Staying In Shape Over Winter
Now that Winter is approaching in most of our lives, the thoughts of the beach vacation that we took last summer are slowly fading away. The only clear memories we have of it are the hundreds of pictures that you took of monuments, ocean waves, seagulls and obese people that you swore you would never look like.
Winter is a tricky thing, though. It’s where more primal animals start gathering food and hibernating for the winter. Humans are no different. Humans naturally pack on a couple of pounds over the winter months because our body’s natural state tells it to do so. Not many, but sometimes it’s noticeable. Coupled with the fact that people are less likely to be active in the winter months, gorging yourself at Thanksgiving, and eating yours and everyone else’s share of Christmas cookies, plus the leftovers (Oh my! The leftovers!!) you could gain more than 5 to 10 pounds over Winter!
Pretty soon, you’re well on your way to becoming that obese man or woman that you had to walk backwards about 200 yards to get their whole wide behind in the lens so you could snap a picture.
Have no fear, though! There are ways of combating the Winter weight. First and foremost, you must eat less. Lay off the cookies and the eating competitions at Thanksgiving. You don’t need to be rolled over to the pumpkin pie after you’ve had 18 servings of grandma’s stuffing. Go easy on the carbs and the refined sugars. Instead, eat more fruit, vegetables and protein with little or no fat.
Get a membership to a gym. If you feel insecure about other people staring at your jiggly butt, buy a treadmill or an exercise bike and get involved with one of those home – yoga or pilates workouts you see on TV at 5:00 in the morning for those housewives that actually still like to look good for their husbands after 5 years of marriage.
Third, move around at work. Nobody likes seeing a once – good looking girl’s brand new secretary spread, you know, how her a$$ hangs out over both sides of the chair about six inches…So what if you can’t go for your jog over lunch, go for a walk around the office, or right outside. Some movement is a lot better than no movement at all.
If you do these three little things over the Winter months, you should have no trouble staying thin, keeping in good shape and looking good. Plus, the less you put on over the winter, the less you have to lose come Spring! If you’re a diehard gym rat, the less weight you put on over Winter means you’ll lose more weight than you did last Spring and look even better.
There’s no doubt you’ll be turning heads in nothing but a skimpy bikini and flip flops (check these flip flops out!) while you aggressively try to maneuver to get the perfect shot of that shirtless oversized load waddling down the boardwalk on your next beach vacation.