Chewing gum and weight loss/counting calories?

Is this good? You asked.

Are you kidding or just in denial?

Eeww!

Who’s gonna want to kiss you now?

Nobody likes to kiss a drooler, unless you’re a dog (for dog people, I wouldn’t, I would not even kiss a cat on the mouth) or a baby (for parents…I did not mind my baby drooling all over me but I was not kissing him on the mouth).

Chewing gum will make your salivary glands overproduce saliva as they get overexposed to something that tastes something and your taste buds are going overdrive.

Even if nobody kisses you (why would they want to do that, you’re drooling?), you sound disgusting when you speak and have to stop and swallow your flooding saliva every 5 words you’re saying, pretending that you’re thinking.

You also get digestive issues with too much saliva in your stomach when digesting food (lots of pretty funny noises coming from there).

You also get sleep issues as you keep salivating when lying down and trying to fall asleep while listening to your stomach growling and squeaking every 20 seconds and not choking on your own saliva (you don't want that in your wind pipes).

Without your gender (I’m guessing female, because of your avatar but those are often deceptive as your avatar does not look overweight at all), your weight, height and age, nobody can know your BMR.

Plus “some exercise” is pretty vague, there the Grand Canyon between “I walk 30 minutes 3 times a week” to “I walk/jog, bike and swim”, any one of those every day and also weight train and eat very healthy but just enough to cover my BMR”.

I’d say your first priority is not losing weight but getting over your gum addiction (it IS an addiction) so you can restore your taste buds and salivary glands or you’ll never achieve the right healthy diet with messed up taste buds and overactive salivary glands.

Just like you have to get over a Coca-cola addiction (the sweet taste, the fizz, the caffeine) before getting serious about eating/drinking healthy.

I chew 3 or 4 sticks of gum a day. I chew sugar free, and each stick is 4 or 5 calories (depending on gum). You burn 11 calories per hour of chewing gum. 11-5= 6. You lose 6 calories per hour of chewing. I find gum to give me that sweet taste in craving and to suppress my appetite. Aim for 1,200 calories.

Good job! My whole family has that app and it's turned us into a fit happy bunch of people. It is great. I also chew lots of gum, it helps me keep my mind off of snacking. My calorie goal is 1200 calories. I actually go over sometimes xD

Probably not

Your going to burn what? 50 calories...

Plus I'm sure gum has some pretty nasty Chemicals in it..it's okay to have gum every once in a while but it's not going to help your health/metabolism/weight

Gum might even contain artificial sweeteners that will spur your appetite

yer chewing will keep your mind stimulated, top tips that helped me:

1. Glass of water before a meal

2. exercise in the morning if poss. (cardio)

3. brush teeth @8 o'clock after evening meal then nothing after. train your body to wait till morning and don't miss breakfast

4. keep metabolism high... through the day, don't sit for longer than 45mins if you can avoid it.

5. weigh yourself at the same time of day, tiny changes in the body can shift your weigh by + - 2 pounds so keep pushing yourself.

Good luck

I suggest 1500 calories a day

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Stop counting you re not going to be lose weight overnight Just concentrate on diet and exercise

distracted dining will get you in trouble avoid eating in front of a television or in a movie theater as you re bound to consume more calories

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