Does sweating means losing weight

seaun0 · Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

Normally I don't leave comments as I browse through forums. But I would like to share my experience this time as I appreciate the information other people provided. I have done some research and experiments recently to the effort of trying to lose some weight, the conclusion is pretty simple:

1. If you accumulate 3500 calories in addition to what your body need then you gain one pound. To lose one single pound, you need to shed of 3500 calories in addition to how much your body consumes. Simple math.

2. From #1, diet helps as it controls and reduce the accumulation.

3. When dieting, your body's metabolism tends to slow down because your body think you are in a surviving mode.

4. Now exercise comes in. You need to do cardio to maintain your metabolism and avoid #3.

5. Even more exercise. Weight training will build muscle, and muscles consumes more energy, hence, burning more fat.

If you summarize the above, in order to lose weight, you need to diet and burn away fat. The most direct and healthy method to burn fat is through exercise, cardio or weight training, or all.

sorry I am kind of off topic from "sweating" but it is all related somehow. Sweat is one of the indicator that shows you are burning fat. So there is no direct relationship between sweat and weight loss, you really should ask how your sweat comes from.

Of course, sauna should help at some point because it generates heat which raise your heart rate and then your body heat starts to melt off some fat. But I doubt this loss is magnificent nor its sustainability.

After all, we not only try to lose weight, we also try to maintain weight. If the lost weight comes back as soon as we stop the fit-keeping method, whatever it is, not only it doesn't help, the up and downs of your body weight is also not healthy.

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Just to clarify...Im signed up to enter the marine corps in the next few weeks. I have to lose 16 pounds before nov 6th. Ive been working out ( treadmill, and oliptical) for a week wearing my sauna suit and have lost 6 pounds in a week already. I run/walk 1 1/2 miles in 30 mins and stay on the oliptical for 30 mins everyday in the morning. I was 246 last week im 240 today. Everyone who says that sweating does not help lose fat/water/weight is WRONG. whe your body is sweating due to cardio excersize. your metabolism is faster, and since your sweating your burning calories and losing water weight. My advice to anyone trying to lose weight is do the routine i just mentioned. eat 5 SMALL meals per day. no carbs! and NO SALT AT ALL!!! Stick to this routine and you WILL lose weight. The only thing is that you have to watch what you eat, and you have to drink plenty of fluids while wearing your sauna suit or you will have severe side effects! Unless you people know what your talking about then keep your mouths shut! If you need something to run your mouth to, use the wall. at least that way you wont waste anyones time except yourselves!!! MARINE CORPS ALL THE WAY!!!

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if u dont eat salt to replace ur electrolytes ur not going to stick to it very long. u know the new fangled gatoraid? thats what it does.. you've been exercising for a week lol, ur an expert now. u should wait to drop ur water weight like a week before ur scale date, just go for fat loss until then.. just eat like 150g of protein a day, and very low amounts of fat, and only complex carbs. when your body uses energy, which is all the time, it gets it from both food and fat at all times. if ur only source of food energy is complex carbs like oats, it forced the percent of energy u get from fat to go up. so eat protein and oatmeal and ur good to go, just try to burn an extra 1k calories a day, and u'll lose about 2 lbs a week, it doesnt get any faster than that

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so shes wanting to lose weight?

if she goes at it like she is then its not really going to do anything. and she will get sick of running eventually cause later she will be like " ugh running drag!!"

if she wants to lose weight she needs to have fun with it, getting her heart rate up.

hip hop abs by sean t help. they have a video [called fat burning cardio thats 30 mins and it really helps.

also a great way to lose pure fat is to work out in the morning and to have a good night sleep

the thing about working out in the morning is that u cant have anytihng to eat or drink but water untill you actually work out.

if u get 6+ hours of GOOD sleep your body turns into restore mode and starts the left over food from that day, but only if u sleep long enough and good enough. and you cant have anything 3 hours before you go to bed.

but if you wake up and stretch then workout. your burning the FAT your body has STORED... thats what most women want yes?

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as a wrestler, i do sweat to lose weight. but when i drink water it does come back on. i also eat healthy, lots of fruits and rice. i've tried crash dieting, and let me tell you.. it doesn't work nearly as good as dieting the right way. and if you eat greasy food, it makes you feel sluggish and doesn't let you sweat as much

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so some say that you can sweat out fat! 43 degrees C is equal to 109.4 degrees F (for us Americans). At 109.4 degrees of core (interior) body temp., your brain will burn up and you will die. sweat is your body's air conditioner. Fat is fuel for energy use latter, oh yeah and for insulation in cold weather. This stuff is high school biology/science.

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