CGatto7 wrote:
I'm a size 2 mother of 3 from Staten Island. Before you all hate me I must say
I work very hard to stay this way. Excersise daily (and I'm talking breaking
sweat and at least 45 minutes) I try to eat healty during the week. Weekends
all bets are off. Do this it helps. Drink water lots of it and alway add ice
cubes. Your body burns 300 calories a day to metabolize 64 oz of ice water.
The water had to be brought down to the right tempeture for digestion and this
burns calories. So remember the ice. It also speeds of the metabolisiom win
win situation. Good luck.

It only takes about 70 calories to warm up two quarts of ice water,
not 300.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question447.htm
details the numbers, but they miss an important point:

Another factor is that one's body is releasing excess heat through
the skin and respiration almost all the time. Because of this,
it is highly questionable whether warming up cold water uses any
*additional* calories at all, rather than just having to release a
little less heat through it's other methods.

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