Does Spitting Help you lose weight?

Today while i was in school a friend of mine who was on the wrestling team, was sucking on jolly ranchers and spitting into a bottle. I asked him why do they do that he said it helps them lost weight, do anyone know if that is true?

Yes it does make you lose weight.I'm a mat maid[manager for wrestling] and spitting makes you lose water weight.Like if one of our wrestlers is a pound over then they'll either chew on starburst/jollyranchers and spit it into a bottle or they'll run in trashbags[makes them sweat ALOT].

Peace-

I had a friend like this too. Gross! But, I think this has to do with wrestling weight classes - they're marked off every 5-10 lbs or something, and wrestlers try to squeeze just under the line - that way, they're the biggest they can possibly be in their weight class. So, they might dehydrate themselves on the day of a match to get their weight unnaturally low. This includes the spitting - my friend said that was worth about half a pound, or one drinking cup's worth. (Grooooooosss - carrying that around all day!) Then at the beginning of the match they weigh in (dehydrated) and then drink a lot to rehydrate before they have to wrestle.
So, it doesn't help them lose fat or anything - just more dehyration to help them get under the wire.

Yes they will lose weight but its only water weight. Wrestlers tend to dehydrate themselves very badly to make their weigh in's. This is VERY unhealthy. If they actually drank a gallon of water everyday their body would naturally lose aboout 5lbs due to your body not retaining water anymore.

yes it does i am a wrestler and in fact im sucking on jolly ranchers right now for a tournament tomorrow about a gatorade bottle full is about a pound of loss. I just got in from running with a trash bag and that helps a whole lot as well

i spit too, but i dont wrestle. i dont smoke, and its just a habit for me to spit. some of my friends spit too cause they smoke, but i spit cause i dont want to swallow it. i read some yahooanswers and it said that spitting actually does help you lose weight.