Hi! I’ve been intermittent fasting since the start of this year. It works: I’m less hungry, eat less and I believe I might have lost some weight already (although I haven’t been doing it long enough to be sure it wasn’t a fluke). But this one thing bothers me.
Between waking up in the morning (around 6:30) and my first meal (12:00), I’m cold. My colleagues (mostly) aren’t, and if they are cold, they’re cold after lunch too. so I’m assuming it’s the fasting. Does this go away eventually? Or should I start looking for other solutions?
It’s not the fasting, it’s the calorie deficit. It’s pretty normal to be cold in a calorie deficit, no matter how you do it. If anything that’s a good sign you’re on the right track.
Also making assumption but if you are currently overweight/obese you will feel cold quite often once you shed the weight, that’s just a byproduct of losing a lot of weight.
I’ve heard it a couple times here, I know for me I’ve been feeling the cold more than usual, but it could just be coincidence as it also been the coldest part of the year so far. I’ve just taken the usual precautions if I do get cold of wearing more clothes
Happens to me as well. It’s the metabolism slowing during a fast. No trouble after I first eat.
I have been able to be less cold by doing the following. I’m up between 3-4 am for work everyday. Work starts 4-5am. I work from home, but if I didn’t I would add 15 minutes or so for this:
20 minutes of yoga. Get a light sweat going before my coffee even kicks in.
If that’s all I do for activity I start getting cold again around 10am. But most mornings during the week I hit the gym at 8am on my “lunch break” after seeing the kids off to school.
If I do those two things I don’t get cold that day. I can maintain the fast into the evening. I might get a little cool at night around bedtime.
If I eat that day (most days) I’m a big old furnace until the next day. If I don’t, then I’ll need some activity the next morning.
I haven’t gone longer than 48 hours in a fast, but I’m able to maintain that fitness regimen while going up to 48 hours.