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Wellness Wednesday for December 10, 2025

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Does anybody have any good suggestions for staying warm while sedentary indoors? I've lost a lot of weight and the cold is starting to wear on me.

I'm wearing synthetic base layer bottoms, then either a synthetic or wool base layer top. Socks are thick insulated winter socks. On top of that I'm wearing something like a Henley and trousers and a hoodie. I'll frequently wear a neck gaiter and slippers as well.

I'm mostly running into issues with my legs.

Besides what everybody else has said already, I'd like to add that cold tolerance can be trained by exposure. If you currently go running/lifting, try going very lightly clothed (and move the activity outside, if your gym is heated). I find doing the exposure like this is much more comfortable than doing exposure while sedentary (which also works).

If you're highly motivated, you can add ice baths. Those get massively easier with exposure, too, and the adaption carries over to some degree. I recommend doing them in a rive, lake or the sea together with friends, that makes them at least type II fun...

If you don't want any more cold exposure in your life, I'd recommend keeping especially hands and feet warm. There's really nice lamb fur slippers and wool gloves for indoor use.

I do make sure that I do at least 30 minutes of moderate outdoor activity every day unless the rain or snow are too bad, and my basement where I lift or hit the bike sits around 56 degrees this time if year.

If I'm active, I'm fine for about 46 - 60 minutes after I sit down again. Unfortunately I'm a desk jockey for a living, so I have to stay sedentary during the day for longer than I'd like.

Heat your damn place. The question is absurd. You're keeping it way too cold and asking how to be warmer.

This has never been a problem before in my life.

Maybe I just need to get fat again.

Don't listen to them. Turn the thermostat down even lower and search for deranged penny-pincher techniques to tolerate the freeze.

Let the dadness flow through you.

Sounds plausible as the ${CurrentYear} meta for dadmaxxing.

In recent past decades in various countries the dad meta was letting the house run hot and rambling about how airconditioning was a luxury, and how acclimating with the heat builds character.

I could see how the current dad meta would be to run the house cold, especially as a preemptive way to curb daughter outfit thottery (to the extent possible within one’s household).

True dadmaxxing is living somewhere with seasons that let you do both.

No AC in summer, no heat in winter. Any children that make it out alive will be wolves among men.

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