Anyone else always feel cold while losing weight?

I get cold all the time too. And it's not just a feeling of cold, it's where my fingertips are freezing, my toes are freezing. But I'm also anemic constantly, which is fairly common for women trying to lose weight.

YES!!!!
I drink alot of hot tea to keep me warm....

:glasses: Oh ya....always feel cold.

I need to get better at this science stuff.

Yes! In my case, it's probably because I'm constantly chugging water. Even though it's room-temperature, it's still cold enough to make me feel frozen!

I get cold when I am sitting around especally while on the computer. I just get up and move around for a bit. My husband is always cold when he sits around and I can be fine so I guess everyone is different.

I figured it was from drinking cold water so much throughout the day.....

Always cold..bbrrr!

All

It turns out there is a lot of science about why one might "feel cold" or experience cold sensations. Let's first dispel the the myths. It's probably not due to circulation going to "fat" as fat nor is it that your body has "dropped in temperature." It turns out that with the exception of a slight dip at night (you actually drop a bit in temperature as a process of falling asleep), your body likely stays with in one half of a degree of your life-long set-point. Feeling cold does not mean that your body drops in temperature.

There are many factors that can fool your body into believing it is cold when you are not. Most people have strong feedback in the face, ears, fingers and toes. If you'll take steps to cover those areas first (gloves before sweater), you'll learn to adapt pretty quickly to air temperatures down to about 60. Even the most "I hate to be cold" person can easily withstand colder temperatures.

On the flip side, for every degree your temperature rises (fever) you have about an 8% boost in metabolism. Not suggesting flu for fitness, but it gives you an idea of what it takes in terms of constant heat to keep your body at an elevated temperature. Now, being "hot" and having a "fever" are two COMPLETELY different things - take your temperature after a run. The heat you experience on your skin is waste heat produced by running and you don't burn significantly more calories just being hot.

On the other hand, as you get more cold, the body has some defense mechanisms built in to keep your temperature up. Shivering is the most obvious, but there are other non-shivering ways the body can trick your energy systems to produce heat.

If you feel cold, especially on the extremities, it's likely circulation from your body BELIEVING it is cold when it is not. This can come from repeatedly exposing yourself to heat (heater under the desk, too many layers, high thermostat followed by walking into cool room etc..) The way to combat it is to slowly reduce layers/thermostat but keep extremities warm.

no doubt the cold will help you shed a few extra pounds...

Hope that helps.

Ray

I suffer with Raynauds and when i was not eating enough it was 10 times worse. Now i've increased my calories and started taking iron tablets i never really suffer and i work outside as a PE teacher and it's bloody freezing in London at the moment!

This site just keeps getting more and more useful to me! I'm so glad to know I'm not a freak! LOL... I'm normally hot all of the time. Ever since I started eating less I have been FREEZING! Especially my hands and feet. My husband thinks I'm crazy. I'll have to show him this. :grumble:

Im in australia its been 30-40 degrees celcius each day ive felt cooler after losing weight than i did before during the heat waves we get

lol i thought i was just turning into my mother, who is always naturally cold. nice to know that this is more common than i thought!

I get cold all the time too. And it's not just a feeling of cold, it's where my fingertips are freezing, my toes are freezing. But I'm also anemic constantly, which is fairly common for women trying to lose weight.

I've had this for years (both anemia and the cold fingers/toes). Sometimes those go hand in hand without the weight loss. Nevertheless, losing weight has made me INCREDIBLY core-cold; I'm tucking my legs up into my hoodie in class to keep from freezing when other people are starting to whine about heat. I wasn't that bad with anemia at 125, so it doesn't add up that I'm worse at 153 without the weight loss factor.