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Temperature -- What Effect On Calories Burned?

Grateful

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Kent, United Kingdom
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
I'm on the northeast coast of America. Today, it's brass monkeys out there: minus 8 degrees centigrade with the wind chill factored in.

I'm about to go on my daily 3-mile brisk walk. Does the outside temperature make a difference to calories burned during this kind of exercise? Cases:
  • Very cold like today.
  • Temperate, as in spring/autumn.
  • Very hot, as it can be here in the summer (in the high 30s centigrade).
In all these cases I am assuming appropriate clothing. When warm enough, "gym clothes." During cold periods, very covered up, including warm trousers, down-filled coat, and low-temperature-rated balaklava and gloves.
 
Even here the weather changed very cold but I do not think like you
 
Your post made me think of a saying that I abide by: There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing
 
Rachox said:
Your post made me think of a saying that I abide by: There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing
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It is brutal here in winter. Just after my T2D diagnosis in February I started the daily walking and there were some days of minus 20 centigrade (if you include the wind chill). Even though my winter gear is rated for such temperatures, when I got home on some days my hands felt like I had approached frostbite. Not to mention the ice on the footpaths and sidewalks (major limb fracture, anyone?).

Those were awful days, in retrospect -- having got the diagnosis and then thinking that Mother Nature was out to get me if I tried to do anything about it. So glad that time has moved on and a Proper Perspective gained.
 
Grateful said:
Not to mention the ice on the footpaths and sidewalks (major limb fracture, anyone?).
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Lol, not for me..! I normally cut an old pair of socks into a 4inch tube & slide it over the "ball" of the sole on my boots..
The material grips ice on the sidewalks. I can literally run if I needed to?
 
Jaylee said:
Lol, not for me..! I normally cut an old pair of socks into a 4inch tube & slide it over the "ball" of the sole on my boots..
The material grips ice on the sidewalks. I can literally run if I needed to?
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I'm clumsy and have suffered three major limb fractures in my life (leg, elbow, and hip) so tend to be ultra-careful nowadays!
 
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