Does sweating make you lose weight?
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Sweating makes you lose water, but not weight. The weight from the water will come back as soon as you eat/drink something. You lose weight by doing cardio, which exercises major muscles groups and elevates your heart beat. You will probably sweat in the process, but the weight loss comes from the exercise, not the sweat.
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Sweating (also called perspiration or sometimes transpiration) is the loss of a watery fluid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride (commonly known as salt) and urea in solution, that is secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Sweat also consist of the chemicals or odorants 2-methylphenol and 4-methylphenol.\n\nIn humans, sweating is primarily a means of temperature regulation. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Sweating is increased by nervousness and nausea and decreased by cold. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.
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Perspiration doesn't MAKE you lose weight or increase your cardiovascular health. It is just a by-product of the increase in your metabolism caused by the cardio workout. The water keeps a swimmer's body cool, but the heart is still working. If you think about it, the cooler water will even raise the metabolism further so that the body will respond to keep you warm. A swimmer's muscles are still working hard, as is the heart, so the body is doing everything it would do on land to achieve fitness. In terms of weight loss, you just need to burn more calories than you take in. If you are doing the work, that WILL happen!
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Your body works best when its temperature is about 98.6º Fahrenheit (37º Celsius). When your body gets hotter than that, your brain doesn't like it — it wants your body to stay cool and comfortable. So the part of your brain that controls temperature, called the hypothalamus (say: hy-po-thal-uh-mus), sends a message to your body, telling it to sweat.\n\nThen special glands in your skin called — what else? — sweat glands start making sweat. Sweat is also known as perspiration (say: pur-spuh-ray-shun), and it is made almost completely of water, with tiny amounts of other chemicals like ammonia (say: uh-mown-yuh), urea (say: yoo-ree-uh), salts, and sugar. (Ammonia and urea are left over when your body breaks down protein.)\n\nThe sweat leaves your skin through tiny holes called pores. When the sweat hits the air, the air makes it evaporate (this means it turns from a liquid to a vapor). As the sweat evaporates off your skin, you cool down.\n\nSweat is a great cooling system, but if you're sweating a lot on a hot day or after playing hard you could be losing too much water through your skin. Then you need to put liquid back in your body by drinking plenty of water so you won't get dehydrated (say: dee-hi-drayt-ed).\n\n\n\nWhy Does Sweat Smell?\nSweat isn't just wet — it can be kind of stinky, too. But the next time you get a whiff of yourself after running around outside and want to blame your sweat glands, hold on! Sweat by itself doesn't smell at all. It's the bacteria that live on your skin that mix with the sweat and give it a stinky smell. And when you reach puberty, special hormones affect the glands in your armpits — these glands make sweat that can really smell.\n\nLuckily, regular washing with soap and water can usually keep stinky sweat under control. Many teens and adults also find that wearing deodorant (say: dee-oh-der-ent) or antiperspirant (say: an-tee-pur-sper-ent) helps.\n\nSo don't worry about a little sweat — it's totally normal and everybody sweats. Sometimes too much sweating can be a sign that there is something wrong in the body, but this is rare in kids. If you notice more sweat, it's usually just a sign that it's time to start using a deodorant or antiperspirant. But if you think you have a sweat problem, talk to your parent or your doctor about it.
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Your sweat actually contains urine, that's why it smells.  Since your armpits are a perfect place for heat and wetness, it is more abundant. Bacteria also feed off the sweat and emmit more stinky smells!
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That would be my first guess. There are charts that you can look up on the internet where you can put your age, body type, etc., and it will tell you your peak heart rate. You should check that out. If your heart rate is up, you'll be burning calories. Most people do sweat when they burn fat, but there are obviously exceptions. Some people sweat profusely and some people hardly sweat at all. \n\nSo, I would just keep a check on your heart rate, and not worry about sweating. Hope this helps.
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There is one way but unfortunately you will later regain it. You have more than 5 pounds of water in your body, so you can sweat 5 pounds off easily during a heavy workout. Did you ever watch biggest looser and notice how they lost the most weight during the first week. Some as much as 10 lbs. Mostly water.
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Diets and diet pills don't work so your choice of taking exercise which raises your pulse and makes you sweat is a good one.  However, do you really need to lose the weight?  The only thing guaranteed to get a body healthy (note I don't say "lose weight") is to exercise and eat a healthy, balanced, wide variety of foods plus the occasional treat in moderation (this stops any food becoming "naughty" and therefore craved). Please note that body muscle mass weighs four times more than body fat because the fibres are so much closer together. Some fat is important on the body though as it helps regulate hormonal levels in the body and prevents osteoporosis and other bone wasting diseases in later life (even in men). The question to ask yourself is - do your clothes fit better and how do you look in a mirror - not how much do you weigh.  If you think you look untoned, then incorporate some light weights (low weight, high repetitions) into your regime.  Incidentally, sweat can't be reabsorbed by the body.  Hope this helps.
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there is no relation between the two...\n\nwhile u exercising, your muscles will work and increases the body temperature ( you know how ?? ).  \nwhenever you work/exercise, it uses the calories ( from carbohydrates/fat) and burn them. in this burning process heat will be produced. Due to this your inner body temperature increase than the outer body temperature...then it causes for sweat.\n\nIn second case, in hot weather your body temp rises ( not due to burning of calories)... so here you sweat..\n\nSo due to hot weather we don't burn calories.  ( very few ..negligible comparing to exercise )
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the calorie count on the machine may not be accurate.....if your heart rate is higher, you are likely burning more calories\n\nalso, you may have built up some muscle, which takes a little time......if this is the case, you should be burning more calories all day and night, and this will definitely speed up weight loss......\n\nalso, since you have less weight to lose, any loss will be a lot more obvious.....you may just lose a couple of pounds, and notice a big change, where before you wouldn't have noticed any just from losing that amount.........
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yes but u have to get ur heart rate up to lose weight.
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You can lose weight...and control your nerves sometimes...:)
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There is one way, but you have to be observed while doing it or else it will cause shock to your body and it could kill you. Anyways, the best way I can explain what it is, is sitting in a sweating booth. A room that is at a maximum heat can cause you to sweat and actually lose weight. I learned this when taking anatomy. But maybe liposuction also can help. I would try to lose weight yet not in such a hurry. It will be healthier for you and your body especially. =>
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I haven't found that eating alot of salt creates more sweat but you lose more salt through sweat. Leaving some links for you to read up on the subject...\n\nWhen the water in the sweat evaporates, it leaves the salts (sodium, chloride and potassium) behind on your skin, which is why your skin tastes salty. The loss of excessive amounts of salt and water from your body can quickly dehydrate you, which can lead to circulatory problems, kidney failure and heat stroke.
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Losing weight doesn't have anything to do with sweating. Follow a healthy diet using the Food Pyramid, and exercise regularly, 3-5 days a week for a minimum of 30 minutes a day. Don't cut out the carbohydrates because your body needs those for energy, but shoot for a goal of 100g a day. Eat 3 small meals a day with 2 small snacks and drink a lot of water. If you use a small plate at meal time you can trick you mind into thinking that you are getting more than you really are, and eat slowly, it may take up to 15 minutes for your brain to get the message that the stomach is full. Don't try to lose all of the weight at once, if you lose 1-2 pounds a week you will be more likely to keep them off.
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Thats a mixed and complex question. you first have to look at why you sweat.The body uses some or all of these four processes: radiation,conduction,convection and evaporation to offset and restore normal temp. ( 97.7-100.5 F) Recptor cells in the skin resopnd to change by sending nerve inpluses through the cerebral cortex to the hypothalamus\n( part of the Endocrine system). Its compares the body's set point temp with the new sensed temp. Then sends a signal to,lets say reduce temp, by dilating( forcing more blood then normal) to surface blood vessels ( thats why people look "red" when they sweat), this signals the sweat gland ( the apocrine & eccrine sudoriferous glands) to turn on and flood the skin surface with a mix of salt,oil and water. the high body temp causes the water to change into a vapor, the salt helps with the change from ligued to vapor and the oil helps keep the skin surface soft and "breathable". When the temp returns to around normal for that human, the hypothalamus re-sets the body's temp. point so it can remember it. So the answer would be, NO, you dont sweat while you swim, but you could start sweating when you get out if your still above what your hypothalamus says you should be.You also have to factor in, the water temp,air temp,time of day,age,or for woman your cycle or if you have a problem in the hypothalamus. Long answer for a little sweat. There are even formulas to understand temp thoughout the body's systems.
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No if you are comparing to the hot weather, you actually burn more calories in the hot weather because your body has to work harder to keep itself from overheating. In the cold weather all your body has to worry about is supplying your muscles with blood and very little extra blood to your skin to dissipate the heat. \n\nCold weather itself doesn't increase calorie needs. You don't burn any extra calories unless you start shivering. Although your body will most likely use a considerable amount of energy to warm the air you breathe when you exercise in the cold, in the summer you would just simply dissipate that heat via sweat. In the winter, you sweat less. \n\nNow if you're trudging through snow or walking into strong wind then yeah you'll be burning slightly more. The reason why some people lose more weight while walking in the winter weather is actually due to the cold air's effect on clearing the mind and reducing stress. That in itself has been proven to help weight loss. \n\nRemember that food provides the fuel that you need to generate heat. Therefore as always suggested, eat healthy so you can generate the heat that you need.\n\nP.S. I'm sorry konagold_11 but I have to write this. Although it's very clever to try to advertise through Yahoo! answers, it'd be helpful if you knew what you were talking about.