Does sweating means losing weight

For decades, many people have used sweat suits, garbage bags or saunas in order to lose weight quickly. You will lose weight in the form of sweat, which is water and electrolytes, but you will gain it back as soon as you eat again or drink water. This myth seems to have spread through the wrestling, boxing, and other sports gyms where guys need to lose a few pounds in order to make a weight class. But sweating excessively has no useful purpose in health weight loss. The dangers of sweating to lose weight are severe --they include overheating (heatstroke), extreme loss of electrolytes (kidney damage/death), and other cardiovascular related emergencies.

What if most of the weight you want to loose is water-weight due to something such as a birth control pill? Will sweating help then? 

The heat therapy is also beneficial to your body because it increases the circulation of blood and the oxygenation of cells. This is healthy for your heart and other organs, your muscles, and especially your skin which is the largest organ of the body. Not only is sweating in a Sauna Suit helpful to boosting your immune system, it is also a relaxing way to relieve stress and fatigue.

Idk if that topic is still active or not, but to the ones who want to know the answer to that question. Yes sweating does help you losing weight, also all the bad things go out from your body from sweat, its like sauna. I can say that because I lost 160lb myself in 2 years, I'm a professional fighter as well, and now bodybuilding. I know everything about my body. I can manage to lose excessive fat, or gain it fast. Sweating is good, you can wear a jumper while exercising, or jogging, but there is one thing!
WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT. When you sweat you lose some elements during sweating such as sodium, etc, so basically you get dehydrated, and drinking water will not help, as water doesnt have those elements, because of that you have to take supplements, best as I discovered so far is read drinks, I use powerade during my workout and sometimes after, it really does help, as my workouts are very intensive or heavy I drink about 2 litres of liquid during the training, so it would be 1-1,5l of water first and then powerade. Powerade 500ml drink has all the elements, which you probably lose so it will regenerate them. Also good way is to take creatine, at least 5g, it will store my resources in your body, so basically when you sleep you will gain more resources to spend during the workout! GOod luck with that, just be careful with drinking, and salt consuming!

Totally agree with Renat. Of course sweating helps you with weight loss! A sweat suit is not a short term fix, you need to use it long term so that your body acclimatises and works harder.  Not only does exercising in the heat require more energy and so help with energy-balance, but the it stimulates your body to burn fat. This means that instead of using carbs or muscle tissue, fat is the fuel of choice, meaning weight loss is maintained in an effective. You can get a cheap bin bag type suit or you can buy one that has had some consideration put into the design.  ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** web addresses not allowed*** Please read our Terms of Use

Your response is even funnier. When you sweat you are losing weight but only as water, NOT fat. The minute you begin to eat or drink again, the weight will come right back on, as carbohydrate is stored in the body with 3 times the amount of water.



What accounts for the weight loss is not the sweat suit, but the fact that the person is exercising. You need to have a caloric deficit of 3500 calories to burn one pound of fat, so any increase in exercise is going to help. Bear in mind, though, that the sweat suits/sauna suits will cause overheating, dehydration, and a variety of other problems if used for too long, so use them with extreme caution.

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I think that weight loss is a specific technique and it is necessary to us

for weight loss i do some thing that is weight lifting, control dieting, should exercise daily

and joining health club or fitness club is the perfect solution

we suggest for all of this site visitor magnetic therapy is the best solution

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Bull. 43C is 109F. Brain damage occurs at 106F, and people above 102F generally tend to be delirious. If you were actually heating your body up to this temp, you would be dead, not burning fat--well, yes, you might start decomposing once dead, so you'd lose some weight there! LOL This whole "detoxifying" thing is still open to debate among actual scientists (rather than a lot of "experts" in the fitness industry who latch onto whatever latest gimmick is out there, because many of them were not properly trained in how to distinguish good science from bad--they just had to get a basic working knowledge of it to be taken seriously as trainers--and the myths get passed from one so-called "expert" to another). There could be a very slight boost to circulation and hence cardio work in response to the need to cool one's body, but it can in no way compare to the boost to metabolism caused by direct strain on the body and the cardiovascular system. When you are working your muscles hard, they need ATP to function, which is the product of cellular respiration (hence the need to breathe faster, to supply the cells with oxygen for this aerobic process--if you work harder than your cardio system can replenish the oxygen to the cells, you feel the temporary "burn" of anaerobic processes), they heat up. Your body gets rid of the excess heat produced in this process through sweat, and additionally, the overheating of your body triggers it to sweat to produce a cooling effect on the surface (the reason you sweat when not working, and why people tend to sweat less after conditioning themselves to a workout over time--they don't overheat so much). This is why it is also beneficial to not over-layer, because you could end up just overheating your body when it needs air circulation to achieve the cooling effect of sweat evaporation from the surface of your skin. Any product or method that simply involves sweating without work might have the as-yet unproven but purported toxin-removing effects, but it is not going to compare to actually working the muscles and your cardio system. Doing the work means you are using up your body's energy stores (simple sugars, then carbs and fats, and eventually proteins if you run out of those, which is why anorexics are so thin and low on muscle). This will cause you to sweat. Sweat is NOT the reason you're burning calories; it's just a byproduct. You WILL, however, lose water, and at a certain point of water loss, you not only will shut down your cells' ability to properly metabolize fats, sugars, and carbs, but you risk heat exhaustion and eventually organ failure. So stay hydrated, even if it means a temporary weight fluctuation!

It's probably very unhealthy but it was the summer of 2010 and I was basically in my room the whole summer and it was a very hot summer. I weighed 140 I was also not muscular to begin with and by the end of summer I weighed 104 without exercise or anything. It was approximately 3 months of staying in that damn room. I don't know if it was from sweating but I don't know what else it could of Been since I had been eating normal and by normal I mean i normally eat a lot. I've kept the pounds off since then but I was pretty freaking unhealthy :)

Well I work everyday!!! And I do no not sweat...so my mom told me to wear a sauna suit when I work out..and I did everyday for a week and I lost weight way more faster then I was when I wasn't using the sauna suit..so now im addicted to wearing when I work out...ladies where a sports bra under the sauna suit so u can sweat faster and u sweat on ur back arm stomach...don't listen to these discouraging people saying it doesn't work..it helps...very much...im proof...it also makes u feel great

Say for example you're on a High Protein Low Carb diet and you walk 5 days a week for approximately 75 minutes; at what rate will the body start to burn fat? Also, if you incorporate a Sauna Suit two days out of the week for an hour, will there be further benefits to weight loss?

Fat is not water soluble water is a polar solvent and fat a non-polar solvent like solvents can only dissolve like solvents a chemical change could occur in fatty tissue in our body's at 43°c making it water soluble but I doubt this because when I run my fatty areas don't change when I get hot they look and feel the same. If fat was water soluble then drinking water could be deadly on a hot day fat is actually one of the most important parts of bodys (not to say we should all get fat to much ffat is bad) its like our gas tank so if water could disolve it.... Well imagine if rain dissolved your cars gas tank its not good.