Losing tolerance to winter cold

[NbyNW]

I think my cold tolerance has increased due to my last two winters in Edmonton.

[OakLeaf]

I lost a lot of tolerance between about 18 and 35. Except for the asthma-related episode I mentioned in the other thread, it seems to have been pretty stable since then. Although since I started having (brief, mild) hot flashes I occasionally have a few seconds when I'm not freezing!

I'm losing heat tolerance too, it seems, and that worries me a lot more than the other.

[Crankin]

Mine has increased, as far as exercising in the cold. As for just walking around, like in the city, I can tolerate it, as I have better clothes now, but I prefer NOT to do it. I love being outdoors in the winter, but I am working hard!
I have lost tolerance to heat since leaving AZ, but what I really have no tolerance for is heat and humidity. It increased a little over the past 2 summers, which were really hot here.
I understand why people want to move to places where it doesn't get cold, but I love the change of seasons/winter sports so much, I will never do it. I also couldn't live somewhere where the winter was longer than it is here. Really, January and February are real winter here, with some variation in December and March. Some years we get snow in those months and other years, not. It's been mostly not in the past couple of years.

[lph]

My tolerance to cold varies a great deal according to what I'm doing, if I'm hungry or full, drunk or not..., and how my immune system is doing. If I'm cold, my body is telling me that I need to do something about it, or I will end up sneezing and miserable. I don't think it's changed with age. But I'm better at dressing the cold out.

But Norwegian has two different words for distinguishing between being cold ("kald"), and feeling cold ("fryse", literally "freezing"). Being "kald" just means that you can feel something is cold but it's not bothersome, i.e. you're generating enough heat from inside. But if you "fryser" it means you're bothered by the cold, feel uncomfortable and need to warm up.

The tipping point between those two states changes from October to February

[Biciclista]

But Norwegian has two different words for distinguishing between being cold ("kald"), and feeling cold ("fryse", literally "freezing"). Being "kald" just means that you can feel something is cold but it's not bothersome, i.e. you're generating enough heat from inside. But if you "fryser" it means you're bothered by the cold, feel uncomfortable and need to warm up.

Very cool!! and in Italy, even if it over 100 degrees, if you turn a fan on, people think you're entertaining pneumonia...

Remember as a kid you would spend hours in the pool. lake, beach etc and didn't feel cold at all?

We were very different kids. I was the whiny one with the blue lips that was too cold to try to dry myself with the towel a helpful adult handed to me..

[shootingstar]

But Norwegian has two different words for distinguishing between being cold ("kald"), and feeling cold ("fryse", literally "freezing"). Being "kald" just means that you can feel something is cold but it's not bothersome, i.e. you're generating enough heat from inside. But if you "fryser" it means you're bothered by the cold, feel uncomfortable and need to warm up.

Dearie tells me that German has the same two word equivalencies too. German words sounds the same as Norwegian too. He's not too sure of their spelling in German.

I will do sports in cold and have noticed that I heat up rapidly once I get going, but again I have to pay attention to my hands because of Reynauld's condition/syndrome. I am not overly thrilled walking around in -24 degrees C winter cold/snow but have done it ...for several hrs. last year when we were up in the Rockies. We were within the town limits on trails, but it's not a situation I want to be out in the middle of wilderness. Certainly never alone.

Strange when cycling season heats up, wearing cycling shorts initially feels cold at 15 degrees C and but by fall, I'm fine at 5 degrees C in shorts, my legs always build up resistance to cooler temperatures. In fact, I find it hard to get back into full length tights for first few days.

I may be losing my resistance to hot, humid (100%) weather now that I've lived away from that type of heat over the past 10 yrs. Yes, southern Ontario summers become like that often.

[malkin]

I think my tolerance for temperature is about the same as always. In my late teens and twenties, I used to get hives on my knees and elbows when the weather was cool and I was active and warm. That doesn't happen anymore.

[Melalvai]

My tolerance changes dramatically from the beginning to the end of the season.

It also changed as I got more fit. I used to always be the one who was cold and wearing a sweater as everyone else begged to turn the ac colder. Now I'm the one wanting to turn the temp down.

We have more brown fat when we are younger.