Well, if someone can ask if donating blood is a good way to lose calories (here , then I guess I can ask whether having oily skin is a good calorie loser. Not that you can control it, but I seem to have fairly oily skin, and I wonder if there are calories in that yucky oil I wipe off my cherubic face all the time. There must be - it’s oil! Can I gloat around people with non-oily skin tryi ng to lose weight?
No real evidence from me, but I know that the oil on my face often smells of what I’ve eaten a few hours earlier. So something’s coming out of what I’ve taken in.
I’ve often wondered if I’d be so skinny if I didn’t have such a pizza face. :rolleyes:
Sure, it’s oil, it’d be rich in calories - and fats for that matter. Don’t know if dietary fats make their way into skin oil without conversion to carbohydrates and back, but if they do, your skin oil calories are each worth more than carbohydrate calories.