Does sweating means losing weight

I've lost weight with the sauna suit, I know it makes you lose water weight, but I still use it. I work out with it almost everyday and I sweat like crazy. I also eat healthy, and I've lost 7 lbs so far and I haven't gained anything back. So maybe it does work.

Sweating is the body's response to excessive heat in your body (like when you work out or have a fever). The harder you work out, the more you are likely to sweat because your body is trying to cool down. So, if you're sweating, it means you are working hard and because you are working hard, you burn fat. Sweat is just water, not part of the fat in your body. So don't wear bags because it can be dangerous if the water can't evaporate from your body, you'll just get dehydrated from losing too much water. Sweating doesn't mean you are burning fat, or are you burning fat when you are laying in bed, weak and a fever over 100 degrees? Of course some of the benefits of sweating are, removing toxic wastes, boost your immune system, and cleanses skin. IF you want to know if you burned fat, ask yourself if you're tired or sore, but especially important, if you worked out for more than 20 minutes at your target heart rate. This last one is the key for losing weight effectively.

The sauna suit actually made me lose a lot of weight. I don't care whether it's water weight or fat, as long I look small. I've been eating healthy and I go to the gym for half an hour, after that I wear the sauna suit for an hour and do yoga and cardio in it, and I sweat like crazy. I've lost lots of weight with that. Although I know that if I stop wearing the sauna suit, then it might all come back, oh well.

She just has to make sure to replenish the fluid lost from her body by drinking a lot of water after she exercises -- not eating too much.

I do drink a lot of water throughout the day, especially when I work out in the sauna suit, because I could feel myself getting thirsty. I plan to use the sauna suit, and work out with it for about 45 minutes each day, and also go to the gym 3 times a week and run on the treadmill for 35 minutes and also do some muscle work out for half an hour, I plan on doing this for a month as well as eating healthy, so hopefull I can lose about 10lbs. Thats my goal. I'm also taking some herbs to help make me lose weight. Do you think I can reach my goal or even more than that?

Love the responses .
I play a good one hour of football (any position but goal keeping !) and then drive home in my car with the windows closed.
Needless to say I sweat profusely.
I drink a lot of fluids and eat just a bit.
I feel if I carry this on then I could lose a lot of weight in one month.
Its the strict diet that I should be more shrewd on.
I agree with most here, working out and losing weight is better than sittin and sweating off !

Here is a link that is way out of our discussion here !!!

It is true is it not, that the body uses far more calories to produce each gram of sweat than exercse without sweat (eg swimming) ergo sweating causes weight loss

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Guest wrote: Actually, sweating does help you lose weight. A 30 minute sauna creates approximately the same amount of perspiration as a 10 kilometer run. As your body increases sweat production to cool itself, your heart works harder to boost circulation, thus improving your cardiovascular system. Your immune system is also strengthened because when your body temperature is raised, your systems fight this "artificial fever". Sweating helps detoxify your body, by removing the accumulation of potentially carcinogenic heavy metals as well as alcohol, nicotine, sodium and cholesterol. Profuse perspiration also deeply cleanses the skin, creating beautiful and improved tone, texture, and color. A single sauna session will burn as many calories as you would during rowing for 30 minutes. Weight loss occurs because body fat becomes water-soluble at 43ºC and the body can sweat it out. Sorry, you are wrong. Sweating in a sauna only releases water weight (stored water in your cells). You might notice a decrease on the scale, but it is only short-lived. To actually burn fat, you must exert yourself by using energy and forcing your body to tap into stored energy (fat cells). That requires work. Life is not that easy. If it were, wouldn't we all just go in a sauna everyday?

I think that dude copy and pasted that from another site. I just read that exact thing he wrote this afternoon. Are you saying that fat does not become water soluble and thereby cannot be sweated out? I was also reading that they did a study in Germany that marathon runners don't have a high occurrence of cancer cuz they sweat a lot and the carcinogenic toxins get sweated out.