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BrianHG:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 22, 2020, 06:33:11 pm ---I'm not sure if your metabolism can be trained like that. I know your brain and nervous system can be trained to some degree, even parts you normally don't have direct control of such as your stomach. It's also true you can be addicted to something you like such as choclate.

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Are you kidding me, just the though of a quality chocolate mouse for desert would get me all hot and sweating as I waited for it.  My heart beats get really deep and pounding.  Generating all that extra heat and a pounding heart for something like 45 minutes to over an hour straight is not a true sign of heightened calorie burn, IE metabolism increase.

Note that there was no chocolate or source of caffeine & concentrated sugar anywhere else in my life.  (No caffeine means no coke, no coffee, no tea.)  Those 2 Toblerone chunks were absolutely exclusively reserved for 1 time use before exercise.  The chocolate rich desert was reserved for when I was out of town and unable to exercise.  (In other words, without exercise, those 2 Toblerone chunks were also missing during these vacations.)  This trick would probably not be functional if I had other sources of caffeine or sugar elsewhere in my diet.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on June 22, 2020, 07:09:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 22, 2020, 06:33:11 pm ---I'm not sure if your metabolism can be trained like that. I know your brain and nervous system can be trained to some degree, even parts you normally don't have direct control of such as your stomach. It's also true you can be addicted to something you like such as choclate.

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Are you kidding me, just the though of a quality chocolate mouse for desert would get me all hot and sweating as I waited for it.  My heart beats get really deep and pounding.  Generating all that extra heat and a pounding heart for something like 45 minutes to over an hour straight is not a true sign of heightened calorie burn, IE metabolism increase.

Note that there was no chocolate or source of caffeine & concentrated sugar anywhere else in my life.  (No caffeine means no coke, no coffee, no tea.)  Those 2 Toblerone chunks were absolutely exclusively reserved for 1 time use before exercise.  The chocolate rich desert was reserved for when I was out of town and unable to exercise.  (In other words, without exercise, those 2 Toblerone chunks were also missing during these vacations.)  This trick would probably not be functional if I had other sources of caffeine or sugar elsewhere in my diet.

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I don't doubt the sweating and fast heart rate, but they're controlled by your nervous system, which can be trained by classical conditioning. You can't prove it, without actaully measuring the calories burned and I seriously doubt it was that much above resting, without physically doing anything.
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