Eating in a deficit = no longer being warm?

Yes, that happens. I tend to be warm too. While cutting calories, I no longer have that personal space heater feeling. When I go back to eating at maintenance, I get it again.

If I start to feel cold it's a sure sign I'm not eating enough and I need to up my fat.

I'm always colder when eating at a deficit. I like make a huge cup of tea and sip it until I sweat.

I'm right there with you lol

As someone who used to winter camp (sleeping outside in a tent in the winter) I'm always baffled by posts by people who are cold indoors where the temperature is presumably around 70 degrees F. Sure, as we lose insulation (fat) we would be colder in the same state of dress. To warm up, add insulation (clothes.) If I can be warm while sleeping outdoors at 7 (seven) degrees F, with the possible exception of circulatory issues, there is no reason to feel cold at 70 degrees F.

At home, start with cotton socks plus wool socks plus slippers like these Sorel Manawans.



If I were cold in an office environment, I'd wear leather boots, turtlenecks, sweaters, and drink a lot of hot beverages.

My mom's weight hovers around Underweight and she manages to stay warm by dressing appropriately, unlike my neighbor, who cranks the heat up in the winter so he can be warm when barefoot in thin pajamas.

I feel the need to add the disclaimer that if one is cold due to under-eating, to eat more.

Yes, I'm always freezing. My deficit is a small one, but I still have to take a long hot shower before bed to keep from shivering all night.

It's 76 in my house and I put on my hoodie when I walk in the door in the evening.

What I notice about eating at a deficit is that I pee ALL THE TIME!!!

Losing 60 pounds is what makes me feel colder more often.

Chalk me up for the same. Now at a deficit.. I'm cold all the time. Used to be my wife's personal space heater... not anymore.

i knew it couldn't be just me lol. I was the only one at work never cold even during winter. Now that i'm eating at a deficit and loosing weight (1-2lbs week) i am cold most of the time.

My feet are always cold since I started eating less but I know I am over doing it (too much deficit). Will have to see what happens when this is all over and I get to maintenance.

jgnatca wrote: »

Yes. Two words, OK a few more. Electric blanket. Dress in layers. Alpaca socks.

The cold is now complicated by intermittent hot flashes.

@jgnatca - oooo alpaca socks! Link me?

Beaner63 wrote: »

As long as I can remember I have always basically been a personal space heater. My wife would curl up next to me on cool nights while I sat there with no blankets over me feeling like I was in an oven. My body was always warm to the touch. I never felt cold, even while wearing shorts in the snow.

Now that I am dropping weight and eating at a deficit, I am cold most of the time. I no longer just radiate heat and my wife would rather grab a second blanket than snuggle up to my cold body

This normal or happen with anyone else?

@Beaner63 I know what you mean. In the summer of 2011 I lost down from 250 to 211 and thought how cool the summer was. I was eating HCLF.

This time eat LCHF the weight came off Nov-Feb which are 4 cold months be I was not cold. LCHF even when eating below maintenance gives the metabolism a boost burning from 100-300 more calories daily depending on what research you are reading. The research done on Biggest Loser TV show proves when eating below maintenance eating HCLF that the metabolism will cut calories burned and it does not recover well when going back to eating at maintenance hence is a factor why many of us regain the weight we loss just eating at our old maintenance rate.

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