Does the work Calories mean anything to anyone here? I can't believe all the bad info in one single thread. 8-|
This thread is proof of how poor information can be on the internet. %-)
This thread is proof of how poor information can be on the internet. %-)
bollocks to losing weight, saunas are made to detox your system by making you sweat out all the toxins and water thats in your body
dont worry you will soon pile on the pounds once you start drinking water again
:-)
dont worry you will soon pile on the pounds once you start drinking water again
:-)
Sweating excessively does make you lose weight. My roommate in college was a jockey and had to weigh in at a certain weight in order to qualify for racing, so she would always exercise with many layers of clothing, and she would sleep bundled in blankets. She would normally lose five to ten pounds a month. However, she is no longer a jockey and does not do this. She recently told her doctor about it and he told her that making your body sweat without getting any real exercise is very harmful to your body. It can cause many problems later in life, such as losing the body's ability to cool off. She now has frequent hot flashes because she has thrown off her body's temperature system.
SWEATING = water + salt leaving your body
SALT= bad, bloating, water retention
SWEATING + DRINKING SUFFICIENT WATER= healthy, for the most part. the sweating itself doesn't work as an effortless exercise though
SALT= bad, bloating, water retention
SWEATING + DRINKING SUFFICIENT WATER= healthy, for the most part. the sweating itself doesn't work as an effortless exercise though
Hi, I was wondering if wearing a sauna exercise suit while doin cardio work-outs is really a good source of losing weight. Yes i understand all of the rising body temperature provoking sweating, but say you are doing your cardio work-out while wearing a sauna exercise suit and after ten minutes ur sweating a ton, isn't there a point where once all you have sweat out most of ur water weight then ur body will start burning calories?? I always get answers from people surrounding me saying that all I am doing is sweating out my water weight and I will put it right back on. Anyone have an answer for me??
I don't know if someone has already mentioned it, I was surfing the 'net and came across this thread somehow and couldn't bring myself to read more than the first two pages. So much mis and dis-information here! Half truths, urban legends, and terrible spelling! First of all, people don't "loose" weight. Loose means not tight (among other things). People "lose" weight. Good lord. Buy a spell checker.
Anyway, some info for those of you who can't spend enough time on Wikipedia to figure out how the body utilizes energy.
You want to lose (note spelling) fat, not weight. That much I will assume. Fat is how the body stores energy. You eat too much food, the body won't poop-out food, it will store it as fat. The body has an almost unlimited ability to turn consumed energy into fat stores. This is called adipose. Adipose has approximately 3500 calories per pound.
Your body does NOT utilize adipose (or fat) as energy except in extraordinary circumstances - i.e. Atkins diet causes the body to break down fat into another product called ketones which the body uses for energy. The same thing happens when you starve. Ketones = energy for the starving (or tricked into thinking it was starving á la Atkins) body. I'm not advocating the Atkins diet or anything, but there's a lot of information out there on how this works and it's something you could look up to be a better informed consumer.
Your body stores glucose, it's normal and preferred form of energy, in the form of a molecule called Glycogen - and stores glycogen in the muscles and the liver. This preferred energy is 'enough' to get you from meal to meal if you're not exerting yourself or exercising. When you exercise, generally the first 20 minutes or so is sufficient to 'burn' this glycogen. Only after that does the body begin to break down adipose into free fatty acids through a process called lipolysis, which eventually allows for these fats to be converted to a high-energy enzyme called acyl Co-A which the little intracellular powerhouses (mitochondria) can use to make ATP which the rest of the cells in your body actually use as energy.
Whew! That was a lot of stuff (very highly condensed, by the way) to explain the stuff YOU WANT TO LOSE. Fat.
Fine. So to finally get to the real point here. Does sweating make you lose more weight if you wear a sweat suit while exercising? Here's the prevalent thought on the topic
In a word. Yes. Here is why:
One: You're exercising. Great - burning calories, check. That in and of itself will help you lose weight.
Two: You're sweating a ton of water out. That will make you very thirsty post-work out. You'll drink more liquids, hopefully mostly (but not all) water. Too much water can cause water intoxication (hyponatremia) and people die from being stupid and 'chugging' water every year. Don't do that after a work out. Anyway - drinking more water actually curbs your appetite because your stomach feels full and your body doesn't crave food as much.
Three: Here's the part I don't think anyone mentioned, and the only actual reason I just wasted 15 minutes of my life typing this out. To those people who don't think sweating more will do anything, here's the question I pose to you, which I will then answer - What is the process by which we perspire? Sweating is an incredibly complex mechanism. The body first transports sodium from the extracellular fluids - generally intravascular blood, through a semipermeable membrane in the sweat gland. Water follows by osmosis. The gland will 'fill' and as more sodium is pumped in, the sodium and water are moved up a duct. The duct is not semi-permeable, and in fact is water impermeable. It reabsorbs most of the saltiness of sweat, leaving only trace minerals that eventually go with the water in sweat to the surface, where the water evaporates (unless you're wearing a sweat suit).
The body 'burns' ATP in transporting the sodium across the first membrane, and then again across the water-impermeable membrane. Two bits of energy, check.
Normally, that sweat will cool the body, and a negative feedback cycle is established: the cooler the body gets, the less stimulus to sweat. Well, the person wearing the sweatsuit never cools off, ipso facto - they never sweat less - they stay at maximum perspiration, because the body doesn't think it is cooling. They produce more sweat, they burn more ATP moving electrolytes around, they burn more calories reconstituting ATP, THEY BURN MORE FAT.
Of course, they run the risk of heat stroke (similar to the aforementioned jockey), electrolyte imbalance, and of course, death. The body sweats for a reason - not letting the body cool naturally means you run the risk of taking yourself out of the gene pool. Judging from the ignorance and lack of education or understanding of the education received - if you're reading this and want to wear a sweat suit to lose weight, go for it.
Drew
Anyway, some info for those of you who can't spend enough time on Wikipedia to figure out how the body utilizes energy.
You want to lose (note spelling) fat, not weight. That much I will assume. Fat is how the body stores energy. You eat too much food, the body won't poop-out food, it will store it as fat. The body has an almost unlimited ability to turn consumed energy into fat stores. This is called adipose. Adipose has approximately 3500 calories per pound.
Your body does NOT utilize adipose (or fat) as energy except in extraordinary circumstances - i.e. Atkins diet causes the body to break down fat into another product called ketones which the body uses for energy. The same thing happens when you starve. Ketones = energy for the starving (or tricked into thinking it was starving á la Atkins) body. I'm not advocating the Atkins diet or anything, but there's a lot of information out there on how this works and it's something you could look up to be a better informed consumer.
Your body stores glucose, it's normal and preferred form of energy, in the form of a molecule called Glycogen - and stores glycogen in the muscles and the liver. This preferred energy is 'enough' to get you from meal to meal if you're not exerting yourself or exercising. When you exercise, generally the first 20 minutes or so is sufficient to 'burn' this glycogen. Only after that does the body begin to break down adipose into free fatty acids through a process called lipolysis, which eventually allows for these fats to be converted to a high-energy enzyme called acyl Co-A which the little intracellular powerhouses (mitochondria) can use to make ATP which the rest of the cells in your body actually use as energy.
Whew! That was a lot of stuff (very highly condensed, by the way) to explain the stuff YOU WANT TO LOSE. Fat.
Fine. So to finally get to the real point here. Does sweating make you lose more weight if you wear a sweat suit while exercising? Here's the prevalent thought on the topic
In a word. Yes. Here is why:
One: You're exercising. Great - burning calories, check. That in and of itself will help you lose weight.
Two: You're sweating a ton of water out. That will make you very thirsty post-work out. You'll drink more liquids, hopefully mostly (but not all) water. Too much water can cause water intoxication (hyponatremia) and people die from being stupid and 'chugging' water every year. Don't do that after a work out. Anyway - drinking more water actually curbs your appetite because your stomach feels full and your body doesn't crave food as much.
Three: Here's the part I don't think anyone mentioned, and the only actual reason I just wasted 15 minutes of my life typing this out. To those people who don't think sweating more will do anything, here's the question I pose to you, which I will then answer - What is the process by which we perspire? Sweating is an incredibly complex mechanism. The body first transports sodium from the extracellular fluids - generally intravascular blood, through a semipermeable membrane in the sweat gland. Water follows by osmosis. The gland will 'fill' and as more sodium is pumped in, the sodium and water are moved up a duct. The duct is not semi-permeable, and in fact is water impermeable. It reabsorbs most of the saltiness of sweat, leaving only trace minerals that eventually go with the water in sweat to the surface, where the water evaporates (unless you're wearing a sweat suit).
The body 'burns' ATP in transporting the sodium across the first membrane, and then again across the water-impermeable membrane. Two bits of energy, check.
Normally, that sweat will cool the body, and a negative feedback cycle is established: the cooler the body gets, the less stimulus to sweat. Well, the person wearing the sweatsuit never cools off, ipso facto - they never sweat less - they stay at maximum perspiration, because the body doesn't think it is cooling. They produce more sweat, they burn more ATP moving electrolytes around, they burn more calories reconstituting ATP, THEY BURN MORE FAT.
Of course, they run the risk of heat stroke (similar to the aforementioned jockey), electrolyte imbalance, and of course, death. The body sweats for a reason - not letting the body cool naturally means you run the risk of taking yourself out of the gene pool. Judging from the ignorance and lack of education or understanding of the education received - if you're reading this and want to wear a sweat suit to lose weight, go for it.
Drew
I've read all the post and am amused both by those so say they are professionals and know all the answers and the straight ignorant.
No I don't know all the answers but I do know this. Now I have I moved to a country with a significanlty hotter climate than I was used to
1) I sweat a lot more even when doing very little.. it is llike living constantly in a sauna.
2) I tend to eat less overall but haven't intentionally change my diet. I still eat sweets. I drink lots of liquids.. a variety.. not just water.
3) I have lost heaps of weight...at least several clothes sizes in 1 month and the weight is still falling off.
Don't know if sweat suits do help you lose weight but living in a hotter climate has sure assisted with my weight loss.
No I don't know all the answers but I do know this. Now I have I moved to a country with a significanlty hotter climate than I was used to
1) I sweat a lot more even when doing very little.. it is llike living constantly in a sauna.
2) I tend to eat less overall but haven't intentionally change my diet. I still eat sweets. I drink lots of liquids.. a variety.. not just water.
3) I have lost heaps of weight...at least several clothes sizes in 1 month and the weight is still falling off.
Don't know if sweat suits do help you lose weight but living in a hotter climate has sure assisted with my weight loss.
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.
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 !!!
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