Greetings,

I hope that I'm posting this in the correct forum. I'm new to this place but I've dabbled in CKDs for dropping bodyfat over the years and have been around usenet and a few mailing lists and forums on that topic.

So I'm trying to actually put some pretty good planning into a diet that I'll be beginning at the start of February. I've jumped into some of them impulsively but I'm hoping that some fore-planning will allow me have some more success.

A few days ago I read Lyle McDonald's 2006 article on the Maximum Caloric Defecit possible. It was an awesome read for me and I plan on starting out using slightly higher dficits than normal due to the fact that I've gone and gotten my bodyfat percent in the 27-30% range.

Getting to my question, I've started taking my waking temperature to have it available for comparison and as a metabolic measure when dieting.

Without having dieted at all recently, my temperature is 96.4 when I wake up and appears to get to the mid 97s a few hours after I'm up. I'm only on day three of tracking this. So what does this all mean for me when it comes to factoring my basal metabolic rate or my maintenance calories? Any tips for making my diet as effective as someone's would be who runs at the normal 98.6F?

-vect0rx

Funny that you mention this, I've recently started tracking morning temps (I'm on an IF type diet) and find that 96.1 - 97.0 is my current range. Trying to find correlations with the quality and quantity of the previous day's refeed.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

There's a low carb diet/exercise forum where some folks are telling me to get my thyroid checked. Right now I'm still deciding if it means anything. I've found a pretty good looking medical study entitled "Body termperature variability" (part 1 and 2) that I need to finish reading tonight about multifactors of body temp.

Will follow up when I find out what's up.

-eric

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Funny that you mention this, I've recently started tracking morning temps (I'm on an IF type diet) and find that 96.1 - 97.0 is my current range. Trying to find correlations with the quality and quantity of the previous day's refeed.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.
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I don't believe that it is proportional from person to person; but for each particular individual, I'd imagine it is.

For the record, my average temperature is normally around 96.7-.9 during the day and 96.4-.6 upon waking. Also, my maintenance calories is very low for someone my age when I'm not active. ~1700-1800.

my temp also runs around 96-97, I wonder why we are all falling in this range? We should compare lifestyle and body composition factors.
I too have wondered why my temp runs this low and if its a good thing.

Hi guys. I've decided that before getting too concerned with my body temperature that I should do some more monitoring. What follows is my body temperature at waking (5:30-7:30am) for the last several days. When I've had the opportunity, I've also taken my temperature around 1pm, as well as around 7pm. So those are the three respective numbers you'll see below:

01/07/2008 - 96.4F
01/08/2008 - 96.6F
01/09/2008 - 96.7F
01/10/2008 - 97.0F - 97.6F - 98.0F
01/11/2008 - 96.5F - 98.3F - 98.0F
01/12/2008 - 97.5F - N/A - N/A
01/13/2008 - 97.2F - 98.0F - 98.7F
01/14/2008 - 96.7F - 98.3F - 99.1F
01/15/2008 - 96.6F
01/16/2008 - 96.6F

Given my higher body temperatures at various times in the day, could this be less serious? Also, around 01/10/2008, it occured to me that I was taking a lot of unisom/melatonin in order to try and force an adjustment to my sleep schedule. I knocked that off on 01/10.

-vect0rx

Were the higher readings (1-13 & 1-14) after eating? That can make the body temperature rise temporarily.

No the 1pm and 7pm are usually just before lunch, and just before dinner, respectively.

-eric