The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
First of all, he had also gained more muscle with cold exposure. Losing more heat couldn't
account for that. Though the muscle gain could have been accounted for by the slight
inaccuracies of home-use calipers (plus or minus two pounds), I suspected there was more to
the story.
Second, looking at the research, the math didn't add up quite as neatly as I'd hoped.
It's been shown that you can burn almost four times more fat than usual with two hours of
cold exposure15 (176.5 milligrams per minute instead of 46.9 milligrams per minute). This is
great, but percentage changes can be deceptive. If there are nine calories in one gram of fat, and
assuming the e ect lasts for the time you are in the water, then this exposure would burn an
extra 139 calories,16 or 15.5 grams of fat.
15.5 grams?! That's about 11 paper clips ... for two hours of torture.
Ray was losing more than three additional pounds (approximately 1,350 grams) of fat per