Want to Lose an Extra 6 Pounds?

One of the main tenants of Middle Management, and the foundation of the FatLossAcademy.com (enrollment is currently full) is small changes lead to big, permanent results in the long run. Here is another one that might just help you drop an extra 6 pounds each year.

We already know that drinking water to lose weight is a good idea. But did you know that, with one easy trick, you can burn another 64 calories each day?

Make that an ice water, and you could burn an extra 64 calories per day.

How is that you ask?

It turns out, that if you drink 8 ounces of ice water, you burn about 8 calories when you body works to raise the temperature of the water (from about 4 degrees C to 37.5 degrees C).

If you drink eight 8 ounce glasses per day, that is 64 extra calories burned every day.

Interestingly, Chow.com makes it sound like this is a waste of time:

Dividing 8,040 by 1,000 gives us 8.04 food calories (kilocalories). Therefore, you’ll burn about 8 calories for each glass of iced calorie-free beverage you drink. That’s equal to about one Life Saver: not exactly a weight-loss miracle.

Using Clemens’s figures, it would take about 435 8-ounce glasses of ice water to lose a pound.

Ummm… McFly!?! (sorry for the Back to the Future reference)…

Yeah, we wouldn’t want to waste our time… with…

WAIT A SECOND!

Those calories add up!

If I drink 8 glasses per day, then I would lose an extra 6 pounds per year.

Add that to your 100 equals 10 plan, and you are up to 16 pounds per year.

Now, that’s real weight loss!