MH is right

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?