Can pain/col/hot baths make you lose?

Kezzykezkezkez

I don't know where I got these ideas into my head but is it possible a few pounds if you're in an amount of pain (say getting a tattoo or a bikini wax) or from really hot or really cold baths?

Just wondering really, not like I intend to bas my weight loss on finding new ways to hurt myself lol

robin52077

I never heard of pain, or hot or cold baths, causing weight loss.
If all it took was a hot bath most people would live in the tub.

Pain: well, if something hurts REALLLLLLY bad it can make me feel like I am going to puke (like a migraine) which obviously would make me not want to eat, but that's not a good thing.

As for the hot/cold thing. If someone were to be in a hot tub or sauna for a while and sweat out a lot of water, then jump in a cold pool, it is good for your pores I heard, and you will be a little down on the scale simply because you are dehydrated, drink a glass of water and it's back to where it was!

gazcan

a cold shower after working out will kick ur calorie lose into a higer gear an u will lose more calories than if u took a hot shower

andreacord

I know a guy that used to do that, sadly he's anorexic and I wish he didn't. But apparently going from hot to cold makes your metabolism work or something? Can't say I know if it works.. I prefer hot baths.

bigmommy2011

I also heard that about the hot cold shower.

stark23x

Metabolically, no, bathing in temperatures either way will not affect your internal metabolic rate unless you stayed in the water for a long time, or it was excessively hot or cold. Generally speaking, it's a colossal waste of time. You might get a slight increase or decrease, but not enough to matter. Your time is better spent jogging in place to raise your body temp and burn energy.

Pain is a different story. What's the pain from? How severe? When calculating calorie needs for hospital patients, there is a method for increasing calorie/protein needs based on what is going on. For surgical patients, the more complex the more they need. Burn patients have massive calorie and protein needs depending on the extent of the damage.

Ever think about the specific reason weightlifters and bodybuilders eat so much and most of it protein? When you lift weights, you create tears in muscle fiber, and your body breaks dietary protein down to rebuild the tissue out of amino acids & so forth. It's a form of injury, but one that is targeted and has healthful benefits.

So yeah, pain can make you burn more calories. Can you hurt yourself enough to make a difference? Not for very long, because you'll run out of things to break/cut/smash. Lift weights. It works. Save the cold showers for a whole other purpose.

robin52077

Lift weights. It works. Save the cold showers for a whole other purpose.

love this

kristydi

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Pain is a different story. What's the pain from? How severe? When calculating calorie needs for hospital patients, there is a method for increasing calorie/protein needs based on what is going on. For surgical patients, the more complex the more they need. Burn patients have massive calorie and protein needs depending on the extent of the damage.

Ever think about the specific reason weightlifters and bodybuilders eat so much and most of it protein? When you lift weights, you create tears in muscle fiber, and your body breaks dietary protein down to rebuild the tissue out of amino acids & so forth. It's a form of injury, but one that is targeted and has healthful benefits.

So yeah, pain can make you burn more calories. Can you hurt yourself enough to make a difference? Not for very long, because you'll run out of things to break/cut/smash. Lift weights. It works. Save the cold showers for a whole other purpose.

So it's not the pain itself causing a need for increased calories, but the repairs your body is making to itself. Or does pain that's unaccompanied by the need for the body to repair itself, say from a pinched nerve or something, cause an increase in caloric needs too?

JulieF11

There is a guy named Tim Ferriss, who believes that 3 ice baths a week (two ten pound bags of ice for 10-15 minutes) will help melt fat away! BTW- He says not to put your hands or head in it. That's the only one even close to what you are talking about that I've heard about. But I can't imagine actually doing that!

cupotee

LOL all three I guess. Cold baths lower your internal temperature, which forces your body to respirate more to produce sufficient heat. Water has a high vaporization point, so it'll suck a lot of heat out of you. If you boiled yourself and got like third degree burns, you could lose weight b/c you would burn calories converting fat into acetyl coa to convert into organic compounds to repair damaged cells (you'd need nitrogen supplements though).

But pain is just an alternate neuron path- your sensory neurons sending messages to your brain saying "ouch, that hurt. don't do it again, dbag" and it doesn't burn calories. If you've stabbed yourself or something and managed not to die, than that would burn calories from increased immune activity and regeneration.

Newfiedan

colder showers/baths can help you burn more calories because it creates the hypothermic reaction in the body and it will burn more calories to bring you back to your normal body temp, this is why swimmers training in colder waters will burn more cals than those whom swim in warm water. It is proven fact that the body will exert more energy to raise body temp in a cold environment.