I don’t know how people smaller than me deal with cold weather.  We have always kept our winter furnace at 18 C or below, often 16 C (61 F), and we have found this to be cool but quite tolerable even in short sleeves.  But now after losing nearly 10% of my body weight, I am cold!  It has always been a point of pride in our family that we keep our thermostat low in the winter, saving a tidy sum in heating costs along the way.

Apparently I am moving away from the hibernating grizzly bear I was….