Does sweating make you lose weight?

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  • irenehb
    irenehb Posts: 236 Member
    My TDEE would be really low if sweat was any indication. 1 hour brisk walk and a 50 minute bike ride and about 2 drops of sweat. Guess my husband must be blessed, he had to towel himself down and is taking a shower. He can eat a whole cake now lol
    Some people sweat a lot, some don't.
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  • tattooedmomma93b
    tattooedmomma93b Posts: 101 Member
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    zack123987 wrote: »
    UltimateRBF wrote: »
    zack123987 wrote: »
    also when i sweated i lost weight so theres that too right?

    You may be confusing correlation with causation. Maybe you were sweating from intense exercise which in turn caused you to drop some lbs. It wasn't the sweating that caused the weight loss. The sweat wasn't fat melting away.

    Or you're trolling

    no i was sitting by a pool during last summer

    It's settled then, lounging poolside leads to weight loss

    Better not let this secret out. The pools will be packed and there will be no where for me or you to lounge out our fat!!!
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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    KristenMarie1181 wrote: »
    tattooedmomma93b wrote: »

    When I sweated....wow...he needs to pay attention in English more than biology. ....

    You lose weight from sweat. Water weight. The second you take a drink of water. You gain it back....IT'S NOT FAT!!!



    Seriously be nice. Stop being a grammar nazi!

    You tell someone to be nice and then you call them a nazi? How do you know that isn't extremely offensive to that person for whatever reason including family history?

    It should be offensive no matter what your background

    The appropriation of the term "nazi" for internet insults is disgusting to anyone with any sense / understanding of history
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  • Lizrobin3108
    Lizrobin3108 Posts: 102 Member
    There is a TED talk you can watch on YouTube you can watch called "The mathmatics of weight loss" by Ruben Meerman. He explains what happens to fat in an easy to understand 20 something minute talk. Its quite entertaining.

  • coraborealis80
    coraborealis80 Posts: 53 Member
    Fat gets converted via lipolysis into heat, water, carbon dioxide, and ATP. ATP acts like a cellular carb loading, or provides the energy, the water is sweat out, and the carbon dioxide is breathed out. So, sweating will make you lose some fat, after the easier forms of energy are burned off, as it is a system of regulation cooling you so you don't cook, but not enough to cause significant weight loss-just water loss, which you will generally regain once you hydrate.

    And quit feeding the troll.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    coraborealis80 wrote: »
    Fat gets converted via lipolysis into heat, water, carbon dioxide, and ATP. ATP acts like a cellular carb loading, or provides the energy, the water is sweat out, and the carbon dioxide is breathed out. So, sweating will make you lose some fat, after the easier forms of energy are burned off, as it is a system of regulation cooling you so you don't cook, but not enough to cause significant weight loss-just water loss, which you will generally regain once you hydrate.

    And quit feeding the troll.

    Sweating does not "make you lose fat". It is a route of excretion

    If you sit in a sauna to sweat more you will not convert more fat to sweat, you will merely lose more water

  • coraborealis80
    coraborealis80 Posts: 53 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    coraborealis80 wrote: »
    Fat gets converted via lipolysis into heat, water, carbon dioxide, and ATP. ATP acts like a cellular carb loading, or provides the energy, the water is sweat out, and the carbon dioxide is breathed out. So, sweating will make you lose some fat, after the easier forms of energy are burned off, as it is a system of regulation cooling you so you don't cook, but not enough to cause significant weight loss-just water loss, which you will generally regain once you hydrate.

    And quit feeding the troll.

    Sweating does not "make you lose fat". It is a route of excretion

    If you sit in a sauna to sweat more you will not convert more fat to sweat, you will merely lose more water

    The biochemical reactions that result in sweat burn energy, or calories. So, as I said, if there is no other energy source, you could burn fat. It would never be enough to result in significant weight loss-you would likely die first if the proper conditions ever existed for such a thing. Your brain fires a signal to release acetylcholine. Acetylcholine travels through your nervous system to the eccrine glands or apocrine glands, which produce sweat for different reasons and of which you have about 4 million. These glands then pump out the sweat, which is primarily water and salts. Additionally, as I said before, when fat is converted to energy, it results in the water which we also sweat out. You are always sweating. You never stop sweating. Those calories are included in your BMR.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    zack123987 wrote: »
    yes cuz the fat goes out with it

    lolwut. No. You lose fluids when you sweat, it doesn't affect fat loss.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    If temperature has anything to do with losing weight. I'd be leaning more toward shivering freezing Temps, rather than hot conditions. .. Which would be negligible in the Grand scheme of things.
  • voodoochild16
    voodoochild16 Posts: 5 Member
    Great info guys!, thanks for replying so immensily. I am also curious how you subscribe by email to threads from this community forum, is it possible?. Thanks again!.

    I guess I'll stick to running when its convenient though, I hate running in the sun. Running in the rain is more enjoyable (and no one would really ever understand that but that's how I like it lol).
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I don't think you can get email notifications?? But if you go up to the top of the page here and click on the bell, then click notification preferences. You can choose your options for here on the forums.
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