Supposedly it burns calories. I'm not entirely sure. Cold showers make me feel more alive, so I take them, except on cold days, because fuck that. I like the cold, but that's too much cold.

 

Oh that episode.... Haha.

They do burn a bit more calories than your BMR, but that's only if you stay in there while you're shivering and tremoring- that's when your body works to maintain it's temperature. If you're not shivering don't count the minutes as burning calories.

Personally I think it's stupid- you can exercise for the same amount of time and burn the same if not more calories plus suppress your appetite and speed your metabolism up a little bit for the rest of the day by exercising. So just run for twenty minutes in place until you're sweating and you'd be better off. Besides muscle burns more calories sooooo

 

lowering your body temperature would make your body work harder to keep your body at a normal healthy temperature. depending on your weight you could burn up to 200 calories per degree your body has to warm itself up. so yes it would burn calories, however, you probably shouldn't do it too long or too cold if you are weak because you could get hypothermia.

I also sometimes do mints to not eat so much, I have tic-tacs and they are about 1.5-2.5 per little mint,

when I worry about eating too many I put allotted amounts into baggies, usually one for each hour I am up,

17 hours 25.5 - 42.5 calories, if I write the calories on the baggie I usually eat less than what's in the bag.

I hope some of this helps.

 

TRIED IT. DONT KNOW IF IT BURNED THE CALS BUT NOW I'M FUCKING SICK so idc anymore

 

I used to have ice cold baths every other day when i was anorexic- again because i found out apparently the sudden change in temperature increases your metabolism. I dont think it makes a difference.

I've almost finished a nutrition degree now, and yeah no literally cold showers/baths arent going to help you lose weight. To be honest it'll make things worse for anorexics because it makes you more prone to catching illnesses/ makes your circulation worse. Weight loss is simple, less calories in, more calories out = weight loss.

 

I take a cool bath every night after I take my lorazepam to relax. It's not ice cold, but it's cool enough that I get pretty chili. Then again, I love near Miami & it's been cray cray hot this year. I probably wouldn't be as obsessed with cool baths otherwise.

 

If you get to the point I'm at, your body will not bother wasting energy trying to heat you up at all. You will just keep getting colder, frozen, and only several kettles full of hot tea sculled all at once will make you a little bit warm again.

I call bullshit urban legend.

 

Yeah don't bother.

 

Doesn't burn many calories and not worth giving up the only time I actually feel warm in a day. My boiling showers are the only things I look forward to.

 

i tried this. for 30 minutes. it was soo colf. but Yes it does burn calories. i found how much:
10 minutes: 133 calories
45 minutes: 599 calories

 

I used to have ice cold baths every other day when i was anorexic- again because i found out apparently the sudden change in temperature increases your metabolism. I dont think it makes a difference.

I've almost finished a nutrition degree now, and yeah no literally cold showers/baths arent going to help you lose weight. To be honest it'll make things worse for anorexics because it makes you more prone to catching illnesses/ makes your circulation worse. Weight loss is simple, less calories in, more calories out = weight loss.

It's not entirely "simple".

There are some people who can't eat enough Calories (and thus go into crazy metabolism meltdown), and there are people who eat too much. Not because they "want to", it's just how their brain/thoughts work; cravings and desires to restrict are very, very hard to control.

If it WERE easy, everyone would be of healthy weight.

 

Cold showers only burn a few calories, honestly it's not worth it. I mean you don't put on weight just because you take a warm shower, but of course some people do like taking cold showers.

 

Woah. I literally just did this like six hours ago. I thought I was the only one desperate enough (not saying you're desperate ) to do this to myself. I don't really care if it burns anything, but it keeps me out of the kitchen and distracted

 

I used to do it a lot and I don't think it helped much. Be better off going for a walk for half an hour

 

I use o do this quite often and I have thought about doing it again. Although I did give myself mild hypothermia, I was in the starting stages of hypothermia, like my hands hurt and could barely move, my brain wasn't working properly and I couldn't think straight. I was also very very cold so I took a hot shower and it took about 30 - 45minutes before my hands were working normally again.

 

I remember doing this when things were "really bad" and yeah i mean its not like there is any exact amount or way to know how much you lost if you know what i mean? i wouldnt rely on it. I would recommend working out instead.

 

I used to do it to punish myself.

 

Ive actually read that shivering could burn around 100 calories in 15 minutes. The muscles secrete a hormone called irisin that stimulates heat production from white and brown fat cells stored in the body which is pretty damn cool if you ask me. Just imagine instead of going to the gym and working out you could just sit in a freezing bath while watching your fav tv show. I dont even know man

 

When I was 14 (now 18) that was my religion lol. Cold baths were my go to if I couldnt work out as much as I felt i could but what I did was put on an hour playlist and stay in there and walk in place and jump up and down (I had tub mats to steady myself). It also helped to maintain my lowest weight when I was in the hospital until they figured out, then my mom had to monitor my showers ): Very embarassing.

 

Yup! Not just relating to my ED, I started when I lived in a pretty damn hot place. They're my crack cx I don't know if THEY make me burn more calories, but they do give me energy which I usually use to work out.

 

SIGH

 

no way. A nice warm bath is sometimes the only comfort I get.

 

I used to force myself to have freezing cold showers, especially in hospital. I hoped that it would burn some calories...probably just desperate and wishful thinking.

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There is nothing I hate more than being cold. It doesn't seem worth it and I doubt it really burns that many calories.

 

Just go for a walk or something. Seriously. Not worth it and it won't burn much.
Also, people with EDs can often have undiagnosed heart problems and something like this could set off a major cardiac event. Very risky.