You also need to eat fatty food unless you are already fat. Since cold adaption is basically your body turning white fat into brown fat, because of cold exposure. Which then gets burned for heat. Your body can’t create brown fat if you don’t have enough fat in your body.
What does fat mean? I have a BMI of about 22, which isn’t overweight, but I have also been healthy with less fat on my body and I can pinch my stomach or thigh, so there is subcutaneous fat.
I ask because my gallbladder hates it when I eat fatty foods, so other than a handful of peanuts or a couple tablespoons of oil or sauce, I can’t actually eat much fat. Can I just eat a lot more other food?
Yeah, tofu is a major source of my dietary fat, but the others are no gos. I guess what I’m wondering is, does the process happen with calories or does it have to be fat already locked away?
You also need to eat fatty food unless you are already fat. Since cold adaption is basically your body turning white fat into brown fat, because of cold exposure. Which then gets burned for heat. Your body can’t create brown fat if you don’t have enough fat in your body.
I’ve been training my whole life for this moment
man, if losing weight meant all I had to do was go outside and sit in the cold I would have done it a decade ago.
how fucking sweet would that be. I live in the perfect environment for it too
I have almost no body fat, luckily I live in Australia, unluckily this is the coldest fucking summer in my life and I’m freezing.
What does fat mean? I have a BMI of about 22, which isn’t overweight, but I have also been healthy with less fat on my body and I can pinch my stomach or thigh, so there is subcutaneous fat.
I ask because my gallbladder hates it when I eat fatty foods, so other than a handful of peanuts or a couple tablespoons of oil or sauce, I can’t actually eat much fat. Can I just eat a lot more other food?
Soybeans, eggs, olives and avocado have a lot of fat. And carbs get turned into fat if you don’t burn the sugars immediately.
Yeah, tofu is a major source of my dietary fat, but the others are no gos. I guess what I’m wondering is, does the process happen with calories or does it have to be fat already locked away?
Carbohydrates/starches do the same thing. The body coverts them to fat if you over-eat. A high carbohydrate diet is the number one reason for obesity.
Eating whole grains is better as they are digested slower and don’t spike the blood sugar as fast.
Spending a day outside in cold temps can double or triple your caloric needs depending on the conditions.