Hello everyone, does sweating cause you to lose calories? Please provide a 'scientific' explanation.

For a scientific explanation you need Dr. Houser to reply. I once heard on TV that wearing black clothes to sweat doesn't burn fat.

Usually, heavy sweating is accompanied by weight loss. However, I'm neither a scientist nor a doctor. May be Dr. Houser is the right person to answer this question.

I'm no doctor so I will leave the scientific explanation to Dr. Houser, but if this was the case, I would be a stick insect by now!

I am not a doctor either but know a lot about sweat. Here goes: When you exercise you raise your heart rate. Depending upon which camp you play in, there are either four or five "zones" with regards to heart rates. Working out to the point where you are huffing and puffing is generally in the highest of zones or around 85% of your maximum heart rate or the point when you cross over from aerobic training to anaerobic training. Just prior to that point or range is where you really want to be training or working out. This is the zone where your body is most efficient at burning fat. Your cells are breaking a bond and when that happens your cells are looking for glycogen (fat or sugar) and the body's system uses water to flush out the byproducts from you system as your break more and more of these bonds (adenzine tri phophate - spelling there may be off). So that water carries these by products out of your body . . . hence SWEAT ! So, it stands to reason that if you are working out "efficiently" then you will be seating more. This holds true that if you exercise in a lower zone or higher (anaerobic zone) then you will sweat less or body less efficient. Hope this helps.

Yes sweating also burn calories and lowers your cholesterol.

When it comes to the question of does sweating burn calories, one of the most important things to realize is that it really depends on why you are sweating. For instance if you are sweating while exercising, then you are in a way burning calories because you are being physically active and working off calories that were stored in your body.

If you are having night sweats, on the other hand, where you are sweating while sleeping, then you are still burning a few calories, but not nearly as many as you do while you are exercising.

When working out aerobically, the large muscle groups in your body demand oxygen, which then places an oxygen debt on the body. Then when large amounts of oxygen are breathed in the body then uses that oxygen in order to produce heat, which thus results in the sweating.

When yopu sweat you are losing water in your body and not claories. Losing water can l;ead you dehydrated. Sweating is the body's cooling system. If you want to burn calories keep your body in motion always and heartbeat up.

Sweating indicates your body is stressed out. It can be a form of atmospheric and body temperature. Overweight,poor healt, mentally disoriented are also causing stress.

You dont lose more calories but you will lose more weight. Like my predecessors said, its going to be water weight but its weight all the same, and it makes cleansing your system all the much easier.

It says that in order to lose weight or fats, you need to exercise. When exercising, you are burning fats into energy that is building your muscles and sweat are our cooling system. Therefore, excessive sweting does not help in burning our fats.

When you sweat, it doesn't mean that your losing weight but you're losing fluids so your body needs to cool down.

Yes, it is healthy. Those hamburger patties are made of soy or tofu that are rich in minerals and proteins. It is also fat and cholesterol free.

Too much sweating can be a result of thyroid disorder. The thyroid glands help our body to sweat to prevent us from overheating. When you are still sweating even though you’re not doing anything then that’s one of the symptoms of thyroid disorder.

Can thyroid disorder cause dehydration to our body?

I don’t know for sure. Dehydration is the loss of liquid in our body and its better to consult a doctor to diagnose your disease.

More sweat means calories you burn. Just an added advice when doing sports activities it best to rehydrate by drinking sports drink like Gatorade.

That is a myth. We sweat because that is the cooling system of our body. The less you sweat that more chance of getting dehydration.

So Michael, you mean that you don’t lose weight when sweating?

You lose a lot of water. There is a study by doctors and they said that you are still losing a little amount of fat when perspiring.

This is my first time to read this thread. I was shocked to discover that if we sweat it doesn’t mean we burn more calories or fat. It’s our body’s cooling system, that’s why if we don’t sweat then we might overheat our body.