Always cold (especially fingers)

rickiimarieee

Same. I put a space heater in front of me and cover myself with a blanket too on top of sweat clothes. It's insane. It's 65 out and I have my heat blasting

Graelwyn75

One of the best things I found to deal with the getting cold issue, while at home, especially if heating bills are an issue, is a heated throw/blanket. There are quite a few on Amazon and they are really cheap to run and very cosy to wrap round you or even lay on, when you need warming up.

rickiimarieee

Graelwyn75 wrote: »

One of the best things I found to deal with the getting cold issue, while at home, especially if heating bills are an issue, is a heated throw/blanket. There are quite a few on Amazon and they are really cheap to run and very cosy to wrap round you or even lay on, when you need warming up.

^^^^^

pkweier

Same here and I don't know what this cold weather is going to be like because I've lost more weight since last winter

nowine4me

My fingers do turn stark white from the knuckles to the tips. This is typically after I drink a frozen protein shake or cold water. I have to go in the kitchen and hold them under warm water until they turn pink again. I assumed it had to do with lowering core temp, but I’m gonna Google Reynauds. Of course I was just at the Doctor yesterday and didn’t think about mentioning it.

ETA - just googled and yes, the pictures looks exactly like my fingers.

Aaron_K123

angmarie28 wrote: »

So I am always freezing, and I know its a result of losing weight, as I have lost the weight before and am now doing it again since I had another baby and gained 36lbs. I used to be the one who had my heater set to 65F and sleep in a tank top and shorts with just a light blanket, now its 69F sweats pants and sweat shirt, and 1 or 2 blankets, and Im usually still cold. This is seriously the WORST thing about weight loss. And this is worse than last time I lost weight, not sure why. I even have a space heater at my desk and wear usually a sweater and a jacket, ugh, and its only October, I live in Montana so winter will be soooo much worse soon.

The problem is mainly my fingers, I cant stand cold fingers, but i cant warm them up, ever, they are always cold, and I dont want to wear gloves all the time, grr. Who can relate

Have you had your sodium levels checked? A lot of people who diet decide to couple avoiding sodium while drinking a ton of water. This will decrease the sodium concentration in your blood which in turn will tank your blood pressure which in turn will lower the rate of your circulation which will lower your temp especially in extremities.

Not trying to give you medical advice without a diagnosis but it is something you might consider having checked. If you know your blood pressure is very low maybe try more sodium in your diet. Just brace for the weight gain from water retention that comes with that.

JessicaMcB

@angmarie28 do you find it worse after you run? I've found since I moved into that 18-19% BF range that I am chilled to the bone post-run everyday. Might be BF related?

PAV8888

I find it interesting that almost no one so far has mentioned that this is quite common when people are eating at a deficit and is often the result of adaptive thermogenesis.

Look into Nony Mouse's thread about re-feeds and diet breaks and take a good hard look as to how large of a deficit you're attempting to achieve in relation to how much fat you have available to lose.

Adaptive Thermogenesis, which often includes a lowering of body core temperature, can often be minimised by keeping deficits in the 15 to 20% range of TDEE.

Given that a 500 Cal a day deficit is 20% of 2500 Cal, many people who attempt to achieve a deficit of more than 0.5lbs a week are trying for a larger than 20% deficit unless they are very active, very tall, very heavy, or an appropriate combination of all three.

And even with 20% deficits or less, leaner people, or people who have been dieting and exercising for a while without allowing for their hormones to recover are more likely to be affected.

Having said that, a number of years back, as a morbidly obese person eating little and moving around a lot because of a new dog and dropping 20lbs within less than a couple of months, I most certainly managed to put myself in a state where doctors were discussing Reynaud's with me.

Not one out of the three GPs I consulted (my own and two walk in clinics) brought up caloric deficit as a potential cause. Incidentally the whole thing resolved fine when I regained the 20lbs... plus another 20 in subsequent years...

tammi65

I have low bp and on blood thinners i stay cold .