Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

it is for me. i hate the winter and well, this one sux big time-snow and ice etc. EVERY week. i primarily run and find it almost impossible to keep my miles up with this winter. hate the treadmill...do it, but not often enough.
my food choices, not good. i pretty much say-who cares? i'm "hiding" in big winter clothes right now. enjoy those peanut m&ms! i lost 15 lbs last year on WW and marathon training etc..
but i can see myself sliding to that place again.
anyone else a bit "off" the exercise wagon?
hoping to revive again in the spring!

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

definitely my choice to excersise. It's been terrble weather, I can't stand going to the gym when it's like this outside...

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

My biggest issue are snow days!! When I'm stuck inside there's nothing to do. Sometimes I bake (and then eat it all!) and sometimes I just eat.

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Yes, I hate just going outside to walk to the gym (I'm unemployed right now, so I have the luxury of staying inside where it is warm ).

As for my eating, I'm trying to be good to make up for this. I am making soups, and drinking green tea in the afternoon when I get hungry and want to snack. It's still hard though. I definitely feel I can be more active in the warmer weather. I used to run, and only outside. So when winter comes, I stop and lose most of my endurance and have to start over in the spring

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The snow has really put a damper on my routine.. The parking lot at the gym is crap to start with & add snow plies to half of the lot, there is no where to park. Last night, I drove around the lot & so were many other cars looking for a spot.. it was mayhem so I just left.

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Its definitely demotivating! For me the biggest issue is parking and getting my car in and out of snow covered spots. I dont want to have to deal with getting stuck.

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Thank goodness I have a workout partner---she keeps me meeting up and working out. The food though is a whole other issue. This weather just makes me want to eat....oatmeal, hot cocoa, coffee, etc.

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Absolutely! I go to the gym on lunch at work mostly. With this weather, I work from home when it's bad which makes me then just sit home, not exercise, bake and cook all day long and then eat everything in site.

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I just jointed a gym two blocks from my apartment and I'm STILL having trouble getting myself there today

It's demotivating. I hope that February gives us a bit of a reprieve. It's really depressing.

Message edited 2/1/2011 11:31:36 AM.

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

Definitely. I havent even shoveled my car out since the last storm, so i have no way of getting to the gym. It sux because I know when my car is finally dug out, i'll have no motivation by then.

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Yes! Please see my post about resisting LOL

Especially when you're stuck inside all day, and its cold.....its so easy to sit around and eat!

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Yes I have been feeling so lazy lately but am literally forcing myself. I absolutely hate to run on the treadmill but have no choice but to this evening! I run with a group of ladies 3 days a week so thank god for them otherwise it wld be so hard for me to show up on my own!

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YES, bigtime...i'm finding it really hard to stick to any sort of diet and i've been eating more than i have ever before..i'm actually at my highest weight right now (other than when i was preggo). It's getting scary now. I really need to stop eating. But when its crappy out it depresses me and being in the house all day just makes me want to EAT EAT EAT!!!!!!!!!

I want spring!!!

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

Totally, this weather makes it hard to go to the gym between driving & finding a parking spot (no parking lot) since they're limited now with all this snow.

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

thank goodness i'm not alone!!! makes me feel so much better!

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

YES!!!!!!

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I was doing good then the gym started getting packed out and my daughter started to hate the babysitting at the gym LOL So I have been going at night, when I have no energy. I haven't been to the gym in a week because of the weather. I also have been home all day everyday with DD and I am opening and closing the damn fridge looking for food to pop out at me. It's terrible

Re: Anyone else? the weather affecting your motivation, exercise, food choices?

Posted by curiousgeorge

I was doing good then the gym started getting packed out and my daughter started to hate the babysitting at the gym LOL So I have been going at night, when I have no energy. I haven't been to the gym in a week because of the weather. I also have been home all day everyday with DD and I am opening and closing the damn fridge looking for food to pop out at me. It's terrible