If I Use a Sauna Suit, Is It True That All Weight I Have Lost With It Will Come Back as Soon as I Drink Water?
I need to lose a lot of weight, and I want to use a sauna suit to kick things off, but I have read that the weight comes back as soon as you drink water or any other type of liquid. What’s the point then? Is this true? Or would I be ok if all I drank was water during the use of the suit and after my workout?
Sauna suit just makes you sweat. You’re only losing water, not fat, so indeed, the weight does come back once you drink. The point is to trick people into thinking they’ve lost weight and it’s a miracle treatment, and also to make people look skinny for events like weddings.
Basically all these do is make you sweat. You may have read that sweating daily is healthy, but only if you’re sweating from exertion. Sweat depletes your body of water, salt, and trace amounts of other nutrients. As soon as you drink water the weight is reabsorbed into cells and awaits the next round of sweating or dehydration. All you’ve lost are mostly various salts which need to be replenished through proper nutrition.
Its true that you can get marginal *temporary* benefits from a hard sweat, but the risks are dehydration if you don’t replenish with water.
Sauna suits started out as a way for athletes such as wrestlers to quickly and easily cut weight before a weigh-in. These athletes would do a wide variety of things in order to lose water weight, which could easily be replenished after the weigh in with few adverse effects in the actual competition. I think miss information was spread to the public that this weight loss could be permanent, and as such the sauna suit market was born. I wouldn’t expect they have any long term weight loss benefits, except for perhaps making your body work slightly harder to cool itself while exercising and burning a negligible amount of extra calories doing it.