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You guys get cold for sure but totally keep us skinny people warm

Fun fact. Muscle mass is better at keeping people warm than fat. This is because muscle is denser.

You can still get cold either way.

Since I am fat, I am always hot... Whereas before when I was thin I was always cold. I should point out that I was really thin before ....

In my experience it works like any kind of insulation. It takes me longer to get cold but once I'm cold it takes for ever to get warm.

I don’t notice the cold but I’m from frosty Minnesota. What I can’t stand is heat.


Funny though, as I’ve gotten more body fat I tend to notice the fat kind of changes in extreme cold maybe close to freezes? and when it warms up it tingles

Severely underweight people do get cold much more easily than fat or safely skinny people, so that is probably where the misconception comes from, but it’s so stupid that people really believe it. Obviously fat people can still get cold, being human and all.

Yeah, it depends on the person. In the years since I’ve put a decent about of weight on my bones, I don’t get shivery-cold in the winter like I did as a kid. I have rather large veins, though, which has always made me an “easy stick” when giving blood or IV for certain surgeries. It also makes for good blood flow and, thus, being warm more often than not.

My wife is 325 pounds of luscious beauty but gets cold much easier than me because she has small veins. She’s been a “hard stick” when it comes to giving blood, IV for
certain surgeries, etc. it makes for slower circulation and being cold in the winter more often than not.

As an amateur scientist I'm trying to figure this out. The temperature in a room can be 23C but because it's cold outside we feel cold inside.

There's either something more to this or it's just women act like princesses when it comes to their comfort.

It's actually a very well-studied phenomenon with many papers about it. Some links for your convenience:

www.pfizer.com/news/articles/cold_wars_why_women_feel_the_chill_more

www.pfizer.com/news/articles/cold_wars_why_women_feel_the_chill_more

www.pfizer.com/news/articles/cold_wars_why_women_feel_the_chill_more

I will say that if something is common in a large group of people, it's probably not an overreaction.

Well that is interesting but the article does assume it's cold. What I am finding with my partner us that she is cold not because the room is cold but because it's cold outside.

I have set up regular temperature, pressure and humidity logging plus a button to record too cold, comfortable and too hot. I've not set up outdoor temperature monitoring which means the experiment is still incomplete.

I think the article gives me something to think about in that women may react to the idea that it's cold by conserving heat by shutting off blood flow to the extremities. This would actually make them cold.

When my woman says she is cold, her hands actually feel cold, colder than the room! I should measure her hand temperature for my experiment.

I myself am like a 2kw electric fire. Heat comes off me so much that I was out today in a T-shirt watching all the people wrapped up in sheepskin coats and scarfs.