question about water/lack of diet

[prvteye2003]

Will drinking the recommended daily amount of water (8-8oz. glasses I believe) without changing what you eat help you lose weight?

 

[Schadenfreude]

Uhh . . . EXERCISING will help you lose weight.

God I hate people.

 

[BigJ]

Probably not, but you may feel alot better and it will help cleanse your system.

 

[BlueWeasel]

How drinking water helps you to lose weight

It's possible that drinking lots of water will help you to lose weight, as the liver is always metabolizing fat (read link above).

However, 8-8oz glasses ain't going to to doing it. As a minimum, you need to drink a gallon of water per day. Strive for more, but get at least a gallon.

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: Jehovah
Uhh . . . EXERCISING will help you lose weight.

God I hate people.

I am exercising asshat, it was just a question. Get off your high horse.

 

[tk149]

I've been wondering about this myself. Somebody tell me if my math checks out...(not my strong point, I admit)

1 calorie (small 'c') = amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 degree Celsius.

1 Calorie (big 'C') = 1 Kilocalorie = amount of energy required to raise the temperature 1000 g of water by 1 degree Celsius. This is the "Calorie" that most people mean when they talk about dieting.

Density of water = 1g/ml = 1000 g/liter

So if you drink 1 liter of cold water (say around 7 degrees Celsius), and your body has to raise it to your "normal" body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius, your body has to raise the temperature of the water by 30 degrees.

So drinking 1 liter of cold water forces your body to burn 30 Calories.

Throw in a few calories here and there to represent the energy your body has to use to absorb, metabolize, carry around, and excrete the water, and drinking water starts looking better and better as an easy way to burn energy. The question is whether your body will burn fat to get the energy to do so.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I've got a fitness book that states it takes approximately 100 calories to raise a gallon of ice cold water to normal body temperature.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: tk149
I've been wondering about this myself. Somebody tell me if my math checks out...(not my strong point, I admit)

1 calorie (small 'c') = amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 degree Celsius.

1 Calorie (big 'C') = 1 Kilocalorie = amount of energy required to raise the temperature 1000 g of water by 1 degree Celsius. This is the "Calorie" that most people mean when they talk about dieting.

Density of water = 1g/ml = 1000 g/liter

So if you drink 1 liter of cold water (say around 7 degrees Celsius), and your body has to raise it to your "normal" body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius, your body has to raise the temperature of the water by 30 degrees.

So drinking 1 liter of cold water forces your body to burn 30 Calories.

Throw in a few calories here and there to represent the energy your body has to use to absorb, metabolize, carry around, and excrete the water, and drinking water starts looking better and better as an easy way to burn energy. The question is whether your body will burn fat to get the energy to do so.

I could be wrong, but isn't that negated by that fact that what they call 'Calories' on the side of the box is actually Kilocalories?