What’s your sun exposure?
As of today (18 May 2021), I have had zero sun exposure this year.
The last time I remember getting sun exposure was in August 2020.
By “exposure”, I mean at least exposed arms (with a short-sleeve shirt) for at least 15 minutes in the sun.
The last time I’ve had full-body (with bathing suit on) exposure was probably July-August 2020.
omg ctv
I am a sun baby since birth.
I am a tanner, no burn. outdoor person so I am me with a deep dark tan thru all my 59.5 years and I live live live in a bathing suit LOL
All good for me and at the beach right now soaking in the big rays and tanning more and more…sun baby here.
YOU MUST be Casper! LOL just a joke but for me, all sun all the time, tan up and outdoor person and my body thrives in full big sun.
without it I wither. sunshine is life truly to me…can’t imagine a day without it and seeking it full on in all its’ glory!
30-40 mins for today? Not much but I was tired and had things to do.
But it could have been worse, I walked to the hospital and back when we parked the car at a hypermarket 
Tomorrow I will have a proper walk (I can’t promise it will be on the sun, I can’t stand the hotness, I am not used to 22+ Celsius yet and I love forests) and garden work so it probably will be more. Sunny days after rainy ones, finally!
I have enough sunlight, I suppose, even the winter has many sunny days, I am more dressed that time, though. Not always but usually. I make sure to expose my arms if the weather is nice 
I usually feel too hot even in winter as I walk and it generates much heat. No winter coats for me, rather snowballs or cold painted (I don’t wanna stuck to it) metal for my overheated hands! 
I lose my gloves during the first km.
I LOVE the sunlight but can’t stand the hotness, it’s a difficult combo sometimes. In May… I get sun. I will live in the depth of my dark room in summer (my room is the only sunny room in the house, huge windows to southeast and southwest and it’s right under the roof. and I start to dying at 25C. but I NEED the sunny room. just not in summer) or move downstairs (basically no sun all year round), avoiding the sun the best I can. So I better get the sun I need in the other seasons. (Even so, I can’t avoid the sunlight all summer, sometimes I must go out so I surely get some. Especially when I remember I may not be able to run and walk is a problem due to the high temperature as well but I still can ride my bicycle. Hotness doesn’t bother me so much there, not even uphill, odd. It’s tough but still nice and I drink cool water all the time )
Autumn is very often sunny and I am already used to the warmth so I am fine then, out a lot. Autumn is hiking and enjoying a garden and hunting mushrooms… The last one happens in the forest but the walk contains sunny parts I live super close to the nearby forests but still. I even enjoy being on the sunny hilltop for a while, between beautiful red leaves…
I try to exercise outdoors for 30-60 minutes a day, except during the worst weather. Other things keep me indoors the rest of the day.
I try to get the sun on my skin, but sometimes the sky is overcast. Or it’s too cold to wear short sleeves.
After this month, I don’t know. I’m moving northward to a different climate zone, and I might not have a yard or park to play in.
I wish I could get as much sun as some of you are getting. But I have a desk job, which means I don’t get any sun Monday-Friday. Unlike a lot of people here in the US, I do not work from home and instead work in an office. Otherwise, I could try to get some sun during the day.
As for the weekends, I’ve been doing so many inside projects, that I can’t get in the sun.
What will likely happen is that I’ll do something outside one weekend, when it’s sunny (a rarity also in CT), and then I’ll get burnt. That’s happened the last two years. I think “I’m on a low PUFA, healthy diet, and I can’t get burnt”, so I’ll go from zero to several hours in the sun. Doesn’t end well for me.
But, we’ll see.
Anywhere from 30 min to 1-2 hours a day in short sleeve shirts. The 30 minutes is year-round since I let the chickens out and put them up twice a day and run the dog in the meadow at least 15 minutes each time.
The 1-2 hours is late spring through fall mowing, weeding, planting harvesting, etc.
eta: the 30 minutes in the winter is face exposure only
About a week ago, we had two sunny days, I wore a short sleeved top on two outdoor walks of about 30 mins. each. I also did about and hr. of gardening. In the old days pre keto/lchf WOE, I would have burned doing just that. Not anymore thank goodness
I take D3 because I don’t get enough sunshine most of the winter.
Not less than a couple of hours a day. More when I’m working (I work outside), but I’m required to wear long sleeves and pants at work so I’m mostly covered anyway.
I try to get some sun every day. Last summer I really tried to get sun exposure and supplement with some vitamin D. I noticed I had more energy during the darkest days of the winter this year. Maybe because I had good vitamin D levels?
I will be back in the office soon. I think I am going to try to sit outside at least for a few minutes during my lunch breaks. Some sun is better than no sun.
My sun intake is seasonal, so I supplement Vit D. Through the winter here in Tokyo, it is mostly sunny but cold out, so I get a bit of sun in hour-long walks. In spring, the sun stays out more so I roll up my sleeves as it gets warmer. This week, rainy season came early–so it will be cloudy, raining and cooler for the next month or two. Then the sun will come back with a vengeance and we will have 25-35 degree C weather till mid September-- so I will try to catch some rays as much as possible. But I am not near a beach, so no tanning! Working indoors at a computer from home.
yea I am on early retirement so older than you and I got time now to get out all the time but of course being a farmer for alot of my life, outside is all we did
I get outdoors on a daily basis. The “postman” technique. Rain, hail or shine. I chose to live in a sunny place in the world that does not have more than a few days in a row of heavy cloud cover.
My job these days is indoors. But my home life is on a larger property in a home designed that asks me outdoors in all daylight hours. The real antidote to getting out and about is a 1 year old Labrador.
There are various wave radiation that passes through cloudy skies to some degree. Ultra Violet radiation, the UVB needed for conversion of cholesterol into Vitamin D3 will get through patchy, or light (thin) clouds. So, we don’t need full sunlight to get the required UVB radiation. On days where shadows are cast by the ambient light, even muted by cloud cover, from the sun will be enough.
Having plenty of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) would appear to be the key for optimising immune system support.
You are correct Bob, trying to catch up on sunshine in a big dose can result in sunburn. That is a good reminder to us all. Sun exposure is, I think, like sleep. Get the correct dose every 24 hours. At times where there are a few days without potential sun exposure (e.g. work days), then aim at the higher fat foods for dietary Vitamin D3 and hope that the critter you are eating stored enough sunshine (wasn’t barn raised).
Ref:
Two days ago on my lunchtime walk.
Not massively warm and it was raining too, but I walk fast and the sun was shining so I felt too hot.
Not enough in the past 2 weeks and now I have a cold. May not be connected but it’s a good reminder to get out nearly every day. We have a lot of clear skies through winter so it’s possible as long as I shed a bit of clothing when warmed up
Even when I worked in an office, I got out during the day and had some sun. That was only minutes but it mattered a lot for my soul. I need sunlight. My energy and mood drastically dropped without sunlight for some days and my energy never was high anyway. It changed on carnivore-ish (well I stray all the time, it surely will be better when I will be able to stick to it), my energy is still low but I don’t feel utterly miserable on a gloomy day even if it’s the 3rd in raw. Rain is better but when it’s just gloomy without rain and the house is darkish all day due to it… That’s not nice.
And there is the weekend too, I used to go out a lot. Except in summer, of course but summer is so very very sunny that even then, I still got some sunlight.
Be careful. My mom had very white skin. When she went to the beach after working inside all the time, she got burnt. When she retired and started to work a lot in the garden, she got used to it and got a strong tan during summer without any burns. She should have use some protection, though, I suppose… But she didn’t.
Use strong sun milk(?) too (I am not knowledgeable, I just know I have that and I should use but I forget so I never use anything. sometimes I remember it when I go for a 40km long bicycle tour in summer, fortunately. I easily burn too when I swap to sleeveless shirts in summer and my white shoulders suddenly get a brutal sunlight exposure. a short summer walk is fine).
I didn’t mention but I typically use sleeveless shirts in summer as my usual short sleeve t-shirts are too warm. Some of them is better, they have shorter sleeves. My normal t-shirts cover my whole upper arms.
I think I hinted that I actually expose part of my arms in winter if the weather is nice (it’s not so rare. I don’t need a high temperature when walking in the sunshine. I choose the frequent sunny times for my winter walks if possible as I love sunshine expecially if it’s not summer).
I am definitely glad I don’t live in less sunny parts of the world. It would be better to have warmer winters and colder summers, higher mountains and sea but we can’t have everything. It’s not that bad here. Lots of sun, frequent rain. I lived in a place where summer meant 2 months without rain. And we had a big vegetable garden with some very needy plants… The soil was great though and there was very much sunlight so they were okay when we watered them 2-3 hours every day… And did all the other garden work. It wasn’t worth it IMO but it wasn’t my decision.
Oh and I didn’t mention sometimes I am on the terrace outside, reading, playing with the cats, sweeping or whatever. I get some sun there too. But I actually prefer 1-2 hours walks, I just don’t always do them and part of it is in shadow. A bigger part in summer but I don’t worry about my sun exposure in summer, I may avoid the sunlight as much as it’s comfortably possible and I still get much enough. It’s summer, after all, almost always sunny during the day 
Did I say I never take supplements (except if I get cramps but I don’t do that anywhere close to carnivore with enough meat, I take one magnesium pill and forget about it for weeks)? I have no idea if I have deficiency of anything (my magnesium is surely low as a bit wrong diet for a little while and I get my magnesium-related cramps), one day I will go and figure it out.
@Shinita I feel totally bad for crashing this thread with a non sun exposure topic. I’ve forgotten how to send you a message on here. I sent you a new FB request as I changed my profile. OK, while I’m here I will discuss the sun. I am very pale so I have trouble in the sun. I get sunburnt very very easily. Oh damn I am cooking eggs, must check them.
30 years ago, I developed a sun allergy during a tropical beach trip, even though I wore sunscreen. The doctor said sunscreen just made it worse. (I’m not sure why.)
The allergy eventually subsided, but I haven’t worn sunscreen since. When I took sailing lessons a few years ago, I applied coconut oil and didn’t burn.
Welecome to the forums @KetoKoala.
Keto WOE helps a lot of us to utilize the sunshine instead of just burning. I used to only be able to handle 30 mins. of exposure. I do much better now and haven’t had a sunburn for a long time now.
