I am not sure if this is the right place to post this or not, it is my first time posting a new message...

My question is this, I have lost 75lbs since September of last year. My only complaint about this weightloss is that I seem to always, always, always be cold. Often, it is an uncomfortable cold, like a feeling of being chilled to the bone. I eat between 1200 and 1600 calories per day, as I would like to still lose about ten more pounds. I drink at least a gallon of water a day.

I know when I was overweight I was often hot and I realize that in losing the fat I have lost a lot of "insulation", but this is ridiculous. Unless I am outside basking in the sun in 80 degree weather, I have to have on long sleeves under a sweater - in the summer.

Any thoughts on what causes this and what I can do to change it?

I'm in the same boat....I wear sweaters unless it's like 80 degrees or more. A small price to pay to look great even in sweaters if ya ask me.

I know, and I really feel silly complaining, but sometimes it is actually uncomfortable and I HATE being the girly-girly girl shivering with my sweater all the time.

I just thought I might be low on some type of nutrient or something.

Thanks Meg...I have read a lot of your posts and you are always so kind and educational. I aspire to be like you some day.

Before, when I lost a lot of weight, I was always cold, too. And now that I've only lost about 40 pounds, I am already freezing all the time!

Awww, Hart ..... Thanks!

I have the exact same experience. Air conditioning really kills me. I keep a sweater in the car all the time and wear socks around the house. I really hustle through the freezer/refrigerated section of the grocery store! I don't remember being so painfully cold all the time before the weight loss.

Oh yes, I'm still wearing my winter coat, and dread to think how cold I'll find it when we actually go back to winter!

FWIW: the first year I was freezing. The second year it was better. I'm still a little on cold side, but nothing like it was. I don't know if that is because I got used to it, or somehow my body made some thermal adjustments.

Anne

It is summer and I still am wearing socks to bed, my feet are always freezing now. I use to wear a light jacket in the winter and it was open. This past winter I couldn't get warm enough. In the house I'm cold. I do find now that if I'm in the sun I get too hot.. I think the fat protected me from the sun I don't know lol. My body temperature is screwed up.

Hi,

I'm not "reduced obese" but I've always been cold, maybe because i have anemia. But the funny thing is that I'm a lot less cold (and less tired) now that I excercise more. I guess my metabolism was low, and is stoked up a bit by the excercise.

Rabbit

Before losing weight, I used to freeze everyone else in my house. Now they complain that I keep it too warm. I am cold all the time. I have noticed that I can go outside and do yard work in 100 degree heat and it doesn't bother me. Before, I couldn't even go get the mail when it was that hot. I used to keep thermostat at 68 degrees winter or summer. Now I need it at least 76 to even feel remotely comfortable. I get fully dressed as soon as I get up, otherwise I am cold.

Pregnancy has turned me into a furnace, but usually, when not pregnant I am freezing ALL the time!!

I think with me it is a mix of the weight-loss and of genetics. My dad is cold all the time and so is his mom. My brother is also cold all the time (we think it is circulation issues).

Take care!

Ali

An odd thing I've noticed: eating meaty things (especially tuna) actually makes me warmer. An hour after tuna-and-crackers is about the only time my hands aren't cold!

Then again, I've always been cold. I'm not sure if the always-cold and the newly-cold are different.

-Amy

I find it ironic that at over 210 pounds I was more likely to get hypothermia and at my weight now I shake like a leaf when it drops below 60 degrees. It's good to know that it's just the way it is and not a sign of a defficiency or anything.