cold hands warm heart?

KlodaX

I'm just making sure I'm normal. Does anyone else feel comparativly cold to the rest of the population? I'm sitting in a room with people who are wearing t-shirts and have air conditioning on... I am wear a t-shirt, jumper and hoody. Ok maybe jumper is a bit much under hoody at this time of year ... but it is to counteract the bloody air conditioning!

This is summer time.. in winter I freeze. I've tried drinking guinness for iron... jogging to get circulation going... if I eat hot food I'm warm for bout an hour. When I went abroad everyone else was cooked but I was just nice. I know I have to survive this winter in Ireland ... so other than moving to a hot country does anyone have any suggestions to keep warm?

How do I retain heat?

Beruthiel

KlodaX wrote:

I'm just making sure I'm normal. Does anyone else feel comparativly cold to the rest of the population?

me
I'm alway like this
I have no answer for you though as I haven't worked out how to sort it other than moving to the south of france where I find it pleasantly warm

Sleepy

Lots of thin layers apparently. Though I just think you're weird, granted, every girlfriend I've ever said has said the same as me: I'm nearly always too warm. Think of the bloke wearing a t-shirt in December, that's me.

Big Ears

Sleepy wrote:

Lots of thin layers apparently. Though I just think you're weird, granted, every girlfriend I've ever said has said the same as me: I'm nearly always too warm. Think of the bloke wearing a t-shirt in December, that's me.

or me.

KlodaX

too warm isn't a bad thing .... I'd be like a leech clinging for heat if I was going out with someone like that ... they'd be like 'get off me, get your own heat'

although some of the warmer people tend to sweat alot... so there are good points of being cold. Not enough.

penguinbloke

Yet another of the winter t-shirt wearers, at least if your too cold you can add another layer. Some of us aren't so lucky.
People complaining about the cold and I need to open a window.

red vex

it seems like you need a nice warm guy to hold your hand.
Talking about hot, trying working in a room 10 by 20 feet with nearly 50 computers. Its like an oven

Sleepy

Any of you other winter t-shirt wearers ever find it hard to sleep in the same bed as apartner cos the beds too damn warm? Or do I just need to get myself a double room?

Beruthiel

Sleepy wrote:

Or do I just need to get myself a double room?

if you are larger than the size of an average hobbit
I'd say yes

red vex

lol....1 point for beruthiel

mr_angry

I know how you feel K, but for me its down to low blood-pressure and hence poor circulation! Next time you're at the doctors or passing one of those shopping centre health-clinic things, get them to check your blood pressure, and see what the story is.

I prescribe more stress!

finnpark

It's usually due to a thin skin. I am usually colder than most I would say. Spend more time outdoors working is the solution. You will adapt much better to the cold then.

keu

being female, I'm assuming you both don't wear socks. Its easy to loose heat through your feet (or head)...so wear socks and a hat

if you do already..than your just cold blooded creatures, like snakes....

Beruthiel

keu wrote:

being female, I'm assuming you both don't wear socks.

I wear big thick mens socks and docs!

_Kaiser_

Add another one to the winter t-shirt list

I hate the summers - I know today isn't the best example - but usually what a lot of people consider "a great day", I see as being far too warm/humid/uncomfortable.

Roll on Autumn/Winter I say.

finnpark

Kaiser2000 wrote:

Add another one to the winter t-shirt list

I hate the summers - I know today isn't the best example - but usually what a lot of people consider "a great day", I see as being far too warm/humid/uncomfortable.

Roll on Autumn/Winter I say.

Are you overweight by any chance?

Cabaal

My family always give out to me because I wear t-shirts during the winter and never button my coat up unless its pouring out, I always wear either a t-shirt or a coat to work also, my girlfriend on the other hand finds it cold ALOT more then me

keu

ok..your just a reptile then...need to lie out on a rock and bask in the sun for a couple of hours..or turn on the heating and hug the radiators for a couple of hours.
(my sister is the same)
or get one of those fleece blankies..(cute and warm)

keu

my sister has gas central heating on during the summer and lights the fire too.???
I think you people were brought up in households that had central heating on 24/7, not used to tempratures below 30 degrees celcius.

_Kaiser_

Are you overweight by any chance?

Not really no... could maybe lose a bit but I suppose most of us think that.

Kell

keu wrote:

my sister has gas central heating on during the summer and lights the fire too.???
I think you people were brought up in households that had central heating on 24/7, not used to tempratures below 30 degrees celcius.

Fair point. I am not quite a winter t-shirt wearer, but never suffer from the cold and I is a skinny b*stard.

Choice of fabric is a help too when buying clothes. Dont just buy some piece of clothing cos its *nice*, but it because it keeps you warm when its supposed to and keeps you cool the rest of the time. Functional clothing doesnt have to be boring.

K-

GuanYin

KlodaX wrote:

I'm just making sure I'm normal. Does anyone else feel comparativly cold to the rest of the population? I'm sitting in a room with people who are wearing t-shirts and have air conditioning on... I am wear a t-shirt, jumper and hoody. Ok maybe jumper is a bit much under hoody at this time of year ... but it is to counteract the bloody air conditioning!

This is summer time.. in winter I freeze. I've tried drinking guinness for iron... jogging to get circulation going... if I eat hot food I'm warm for bout an hour. When I went abroad everyone else was cooked but I was just nice. I know I have to survive this winter in Ireland ... so other than moving to a hot country does anyone have any suggestions to keep warm?

How do I retain heat?

Hot food, as in spicy actually lowers your body temperature. So thats out. This could be metabolism related which would be dietry.

You can be of proper build and have a low proportion of insulating body fat depending on your metabolism and the type of food you eat and exercise you do.

Ack, I don't remember the details but I'll look itup in my big book of medicine later on.

Syke

Beruthiel

syke wrote:

Hot food, as in spicy actually lowers your body temperature. So thats out. This could be metabolism related which would be dietry.

but
but
but I lurve spicy food! :eek:

Zulu

Little fact for the day:
Women have thinner skin than men, thus are more sensitive, and could possiably explain why, in general, in my experience, the girls in the office are cold, while the lads are sweating.

Kell

syke wrote:

have a low proportion of insulating body fat depending on your metabolism and the type of food you eat and exercise you do.

Only from personal experience, I have found that heavier people, particularly women, suffer from cold more than normal. I wonder does body fat in some way inhibit rise in body temperature?

K-

Bard

Some people grow up used to the cold and the rain and so develop a greater mental ability to put up with it or ignore it. Growing up in Limerick, I got very used to the cold and rain and I find that these days it doesn't generally bother me or I don't notice it half as much as most people.

I'm told also that I'm very warm blooded, - like a natural radiator. Some people are just like that I guess. Gets you more hugs

Hot food, as in spicy actually lowers your body temperature. So thats out. This could be metabolism related which would be dietry.

That's because your body reacts to the heat of the spicy food by lowering the bodys temperature any way it can (usually through sweating).

tk123

my thyroid is dodgy so i'm always going from too hot to too cold - i'm freeeeezing right now and everyone is complaining about the heat in the office!!

Zulu

peronally, I've been told I'm like an oven except for my feet. For some reason (poor circulation I suppose) my feet are ALWAYS freezing!

dosen't bother me though - I use them as a weapon, to gain more bed space.

Webmonkey

I can't stand the heat. Last year in the winter in France i was walking the streets at night with a tshirt while everyone else were wearing average of two jumpers

NeMiSiS

My hands go an odd shade of purple.. and basically ice ****ing cold.. if its anyway cold. I asked the Doc about it and she said I should swim cause its good for the circulation.. she had the same problem.. she was a babe too.. but thats beside the point. I'm allways cold, if I go to hot countries its ****ing brilliant, I went and lived in Gran Canaria for a few months..no more purple hands..was even able to breathe better there.. odd as that sounds.

Whats worse is I have this FAT boss, who I'm allways out on call with , who insists on having the windows rolled down and the air conditioning on cold at full blast while we are on our way to service calls, I'm constantly rolling up the windows and telling him to turn the ****ing air con on warm.

Blah.
Tom

gandalf

Can't stand being too warm, I prefer the cold. I love standing in the freezer department of the Supermarkets. Then again I have always been hot stuff LOL

Cmer Ruthie I'll warm ya up

KlodaX

I always wear socks and hats ... doesn't make musch difference. I shaved my head once and had to wear a hat for 2 months when I went to sleep! I now have a vast amount of hair which keeps my head warm

what is the story with some people being really warm and some cold?

are there any average body temp people out there? or is that just a myth ... a fictional goal that we all aspire to

Havelock

I'm one of those weird temp people. In Summer I'm alwasy cold and in Winter I'm always too hot. Lying in bed next to someone I find the heat I generate is unbearable, not matter how much the person appricates the warm. But I've a weird blood work and metabolism so I proably don't count.

DapperGent

Could be smoking? As far as I know smoking affects your circulation (badly obviously) and can lead to colder extremities.

I get cold hands and feets a good bit. Never really did when I was smart enough to not smoke 10-15 a day, i.e. when I was a child.

jesus_thats_gre

Sleepy wrote:

Lots of thin layers apparently. Though I just think you're weird, granted, every girlfriend I've ever said has said the same as me: I'm nearly always too warm. Think of the bloke wearing a t-shirt in December, that's me.

And me. Am very rarely ever cold.

jesus_thats_gre

Nearly every girl I have known have always complained about being cold and always moaned at me for being so warm... It great, ya get a nice lady wrapped around ya for the rest of the day.

An Klodax, that office is always bleeding roasting in the summer!!! You are lucky you dont have me fiddling with the Air conditioning unit anymore, its used to be all mine

keu

[quote}what is the story with some people being really warm and some cold?[/quote]
the cold people are really really special.

Unpossible

I wear t-shirts in the winter (although in the comming winter its going to be -30 so im not too sure), I also love the heat of summer. I used to be a compeditive (sp?) swimmer, and used to do windsurfing & bodyboarding maybe it helped. And no Im not fat but I do have a nice coating of body hair (Hahahahaha knew it would come in handy)

KlodaX

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

Nearly every girl I have known have always complained about being cold and always moaned at me for being so warm... It great, ya get a nice lady wrapped around ya for the rest of the day.

An Klodax, that office is always bleeding roasting in the summer!!! You are lucky you dont have me fiddling with the Air conditioning unit anymore, its used to be all mine

someone has taken over your job of 'air conditioning fiddler' ... if I catch them I'm going to cut their fingers off.

I think I'll just have to go with unpossible's idea... grow body hair. Why didn't I think of that sooner? And here was me removing body hair :rolleyes:
idiot.

Has anyone tried carrying round a portable fan heater? My mom used to do that at work... she'd hide it under the desk.

I don't smoke that much ... only at weekends .. maybe one or two during the week ... and I stopped for a year and was still cold. Lets rule that out. lets say its caused from not eating enough chocolate yeah?

Jim

Unfortunatly I'm rarely cold, I hate the heat. But if I do get cold I freeze, bouts of teeth rattleing.

Having said that though I have very cold hands/feet/general body bits. Odd.

snoopish

my skin to touch always feels hot but i'm always feeling cold

KlodaX

snoopish wrote:

my skin to touch always feels hot but i'm always feeling cold

I think you have a temprature

CathyMoran

I have always figured that less clothes made more sense - I tend to do a lot of fast walking, so I am normally roasting before I get into work...I also work on the basis that if you are a bit colder your body is burning more calories, so I can eat more (bit like the way I drink coffee to speed up my metabolism)...I can survive the heat quite well but i prefer the cold...

ToxicPaddy

I always have warm hands and feet and generally act like a human radiator
so when Im in bed on a cold winters night it doesnt take long for the bed to
heat up... expecially good when a lady friend in the bed beside you.. and as
someone else said here.. lotsa hugs..

Dunno why, but I seem to have a good tolerance of both hot and cold weather..

Well KlodaX we have the opposite problem here in the office im in, no air conditioning and got a themometer (sp?) the other day and it hit 34 degrees
in here.. that would soon have ya warmed up.. like bloody barbados without
the sunshine.. :rolleyes:

Zulu

CathyMoran wrote:

I have always figured that less clothes made more sense - I tend to do a lot of fast walking, so I am normally roasting before I get into work...I also work on the basis that if you are a bit colder your body is burning more calories, so I can eat more (bit like the way I drink coffee to speed up my metabolism)...I can survive the heat quite well but i prefer the cold...

Thats just crazy enough to work...

KlodaX

mmm heat ...

The layering of clothes works... but at this rate of going, come christmas I'll look like the michelin man.

Do you think if I went out looking for a man purely for heat I'd come across as clingy?

Moonbeam

"Do you think if I went out looking for a man purely for heat I'd come across as clingy?"

No it's as good a reason as any

Sleepy

KlodaX wrote:

mmm heat ...

The layering of clothes works... but at this rate of going, come christmas I'll look like the michelin man.

Do you think if I went out looking for a man purely for heat I'd come across as clingy?

Well, sex is the best way to warm up so you'll seem desperate. But that'll rarely put a bloke off his stride

][cEMAN**

Well I must admit I don't much like the heat myself. The name iceman comes with certain real life reasons as well as the main one I picked the name.

I tend to sweat in clubs but that's usually because i'm constantly dancing, but apart from that I don't generally suffer from sweating a lot.

But I do generate an excessive amount of heat. I don't know why, but i've always been like this. Though I sometimes find my hands cold.

KlodaX

Ha Ha! the air conditioning it broken! and the repair guys can't find out what is wrong with it. I'm all nice and toasty.