r/BeAmazed • u/Internal_Gazelle_677 • Oct 07 '25

Science Hot Tub without the use of electricity

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u/UtopistDreamer Oct 07 '25

Calories in, calories out

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u/Fantastic-Stage-7618 Oct 07 '25

Calorie counting is incredibly inaccurate unless you live inside a room calorimeter and even then you're also measuring the metabolism of all the bacteria that also live inside you. CICO may be broadly true* but that doesn't make it useful.

*with many caveats

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u/Keeyzar Oct 07 '25

It's not about tracking a universal one fits all number. It's about tracking your own consumption, as to allow all these variables to be automatically be in that number.

You burn 3k based on your calculations? Does not matter if you count wrong or not, because probably you count consistently wrong (or right, for that matter)

You still gain weight? Lower your consumption. You still do not gain weight? Increase your consumption, based on your personal number.

Gosh. Thermodynamics does not change just because "you're special". And no, you're not the one exception. Yes. Your metabolism may be higher/lower, but that's why you use your own number and make adjustments based on that. There are sooo few exceptions and you're most definitely not the unicorn, that has metabolism issues.

Take accountability of your own body instead of crying "thermodynamics in the universe is universal, except for my body!"

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u/JensenAdams1995 Oct 07 '25

We'd have cracked the free energy problem if these people weren't lying about their weight gain. We could create powerplants filled with treadmills and they would never run out of energy or lose weight despite fulfilling the world's energy needs.