogreen18
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brushing your teeth vigorously?
Even though this is a joke post I have to admit these thoughts have crossed my mind like it just might help, lol.
Hey I've got til next summer cutting and a lifetime of counting calories and calories burned so I need some humor right?
Any you've thought of?
Even though this is a joke post I have to admit these thoughts have crossed my mind like it just might help, lol.
Hey I've got til next summer cutting and a lifetime of counting calories and calories burned so I need some humor right?
Any you've thought of?
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Sex comes up a lot.5
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How about chewing sugar free gum? Making gum a negative calorie food. FTW!4
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I'm packing 35 multiple item parcels over today and tomorrow. As I sit on the floor with feet going numb and back screaming at me, I too wonder how much it's increasing my NEAT for the day.5
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Not enough that it matters. I'll admit though my mind has wandered to such things.
My favorite is the idea of drinking cold drinks. In theory your body has to work to warm a drink from its temperature in celsius up to your body temperature of 37 degrees. If the drink is room temp then thats something like warming it from 25 to 37 which is 12 degrees celsius. 12 degrees celsius for 1 liter is 12 calories. If its an iced drink though thats from 4 degrees to 37 which is 33 degrees celsuius or 33 calories, almost 3 times as much.
So in theory if you just chug ice water all day long you might burn significant;y more calories than if you had not just to maintain your body temperature.
I mean honestly that is probably true, can't imagine how it couldn't be true.
If you drank 8 liters of icewater in a day that would be an extra like 264 calories you could enjoy at least and that would assume your body was 100% efficient in warming the liquid which it wouldn't be.
EDIT: I realize that there are impressionable people on the internet so I'd like to add a disclaimer which is that if you end up killing yourself from injesting too much water because of this that is on you, I am not in any way advising people do this.13 -
I can't sit still and I'm forever swinging or jiggling my legs. Yes, i have often wondered how many calories i burn fidgeting. . I've read some whacked out numbers on the Google, so I'll take it as a little added bonus instead of logging ""burned 300 calories leg tapping"
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I've totally read that being cold burns calories, and I'm cold ALL THE TIME so why am I not skinny!!!??11
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The only time I've really wondered is when I'm speed shopping through Costco.5
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Chasing down my birds when they wont go back in their cage when they bite the cats XD hahah8
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JaydedMiss wrote: »Chasing down my birds when they wont go back in their cage when they bite the cats XD hahah
:laugh: :laugh:
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Don't Worry their friends XD But yeah thats the general reaction to the bratty birds harassing the innocent gentle patient kitties lolChristine_72 wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »Chasing down my birds when they wont go back in their cage when they bite the cats XD hahah
:laugh: :laugh:
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Hahaha these are good!!
I don't feel alone in my silly head thoughts:).
The ice cold water, I've thought the same thing!!!2 -
If cold water would do that in theory wouldnt hot also do the same? Besides it being significantly harder to swallow alot of hot tea fast XD0
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When brushing your teeth vigorously, if you swallow some of the toothpaste, would the calories in the toothpaste negate the calorie burn?10
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nutmegoreo wrote: »When brushing your teeth vigorously, if you swallow some of the toothpaste, would the calories in the toothpaste negate the calorie burn?
Poo, don't rain on my parade!
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JaydedMiss wrote: »If cold water would do that in theory wouldnt hot also do the same? Besides it being significantly harder to swallow alot of hot tea fast XD
No. Because the hot tea would actually provide energy to heat your body up so your body wouldn't have to spend so many calories doing that. So, if the theory was correct, hot water would actually have positive calories. But food calories are actually kilocalories, so both the "hot water effect" and the "cold water effect" ought to be negligible.
And I appear to use the word "actually" way too much.4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »When brushing your teeth vigorously, if you swallow some of the toothpaste, would the calories in the toothpaste negate the calorie burn?
Poo, don't rain on my parade!
Sorry. I must be one of those mean people you keep reading about. I'm making my peace with it. :laugh:3 -
There's an old, old thread on here where someone wanted to count the calories they burned standing up on the bus on the way to work o_05
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Alatariel75 wrote: »There's an old, old thread on here where someone wanted to count the calories they burned standing up on the bus on the way to work o_0
How many calories did they think it would burn? That's important:).0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »There's an old, old thread on here where someone wanted to count the calories they burned standing up on the bus on the way to work o_0
How many calories do i burn elbowing strange guys repeatedly when they keep grindign up against me on full busses. Thatd be some fun math XD2 -
Taking a long hot bath can burn 140 calories, allegedly:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36744906
Bathercise.1 -
Shivering: 100 calories in 15 minutes!
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/calories-burned-cold-weather-12046.html
I think I prefer the bathercise option.1 -
Tube and bus surfing - travelling standing up while not holding onto a post or strap, and using your legs and core to remain upright. How much for that?
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Sucking ice cubes should be better than drinking cold water, because you have the latent heat of fusion to overcome.3
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Wow @ShammersPink you've obviously looked into all of this
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SusanMFindlay wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »If cold water would do that in theory wouldnt hot also do the same? Besides it being significantly harder to swallow alot of hot tea fast XD
No. Because the hot tea would actually provide energy to heat your body up so your body wouldn't have to spend so many calories doing that. So, if the theory was correct, hot water would actually have positive calories. But food calories are actually kilocalories, so both the "hot water effect" and the "cold water effect" ought to be negligible.
And I appear to use the word "actually" way too much.
When I said calories I was meaning kilocalories. Raising the temperature of 1 liter by 33 degrees Celsius expends 33 kilocalories. So if you drank 8 liters of ice water in theory it would take at least 264 kilocalories to maintain your body temp. I just said calories because no one actually says kilocalories :-)1 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »If cold water would do that in theory wouldnt hot also do the same? Besides it being significantly harder to swallow alot of hot tea fast XD
No that would actually be adding energy to your system basically adding additional calories.
Most of your basal metabolic rate is energy expended to keep your body at 37 degrees which in most places is above room temp. If you drank hot liquid your body would have to expend less energy to raise your body temperature because the hot liquid would be doing some of that work.
So no, in theory, hot liquid would be like extra calories...not fewer.2 -
Christine_72 wrote: »Wow @ShammersPink you've obviously looked into all of this
The bathercise thing was in a TV programme earlier this year and has been my excuse for wallowing in the bath regularly during my diet!
The tube thing is from drunken late night conversations on the tube home, the ice thing is vaguely remembered school physics (plus sucking ice cubes to cool down when I had a high fever recently!) and the shivering was recourse to Dr Google!3 -
ShammersPink wrote: »Taking a long hot bath can burn 140 calories, allegedly:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36744906
Bathercise.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you are immersed in warm water your body would have to work less hard to maintain your body temp above ambient so I'd think if anything you'd burn fewer calories than if you had spent the same time at room temp.
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ShammersPink wrote: »Sucking ice cubes should be better than drinking cold water, because you have the latent heat of fusion to overcome.
True...phase transitions take a huge amount of energy which is why evaporation of sweat is so good at transferring energy away from your body.1 -
You lose weight (fluid) through a bath or a shower. I always have a cup of water after each the re-hydrate.0
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