Sweat Off The Pounds With The Snuggie Sauna
A New York spa is offering clients a Snuggie sweat lodge that allegedly burns 600 calories in fifteen minutes. We're going to be sick.
The service doesn't use an actual Snuggie, but, according to Gothamist, you can wear your own Snuggie inside the faux Snuggie to maximize sweat and grossness. At $50, it's a downright steal.
On a related note, Gothamist also directed us to Snuggie Sutra, just in time for the cold months ahead!
Putting the "ugh" in Snuggie [Salon]
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But what if I have a Slanket? Do they make a Slauna?
Note to self: Never visit the snuggie sauna.. or associate with anyone who does.
Imagine the smell....ewww.
600 Calories in 15 minutes is impossible. I'm about 200 pounds, if I'm on a treadmill running 7mph which is a pretty good clip (8.5 minute miles), I only burn about 1000 cal in AN HOUR!
Saying that you can burn 2400 calories in an hour is ridiculous. The human body cannot dissipate the amount of heat that is generated by that amount of burnt energy. You would probably die. We're good at sweating, but not that good.
600 calories in 15 minutes? Jogging burns somewhere around 600 calories an HOUR.
Also, 600/15*60 == 2400 calories in an hour, which is about a day's worth of calories from food intake (or one Baskin Robbins Death Shake). I gotta ask if this is even safe?
The problem with people trying to lose weight with these types of machines is that the only real weight loss you will see is instant...from sweating. As soon as you drink some water you will be right back to your old weight aagain.
600 calories in 15 minutes? I call BS on that.
You wouldn't burn materially more calories in this than you would sitting on your couch - you're not expending energy, after all. I suppose you'd expend a bit more energy trying to cool yourself, but nothing significant. In short: horsehockey.
Time for somebody to let the FTC know these folks are completely, totally, talking out of their ass. Heatstroke is not an aerobic activity. You will not burn 600 calories. You will certainly lose weight, and it will be nothing but water, along with some salt. Which you will gain back as you chug something ice-cold after you get out of this thing.
The problem is that these people don't expect anyone with intelligence to consider something like this. After all, most people stereotype overweight people as smelly, disgusting people with very low IQ who get winded just by standing up from the couch.
600 calories is BS, but yet they will get away with lying about it in commercials while that yogurt company got in trouble for lying.
I can't even...just....wow. So, if you mixed this with one of those electrical muscle stimulating devices, you would come out a superhero? I'm all over it. Right as soon as my bowflex gets here.
Well now that I read that snuggie sutra page I absolutely *must* have a snuggie!
This won't burn any calories. What it will do is cause you to sweat out lots of water so that when you get on the scale, it'll say a lower number. It won't cause you to lose an ounce of actual fat, though.
This is dangerous. It will cause you to overheat and dehydrate. You will lose weight because you sweat like crazy and it will not burn calories. Sounds like it should get a 'not acceptable' from consumer reports.
Newsflash: sweating doesn't burn *any* calories. Well, maybe one or two. Effectively none.
Losing water weight does you no good. And probably does you harm, unless you have a water catheter stuck in your neck.
It should come with a punch in the face and a sign. You know...one of Bill Engvold's signs.
You put the weight right back on as soon as you come out of it and re-hydrate yourself. Silly.
handcuffing someone in one of those backwards would be very amusing. Might be difficult to get their arms through, but it would be hilarious.
It's like the Karma Sutra of Snuggies.
@ColoradoShark: No, it's not dangerous, it's just a new take on a very antiquated (and useless) technique.
They're probably taking the weight of the water lost through sweating and calculating how many calories it would represent if it were fat.
Instead of making people hot to "lose weight", they should make people cold instead. Throw them in a freezer and force their bodies to burn energy to maintain their body temperature (foot stomping, extreme shivering, i.e. "staying alive"). I wonder how many calories that would burn.
@exploded: I'll never understand why companies make such unbelievably outlandish claims for products like this. Anyone who's ever stepped on a treadmill would immediately call bullshit on 600 calories in 15 minutes - are there any activities which would allow you to burn so many calories so quickly? I doubt it. If they had said something like 200 calories in 15 minutes, it would still seem ridiculous but at least it's in the realm of the possible.
You're probably right. 600 calories is about 1/5lb of body fat. You can probably sweat out 3oz of water in 15 minutes.
So if you wear this while eating an anus burger, the net caloric effect would be zero in how long?