To think some people need to toughen up with the cold

[Freezinginfrozen]

… and I’m one of them! 😫

anyone else?

I am ALWAYS cold. Even when it’s not cold. The only time I’ve ever felt satisfactory warm was during the heatwave. If it were up to me, the heating in the house would be on all day at maximum- which I think is 30. I would be SO happy with that. But obviously it’s too expensive and also my dog wouldn’t be happy with that, so we keep the heating at a normal temperature for her sake and I layer up. But even then I’m still cold. I could have a hoodie, housecoat, blanket, oodie, electric blanket and a hot water bottle and I would still feel a bit chilly!

for what it’s worth I’m absolutely fine health wise and have no problems, I’m just a massive lightweight to the cold!

I’m cold at work, in the car, in the house, outside, it’s just always so cold! At one point in work I would be in the room on my own and could have the heating at full blast- that was peak happiness and I doubt I’ll ever feel that happy again 😂

I know the feeling , I am always cold and have Raynurds.
It's bloody horrible, my fingers often go white and completely numb when I an still for more than a hour, even typing doesn't help as its not enough movement ( and I type at a snails pace )

I have found Niacin (sp?) Helps a little as does ginger water.

Ginger water > chop up about 2 inches of fresh ginger roughly . Place in a small pan and add about a pint of water, bring yo a fast boil then simmer untill the water has reduced by about a quarter.
The longer you simmer it for the stronger it gets.
It can be sipped warm or cold and gives you a similar feeling to when you drank neat spirts, that warm glow but without the alcohol .
Feeling doesn't last long but I find it helps just to help me relax and stop that clenching muscles that I do when I'm cold

Do you eat meat OP? Eating red meat especially raises your metabolism and in turn raises body temperature. Also, spicy food.

Get your thyroid checked. Mines underactive so I'm ALWAYS cold

That’s interesting my DD who is always freezing doesn’t eat either.

I used to be cold.. Hit Menopause hells bells boiling now..

I've always been a warm person no matter what weight I am. We have a 4 tog duvet year round and the bedroom window is never closed. However I'm currently overweight and perimenopausal. I am hot and sweaty all the time - I feel disgusting. The other morning I was out walking the dog early. It was 6c, I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and I felt just the right temperature!

Things that I think would help DD - move a lot more, drink hot drinks regularly, eat hearty food and soup regularly (she eats mostly cold food), put on weight to a bmi 22/23, wear her ski thermals. Wear a proper coat zipped up and hat etc outside so she’s not coming in frozen to bone. She’s a teen and knows best though.

I wear warm clothes and drink hot drinks and hats etc.

@Dixiechickonhols I used to be veggie too and was always cold (and fat). Not to mention anaemic. I’m a healthy weight now and always feel warm. I don’t eat a huge amount of meat or fish either, certainly not every day, still eat lots of vegetarian meals but the meat has helped.

I can't move more due to disabilities.

I lived overseas in a hot country for a few years and it was lovely. I'm now back here and suffering, I have low blood pressure, arthritis, Raynaud's and hypothyroidism. I long to live in a hot country again!

I’m always cold as well OP and can completely relate to you, invest in an oldie for around the house, they are incredibly warm and thick fleecy slippers and thermal socks, I also have very good thermal gloves that keep me toasty.

My cold sensor is my nose! Keep that warm and I'm usually fine. Basically have to wear a scarf round my face!!

That'll be your body fat, makes a huge difference just getting it up a bit to average.

Things that helped me most were thermal vests (uncool but really helpful), eating regularly, and practice. Uniqlo used to do heatech leggings too that were great.

My daughter is always cold. She has Reynauld's Syndrome. She actually goes blue.

I have the opposite problem. I am eternally boring. Friday Night Dinner's "bloody boiling, I could rip my own skin off" comes to mind. We keep the thermostat at 16⁰C because DH and DC feel the cold like normal people, and they wear a jumper while I wear a t-shirt. 30⁰C sounds like absolute hell.

I hate the cold too OP. I have tried to toughen up but just can't!
My hands and feet particularly. If I can get them warm first and keep a nice temp then the rest of me feels warm. I'm seriously going to get some house gloves/mitts or something as I won't be just throwing the heating on willy nilly anymore. As others have said starting from the inside is good too - I drink a lot more hot drinks in the winter - flavoured teas, bovril, cupasoups etc
I love my electric blanket too. I only need it on for 15 mins on high before I get into bed and it makes such a difference.

I have thyroiditis so that's one reason I feel the cold more but I've always been like this. Even as a child
Perimenopause has done NOTHING to change my cold arse. Hot flushes are one of the very few symptoms I don't get :)
The irony for me, and what my DH can not get over is that, for 5 years, I used to live in a Country that regularly had winters as cold as -20 or lower sometimes.
I managed ok but then I was wrapped up like an eskimo outside and the house temp inside was kept above 25 always.

A lot of it is because we’re not used to wearing the multiple laters of clothing people used to wear. When I was growing up in the 1970s I remember my dad always wore a vest, a shirt and a woollen jumper in the house. In later years when they were financially better off he never wore a vest, just the shirt and jumper. So many people (my family included, boy are they in for a shock this winter!) reach for the heating rather than another layer

Bloody hell. This place gets worse by the week.

Yes me! I've always felt the cold and used to have my office at 30, colleagues would say, when they came in, that they would fall asleep!
My kids got used to the warm house but others would comment - sometimes positively sometimes negatively, like my mum saying she couldn't breathe!
When doing the school run years ago I used to look enviously at the other parents wearing t shirts whilst I was in a jumper and jacket.
I loved the heatwaves this year.

However, I am now peri menopausal and I no longer feel cold all the time, it's great - particularly now energy prices are crazy.
The one and only positive to being peri menopausal, but it has made a difference, not being cold so often.

I've always been the same weight, im tiny, so that's probably a factor but I do eat loads.

I could have a hoodie, housecoat, blanket, oodie, electric blanket and a hot water bottle and I would still feel a bit chilly!

I presume you are being tongue in cheek, but if you are genuinely cold inside a house with 6 layers of warm on you then you must surely have an underlying circulatory issue or something.

I'm the same and yes I do have underlying issues.

I'm OK if I'm moving about the house doing stuff but working from home I'm always freezing, loads of layers, woolly slippers, hot drinks, soup, still cold. Have Raynauds as well so numb fingers. I'm really annoying though because I actually don't like the house heated too much, feels stuffy. And I like my bedroom cool, about 15 degrees is nice for sleeping so I hate hotels which are always too hot to sleep. So basically I'm only happy when it's about 22 - 24 outside and I can sit and work with the door open. So in the north of Scotland where I am that's about 2 days a year 😁. So in answer to the OP, yes I probably need to toughen up!

Sorry, I was asking the OP, who has said she doesn't have any health issues. I would be questioning that.

In London it's still bloody humid

I think growing up with a single parent who never had the heating on, I've become very hardy to cold weather!
Putting layers on and moving around a bit works wonders.

It annoys me so much at work when colleagues are always cold. Like it's some competition of who is the coldest 😂