Drink ice water, lose weight
Okay, it’s not as simple as the title makes it appear to be. However, How Stuff Works gives some scientific proof to answer the question, “Does drinking ice water burn calories?” I’ll cut right to the good stuff:
Let’s figure out exactly what you’re burning when you drink a 16-ounce (0.5 liter) glass of ice water:
- The temperature of ice water can be estimated at zero degrees Celsius.
- Body temperature can be estimated at 37 degrees Celsius.
- It takes 1 calorie to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.
- There are 473.18 grams in 16 fluid ounces of water.
So in the case of a 16-ounce glass of ice water, your body must raise the temperature of 473.18 grams of water from zero to 37 degrees C. In doing so, your body burns 17,508 calories. But that’s calories with a little “c.” Your body only burns 17.5 Calories, and in the grand scheme of a 2,000-Calorie diet, that 17.5 isn’t very significant. But let’s say you adhere to the “eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day” nutritional recommendation. In 64 ounces of water, there are 1,892.72 grams. So to warm up all that water in the course of a day, your body burns 70,030 calories, or 70 Calories.
Drink water and lose weight - [How Stuff Works]
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Morech says on February 7th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Also what I did not read is that by replacing what you would normally drink in a day with water you do not gain any calories. For example if you are normally drinking beverages that have a cal. intake then by replacing it with water you are not only burning cal with water but you are not intaking what you would normally intake.
Ernie Oporto says on February 7th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Say at a savings of 3 cans of Coke, 120 calories each, 70 + 360 = 430 calories less. Now you’re talking a significant portion of that 2000 calorie diet.
MajorDad1984 says on February 8th, 2007 at 12:53 am
As a faithful Bowflex user (not very good at adhering to the diet you receive with the system) I can tell you that this is a key component to the “6 Week Challenge” program.
I do believe that this is a VERY sound start to shedding some of those holiday pounds (or in my case, those that have arrived in the past three weeks since I put down my smokes.) Coupled with a low-carb plan…and some decent exercise program, you’ll drop the weight. (As always…ask your doctor first!)
See you on the high ground!
MajorDad1984
Crawdaddy says on February 8th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Does the same hold true for ice-cold diet, caffeine-free soft drinks?
Michael Langford says on February 8th, 2007 at 9:18 am
http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays.....csDiet.htm
It is a lot easier to not eat that 70 calories than it is to burn it off through something like this.
If you can’t take the hunger issues of the physics diet, look at south beach, which has to make you the fullest you’ll ever be in your life, dieting or not.
–Michael
Otto says on February 8th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Try the opposite - drink hot water.
Hot water brings the feeling of satiety and (with some training) replaces the horrible coffee and teabags we have in the office. For the same reason I prefer soups to snacks. Not the thick fat soups in tiny bowls - but the thin vegetable soups like miso or vegetarian borshch in larger bowls. This way I am not hungry with less calories.
Robin says on February 10th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
quite weird. so we r drinking hot water to increase calories, terrible!
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bla says on June 20th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
It’s kilocalories (kcal) not Calories.
Metric system ftw.