It’s not the first article I’ve written about how winter can actually help us lose weight, thanks to diet-induced thermogenesis – our body’s ability to use what we eat to produce heat. But how to do it? First of all, we must consider a fundamental thing, which I always try to explain to many people who write to me because even if they eat little they have weight problems.

If you want to lose weight, you need to eat. You don’t have to go hungry. If you want to push your body to burn more, you still have to provide it with everything it needs to make you live well, and not to barely survive. If you go on a low calorie diet, your body holds onto the little you give it, other than thermogenesis! There is no way to burn more if you eat one thousand or one thousand three hundred calories , because you are feeding yourself as a child, not as an adult, to the detriment of your health. The body with you is already playing at maximum savings. 

If, on the other hand, you have a nutritious and balanced diet, then you can get a lot from the cold to raise your metabolism and activate diet-induced thermogenesis, through brown fat, a particular type of fat that is friendly to our metabolism, which pushes the body to burn more calories. to warm up. Until a few years ago, when I ate very little, I was always cold. Frozen hands and feet, my legs ached from the cold, I was always covered with too many clothes and leaned back against the heaters. Would it make sense to take off too many sweaters and try to stimulate my brown fat in this way? No, I tried. I was colder, I was more stressed, and in addition to the cold came weakness. I then got to know some authors and doctors doing this work, and I realized thatmetabolism and body temperature are linked . So I followed their advice, and that meant starting to eat more, questioning myself and, at first, gaining weight. But after a few months, I got less and less cold, and more and more hands and feet pleasantly warm or warm.