How To Burn Calories By Just Drinking Water

Wouldn’t it be cool if drinking water could burn extra calories?

Let’s say you are cutting to get that six pack for summer; wouldn’t it be nice to have a few of those calories burned effortlessly?

Well, it can be done. Ice cold water burns more calories than water at room-temperature.

How Does It Work?

Throughout the day take your water ice cold. The reason is that your body has to heat this water up, expending energy (calories) in the process.

It requires 1 calorie (kilocalorie really) to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius.

It must raise the temperature up to 37 degrees Celsius. There are 1892.72 grams in 64 ounces of water.

Therefore you’ll expend an extra 70 calories a day by drinking 64 ounces of water ice-cold (1.89 Kg x 37 = 69.93). On a cutting diet you should be drinking more than this, 96 ounces at the very least. Drink your water in small glasses or cups to avoid it heating up before you’ve gotten the thing finished!

One criticism I have heard of this is by those who think that it requires 1 calorie (1/1000th of a kilocalorie) to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius; It is 1 kilocalorie.

By the way, when your food packaging says ‘contains 400 calories per 100 grams’ - that’s kilocalories. It has just become common today to call a kilocalorie a ‘calorie’ ;)

Your buddy,

Mark McManus

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4 Responses to “How To Burn Calories By Just Drinking Water”

  1. Craig Says:
    May 2nd, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Just one note, one convention that is sometimes used is to refer to a kilocalorie as “Calorie” (note the capitalization) and a regular calorie as such with the lower case “c”.

    Aside from that, thanks for the tip!

  2. Jimmy Says:
    May 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Hey this is a great tip Mark, I actually do this with coffee (not ice cold though, just cold). Doesn’t taste so great, but it burns extra calories.

  3. Carol Bardelli Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Hey Mark, great advice, especially as “eight glasses a day” has been criticized lately as unproven. There’s more than one reason to drink lots of water and the “ice water burns calories” is a great one. I first read that info in an Ellington Darden book about 5 years ago or so. Strangely your don’t hear it often. I’m an ice water with lime junkie myself.

  4. Mark McManus Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Thanks Carol. The lime sounds good too :)
    Mark

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