Electric Blanket and Weight Gain
For the last couple of months it seems that I have had a hard time maintaining my weight. I wondered if the problem could be my electric blanket. Our house is cool at night and it was espcially cold this winter. I purchased an electric blanket right before Christmas. Since then I have gained some weight.
I searched on Google, and yes, there is a physicist, C. Johnson who has analyzed the calorie counts. He says that being really cozy in bed with an electric blanket or many covers will eliminate 480 calories of energy that would otherwise have been used up and radiated away as heat. That can add up to 1 pound per week of weight gain. Wow, that’s a lot. Here’s a link to his whole analysis.
I think from now on I’ll try to turn on the electric blanket for just 5 minutes at night to warm the bed and see if I can get my weight back under control and still get some sleep at night.