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Very, Very Cold

lucylocket61

lucylocket61

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Wrexham
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
I am a type 2, newly diagnosed (3 months) and controlled by diet only.

My problem is that I am very, very cold all the time. Really cold. And its not just that i feel cold. My body is actually cold to the touch.

I am having about 1400 cals a day and 60-80g of carbs. I have been doing this for nearly 2 months, and that is when the feeling cold began. I cant eat more as i have loads of weight to lose.

I have had my thyroid check and my hormone levels and they are both fine.

Any ideas anyone please? or anyone get this? I am getting fed up of shivering all the time, hiding under the duvet and blanket in the evening and having constant hot water bottles.
 
Common complaint with most low-carbers I think. Don't forget, the weather is awful at the moment when it should be hotter. I had the heating on last night!
Pre-D when I was 7 stones heavier, I avoided heat like the plague. The thought of spending any time at all in the sun, let alone a sunny holiday filled me with dread. Now I would give anything to live in the Sahara!

Look at it this way, when we are cold, we burn more energy.

wiflib
 
So its just a case of enduring it? :(

Or will my body get used to it and i will adjust? (ever hopeful, me)
 
I'm usually very cold, apart from when I'm having a hot flush (just started the menopause). I always seem to be wearing more clothes that most people. The people I work with laugh at me doing cardi on, cardi off, cardi on .... I also chill quite quickly after a hot flush.
 
I've amassed a collection of fleeces over the last 11 months as I've lost weight and I always have a hot water bottle at night, partly because of feeling cold and partly because of the ache in my leg on my stroked side that painkillers don't touch, but heat does.
 
I have all that too; must be something to do with the low carbing because I have never had this problem in my life. Like you I am diet only (diagnosed nearly 12 years ago). I find nice thick warm socks really help and I wear them to bed sometimes too when the electric blanket doesn't help with the coldness. My sister has bought a circulation booster and swears her feet are warmer now than they have ever been in her life. Worth a try? They are too expensive for me. Good luck with the weight loss - diabetes improved tremendously when I lost a couple of stone.
 
Now Im going to throw a spanner in the works here because, Im currently having a not so low carb time at the mo (long story), but I have been one of these people that are cold when others are hot, and when I get cold I chill to the bone very quickly, but I think this is links to my funky underactive thyroid playing its games, for a long time I would sit with hardly anything on and be in a constant state of hot flush when others were under blankets too. So in my case its not a low carb issue, but I recently got a Dreamworks small heatpad to go under the brooder of my quail chicks (they died, soo sad), but it was a human one so I use it in bed, it has 3 settings and a 90 min switch off, but it has helped me no end to actually get warm, and I now wear PJs where as I never used to like them and always used to wake up without them on. Laying on a heat pad when you have a chest infection is like heaven.
 
I'm cold too when other people are not 45 minutes in the swimming pool, exercising all the time and I'm shivering.
I wear fleecesand try to keep my fat consumption up.
Hana
 
Hi, glad this topic came up.

Since low carb diet, 2 months now, I'm also always cold. I've always been a 'hot' person but now my hands and feet are like ice most the time. Glad its not only me!

My sympathies!!
 
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