Ridiculous weight loss thoughts...
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Fascinating place this is.0
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I wore cute shoes to the amusement park because we weren't planning to do much walking...but then we did six miles and I got a blister.
I began wondering how many extra calories would be burned to heal. It popped while I slept, so that'll be extra, now that it's opened and has to work a little extra hard to fight off invaders.
Every time I feel a zap of pain, I wonder how many calories will be burned healing this thing, lol. Have to be a few!
I'm actually happy about the thing when I console myself with the fact that it's down there burning calories.I wore cute shoes to the amusement park because we weren't planning to do much walking...but then we did six miles and I got a blister.
I began wondering how many extra calories would be burned to heal. It popped while I slept, so that'll be extra, now that it's opened and has to work a little extra hard to fight off invaders.
Every time I feel a zap of pain, I wonder how many calories will be burned healing this thing, lol. Have to be a few!
I'm actually happy about the thing when I console myself with the fact that it's down there burning calories.
I want to follow along but not sure I understand. Are you seriously saying healing blisters burns more calories? If so, where did you find this?
Or are you saying the ridiculous things we think of and connect it to weight loss? Maybe staying up late and not sleeping is one of those ridiculous thoughts of things that burn calories.
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Any time your body has repair work to do, it's going to use a smidge more energy. With massive burns and blisters, it is a ton. With one little blister, it's so small that I honestly don't know how much it would be. Nobody has to calculate how many extra calories they need for that, lol.
I want to follow along but not sure I understand. Are you seriously saying healing blisters burns more calories? If so, where did you find this?
Or are you saying the ridiculous things we think of and connect it to weight loss? Maybe staying up late and not sleeping is one of those ridiculous thoughts of things that burn calories.
It's not something I found online. It's just something I know.
My point is just how silly weight loss thoughts run through my mind. Get a blister, think, "Ooh, extra calories being used!" It's kind of ridiculous, how calories even crossed my mind.
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Any time your body has repair work to do, it's going to use a smidge more energy. With massive burns and blisters, it is a ton. With one little blister, it's so small that I honestly don't know how much it would be. Nobody has to calculate how many extra calories they need for that, lol.
It's not something I found online. It's just something I know.
My point is just how silly weight loss thoughts run through my mind. Get a blister, think, "Ooh, extra calories being used!" It's kind of ridiculous, how calories even crossed my mind.
Ok yea that's how I am when I'm trying to lose. Any little thing in like ooh that's a calorie burned. It can get borderline obsessive.0 -
I wonder how many calories we intake each day simply by breathing air that has dust particles - largely comprising human skin - floating around in it. I bet that would offset a blister. And when you exercise, you breathe more heavily, so you take in MORE dust and therefore more calories.0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »I wonder how many calories we intake each day simply by breathing air that has dust particles - largely comprising human skin - floating around in it. I bet that would offset a blister. And when you exercise, you breathe more heavily, so you take in MORE dust and therefore more calories.
Not to mention that when you smell food, that's actually particles of the food suspended in the air. So you're taking in calories from that food when you smell it. Between that and the cortisol, you're dead.0 -
When i would get thoughts like that i would make an appointment with a therapist
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PeachyCarol wrote: »
I've never had luck with band-aids, even those. Moleskin, on the other hand? That's brilliant stuff.
I swear by moleskin!!!! Its the absolute best at getting me to the gym through every nick and bump. I managed to scrape 1/2 the skin off my pinky toe but a bandage and some moleskin had it protected so well I couldn't even feel the extra pressure of my shoes.0 -
Are you okay? I mean..besides the blister.0
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susan100df wrote: »
I like sleeping in a cold room because I like having heavy blankets over me. My husband protests this. I always tell him that we burn more calories in the cold because we shiver until the sheets warm up.
Heated mattress pads? The one I use has dual controls, one for each half of the bed, and I only heat up one side
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Too bad the cortisol elevation as a result of the pain, healing process and worrying about how many calories burned will more than offset any additional thermogenesis from the blister itself. Maybe even create a stall.
So pain causes elevated cortisol levels? Is it only acute pain or do you think that because I suffer from chronic pain that I would always have elevated cortisol problems? That sounds like one more factor working against me.0 -
I'm not sure if you're attempting to be kind or cruel. Please clarify.arditarose wrote: »Are you okay? I mean..besides the blister.
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I do find the introduction of cortisol to the discussion interesting. I hope @AnvilHead comes back, because for people like me with medical conditions causing chronic pain, it does raise an interesting issue.0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »I wonder how many calories we intake each day simply by breathing air that has dust particles - largely comprising human skin - floating around in it. I bet that would offset a blister. And when you exercise, you breathe more heavily, so you take in MORE dust and therefore more calories.
75.
@Alluminati says the answer is always 75.0 -
The things we see on the forums. LOL0
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juliebowman4 wrote: »My ridiculous thought:
I read here somewhere that we burn more calories in the cold due to our body trying to stay warm.......
but I just got a fancy new treadmill in preparation for our Canadian winter....
.....so I wondered how crazy it would be to crank the AC while I run on the treadmill....
I mean, I have good freaking central air.....I could make this house feel like a walk in refrigerator
Put it in the garage and use it with the doors open.?0 -
Ok. Now for serious hats on.
Some different thoughts.
Ballpark a blister is 5 grams or less of fluid, mainly water, with an temperature elevation due to inflammation of no more than 3 degrees (Celsius) above your body's normal temperature.
Assuming that 3 degrees requires constant work that is being lost (generous) every minute, you've got 24 hours * 60 minutes / 1 hour * 15 calories (proper, not kCal like dietary ones) / minute = 21.6 kCal (dietary calories). I'd agree the avoidance of activity is far going to outweigh that.
Alternatively, internet estimates bandied about for building muscle peg a pound of muscle at anywhere from 600 to 1700 calores (some just use the fat pound of 35000 calories). Assuming blister repair is a similar biological process to the active part of muscle building (only around 20-25% of muscle is made of protein) -
1700 calories / pound muscle * 5 activity tissue factor * 5 grams * 1 pound / 453.592 grams = 93 calories. Though this is now over the course of 3 to 5 days of healing. So on a daily basis, maybe 30 calories?0 -
I'm not sure if you're attempting to be kind or cruel. Please clarify.
Perhaps she's trying to be both, in the right measure?0 -
Perhaps she's trying to be both, in the right measure?
Sometimes you gotta be cruel to be kind.0 -
shadowfax_c11 wrote: »
Sometimes you gotta be cruel to be kind.
In the right measure.0 -
I kind of got the impression that the OP was mostly tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be a serious discussion but I could be wrong.0
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Perhaps she's trying to be both, in the right measure?
Spit coffee everywhere. Thanks.
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Can I count stopping my dog from pulling on the leash is resistance training?
My husband and I are tearing down an old jeep. I try not to use the rust penetrator because fighting with the bolts engages my muscles more and swearing at them has got to burn some extra calories.
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Can I count stopping my dog from pulling on the leash is resistance training?
My husband and I are tearing down an old jeep. I try not to use the rust penetrator because fighting with the bolts engages my muscles more and swearing at them has got to burn some extra calories.
Lol I wish. These are the types of things that some people think about when losing.0 -
I think there should be some sort of extra calorie burn for resisting eating something you really want but know you shouldn't have. Shouldn't that count as resistance training?!?0
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I think there should be some sort of extra calorie burn for resisting eating something you really want but know you shouldn't have. Shouldn't that count as resistance training?!?
If you do short, intense bursts of willpower while passing the aisles of tempting items in the grocery store, I think you can count it as HIIT.0
I enjoyed walking wit ya! Um huh!
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