HOW DO YOU NOTE SAUNA TIME

I've been trying to document my 15 min. a day in the sauna, however, there isn't a place for that; or is there?
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  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    It's sweat. Not calories burned.
  • hottamolly00
    hottamolly00 Posts: 334 Member
    Everyone is correct. It's not a calorie burner.
  • SimplyFreckled
    SimplyFreckled Posts: 444 Member
    you could get a spiral notebook and write it down everyday.. You could also write it on a calendar? Maybe a blog?
  • HowardRose
    HowardRose Posts: 138 Member
    Check under "melt".....lol
  • YukonJoy
    YukonJoy Posts: 1,279 Member
    you could get a spiral notebook and write it down everyday.. You could also write it on a calendar? Maybe a blog?


    :heart:
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    It doesn't burn fat.
  • patter10
    patter10 Posts: 23 Member
    Wow... lot of cattiness on this forum. I had no idea that it didn't help with calorie burning. Thank you all for you nastiness in the effort to better educate me. So sorry for posting my honest question. Stupid me for expecting help.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    Everyone here responded appropriately, most even gave very helpful answers.

    :star-rainbow: The more you know! :star-rainbow:

    :devil:
    Nice, someone else who gives the "The More You Know" slogan :bigsmile:

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  • elfy66
    elfy66 Posts: 138 Member
    Hmmm well there are ways of saying something....
  • kneeki
    kneeki Posts: 347 Member
    I love that show! :D
  • patter10
    patter10 Posts: 23 Member
    Well I'm not a child. I've always been told that you should use the sauna to cut weight. I assumed that it helped with burn calories. Hey I was wrong. I did not attend the "God of Fat Burning" class that was freely offered at the YMCA; did not get the e-mail you folks got. So sorry for troubling anyone with my stupid question. Thank you for the help, I tend to forget that people forget how to communicate with other human beings; computers have allowed some of us to evolve into shmucks. I understand, I'm in the military, I deal with people like you all the time. Now that I know exactly how this "helpful site" works, I take that spiral notebook draw a rainbow, take a straw, and suck it up.
  • ShapeUpSidney
    ShapeUpSidney Posts: 1,092 Member

    I was meerly expecting some advice, not berating. Having some trouble losing weight; unlike anyone on this site; my job is on the line. That means feeding two kids. Sorry, but the skin is wearing thin. I seriously doubt anyone is woring over this like me. Again sorry.

    Oh lookie here, Mr. Special - the only mfp member staring down good ol AR 600-9

    Yep, the only one. Just right there. That's him. The one.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    Wow... lot of cattiness on this forum. I had no idea that it didn't help with calorie burning. Thank you all for you nastiness in the effort to better educate me. So sorry for posting my honest question. Stupid me for expecting help.
    Wow... I think there was one post that was stated sort of questionably the rest were very straight forward. You can't read tone and inflection in text. You may want to grow a thicker skin if you post regularly on the internet.

    I was meerly expecting some advice, not berating. Having some trouble losing weight; unlike anyone on this site; my job is on the line. That means feeding two kids. Sorry, but the skin is wearing thin. I seriously doubt anyone is woring over this like me. Again sorry.

    Sorry you are a delicate snowflake, sir. :flowerforyou:
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    Wow... lot of cattiness on this forum. I had no idea that it didn't help with calorie burning. Thank you all for you nastiness in the effort to better educate me. So sorry for posting my honest question. Stupid me for expecting help.

    It doesn't help with the calorie burn, but if you still want to make a note of it, you can make a note of it in your food diary? (trying to be helpful. :) )
  • oswaldbowser
    oswaldbowser Posts: 164 Member
    I go to the gym and work out.....then after I go in the sauna and jacuzzi and some times the steam room, but I take this as just relaxing time and talk to fellow gym users.

    Just go in for enjoyment but you dont count it as any form of weightloss/exercise.

    Hope this helps
  • patter10
    patter10 Posts: 23 Member
    Wow... lot of cattiness on this forum. I had no idea that it didn't help with calorie burning. Thank you all for you nastiness in the effort to better educate me. So sorry for posting my honest question. Stupid me for expecting help.

    It doesn't help with the calorie burn, but if you still want to make a note of it, you can make a note of it in your food diary? (trying to be helpful. :) )

    I won't note it. thanks
  • kneeki
    kneeki Posts: 347 Member
    Nowhere in that article did they cite a source of information or study. If you're really curious about how much you might be burning in a Sauna, the experiment is simple.

    Wear a HRM for 30 minutes, sitting, doing nothing. Perhaps lying down? At room temperature.
    Now do the same thing for the Sauna.

    Make a note of increased calories burnt by heart rate. I have done this already, and for me, the increase of HR is negligible.
    there is no definite way to measure how many calories are burnt in sauna.
    Is a lie.

    edit: your original post I clicked reply to didn't have that first link. Reading it now...
  • patter10
    patter10 Posts: 23 Member
    If you search enough, you can find a viewpoint that you like, but then reality stares back at you.

    http://www.livestrong.com/article/300302-the-calories-burned-sitting-in-a-steam-sauna-for-15-minutes/

    ^ article also from Livestrong telling you it's completely worthless(this one written by a Dr.).

    Bottom line is, if you aren't doing some sort of real activity, you aren't burning much. Sweating is the loss of water from the body and nothing more.

    Wow.. not looking for a lazy way out; I'm pretty active. However the Gunny's and Chiefs swear to the sauna along with exercise. I thought they had the inside track; but these are the people that are about making you puke from running.