Water ... Luke Warm or Iced Cold?

I drink my water hot, in the form of decaf tea. I drink alot more of it this way than I do with cold, when I first switched from cold water to hot tea, I lost 3lbs in 3 days, not sure if it had anything to do with the tea or not, but that's what happened! lol

I'd say "Drink water to lose weight", forget about the temperature, lol
I've heard that drinking ice cold water makes you burn extra calories to warm it. The thing is you can't drink much that way, you may have sore throat after that and probably your stomach would rather have it a bit warmer.
I drink iced cold water for pleasure, it tastes better, hehe, but I drink most of my water at room temperature. I also drink lots of hot tea or herbs.

i'll throw some chemistry at everyone for some "facts"


the specific heat of water is 1cal per gram per C or 1cal/g*C (but this is a small calorie which is 1/1000 of a food Calorie which is technically called a kilo calorie). This means that it takes 1 calorie of energy to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.

a simple case would be an 8 oz glass of water (~224 grams) consumed at 10C would require a temperature change of ~90C to reach body temperature

so if we take (1cal/g*C) * (224g) * (90C) we would get ~ 20,000 calories of energy required or 20 food Calories.

if you drink your 8 glasses a day you could burn off 160 Calories... so it could make a difference in the long run possibly...

I can't stand ice water! I can only drink it room temperature. Not sure why. I get agitated when waiters refill my water glass by dumping in tons of ice from the pitcher and then a little bit of water. Okay, not exactly agitated.. I just sort of sigh inwardly.

I might be weird tho, because I also only like soda that has gone flat.

Yep deffinately wierd lol j/k hun :laugh:

I can't drink water unless it's Ice Cold or in a coffee lol

Drink warm water or tea with meals to aid in digestion and lower the risk of cancer.

Drink ice cold water between meals because unlike warm water, it will simply dilute gastric juices and make it harder for you to digest properly.

Ice water will cause you to lose weight, because your body has to warm it up - in fact, a calorie (little c, not the ones we measure food with, Calorie - or kilocalorie) is the measure of the amount of energy needed to heat one gram of water by one degree celsius. So yes, by bringing it up to body temperature you burn calories.

great answer! I've heard both arguments (warm vs cold water burning more calories), and i like to take the ice cold water's side because of the chemistry facts (also, i love ice cold water!)

Still, i think as long as a person is drinking all the water that they need, that that is really great and should be commended! (as a lot of people really forget to drink enough water throughout the day)

i'll throw some chemistry at everyone for some "facts"


the specific heat of water is 1cal per gram per C or 1cal/g*C (but this is a small calorie which is 1/1000 of a food Calorie which is technically called a kilo calorie). This means that it takes 1 calorie of energy to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.

a simple case would be an 8 oz glass of water (~224 grams) consumed at 10C would require a temperature change of ~90C to reach body temperature

so if we take (1cal/g*C) * (224g) * (90C) we would get ~ 20,000 calories of energy required or 20 food Calories.

if you drink your 8 glasses a day you could burn off 160 Calories... so it could make a difference in the long run possibly...