Worth a 'bump' of this thread seeing as it's a freezebox of a morning today - about
-3° to -4° these parts.
Firstly, belated congrats to you Waffly - I wish I could lose - well I do it in Kg instead of stones but I'm sure you can do the sums - lose about 10Kg, that's all I ask, not as much as your effort, at the moment the willpower isn't there, but maybe, maybe...
I'm not sure that feeling the cold badly is as closely linked to losing weight as one supposes. I seem to recall that, in my younger days when I was a lot less - er - rounded than I am now, I didn't feel the cold worse than I do now - and I used to have a far longer commute. Maybe part of it is a psychological factor. Keeping the upper body and arms warm, and wearing a hat (if you wear a helmet put on one of those under-helmet caps), count for a lot. But probably you've tried all this already. Eventually you'll get used to the cold and notice it less. Good luck.
Back to this morning. Well, a lovely fresh invigorating morning with not a breath of wind (OK my commute's only 2 miles so I don't have time to freeze!). Spoilt by one thing. The pall of exhaust smoke hanging all around our estate, due to motorists running their engines for twenty minutes whilst they scrape and scrape and
scrape (worse still are the bucket-of-water brigade who make their own ice rinks in front of their house, but that's another story). I wouldn't gripe so much if it were an unavoidable necessity, but
every single house in our road has a garage.
Needless to say I'm up and away well before the neighbours.