Hi I am pretty sure I am wrong in your case ,but I have the same thing at the morning and this is because I have thyroid problem,in your case I thing it is not the same thing and MH or somebody else will have clear answer for you.

First thing - get rid of the socks - feet are suppose to be cold & 2nd take cayenne to aide in circulation, it should warm you as well. The hot chocolate would be gone too if it's commercailly made & full of toxic sugar, instead make some good herbal tea, ginger will warm you nicely & if you need a sweetener add some good molasses or raw honey. You could try the cayenne caps but I just spike my juice w/ it or you could even add 1 tsp in a 8oz glass of pure water. Hope that helps some!

Best Regards,

Kimber

You are what is called "CODDLED". The coddled person relys on shoes, socks and hot chocolet for warmth. These things lead to premature death via loss of circulation.

The cheap cure? COLD WATER! Put 4 inches of pure cold water in your bathtub, jump in and use your hands to splash the cold water all over your body, then jump out! Use your hands and "SLAP" your body dry, slap as hard as you can!!!! This will restore your body, try the sitz bath method as an easier method as well.

Herbs can also help as does exercise of all kinds.

You need to send blood to the skin and cold water will help you do this.

Those that are cold, always have a circulation problem, otherwise the skin will turn blood red in an effort to keep you warm, I once laid down in the creek on New Years Day and my legs turned as red as blood, I then jumped in the pond to get warm because the air was very cold/icy. I had my wife take pictures when I walked home because I had ice on my skin, yet I was warm!

People with horses often see ice form on their skin in the winter time, it never bothers the horse.

MH

I read some comments by MH about going barefoot with great interest. I have a reputation for always being cold...my friends are constantly teasing me about it. I wear hats and gloves and scarves all day, indoors, wherever I am. I wear layers and layers of clothes to bed, and I'm still cold. I wear my coat in the restaurant when we go out to eat. I wear long underwear under everything. It's just ridiculous.

So I read the comments by MH about improving circulation, and about how we should go barefoot as often as possible, so that gases could escape through the feet, and thought, there is no way I could do this...I would be too darn cold. But I tried it anyway, and the first few hours were nasty...my feet were like ice cubes. I walked around all day in bare feet - my husband kept asking me what the heck was wrong with me...lol.

I decided to pamper myself with a foot bath, and that did it. I soaked my feet for about half an hour in hot water with ginger and cayenne and epsom salts, and my whole body warmed up. When I dried my feet off, they stayed warm, and they were warm the rest of the day. When I walked, even though the floor was icy, it actually felt good, and cool, and refreshing, instead of painful, the way it used to. And when I went to bed that night, I did put on my usual three blankets, and within 5 minutes I was so hot that I actually felt nauseated, and I had to take off two of the blankets.

So now every day, the instant I get home from work, I take my boots off. I stopped wearing socks or stockings and now just wear clogs or Uggs to work. Even tho Uggs are sherpa-lined boots, they're loose, and are meant to be worn without socks, so my toes have lots of room to breathe and move around. And I am never cold anymore...I stopped wearing hats and scarves to work! It's like a miracle.

So MH is right...the more you coddle yourself, the colder you get. I never would have believed it if I hadn't felt it with my own feet ;)

And now my feet smell just like the rest of me...no more stinky sweaty foot smell. Cool, huh?

Just three little words - move yo rass!

Get a rebounder (mini-trampoline) or just turn up the music and dance around. Do jumping jacks, pick up a little kid and run through the house, vacuum like your mother in law is coming over in 5 minutes, whatever it takes to get your circulation going. It only takes a couple of minutes to warm you right up. And the effects last. When you get cold again, get up and repeat.

I found out about this by accident. I hated getting out of my nice soft bed into the cold cruel world at dawn, but I found out if I just hop onto my rebounder, in a couple of minutes I'm stripping off all my clothes because I'm too hot. I keep it right smack in the middle of my living room too, a silent reminder in my ongoing struggle against inertia.

Ever since I have been doing sitz baths I no longer get cold.