Also are your sheets made of insulation?

31 degrees is pretty warm unless you're using an arbitrary system of measuring temperature.

Might be Farenheit degrees, 0-¦ C = 32 -¦F IIRC.

he's trying to point out that Farenheit is an arbitrary and hopelessly meaningless measurement system.

False.

The larger size of each degree Celsius results in the need for decimals where integer Fahrenheit degrees are adequate for day to day non-technical matters. Another reason is that the Fahrenheit system has a lower zero point which reduces the number of negative signs when measurements such as weather data are averaged.

Europe switched to Celsicunts in the ate60's, early 70's I assume they were all high on drugs.

I've never seen anyone use decimals with celsius degrees for day to day matters and rarely outside that either

I've recently been sleeping with the windows and doors open in order to get exercise when I sleep. My body has to burn calories trying to keep me from freezing to death, waalaa I burn off weight. But, when I wake up my t-shirt and blanket is drenched in sweat. Is this because I'm working out much more than I thought?

31 degrees is pretty warm unless you're using an arbitrary system of measuring temperature.

I've never seen anyone use decimals with celsius degrees for day to day matters and rarely outside that either, since such small differences are inconsequential. I also don't see why negative signs in weather measurements matter one way or another, or are you seriously saying your people don't have the skills to count temperature averages when negative numbers are involved?

I don't actually care which system is better and don't think it matters as long as the people using the system find it convenient for their purposes. I'm just pointing out your objections are rediculous at best.

Why not try getting exercise the normal way? Freezing yourself while sleeping is not going to make you lose weight. All you will end up doing is making yourself sick.

You admit that people who use celsius are imprecise approximating monkeys

Notice how I said 31 degrees which is specific because it is 1 degree below freezing, at 32 degrees I would not actually freeze for it must be below it.

In celsius you could never do that without using a decimal (your -1 translates a much too broad difference), of which you just admitted Europeans are incapable of doing.


Good day

If teh ab shocker or diet pills have taught us anything it's that traditional working out is no bueno, and sweating is iky. I mean just the word "workout" eh seems like a deal breaker for most.

You consider the gimmicks and pills "traditional working out"? Really?

Go see a doctor.

When I got diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, it was only because I noticed I kept sweating profusely every time I slept regardless of conditions.

I thought "this is odd" and went for a checkup. A week later I was on chemo

Good God!
I hate you a little less now.
A little.

I never heard of sleeping in the cold as a means of losing weight.

But the OP is still using blankets. If you want to be hard core, sleep naked and no blankets.

But this is NOT necessary AND it's already a good sign that you sweat in your sleep. This means your metabolism is working.


Here is what I can recommend. I am more than twice the age I was in high school, but I wear the same sized clothes that I wore back then.


Get all your carbs and fats in the morning,. and keep a light mainly protein dinner in the evening. To be able to sleep while heated up shows that you can sleep when your metabolism is jacked up but don't push it. Fact is that you need the protein more at night when you sleep but the carbs and fats are needed during the day, so load up on the fuel you need when you need it.


A lighter dinner will allow you to cool off better at night, and you would not need to sleep in the cold, but that's your option.

This has worked for me very well, and might work for the OP.

A lighter mainly protein dinner also cuts down on acid reflux in your sleep. If you are waking up with dragon breath in the morning, that means the acid and stuff is working up the pipes at night. This can also contribute to throat cancer. If you have this trouble, and don't want to resort to drugs, go a little lighter in the dinner and a little earlier until the problem goes away. The worst symptom of this is if your eyes are itchy too - the acid will get into your eyes through the sinuses.

Soon I am coming up on my "Christmas Swim" at the shooting range where I take a rifle into the mud and slime of the slough near the shooting range and torture test it. Last time I did that my balls were in my neck. But I can see the value of cold where giving the metabolism a kick in the ass matter.

You must be a space creature then; 31 Kelvins is rather chilly to us flesh-beings (not to mention 31 Rankines).

When air is warmer, it can hold a lot more moisture, that "sweat" has someplace to go, the moisture can escape your blankets/sheets and go into the warm air. When the air is cooler above your blankets, the water can not evaporate as easily, so it stays.

This is the same reason that there is dew and frost in the morning. During the night, the air temp drops, the water is forced out of the air and is deposited on the ground.

All that nice warm air under your blankets, in winter, holds all that water, sooner or later it gets saturated and it begins to "rain" under the blankets and leaves you all sweaty.

Shivering is a very efficient form of heat production which involves burning energy in muscles to release heat and so warm up the body.

As you know, muscles can only contract and so they're arranged in antagonistic pairs around joints; that is, one muscle moves the joint in one direction whilst its opposite number moves the joint back the other way.

During a movement one of the pair of muscles is activated whilst its antagonistic partner is switched off until just before the correct joint position is achieved.

But when you shiver both muscles are activated simultaneously so that they work against each other. As a result there is little of no net movement of the joint, but a huge amount of energy is burned. As muscles are only about 20% efficient i.e. 80% of the energy they burn turns into heat, this is a very good way to warm the body.

However, I agree with you that shivering is probably not as good at burning energy as sprinting.

Chris