"Shut the door! It's cold outside!"

All of us have, no doubt, heard that combination at one time or another in our lives. And many of us, no doubt, have responded (or have wanted to respond) with the retort, "Is my closing the door going to make it any warmer outside?"
I'm reminded of the cold from the life I live inside a tiny bungalow in Southern California. I laugh to myself when I think of having lived for over 25 years on the east coast with nothing more than blankets at night and now I struggle to stay warm during the Los Angeles winters with a heating blanket. Fortunately, I have a tea kettle and a THERMOS and lots of caffeinated tea leaves to fend off the chill. I also have a water heater in the basement (yes, I have a root cellar that I call a basement) that keeps my sink and shower water amply heated for consumption and use.
At times I also say to myself, "Perhaps the cold that I feel is due to all of those pounds that I have shed this past year and a half." It's not the kind of thing to say in polite- or mixed-company. Yes, there are scientific studies the correlate the comparative thermodynamics of heat and cold in humans based on the subjects' weights.
From the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, John R Speakman wrote:

Humans with obesity cool less rapidly and have to elevate their metabolism less significantly than lean
individuals when immersed in water. Although obesity provides an advantage in cold conditions it
conversely impedes heat loss and makes obese people susceptible to heat stress more than lean
individuals.

This is not to say that I want to live in a desert or in a tropical climate that has temperatures that are too hot for comfort. I do recall visiting southeastern Ohio one summer in which the great outdoors made me feel as if I were in a sauna. My host had a bed of beefsteak tomatoes that had burst through their protective skin. Hence, my common comment, "A good place to grow hothouse tomatoes without the hothouse."
For as much as I whine about the colder climes, I do remind myself of things that I like and for which I am thankful. There is no apology needed for wanting hot meals, hot soups, and hot drinks. While I am known for drinking hot tea in the summertime, folks tend to think it's more 'sensible' to enjoy the beverage when it's cold outside. I shrug and only comment that it's more important for the teapot and tea cups to be preheated prior to steeping and decanting.
I also flash back on one of the first 'real' jobs I had as a so-called adult. I worked with an anorexic hillbilly bookkeeper who loved to say, "Feel my hands! They're cold!" How does one respond to such a thing? "Keep you f**king mitts to yourself!" "Sit on them, lady!" (although she had an equally bony butt). "Is it any wonder your husband ..." (well, let's not go there).
Time to sit up, take a warm-to-hot shower, drink something hot, dress warmly, and be thankful that you've got blood flowing. It's a lot better than the alternative.