How many calories will use lose in a cold (not ice) bath?
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I am trying to eat less than 1200 calories (not counting the amount extra I am allowed by exercise) because my BMR is about 1400 so 200 calories a day lost will help me. I went over by about 15 calories a day. i think simply typing will help.
Help you to do what??
Eat more. Your body needs fuel and nourishment to get better.
If your BMR is 1400, you should not eat below it.2 -
You do burn some, but very little. Although I think that post from yahoo answers was off, I do agree that swimming in cooler water would burn more calories than warmer water as your muscles will be less relaxed, and your body will have to work harder to keep a high enough pressure to keep moving, raising your heart rate, one of the reasons you will feel energized after swimming in cold water.
I would imagine taking a 30-minute cool bath would burn as many calories as drinking some green tea, maybe like 100-200 if you do not have a hot bath afterwards. But if you have a fever with the cool bath, you may burn less as you are just cooling your body down a little. Also many more recent studies have shown that trying to cool down a minor fever doesn't help with fighting the infection.
Oh well, I would try it! It definitely wakes me up, so maybe jump-starts my metabolism for the day!10 -
IN for morning reading. G'night all and sweet dreams :flowerforyou:0
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Someone in a different thread said something (hilarious) that came to my mind in this thread: "do you science, brah?" (my new favorite quote, wish I could remember where it came from).
And, at the risk of sounding like a troll, if being cold helped burn so many calories, how come there are so many overweight people living in cold climates (like north Dakota or Wisconsin)?6 -
Ouch I take ice bath after a hot 2 hour summer run. Not when sick. I take it to recover muscles. I also read somewhere that it does burn calories because your body works to adjust to the cold.1
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Scientific Evidence discussed on Ted Talks, talking about using temperature to increase fat loss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ_ldCwKUQ&feature=youtu.be&t=4m53s8 -
I believe cold baths burn around 110 calories every 10 minutes but im not really sure also if you stay in for too long iys bad for you15
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I am trying to eat less than 1200 calories (not counting the amount extra I am allowed by exercise) because my BMR is about 1400 so 200 calories a day lost will help me. I went over by about 15 calories a day. i think simply typing will help.3 -
I will never understand why Oprah supports Dr. Oz. I hate that guy. But I'm not a fan of the Doctors either, but I LOVE Doctor radio on XM.. they are real doctors that work with patients daily.7 -
I believe cold baths burn around 110 calories every 10 minutes but im not really sure also if you stay in for too long iys bad for you
Thank you for bumping an old thread, without reading it, to re-enliven a stupid myth.4 -
There may be an element of truth in this theory, because most of the calories we consume go toward keeping our body temperature up to normal. Personally, I am willing to endure deprivation (dieting)-- but not torture (ice bath or exercise).2
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This thread came up in "my topics" - for the life of me,couldn't remember it.
That's because I posted in it over a year ago :laugh:1 -
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Your body generates heat when it is cold by shivering. This muscle fasiculation produces heat, just like jogging or walking does. It is one of the bodies mechanisms for survival in extreme situations, in addition to dilating the blood vessles in the skin, however it is not a good way to lose weight. (Note non extreme alternatives in next paragraph below) The risks of hyothermia, frostbite, shock, etc. are not worth it. Losing weight is very simple, you must burn more calories than you take in, so either eat less or be more active or both to lose weight.
YET, you do not have to do extreme temperature changes to cause the body to work harder to maintain your core body temperature, and burn more calories doing it. A cold shower hitting your neck and upper back for 10 minutes at a temperature of 72 degrees is enough to make your body burn lots of calories to maintain warmth. OR sitting back and watching TV with a large ice pack hitting your neck and back (with a T-Shirt in between) for 20 minutes will do just a good a job. Though extremes in this area could be simply a 20 min ice bath as well (but the ice pack or cold shower are 60% as effective as an ice bath).
Swimmers are thin and muscular due to the cold water drawing off the heat from their bodies and the body compensating for it.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_cold_baths_and_showers_help_you_burn_a_lot_of_calories#ixzz1eyf7ijAi
A perfect example of why you should not believe everything you read.
Not least because swimmers are thin and muscular because of their diet and training regime, never mind the rest of the hyped claims for the cold water effect. There is no doubt that there is a thermodynamic effect, and marginally increased metabolism; but it is not significant. As a person that windsurfs throughout the year, and swims in the sea for 8 months or more, there is no significant change in my weight over the winter0 -
This post makes me concerned because taking very long icebaths is LITERALLY A 'TRICK' THAT PEOLPE WITH ANOREXIA USE TO MAKE THEMSELVES LOSE EVEN MORE. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU FIND ON PRO-ANA HOMEPAGES. That's how bad and dangerous such a thought is.
Please don't do this. If you are already sick, putting your body into such an extreme cold will only make things much worse.
Eating so little while being sick is also very bad and will only make things worse. Focus on getting healthy again and then try to lose weight. Your health comes first!7 -
edited to remove my posting as this thread is from 2011.0
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It's old thread, but will add some research based knowledge as there is so much confusion.
There has been some old research done on the matter. The main outcome were figures showing thermal conductivity TC of skin during immersion in water when resting or swimming. This was gathered experimentally by exposing subjects to various conditions and measuring consumption of oxygen in the air they breathed.
To sum up skin thermal conductivity varied greatly across subjects depending on their obesity, however it was fairly stable in thin subjects, while decreasing with water temperature decrease in obese subjects.
These are the thermal conductivity figures in kcal/m2/h/C (skin conductivity in kcal per surface of skin in square meters, per time in hours, per temperature difference between body and water in centigrade).
Obese resting 9
Obese swimming 13
Thin resting 18
Thin swimming 24
How to use it
calories = TC * (36.6 - <water temperature in centigrade>) * <body surface in m2> * <time in hours>
Body surface can be looked up with online calculators, could be 2 square meters of 6ft high, 180 pounds men.
E.g. such a man (not too thin, so take middle ground and assume TC of 20) during 45 minutes (0.75 of hour) of recreational swimming in water of temperature 18 Celsius would burn:
20 * (36.6 - 18) * 2 * 0.75 = 558 kcal
Note: one indeed gets very hungry after such an exercise and it's best to control that.
Hope that helps.1 -
Sounds like ppl should just answer her question if they can and get off their high horses about her health..29
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Sounds like ppl should just answer her question if they can and get off their high horses about her health..
Looks like some people should check the date, this thread is 7 years old.
And welcome to MFP. It's a terrible place where people care about other's health and not just their confined questions.27 -
Temporarily sick people should eat closer to maintenance if they want to decrease stress on their body and promote faster healing.7
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Alatariel75 wrote: »Sounds like ppl should just answer her question if they can and get off their high horses about her health..
Looks like some people should check the date, this thread is 7 years old.
And welcome to MFP. It's a terrible place where people care about other's health and not just their confined questions.
What's with the zombie posts today?10 -
WinoGelato wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »Sounds like ppl should just answer her question if they can and get off their high horses about her health..
Looks like some people should check the date, this thread is 7 years old.
And welcome to MFP. It's a terrible place where people care about other's health and not just their confined questions.
What's with the zombie posts today?
Ha, I was just about to reply to the "burns 110 calories for each 10 minutes" post when I skimmed down and caught the zombie thread notice posted in 2014!3 -
i think youd of burned ALOT of calories if you were still in said ice bath 7 years later, But not because of the ice bath xD10
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JaydedMiss wrote: »i think youd of burned ALOT of calories if you were still in said ice bath 4 years later, But not because of the ice bath xD
That would make it a zombie's thread. h.10 -
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lemurcat12 wrote: »
Probably by googling how many calories they will burn in an ice bath after having a cold10 -
So was this the "fad du jour" in 2011? Freaky!3
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I got a laugh out of this thread. Found it amazing how many times this thing has been resurrected. :laugh:6
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Dang, now I will have to go back and read it. I clicked, saw the date, and jumped to last page to see why it was revived. It better make me giggle.
Cheers, h.7 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »i think youd of burned ALOT of calories if you were still in said ice bath 7 years later, But not because of the ice bath xD
Yeah, brain freeze!2
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