It's cold outside, and… in your body! Whether working from home or at the office, despite the heating, you feel a need to warm up. Your hands, your feet, the tip of your nose are frozen, you are almost shivering. So of two things one, either you are sick, or you just need to find some warmth (and not only in the heart!). If you are in the second category, follow us for advice that does good.
In the dead of winter, you are at work and since you are not a fitness coach, you are cold. While outside temperatures cause the thermometer to drop, this may also be due to lack of activity and low thermogenesis.
What is thermogenesis? It is the body's ability to generate heat. So by burning calories, by having enough energy, but not only.
So of course, when you're cold, the simple solution would be to increase the temperature of your heating, but the Planet, it does not help at all! There are, however, plenty of grandma's (or common sense, which is often the same thing) tricks to warm your icy feet, icy hands, red nose, and keep you healthy. We interviewed the entire Aufeminin editorial staff and gleaned the best advice: we promise, you will never end up finishing the day with a contract!
1. The basis for warming up, the onion strategy
Rather than looking for the biggest sweater in your closet, layer the layers. Better a sweater, a thin sweater and a cardigan, than a single chunky turtleneck. And that also goes for your outings when winter is raging: several layers under his coat. However, be careful not to wear clothes that are too tight: yes to cozy leggings, no to socks that are too tight at the ankles or tights hindering the waist, which would tend to cut off your circulation.
As a first layer (when skiing, we call it "baselayer" for example), an ultra thin top with cashmere from Intimissimi. In the second layer, a cashmere and alpaca sweater, and in the third layer, a wool blend overshirt:
Galerie Lafayette – Straight cashmere and alpaca zaho sweater with funnel neck
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La Redoute – Buttoned jacket
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2. Long live wool!
I apologize to our vegan readers, because what I recommend here is to favor wool, the real one. A natural material that keeps you warm. And when I say wool, read the label carefully: out of polyester, nylon, viscose, cotton, yes to the knit that keeps really warm (wool, merino, mohair, cashmere, alpaca).
Another textile that can help you retain heat under a layer of wool (see onion strategy below): silk. Moreover, there are second skin clothes that mix wool and silk, and that also works very well!
For vegans to console themselves, fleece “wool” also works very well, but you have to opt for a quality fleece to stay warm. And here I beg the green people for forgiveness, because we know that fleece is a synthetic textile … that the planet does not adore!
3. As with your windows, seal the gaps!
A colleague of mine said to me, "I just put on a scarf." Eh yes ! Quite simply ! It looks silly like that, and yet … It is first and foremost the interstices or rather the articulation areas allowing air to pass that accentuate the unpleasant feeling of cold. Wrists, ankles, neck, stomach when properly covered guarantee better sensations of heat. So we put on good socks, very long sleeves (or wrist covers knitted by Granny), a scarf and tuck your sweater into your pants (plus, it's trendy) and presto, things are already better!
To cover the stomach and neck: HeatTech Uniqlo base sweater
For the ankles and feet: Soft booties in Etam moumoute
For the wrists:
Prettystern – Mittens Cuffs – Light gray
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4. Cold feet, me? Never !
If you feel that your feet are suffering in silence, here is our advice: First, check that no drafts or grout wind are cooling them. Then put on some warm socks (no, tennis socks aren't worth a nail). Do you have slippers? Perfect, take them out! And if you feel that the floor under your desk is the source of freshness, place a rug there.
Finally, to re-circulate the blood in your feet, raise them for a few minutes; it will also be good for your legs.
Playing with a tennis ball rolled under the soles of the feet can also help warm them up.
The top of the line in terms of comfort x warmth: Birkenstock lined clogs!
Birkenstock – Boston Shearling – Sweden
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5. Granny's stuff
With great ailments, great remedies say the adage, so we don't hesitate any longer and let's go all out! In addition to the slippers, we equip ourselves with a hot water bottle, a plaid on the knees – by closing your eyes, you would think yourself limited on the deck of a liner with your blanket by the way – and we made ourselves a drink hot *.
For my part, not having absolute confidence in hot water bottles filled with water, I adopted a cushion filled with cherry stones, which I can reheat in 1 min 30 in the microwave and I love (my best purchase in recent months). Plus, it's plastic-free and… ok, I'm not doing the Planet for you again!
* On this point, opinions differ: many colleagues hold their cup of tea in their hands like a holy grail, yet we read here and there that consuming hot drinks can make you sweat, and the body cools down. especially since it is wet afterwards. Moreover, in an article in Figaro Madame* on the mistakes not to make to warm up, the pharmacist Thomas Kassab indicated that the hot drink should be drunk lukewarm. To the best of my mind!
The dry flax hot water bottle with flax seeds:
A thousand pillows – physiotherapy cushion
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6. A seat that keeps you warm
If you are teleworking, test the toupee (or the fleece blanket) on your chair, so as not to rest your behind on a cold seat? One of my colleagues set the bar very high by purchasing a heating pad and she loves it (and if I told you that she also has a heated mattress topper, you too say that she is extreme. ?).
Leisuretime – USB Heating Cushions
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Astoria – Heated mattress topper
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7. The Coué method and mental conditioning
I don't know about you, but me, when I'm cold, if I see Leonardo di Caprio struggling in the freezing blue water, I feel… I'm even colder. So to heat up the mental temperature, install a video of a fireplace on your TV or computer screen. There are loads of them on YouTube (which have millions of views by the way) and just watching the flames, well, it gets hot! Yes, yes, try it, you will see!
8. We pass a milestone with the heaters
Heaters are those little pockets that you twist, snap, and presto, which start to heat up. It's magic and it stays warm for at least 10 minutes for the base models and half an hour or more for the performance models. Slip a heater in your socks or in your hands, guaranteed hot effect! Disposables are sold, but since one of our good resolutions for 2021 is to produce less waste, we will prefer those that are put back in a pot of hot water for reuse.
Sephora – reusable heaters
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9. Cold hands …
… Warm heart! Yes, I love proverbs, but there are times when typing with stiff fingers on your computer keyboard is torture. So like one of my colleagues, we just enjoy a moment in a meeting, cross our legs, and squeeze our hands between our thighs to warm them up.
10. SOS colleague (or SOS child, it also works!)
If you are lucky enough to share your office with coworkers (which sounds a little crazy right now) or are at home and live with a partner, roommate, kids, or you have a cool neighbor, have them blow your back. Yes as if the person wants you to inflate the middle of the shoulder blades. My mom used to do this to me when I was a kid and it's damn effective. If you also wear a wool sweater, the material will amplify this feeling of warmth provided by the breath. Test, you will tell us!
11. Household chores to the rescue
Vacuum, move, tidy up, yes it warms! But I found better: ironing (no, don't shout…). Get out your board, iron and iron some easy pieces that won't take your head but require steam. You will see how it warms the atmosphere, it's magic!
Another tip: prepare a dish in the oven, preheat, cook, and let the open oven cool down so that its heat diffuses into the room.
Obviously if you are in the office, this strategy will not work … The advantage of telecommuting.
12. The solutions of the extreme
And if despite all this you still shiver, then all you have to do is take a fitness break. To warm up, try HIIT (see our article for good exercises that warm up well), otherwise, at a minimum, get up and move, go up and down a staircase, jump in place by moving your arms so that the blood vessels s irrigate well, and if you are at home, after exercising, take a hot shower.
Some of my colleagues even recommended slipping into a good bath. It's up to you, depending on your ecological conscience and the equipment in your bathroom!
Finally the ultimate solution: we are whispered on the ear that nothing like a cat purring on you, so if you don't have one, maybe borrow the neighbor's ?!