Ice Diet

Ashes_To_Beast

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homerjspartan

You guys are thinking about this all wrong. Think of what your *kitten* could do after this diet.....

Keepcalmanddontblink

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/30/new-ice-diet-promises-miracle-weight-loss

Discuss.

ETA: Thoretically, what he's suggesting is true: Eating ice does burn calories because your body needs to war up the ice before it can digest it. I learned this from reading up on long distance/year-round cycling. when drinking a sports drink in the winter, you need to add a bit more powder to it, because you need the extra calories from warming up the drink.

However, I don't think that eating ice every day will make a significant difference to losing weight.

That just makes my teeth hurt! lol I do love ice water as cold as I can stand it, but just because its refreshing after a walk/jog in the summer heat. I don't think it helps to lose weight faster though.

Pipsg1rl

OK gotta jump in on this eating ice thing.

Not gonna get into the bad for the teeth thing or the water has zero Calories thing. I'm only going to look at the physics / math in it.

calorie = amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree C
Calorie = 1000 calories

To raise ice 1 degree C it only takes .5 calories per gram
To melt ice it takes 79 calories per gram

I'm going to guess that a typical ice cube would maybe be one fluid ounce of water which would weigh approximately 30 grams.

Lets do the math assuming that the cube of ice is a bit below freezing (0 C) and is -5 C.

To heat the ice to 0 C we do the following:
30 grams * .5 calories/gram * 5 degrees = 15 calories

To convert the ice (solid) to water (liquid) at 0 C
30 grams * 79 calories/gram = 2370 calories

To heat the water to body temperature
30 grams * 1 calorie/gram * 37 degrees = 1110 calories

Add all of these calories up and you get 3635 calories which would then be 3.635 Calories.

Now lets say it takes 3500 Calories to lose 1 lb of weight.
That would mean that we would have to eat about 963 ice cubes to lose 1 lb.

Now if I was to eat 1 ice cube per minute it would only take me 16 hours to lose a pound.

Now if I look at my exercising that I'm doing lately I'm burning about 400 calories per half hour. I could do the same thing by exercising for 4 hours.

So what do I want to do? Eat ice cubes for 16 hours or exercise for 4.

you did all that math and I read to the bottom for your answer.

typing this I think I burned some calories.

I like your math though.

(high five)

crohnsfighter

OK gotta jump in on this eating ice thing.

Not gonna get into the bad for the teeth thing or the water has zero Calories thing. I'm only going to look at the physics / math in it.

calorie = amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree C
Calorie = 1000 calories

To raise ice 1 degree C it only takes .5 calories per gram
To melt ice it takes 79 calories per gram

I'm going to guess that a typical ice cube would maybe be one fluid ounce of water which would weigh approximately 30 grams.

Lets do the math assuming that the cube of ice is a bit below freezing (0 C) and is -5 C.

To heat the ice to 0 C we do the following:
30 grams * .5 calories/gram * 5 degrees = 15 calories

To convert the ice (solid) to water (liquid) at 0 C
30 grams * 79 calories/gram = 2370 calories

To heat the water to body temperature
30 grams * 1 calorie/gram * 37 degrees = 1110 calories

Add all of these calories up and you get 3635 calories which would then be 3.635 Calories.

Now lets say it takes 3500 Calories to lose 1 lb of weight.
That would mean that we would have to eat about 963 ice cubes to lose 1 lb.

Now if I was to eat 1 ice cube per minute it would only take me 16 hours to lose a pound.

Now if I look at my exercising that I'm doing lately I'm burning about 400 calories per half hour. I could do the same thing by exercising for 4 hours.

So what do I want to do? Eat ice cubes for 16 hours or exercise for 4.

That's awesome.

Just to be clear, your capitalized "Calories" = KCal, right? A Kilo-Calorie is what we normally measure as a calorie on nutrition labels?

I gradded with a Technology degree so I don't know as much as I should on this subject.

Ali_momof2

Ha ha yes, I see these ppl all the time at work. I'm glad they're attempting something, but perhaps a healthier lunch would be a better start.

CoolDad67

That's awesome.

Just to be clear, your capitalized "Calories" = KCal, right? A Kilo-Calorie is what we normally measure as a calorie on nutrition labels?

I gradded with a Technology degree so I don't know as much as I should on this subject.

Yep. Calorie = 1000 calories = 1 KCal.

I have a Technology degree too. I'm assuming you mean Industrial Technology.

itodd4019

I see this happen and it motivates me

~ from a coworker

"I wallk in the parking lot everyday for 10 minutes during lunch to burn off lunch"

Their breakfast consists of a sausage cheese and egg crescount (prob spelled wrong ha) and lunch half plate of fries and a full salami n cheese panani.........


Ya u go walk that 10 min around the parking lot....

Croissant

lol spelling really does Irk you. hahaha hope you don't hat3e me in the long run

:flowerforyou:

in4nomz

Shoot, I'm doing it wrong. :ohwell:

*adds to list of ideas, right under Dr. Oz remedies*