We can Battle the Winter Bulge by knowing what we’re up against. Hope this helps!<\/p>\n
We overeat in Winter because:<\/p>\n
#1:\u00a0WE\u2019RE LESS ACTIVE #2: WE\u2019RE COLD #3: WE\u2019RE THIRSTY #4: THE WINTER BLUES SET IN #5: WELL AREN’T WE GOING TO GAIN WEIGHT ANYWAYS…THAT’S JUST A FACT OF WINTER, RIGHT? The Pic:<\/em> <\/strong>my attempt at hearty without high carbs & fat: Pho soup. It was so good, I had to take it for lunch the next day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can Battle the Winter Bulge by knowing what we’re up against. Hope this helps!","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":8126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middays"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 16:20:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/middays\/2020\/02\/stupidwinterweight\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>We don’t want to be outside when it’s frigid, so we\u2019re less likely to keep up\u00a0 our exercise routines and more likely to slow down daily movement overall.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>When internal temperature drops,\u00a0the body burns more calories to\u00a0fight the cold.\u00a0Our\u00a0mind tells us to throw on an extra layer of clothing, and yes\u00a0sometimes, grab a calorie-loaded hot food or drink such as double chocolate chip cookies and white chocolate mochas.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Did you know we sweat\u00a0as much\u00a0in winter\u00a0as we do the rest of the year? So because we’ve cranked up the heating & we’re bundled up with sweaters, sweats and wool socks \u00a0<\/strong>our bodies can so easily become dehydrated….so what you think is hunger might be confused with thirst.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>This makes it more likely for us to look for comfort from richer foods<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Wrong! A lot of us assume from years of hearing it, that in winter we gain weight, so we’ve already set ourselves up for failure, or, in other words, overeating before we even cracked open the mayo!<\/p>\n
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