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 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.
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. 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. 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 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 about15% body fat may be a little bit less. These days give or take or it could be 150 pound person with about 20% body fat, still pretty lean then on the other end of the scale would be someone who has may be ahundred and fifty pounds of fat that'd be a 300 pound person, who has 50% body fat.
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, some where around 35 to 40 percent body fat. We have a lot of calories, we have a lot offuel 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 astarvation longer and historically that was a really good thing because in the winter time or during periods of starvation, the really skinny people would die off. 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.
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 in accessible. 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. Now as long as you if you're on ahigh 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 caloriere striction in the presence of insulin resistance.
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.
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. 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.
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 may be we're taking this fat-burning a little too far may be 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 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 way of testing yourself, you start counting your carbs carefully and you make sure that you get into ketosis probably get down under 20 grams or so for a solid week and see what happens.
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 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 comments or questions or suggestions with let me know that as well. I'll be more than happy to take a look at that share this information with as many people as you can because we need to get clarity on how these things work. We need to understand the basics so the more that you can share this with other people the more you can enhance their quality of life thanks for reading. Follow for more information like this.
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