Weight loss and cold weather
AngInCanada
Posts: 947 Member
I've now lost 35 pounds and now that fall has arrived with temperatures in the single digits, I'm freeking freeeeeeeezing! Brrrrrrrr. Amazing during the winters I'd normally be warmer than everyone around me. Not this year.
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That's the only time I miss my fat. I guess I'll have to bundle up this year.
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Me too. I always felt like I was roasting until I lost the weight. Now my feet get so cold, my socks are wearing socks.0
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A fat suit made out of the fat I've shed would be awesome. hehe.0
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I can't tell the difference really
Maybe when I get lean and mean I will.
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I've always had issues with cold weather, but after I lost weight it got so much worse. So I moved to Florida. At least now I am warm, and as an extra bonus I can run through the winter, when back home I couldn't motivate myself to get outside after November.0
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More salt. Seriously.0
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I have started noticing this off and on the past month. I think, for me, it is a body recomp/fat loss thing, at least in part... I'm definitely going to up salt when I can. Need to add more to my smoothie!0
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I love the cold because I feel better and can work out much longer and harder, but yeah, since losing weight my tolerance is way down. Reminds me, I need to hunt for a good pair of gloves for this year. Especially when I'm on my bicycle. Brrr! Maybe a scarf or something for my face, too. I don't have the prettiest face in the world as it is, missing a nose from frostbite wouldn't improve my looks much.0
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We had our first snow yesterday. Nothing that lasted but Winter is coming..........0
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The North remembers.......
Eh, Floridian here. I'm looking forward to our 65 degree winter LOL. That being said, I stay cold these days. My boss doesn't know what to think. I know longer complain about being hot anymore. 0 -
Being 50 pounds lighter makes me cooler in the summer so I will have to see how it goes this winter since I was losing last winter. Now at around 200 pounds I can lose slowly at 2600 calories daily and 3000 to maintain so that is still a lot of heat produced. I wonder if calorie burn rate is much of a factor?0
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Yikes, I was always cold even before the weight started coming off ! My hypothyroidism makes me colder I am sure of it. We have yet to have really cold weather here, but it's supposed to get to the freezing point overnight. I'll see how cold I am in the morning !
Where I usually feel it is at work. My office used to be in the basement, and I'd have a sweater on over my top, sometimes a second sweater too and a small fleece blanket on my lap and the heater on nearby. My hands would be so cold I could barely type, so I bought a pair of those fingerless gloves, but found that hard to deal with the computer mouse, so would just freeze instead.
But now my work space is upstairs where there is little air circulation, so I am still wearing sleeveless tops at my desk, and when someone comes into the room, they complain that it is too hot, but the warmth feels good to me !
I still want to lose 40 pounds, so likely I will feel even colder at goal weight, not looking forward to it !0 -
My current path into LCHF is actually the second time I've taken the "weight-loss journey." I remember the first time around, I lost something like 80 pounds or thereabouts (this was 20 years ago). I also remember being and feeling truly cold for the first time in my life without all that extra insulation. This time (and hopefully my last time) around, it seems to me that I'm feeling the cold much more intensely than I did back then. I used to always be the hottest / warmest person in any given room. Now, if it gets below 75 degrees, I get cold. I'm 40 y/o and this issue with the cold makes me feel ancient! lol Before I was merely "comfortable" with 72-73 degrees and would have preferred it cooler. Now, I take my jacket with me into restaurants because sometimes they are absolutely arctic inside. I take my jacket to work and after cooling down I'm usually cold for the rest of the day until they turn off the A/C at 6:00 p.m. I know that fat is an insulator. It keeps you warm. This is why blubber (fat) is so vitally important to ocean mammals (walrus', whales, seals, etc.) but what I don't understand is why I have a lower tolerance for the cold now than when I was younger. Do you think is it just due to the aging process? Just thinking out loud here but still remain curious and confused on this issue.0
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