cold water, room temperature or warm water to drink?
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Doesn't matter. It's more of a preference rather than anything to do with weight loss.
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I always drink it room temp. I don't like cold water.0
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I think you can burn 100 calories a month drinking ice water or something. Hardly worth the trouble IMO. I like it better at room temperature, personally.0
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Reminds me... I bought stuff for S'mores yesterday and still haven't had breakfast because I haven't figured out the macro/calorie cost of a/some S'mores, yet. I guess I should do that.DeguelloTex wrote: »
No, she was going to say marshmallows.....:D
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UltimateRBF wrote: »Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
1200 calories a month...why the weight's just flying off!
Does a calorie weigh more or less than muscle?0 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Boiling.
You have to drink it boiling. It burns a lot of calories. And by calories, I mean your esophagus and the lining of your stomach. It's really a great way to lose weight, since you won't want to eat anything for a while.
Its really hot here and when I drink warm water I start sweating
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ceoverturf wrote: »
It is physical activity and u sweat alot .. trust me . I never logged it but when I do.I do feel my heart rate going up and I sweat..
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Now, I have always prefered ice water because I like the cold, (that and i love to crunch ice cubes) but yes, it actually does.
Burns about 70-80 calories per day apparently.
here, science and stuff.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/question447.htm0 -
Kilocalories are the sort you use when measuring the energy in food. Not calories. Burning a few calories with cold water won't do anything for you.0
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ceoverturf wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
1200 calories a month...why the weight's just flying off!
Does a calorie weigh more or less than muscle?
That's deep.....0 -
jasminerz2015 wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Boiling.
You have to drink it boiling. It burns a lot of calories. And by calories, I mean your esophagus and the lining of your stomach. It's really a great way to lose weight, since you won't want to eat anything for a while.
Its really hot here and when I drink warm water I start sweatingjasminerz2015 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »
It is physical activity and u sweat alot .. trust me . I never logged it but when I do.I do feel my heart rate going up and I sweat..
It's not the sweating that is burning calories, it's sustaining an elevated heartbeat during cardio activity that burns more calories than anything. If sweating was all it took I'd never been fat because I sweat like a swine.
Dusting is not considered cardio and is generally part of your daily activity level.0 -
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If your concerned with ice cold water or warm water for weight loss, then you need to go back and start from the beginning...
All you need for weight loss is a calorie deficit. It makes no difference if you drink cold or hot water.0 -
I'd you try to go for a walk but are texting and get hit by a sprinkler and run home to shower, do you still get credit for the whole walk?
I vote yes.0 -
Good question. I don't think water hot or cold really makes that terribly much of a difference, although water on its own DOES contribute to weight loss by hydrating your body, flushing out salts, keeping your hunger in check by reducing hunger from dehydration.
However, there's alot of conflicting info floating about. For example, Asians believe that warm/hot water 'melts' fats, flushes the system/digestive system of oils from oily foods, aids in digestion and also keeps the body's core 'balanced'. I respect Asian medicinal wisdom as you're talking about 5,000 years of culture from various Indian/Chinese medicine knowledge - SOME of those things have to come from observation and time-honoured practices.
Yet I read lots, mostly Western sources, that cold water aids in speeding up metabolism in a minute way because your body has to work harder to keep your body temp 'warmer'.
A friend of mine when asked why she drank hot water with every meal asked me if I had ever put chicken soup or some meat dish in a fridge. I said yes of course. She said, have you ever taken it out after it has chilled to find all the fats coagulated at the top? I said, yes of course. She said, that's what many Asians sort of believe about cold water and it aiding in 'fat retainment'.
I myself used to prefer cold drinks. But I find hot drinks very soothing and tend to go through many cups of green tea and black teas a day. Sometimes I finish a dinner with a spicy ginger-masala tea because its so soothing.0 -
Why do people believe this makes any difference at all
Personally I like my soft drinks room temperature ... but I don't mind cold
White wine has to be cold though
And coffee hot .. like my m... oh never mind
Do you use ice with the soft drink? Or do you drink at room temperature?
And yes to the wine being cold and hot coffee. Okay, we all caught up?
Oh, the question of temperature of water and weight loss. You will lose weight by drinking water at any temperature( only AT A CALORIC DEFICIT. . . .phew OMG. . . . .that was close). You will also lose weight by not drinking water. Ultimately, the former is a better option.
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I'd you try to go for a walk but are texting and get hit by a sprinkler and run home to shower, do you still get credit for the whole walk?
I vote yes.
Depends on how far out I'm at. If I'm barely 10 steps out I just suck it up and keep walking. Else meh, I just go back and count it as a walk.0 -
Oh man. My mom used to date a sciencey person who was adamant that drinking hot beverages on a hot day prompts your body to cool itself after the fact. For me, that is pure misery in 40 degrees (C). Like we're not machines, we're human creatures. Iced water for me, all the way.
For whatever reason, room temp water gives me the impression I'm drinking saliva or some other bodily fluid, or standing water, or something else that's just wrong.0 -
You shower because you got hit by a sprinkler?
Why?0 -
That's actually kinda brilliant, because healing wounds takes lots of calories.Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote:Boiling.
You have to drink it boiling. It burns a lot of calories. And by calories, I mean your esophagus
and the lining of your stomach. It's really a great way to lose weight, since you won't want to
eat anything for a while.
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That's actually kinda brilliant, because healing wounds takes lots of calories.Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote:Boiling.
You have to drink it boiling. It burns a lot of calories. And by calories, I mean your esophagus
and the lining of your stomach. It's really a great way to lose weight, since you won't want to
eat anything for a while.
That's so true! Plus the fact you won't be able to swallow for days! AWESOME WEIGHT LOSS TIP FOR GUARANTEED WEIGHT LOSS.
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UltimateRBF wrote: »Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
1200 calories a month...why the weight's just flying off!
Haha that's the quote I was looking for. I don't know why I thought it was only 100. Still though, that's not a huge difference...0 -
But hey, if you drink 3L of ice water a day, you'd lose 1 lb a month changing nothing else.UltimateRBF wrote:1200 calories a month... why the weight's just flying off!
(Actually, you'd probably burn even more calories from the extra walking... frequent trips
to the bathroom.)0 -
Yes, that's already taken into account in NDT's comment above. You have to also keep in mind, 1 true calorie is 1 mL of water, 1 degree C. So 1 L of water 1 degree C is 1 kCal of heat. Going from a simplified perfect 0 to human body temperature of 36 C (this is where the 98.6 in F comes from), you get 36 kCal / liter a day, assuming the water leaves heated full body temperature. Over 31 days, it comes out at 1116 kCal.Kilocalories are the sort you use when measuring the energy in food. Not calories. Burning a few calories with cold water won't do anything for you.0 -
UltimateRBF wrote: »
I didn't mean to post that there...well, here. I'd delete it if I could, lol.
Since someone asked, our sprinklers use reclaimed water, so it's best to wash it off quickly. None of this matters. 0
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