Feeling cold on keto? Well I'm gonna explain it so you get it once and for
all. Coming right up. So let's break this down step by step and let's make it very
very simple if you're feeling cold and we're assuming that you're endorsed in a
controlled environment if you're feeling cold it's because
you're not producing enough heat and why would you not produce enough heat what
where does that come from there's two reasons one would be hypothyroid if your
thyroid is basically your thermostat it's what makes a thyroid hormone that
tells every cell in your body to crank up their action to turn up the heat
production to turn off their activity so if for any reason that you are
hypothyroid then that's gonna turn down the thermostat it's gonna turn down the
heat production and even if you have plenty of fuel available the cells just
won't do anything with it so check out that video on thyroid
hypothyroidism
besides hypothyroid is if there's a fuel shortage that if your body doesn't have
access to fuel or doesn't think you have access to fuel or doesn't have enough
fuel so there's two basic reasons for that one would be that you have plenty
of fuel but that you don't have access you can't get to it it's locked away and
the second one is that you're actually running low on fuel you just don't have
enough and the body perceives a shortage so let's talk about fat because fat is
your energy reserve that's your fuel reserve you're you're walking around
with a tank of fuel on your body as fat reserves so someone who is relatively
lean like myself I have about a hundred thousand calories of fuel reserves on my
body in fat alone I have a little bit more in protein and other tissues but
hundred thousand in fat that's about thirty
hounds so I weigh about 185 I'm about 15% body fat
maybe a little bit less these days give or take or it could be 150 pound person
with about 20% body fat still still pretty lean then on the other end of the
scale would be someone who has maybe a hundred and fifty pounds of fat that'd
be a 300 pound person who has 50% body fat and 50% body fat is not as rare as
you might think most people that we check even people who don't look
overweight are going to end up somewhere around 35 to 40 percent body fat so we
have a lot of calories we have a lot of fuel reserves on our bodies and that's
for survival purposes that's why the body packs on the fat because the person
with the more fat can survive a starvation longer and historically that
was a really good thing because in the wintertime or during periods of
starvation the really skinny people would die off and the people who are
better at storing fat they would survive so people have humans have developed the
ability to store fat really well as a survival advantage but if you can't get
to that fuel if you have all that fuel but you can't get to it if it's locked
of a way it's inaccessible this is what happens with insulin resistance insulin
is a fat storage hormone it creates a pressure to push that fat inside the
cells and you don't have access to it even though you have all that fat it
just won't be available to come out of the cells and to be burned as fuel
so now as long as you if if you're on a high carb if you have insulin resistance
and you keep eating high carb now you're still going to be warm because you're
topping off your blood sugar you still keep filling up the fuel you keep
packing it away but you keep adding more so you have enough but now you have the
bright idea to restrict calories you want to lose some weight so you follow
the popular advice of eat less so it's they say it's all about portion can
trol in calories well it's not because once you have insulin resistance and use
strict calories now your body senses that hey you know I need 2,000 calories
for my metabolic needs to keep the heat production up but you're only feeding me
1,500 so I'm 500 short I don't have the fuel
that I need so I'm gonna turn down the thermostat and this is what happens when
we crash metabolism through calorie restriction in the presence of insulin
resistance and that's what happens to most people because most people are
insulin resistance their insulin is packing the fat away now they start
eating less they can't get to the fat so even in the midst of plenty even with an
abundance of fuel reserves your body is starving
it only has that 1,500 so it's gonna turn down the thermostat and you get
cold if you are trying keto and you feel cold you're probably not fat adapted yet
because if you're truly in ketosis if you are burning fat then the ketones
being in ketosis producing ketones is the evidence that you're good at burning
fat that means in ketosis you do have access to these fuel reserves and even
if you start eating less your body says okay I need 2000 calories and you're
only eating 1,500 no problem I know where to get it I'm fat adapted I know
where there's several hundred thousand calories sitting around I'll just get it
from the fuel stores so if you're fully fat adapted and not insulin resistance
you can eat less without turning down the thermostat without crashing your
metabolism because your body doesn't care where you get the calories it
doesn't care if you eat them or if the body if you can burn them from existing
stores and that's why kita works that's why if you're truly in ketosis
then you're not gonna crash your metabolism you're not going to turn down
that thermostat just because you eat a little bit less and the beauty of keto
the beauty of being fat adapted is that you don't get hungry because your body
knows hey if you don't eat I'll just get it over here okay
the other reason is an actual lack so at some point a lot of people they get so
enamored with ketosis and they feel so good doing it and they get in a certain
routine so they lose the weight and lose the weight but it comes a point where
they don't really need to lose any more weight such as myself and with I skip a
few meals it's usually no big deal but if I go for a week and only eat one meal
a day or so then my body starts getting a little cold it starts turning down and
saying hey feed us a little bit more because the body is starting to sense
that maybe we're taking this fat-burning a little too far maybe we're getting a
little too close to that edge of of survival it's like we're not dying yet
but we'd like to have just a little bit more fat reserves just in case there's
there's a long starvation ahead so if the body starts sensing that it's
getting kind of close to the end of the fuel reserves then it's also going to
cut down it's going to turn down that thermostat and you start feeling cold
so the solution obviously is if you don't have access to the fuel then get
fat adapted now you just learn enough about this you get some some way of
testing yourself you start counting your your carbs carefully and you make sure
that you get into ketosis probably get down under 20 grams or so for for a
solid week and see what happens and if you are getting down to or below your
desire wait then make sure that you eat enough
okay you can stay on keto but you may not want to stay on on one meal a day
anymore because it's just really difficult to eat that much if your body
needs to 2,000 calories it's kind of hard to eat that in a single meal
sometimes so at that point I probably suggest that you spread out your feeding
window a little bit you stay low carb but you don't have to follow all the
rules for weight loss anymore you can still stay in ketosis you can still be
low carb you can still feed your brain the the good fuel but the rules have
changed a little bit you're not needing to lose the weight you need to eat
enough to meet your metabolic needs so I hope that was helpful please let me know
if this works for you let me know your experiences if you have additional
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