Calorie Burning Tip

Here is a very easy way to burn a few extra calories per day by making only one extremely small change to your daily routine. it involves drinking water, so if you have not already started doing that in your weight loss routine, that is your first change. In all the literature I read, the MINIMUM amount of water you should consume on a daily basis is 8 – 8oz glasses whether you are trying to lose weight or not. I will base all the calculations on this blog to this minimum. Most of the current literature that I have been reading concerning cutting body fat and keeping lean muscle mass recommends much more water than that, but that’s another blog post soon!

So, I guess you want to know my not so secret way of burning some extra calories everyday. Here goes. It’s so simple anyone can do it. (yes, even you!) Here goes…. Top easiest way to burn extra calories per day is to drink your 8 glasses of water every day ICE COLD! What??? you say? How can that make any difference at all.

First, we have to go back and look at the definition of a Calorie. A Calorie is simply the amount of heat it takes to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree celcius. Bet you may have thought it had something to do with food didn’t you? Well, a Calorie is a Calorie and that is the definition so here goes my simplified math.

There are a few assumptions that we have to make so here they are.

1. Ice water approximates 0 degrees celcius

2. Average body temperature is 37 degrees celcius.

Hopefully, we can all agree on these assumptions. They seem very reasonable to me so here goes the actual math.

There are approximately 236.59 grams in 8 oz. When you consume those 236.59 grams of ice cold water, you body has to raise the temperature of this water to your body temperature. Raising 236.57 grams by 37 degrees is 8753.83 calories (notice the lower case, which is actually a kilo calorie. We have to divide by 1000 to get what we commonly call a Calorie to get 8.753 Calories. If you agree with my oversimplified version I have spelled out for you, you are probably now saying, “Oh WOW, I can burn a whopping 8.75 calories by drinking an 8oz glass of ice cold water. BIg DEAL”

Ok, I can see your point. But wait. Let’s keep doing some more math. We have decided that (on the conservative side) we should consume at least 8 glasses per day. Let’s see. 8 x 8.75 = 70 calories per day. Ok, OK, I haven’t blown your mind yet I know, but now lets extend it to 90 days. 70 calories per day x 90 days = 6300 EXTRA Calories that we can burn by simply drinking our 64 ounces of of water ICE COLD! What, still not convinced? Let’s calculate what that equals in term of weight loss.

The most popular number I can find for the amount of Calories you need to burn to lose 1 lb of fat is 3500. I somewhat disagree with this number, particularly if you are already fairly lean, but again, I digress. Maybe another future blog post. At any rate, 3500 is the number that all the mainstream sources use, so we will use that here as well. Here is the last math I will do for you. We burned an EXTRA 6300 Calories in 90 days which should equate into 1.8 lbs.

I lied, here is some more math. What if you are like me and think you should drink much more water than 64 oz. per day. I am closer to 128 oz. while on my current Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge, so now, just by drinking my water ICE Cold, I can potentially lose an extra 3.6 lbs in 90 days. You do the math for your particular challenge.

I know, it’s still not mind boggling, but think about it, you didn’t have to change any eating habits, exercise any more, even get up off the couch to find the remote one more time to lose that extra 1.8 lbs in 90 days. Folks, it doesn’t get any easier than that.

I hope you have found something here of use an hopefully mildly entertaining. If so, please leave me a comment so I know you were here.

Thanks,

Michael

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