Anyone else always cold?

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  • Abm4n
    Abm4n Posts: 529 Member
    Me too - always cold especially extremities. I put it down to a higher surface area to volume ratio after losing weight.
  • Lagopus
    Lagopus Posts: 1,016 Member
    edited August 2016
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    I was always cold before I lost weight and started exercising. I was notorious for wearing sweat pants, long sleeves and socks all summer long. Now I am at an even keel on the temperature. It might also be my hormones..LOL :)

    I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's started feeling warmer after losing weight. I used to freeze all the time but now I'm constantly stripping down to the minimum required for modesty. It's practical being so warm-blooded, because I live close to the North Pole. ;)
  • Fitwarrior7_Round_2
    Fitwarrior7_Round_2 Posts: 453 Member
    I am the exact opposite, always hot!
  • jessicarobinson00
    jessicarobinson00 Posts: 414 Member
    Always cold..even when it's 90 out...tea has been my new friend! :D
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Lagopus wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    I was always cold before I lost weight and started exercising. I was notorious for wearing sweat pants, long sleeves and socks all summer long. Now I am at an even keel on the temperature. It might also be my hormones..LOL :)

    I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's started feeling warmer after losing weight. I used to freeze all the time but now I'm constantly stripping down to the minimum required for modesty. It's practical being so warm-blooded, because I live close to the North Pole. ;)

    I was beginning to think I may be the only one, perhaps I was leaning towards I was not human anymore...LOL

    North Pole? Wow! :)
  • Diana_GettingFit
    Diana_GettingFit Posts: 458 Member
    I do feel cold easier than I used to. Last winter I was freezing! I have this huge winter coat that's very warm. It used to have to be in the mid 20's or lower for me to be able to wear it or I would be sweating. Well, last winter I was wearing it when the temp outside was 42! I have to say summer is easier to tolerate than it used to be. I'll see what happens this winter now I'm in maintenance.
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    JessicaMcB wrote: »
    I have been working on striking maintenance energy balance (still a work in progress as I've dropped down to 130) but find lately I'm freezing all the time. Like its August and I'm wearing sweaters, hiding under throws and have the furnace flicked on. I think my husband is ready to throttle me as he runs hot. Anyone else find they are cold all the time post weight loss? I had this issue when I was last roughly this weight but I don't remember being THIS cold :/

    Hi
    I have noticed that my body reacts to sugars in my diet. Or to put it another way a Temperature of 75 that feels comfortable will feel too hot if I eat sweets even if the daily calories are the same. Which also explains why this summer on a Lower carb higher diet I am much more comfortable than in previous years. Some of that is of course do to the weight loss. However I can not attribute it only to weight loss as Even this year while I have been maintaining the same weight range, Withing 5 pounds for highs to lows and being a 1/2 pound below my previous low I felt somewhat cold when I went out the door walking despite it being 72 degrees and was wondering if I should have put on a long sleeve shirt and worn gloves.

    So my suggestion is look at Your diet. BTW this link to a Interactive Requirements page on the USDA.GOV might be helpful. http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/fnic/interactiveDRI/

    Good Luck
    Roger
  • mysticwryter
    mysticwryter Posts: 111 Member
    edited August 2016
    Have you checked to see if you are getting enough iron in your diet? Usually a sign of being cold is a low iron-intake.

    I get cold all the time at work, but I also don't use A/C where it stays at 69 degrees or less. If you aren't experiencing any other health issues with being cold, it could be just that you are cold. Yes, fat has more insulating properties but it's not like you're a polar bear swimming in arctic seas.
  • goingtobefit2015
    goingtobefit2015 Posts: 408 Member
    LOL I'm freezing right now in my office...but I have always been that way even when I was 60 lbs heavier. I am also been anemic not sure if that matters!
  • mburgess458
    mburgess458 Posts: 480 Member
    mysticwryter wrote: »
    Have you checked to see if you are getting enough iron in your diet? Usually a sign of being cold is a low iron-intake.

    I get cold all the time at work, but I also don't use A/C where it stays at 69 degrees or less. If you aren't experiencing any other health issues with being cold, it could be just that you are cold. Yes, fat has more insulating properties but it's not like you're a polar bear swimming in arctic seas.

    This was going to be my question. My wife was always cold... eventually realized she had anemia due to low iron. Fixed the anemia and it fixed being cold all the time. If you changed your diet in order to lose weight perhaps you aren't getting enough iron?
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    Once I started to lift weights and pay attention to my macros I no longer felt cold.
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    I always ran hot. Hit menopause and lost 30 lbs and I was cold with hot flushes.

    I was cooler the first 2 years after losing the weight, then I reverse dieted to give me 150 cals a day more and that aliviated the problem quite a bit.

    This past year or so I upped my protein and started lifting and I feel as though my body temperature was much more in my normal range last winter. We will see if it is the same this winter.

    Cheers, h.
  • dykask
    dykask Posts: 800 Member
    bioklutz wrote: »
    Once I started to lift weights and pay attention to my macros I no longer felt cold.

    I don't lift weights but I do pay attention to what I eat and I don't try to have a large calorie deficit. I tend to run a little hot. However since I live in Japan, if you don't run a little hot the winter is very, very long.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Always cold, especially at the office. I got a stability ball chair that forces you to balance -- that tiny bit of exercise helps warm me up throughout the day. Plus a space heater. Hot coffee and tea are my friends to keep my hands warm and nice warm blankets for sleeping. Agree on the hot showers too, bliss!
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Gain back ten or five pounds. That gets rid of the cold. :|
    Of course, then you are like me trying to get back to the plot.
  • sonic_corset
    sonic_corset Posts: 15 Member
    im forever cold now. unless ive spent some time out in the heat. but indoors, which is set at a 'comfortable' 72, 90% guaranteed im in a robe, under blankets, or in a hoodie. wool socks in winter, btw, are a lifesaver!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,261 Member
    I've wondered whether that tendency to be cold all the time after losing weight correlates with adaptive thermogenesis. Some of the anecdotes on this thread seem to point in that direction, but maybe I'm just exhibiting confirmation bias. ;)

    FWIW, I lost weight in the early part of my college career, and for a while was cold all the time, even in warm weather. This time around, with much larger weight loss (60+ pounds as compared with 20-30 then), I kept expecting to be cold, but haven't been.

    Both times, my weight loss was mostly eating changes . . . but I'm much more active now then I was back there, even though that's not why I lost weight this time.

    Dunno.
  • TexasStellar
    TexasStellar Posts: 39 Member
    Yeah I know what y'all mean, I tend to get cold as well!
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    I wish for this problem.. I have found the past few years as i gained 30 pounds that I have an intolerance to the heat.. It even ruined a trip to the BVI's I was miserable. i'm so hot all the time this summer, I have my air turned down to 68/69. Hope my weight loss will fix it.. i think too much fat or lack of fat causes the extremes.
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
    I wear 3-4 jumpers on at once, 2 beanies, and 2 pairs of pants everyday at minimum, more layers if it's very cold, something tells me I feel the cold more than the average person.
  • dr_soda
    dr_soda Posts: 57 Member
    I did experience this after my first weight loss, and indeed I'm still to this day more cold sensitive than I was at my heaviest. That said, you eventually adjust somewhat.

    I have, however, noticed that ever since I made a point to bump my protein to 30% of my calories at minimum that I generate noticeably more heat. Perhaps if you swap out some of your current carbs and fat in favor of protein you'll notice a greater fire in your internal furnace.
  • elfin168
    elfin168 Posts: 202 Member
    I find that if I weight train regularly i run warmer. not sure why but it works
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    I'm looking forward to this, tbh, right now I swing from one extreme to the other, I feel chilly but if I put a jumper on I end up sweating. I know hormones probably play a role, but it can't help that my body is buried in a fat blanket while my extremities are out in the cold. At least if I'm consistently cold I can just buy some thermal underwear!
  • xmichaelyx
    xmichaelyx Posts: 883 Member
    I spent my whole life being cold, until I put on some muscle. Now I'm pretty comfortable most of the time.
  • Mouse_Potato
    Mouse_Potato Posts: 1,512 Member
    Opposite problem here. I'm always warm. I can't really afford to drop the thermostat below 72-73, so I'm always in tank tops at home. Other women are bundled up in hoodies and I'm doing my stripper act if it gets above 75 outside. :tongue:
  • Shana67
    Shana67 Posts: 680 Member
    I am always, always cold. I have a saying that if it's not HOT, I'm cold. 70 degrees is where I really start to shiver, and I live in COLORADO.
  • N1keS0cc8rRunne7
    N1keS0cc8rRunne7 Posts: 43 Member
    edited September 2016
    yes...and I love it! It justifies my continued weight loss ...guess i'm just a strange creature :p
  • furrina
    furrina Posts: 148 Member
    I fast twice a week and on days I fast towards the end of the day I'm often freezing if it's the slightest bit cold either from AC or weather. Doesn't bother me though. I have a tendency toward cold extremities anyway...
  • Abm4n
    Abm4n Posts: 529 Member
    edited September 2016
    Yeah, I am "always" cold now, that's why I am wearing a woollen spencer an overvest and a leather jacket and a hat while indoors in my photo. I also have been wondering why I am cold. So the best answer I could think of was that I am eating just slightly under my maintenance calories but rather than lose weight, my body chooses to reduce it's maintenance calories to match the reduced calorie intake. Hence it needs to reduce the operating temperature of my body. Having less insulating blubber also makes a person cold of course.. Mind you, I don't think of it as being a bad thing. Just that I have to wear more layers.
  • IriaSparcast
    IriaSparcast Posts: 27 Member
    A follow-up to my previous reply....someone mentioned an iron deficiency can account for always being cold. My labs looked fine at last annual exam, but checked my diary for nutrition breakdown and learned I was only consuming about 25% RDA of dietary iron.

    I skeptically started taking a low dose gentle iron supplement 1x/day. 2 weeks later -- I have less freezing moments, and have sometimes been tolerating just a T-shirt indoors where long sleeves used to be 100% required. I still occasionally get cold, and keep a jacket, sweater or lap blanket handy just in case but use them less often. My friends and coworkers were first to notice the difference. (Lack of sleeves and blanket mostly)

    Big thanks to the tipster there. Hope it helps others, too.

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