Hi guys,
Just wondering at what point in your weight loss did you go from being a "hot, sweaty, mess" all the time, to "freezing" all the time. I always read about the people who have lost weight and now they are cold. I have always been hot, and I can overheat easily. I still have more to lose, not exactly at the halfway point, but I'm getting close. However, I think I am noticing a difference, but the weather is changing, too. I am looking forward to the point where I need a sweater, and I won't be a sweat hog all the time.
Well I'm still a big boy, but I've noticed I'm cold a lot lately. I think it's more towards the fact that my house is crap and it gets pretty cold in here easily. But I like to think it's due to me losing some weight.
I started noticing it last week. Granted the weather has started changing, but my hands have been freezing all week. That generally happens when I get the crap out of my system and my blood sugar and iron under control.
I use to be 160 and the winter didn't bother
me much. Now I'm around 140 and I'm
absolutely dreading mid-winter. I'm already
freezing every morning and night and
it's just the tip of the ice burg.
This has always been my explination for it. I found this from an article online which says it much clearer then I could.
Losing Weight By Drinking Cold Water
Here's another look at how drinking water can help you lose weight, but this time it is cold water. Drinking cold water for weight loss isn't without its logic. The logic is that the body requires extra energy to warm up the cold water that you drink up to normal body temperature when it is absorbed into the bloodstream. That is the reason why you are feeling cold when you drink cold water. Your body is trying to burn extra calories to keep up your body's temperature. In fact, numerous studies have found that the stomach absorbs cold water faster when compared to warm water, thus cold water enters the bloodstream even faster, thereby contributing further to the cold feelings that you get when you drinking a big glass of cold water.
Well, I can answer the question, but I have a burning question of my own. Yes, at 220# I was *always hot, and at 140#s (for the last 8 yrs), I am *always cold ( a real boon in the summer!), BUT, I know many, many thin people who are always warm..they sleep in low, low, low temps..house set in the high 50s at night.. ...their homes are set in winter at ~ 60ish..both men and women, thin, but warm!!! I think it is a fitness, circulation thang..thoughts???
I've just noticed it with myself for the last month or two. I've always been hot natured until now. I am also experiencing what I think may be the first throes of menopause (oh joy) and was having hot flashes a few months ago. I started taking black cohosh and that has stopped it for now.
I really surprise myself when I put on a lab coat at work or think about buying warmer pajamas. Weird.
Mary-- those thin people who are warm alot, are prob mostly naturally thin people?
The reason you get cold as you lose a lot of weight is because your basal body temp lowers due to a slowing (adapting) metabolism (your resting HR/ambient HR i imagine has ALSO decreased significantly! --- same reason) Your body doesnt have the extra cals to spare, basically, to keep your body temperature higher. I bet if we all (those of us whove lost a lot of weight) start taking our temp first thing in the morning, before we get out of bed, we would find that the vast VAST majority of us have temps either below normal, or at the low end of normal.
And TooManyDimples-- not to pick on you, but that is the most ridiculous thing i have heard today
When did you start feeling cold all the time?
I found this from an article online which says it much clearer then I could.
