i exercise indoors and hardly sweat, would i lose weight if i started to sweat during my workouts?
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Sweat and losing weight have nothing in common. When you sweat you temporarily lose water from your system...that's all, you don't lose fat. People who first start to workout sometime notice a weight gain, as muscle weighs more than fat. The scale really doesn't mean much it is how you feel and how your clothes fit. You could compare two people of the same age, height and weight and see a huge difference in the size of the two individuals if one is fit and the other is not!
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If you're not sweating and you don't feel like your lungs are working hard you are probably not doing enough. You would be better off working out for 30 minutes at a higher intensity. Every body is different and I can't tell you what is going to work for YOU, but bottom line is you need to listen to your body. I would try maybe running, either on a treadmill or just on the street, and make sure you are working at a level appropraiate for you. Ignore the machine's readings. People get too caught up in that and they are so general. You need to raise your body temp enough to break a sweat and you need to be breathing hard enough that you can still carry on a conversation but feel like you would rather not. That's the rule that I use and it works for me.
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Keep in mind that walking doesn't burn that many calories anyway.  A 200 lb person who walks 2 miles a day will only lose 1 pound in 3 weeks.\n\nYes, sweating will cause more loss ... until you drink a glass of water.\n\nBetter to focus on diet and finding areas to cut back.  We discuss the effects of exercise on weight loss in the Kimkins Diet newsletter.  Check it out or sign up.
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If you are sweating a lot you should drink a lot more water to replace the moisture you are losing. I don't think this is really a good answer for your problem but it will help you to stay healthy.
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A sauna works to cause weight loss by causing you to sweat and lose water weight.  It is TEMPORARY, very temporary.  And it has nothing to do with developing muscles.  Sorry, you gotta do it the old-fashioned way!
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It could help if you combined it w/ diet and exercise. The best to take is green tea extract meaning just a tiny few drops with a small amount of water. Green tea is a natural thermogenic and will make u sweat more when you work out. If you combined it with a healthy diet and exercise plan, you could lose up to 2 lbs a week.
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First, you need to realize it's not going to happen overnight.  If you're exercising, losing weight, but not losing inches right away, it's probably that you're burning fat and building muscle mass at the same time.\nOne thing I noticed on ME several years ago was that when I looked in the mirror and thought I was losing weight, I had actually gained 5-15 pounds, and when I thought I was getting fatter, I'd lost some.  Not quite sure how that makes sense, because muscle weighs more than fat, but that's how it happened for me.\nYou're probably not losing inches so fast because you've still got the padding, but your muscles are getting bigger.  Just stick with what you're doing, and give it time.  Keep on that treadmill, and gradually increase your workout from walking to jogging to running.\nIf you're stuck at home, obviously with net access, run a search for Tony Little Target Training videos.  I used to have them, and they're great.\nI'd help you more, but I haven't had my coffee yet, and I'm a little braindead  :-)\n\nP.S.  eddogq28:  CRACK is rocked up cocaine.  Ephedrine is used in the manufacturing of METHAMPHETAMINE, and they use OTC allergy medications containing ephedrine, not diet pills  :-)
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No> When you sweat it helps you're body rid of toxins. Its great to sweat!\nHe might be eating the wrong foods, or better yet tell him to drink more water when this happens. To replace the fluids.
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You will burn more calories with a HR of 165. But if you are talking fat loss you will also burn more fat with a HR of 165. Note that your body greatly changes when you are exercising during fatigue. For example do a spin class and then run moderately for 30 minutes after you will see faster results.\n\nYou can get scientific but I won't bore you cause in reality it's get mathematics and doesn't work out. But in reality everyone is totally different. Take me for example I work out 6 days a week up to 9 sessions. I burn more body fat & weight during exercises that are high in intensity.  \n\nWhat you are asking is fat not weight so in theory the harder you train the bigger difference you will see so in essence the higher the heart rate the more fat you will burn.
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The sweat pants will not really help you to burn calories when you walk, but I still recommend wearing them.  Sweat pants will help your legs to warm up as you are walking, and warm legs are important to avoid injury.  Sweating does not help you to lose weight, since all you lose is water.
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I don't think you do sweat. Sweating is your bodies cooling mechanism, and if you're not overheated, then you probably won't sweat. When your body gets hot, it sweats so the air can make it evaporate off of you and cool you down, but if your not in the air to have it evaporate, I don't think you would sweat. Plus the water would be sitting on top of all your pours and sweatglands so the sweat couldn't really come out anyway.\n\nI dunno, just a guess. I'm not a Bio person or anything. Would it even matter if you did sweat? It would just mix into the water anyway? lol!
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u cant decrease sweat and ur not supposed to. Sweatin is metabolic process ur body does when it heats up to much.If u dont sweat the high body tempature would make u sick like when u get fevers.
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Actually sweating can make it worse. It makes your face oily and can produce more acne. So make sure to wash your face after working out.
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No. You'll just sweat. The weight you loose from sweating will be replaced within a few hours.
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Exercise involves lots of aerobic respiration, which is WORK, esp as all the muscles are contracting=WORKING.  98.6F is an approximate temp. we do NOT stay there all the time and our temp changes all day depending what we are doing.  In fact in females who are not on the pill or other hormones, the body temp fluctuates all during the month due to the different hormones in the blood (say 96 to 99 deg F) , but 98.6F is "normal" homeostasis body temp for the "sleeping-idle person...we are close to homeostasis at this temp, but during exercise, the body temp will naturally go up, but the body wants to cool you off so you don't FRY-COOK-DENATURE all your metabolic enzymes and go into HYPERTHERMIA.  If you are in good shape you may be able to cool off better than others!\n\nThis cell respiration process during exercise produces lots of ATP and body-muscle heat, which is lost as well. Body needs to cool off from doing all this WORK!  Skin can help us with thermo-regulation in several ways.  When we sweat, the moisure of sweat plus the heat helps reduce body temp by evaporative cooling.  Also,when we get red-overheated,the blood goes to perpheral circulation in skin to bring blood-heat to the surface to be lost by convection with the air currents.  Heat can also leave skin by radiation too.  You can feel heat coming off red sun burned or fevered people.
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Yes you will lose weight. As-long as you are consuming those fewer calories! And you ar going to gym 5days a week! Well done! You are definitely on the way to a perfect life style. Just eat healthy. That's the key to it!
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That is possible. I was able to burn 1,300 calories at the gym yesterday and I felt GREAT. I rode the elliptical Trainer for 60 minutes and burned 800 calories and then walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes and burned 200 calories, Afterwards I hopped back on the elliptical and burned an additional 300 calories in 20 minutes. I came home from the gym and was 4 lbs. lighter. Mainly water weight. But, I felt awesome. Drink PLENTY of water afterwards so you will not get dehydrated.