Before gaining weight, I was never cold. After gaining and then losing, I'm always FREEZING.

kshama2001

pinuplove wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

pinuplove wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

Adaptive thermogenesis as the end result of caloric deficits

Does that eventually moderate after a stretch of time in maintenance? (Asking for a friend who is constantly wearing sweaters at work and has a space heater under her desk in August )

Has your friend tried a very gradual upward maintenance calorie creep, with sound nutrition, while keeping up exercise activity and trying to push NEAT? No guarantees, but . . . .

Friend is still losing, but VERY slowly (~1 pound a month). Friend could stand to eat better but doesn't have a horrible diet overall (more focused on protein and iron at the moment). Exercise activity has been a struggle but a work in progress. Actual weight loss vs calories consumed put her between active and lightly active.

It just occurred to me that her persistent iron deficiency anemia (diagnosed since December and still struggling to raise iron levels via diet and supplementation - long story involving many tests) may be to blame. Ah, the sound those obvious puzzle pieces make when they snap together!

What form of iron are you taking? There are many forms and the first two my doctor gave me didn't work get both my iron and energy levels back up. I'm currently taking iron bisglycinate.

My anemia is related to my very heavy periods, and that week I eat lots of foods like liverwurst, chicken liver pate, and steak.

Every day I have a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses dissolved into warm water. That brand has 20% of the RDA - other brands can have much less. That brand can leak, so I don't order in the summer and don't order with anything that might get ruined if it leaks.

pinuplove

kshama2001 wrote: »

pinuplove wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

pinuplove wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

Adaptive thermogenesis as the end result of caloric deficits

Does that eventually moderate after a stretch of time in maintenance? (Asking for a friend who is constantly wearing sweaters at work and has a space heater under her desk in August )

Has your friend tried a very gradual upward maintenance calorie creep, with sound nutrition, while keeping up exercise activity and trying to push NEAT? No guarantees, but . . . .

Friend is still losing, but VERY slowly (~1 pound a month). Friend could stand to eat better but doesn't have a horrible diet overall (more focused on protein and iron at the moment). Exercise activity has been a struggle but a work in progress. Actual weight loss vs calories consumed put her between active and lightly active.

It just occurred to me that her persistent iron deficiency anemia (diagnosed since December and still struggling to raise iron levels via diet and supplementation - long story involving many tests) may be to blame. Ah, the sound those obvious puzzle pieces make when they snap together!

What form of iron are you taking? There are many forms and the first two my doctor gave me didn't work get both my iron and energy levels back up. I'm currently taking iron bisglycinate.

My anemia is related to my very heavy periods, and that week I eat lots of foods like liverwurst, chicken liver pate, and steak.

Every day I have a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses dissolved into warm water. That brand has 20% of the RDA - other brands can have much less. That brand can leak, so I don't order in the summer and don't order with anything that might get ruined if it leaks.

Feosol Complete https://www.feosol.com/about/complete-iron-supplement/

This is the 3rd one I've tried. I have a bottle of the exact iron bisglycinate you linked in my cabinet at home. It still upset my digestive system terribly, despite being supposedly easier on it. I keep meaning to order some of that specific molasses and always forget. Maybe I'll do that right now!

I'm sure the fact that I'm still menstruating doesn't help, but my cycles aren't unusually heavy. I had stool test positive for blood so have been seeing a gastroenterologist to try track that down.

steveko89

Back in '06 I lost ~25-30 lbs between July and August and absolutely froze that winter, but have been fine since having not lost or gained as much at once or as quickly.