I have always heard that drinking hot or cold Water makes your body work harder (to either cool it down or warm it up).

Recently on food Detectives, there was a segment about it, and it reaffirmed that theory, stating that ice-cold water was best because it burns more calories trying to warm up the water to body temp.

Today, my boss was telling me that her doctor and another website she goes to says to ONLY drink room temperature water because too cold will shock the body and you won't lose weight.

So, it got me thinking...what do you guys think? I know with the band, sometimes ice cold water and I don't get along well, but I do like ice-cold water in place of room temperature.

Who else has heard room temp vs. icey...? Any theories?

For me, the colder the better and I tend to drink more when it is very cold. I freeze two bottles overnight and let one thaw slowly as I eat breakfast and my morning tea. This keeps it ice cold all morning long. Then I get the second bottle out for the afternoon. Drinking it ice-cold doesn't seem to have had an affect on my loss.

I've always liked the way it tastes better when it's cold.

So, shrug...who knows! I'm always hearing conflicting stories about what's good, not good, etc...

Eat less and move more seems to be the only thing that hasn't really changed.

water has to be cool to room temperature for me.

i'll take a bottled water out of the fridge, and open it up 30mins later. this was a preband thing as well.

I don't think it makes enough difference to matter. It doesn't take a lot of calories to process Water and drinking any water is good for weight loss. So if drinking cold water works a few extra calories, but you hate cold water, so don't drink enough, those extra calories will be balanced out by the lack of overall consumption.

Okay, after I typed that, I went out and checked. I found two articles, one that said an 8 oz glass of cold water takes about 8 calories to warm up and one that says it takes 17 calories.

If you like room temperature water, I don't think that's enough calories to worry about.

Besides it's ridiculous to say that, if you drink cold water, you won't lose weight. If I eat 800 calories a day*, I'm going to lose weight no matter what the temperature of my water is. That's just common sense.

*or whatever you are currently eating as long as it puts you at a calorie deficit.

Edited March 31, 200917 yr by MacMadame

What Mac said. Your body temp is 98 degrees (+ / - a little), and that alone will warm a mouthfull of Water quite a bit before it gets too far. You'd have to drink a lot of very cold water to drop your core temp enough to expend calories.

Kinda same with warm. It would be difficult to physically drink hot enough water in quantities where your body would have to try and "regulate" the heat, via sweating.

Okay, thanks.

What about what my boss said about how cold Water will shock your body into NOT losing weight?

I hadn't heard that one, and don't have time to STFW right now...but I can ALWAYS read LBT! :biggrin:

Okay, thanks.

What about what my boss said about how cold Water will shock your body into NOT losing weight?

I hadn't heard that one, and don't have time to STFW right now...but I can ALWAYS read LBT! :biggrin:

Well, I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, biochemist, or anything like that, but honestly I don't see how it could possibly happen (although, mama did tell me that alligators is mean because all their teeth won't fit into their mouf. She also told me that foosball is the devil). I don't know many people that got fat by drinking too much cold water. Now cold beer is another matter....

What about what my boss said about how cold Water will shock your body into NOT losing weight?

1) By the time our food gets to our stomachs, most of it already at body temperature. It's definitely all the same temp by the time it leaves your stomach.

2) If you maintain a calorie deficit, you'll lose weight.

3) All weight loss tidbits that include magic words (like "shock" and "trick") are bunk. :thumbdown:

Edited April 1, 200917 yr by MacMadame