subject: Four Steps To Winter Weight Loss [print this page] If you've questioned and spoken to your friends and family about weight loss during the winter, it's highly likely that you've been met with a few grunts and groans and a number of concerned and disgruntled faces.
Not considered to be as easy as losing weight in the summer, primarily for the fact that it's all too easy to stay inside, keeping warm and eating your favourite foods, irrelevant of how unhealthy they may be losing weight during the winter months has brought with it a certain stigma.
If you were to pose the same questions and have the same discussion with a health professional, whether it's a dietician or a gym instructor, you're likely to be met with somewhat of a sympathetic smile and a look that leaves you realising what you've just said is understandable, but also completely false.
Losing weight in the winter can be difficult and no one would argue with that. However, it's not impossible by any stretch of the imagination.
If you're having trouble losing weight during the winter months, though, take a look through the following four steps that will each help you to shed the pounds from November through to March.
1. Plan your meals - the easiest way to ensure that you don't eat things you shouldn't during winter is by not having them in the house. However, if you don't know what you're going to be eating during the week, you're likely to buy a range of different products in so that you can choose what to eat.
If you plan your meals in advance, however, you'll find that you instantly stop buying - and therefore eating - food items that you shouldn't, as you'll be making a concerted effort to ensure every meal is healthy.
2. Don't go through it alone - staying fit and healthy during the winter can require more motivation than usual and therefore it's always recommended that you try and do it with a friend.
Keeping the weight off whilst it's cold outside is possible by yourself, but it's that extra bit easier if you have a friend who you can relate to - and compete with - during the winter.
3. Exercise how you want - as the dark nights and cold weather can make going to a gym in Manchester on a regular basis a difficult process, it's often advised that you only exercise how you want to when you do exercise, so that you never become bored and therefore demotivated.
4. Wrap up warm - when you're outside in the cold, if you're not wrapped up warm, your initial reaction is to get to somewhere that is warm and eat something that's going to ensure you aren't cold any more, whether it's a cup of sugary coffee or a hearty - and unhealthy - meal.
If you can therefore be prepared for the winter and be able to wrap up warm whenever you're outside, there's a greater chance of you not feeling the urge to eat or drink something hot and unhealthy whenever you do step inside.
