subject: The Summer's Over And Autumn Is Here - Should You Relax With The Weight Loss? [print this page] In the months leading up to summer, it's a common theme around the country for people to be more careful with what they're eating, cutting back on the amount of sugary foods and alcohol and trying to incorporate more exercise into their life, purely so that they can feel as good about themselves as possible when they're wearing a bikini or swimming shorts.
Once the summer is over and the temperatures start to drop, however, it's natural for people to become lax with their healthy eating and exercising habits.
If they haven't got the motivation of wanting to look good - especially with it starting to get cold enough to wear loose fitting jumpers or coats - why would the average person continue to try and lose weight or maintain their weight after the summer?
And to some extent, gaining a little bit of weight throughout autumn is advised, as it can help keep you warmer when the cold months do arrive - but it doesn't need to be any more than 2 or 3 pounds.
Unfortunately, some people take this to the extreme and believe that as they can wear baggy clothes and feel they should put on a few pounds for winter, they eat what they want, soon turning a few pounds into a few stone.
By the time Christmas comes around and the traditional habits of eating sweets and cakes throughout the festive period is here, you can end up being substantially overweight.
It's this last section - the eating and drinking over Christmas - which can in fact have the most damaging effect to your weight, as no one wants to skimp on what they eat at Christmas.
Fortunately, you won't have to if you start to lose weight now, as by the time Christmas comes, you'll not only have lost weight so you can afford to gain a few pounds, but you'll be in such a weight-losing frame of mind that you'll be more inclined to watch what you're eating.
How you start to lose weight and become a fitter and healthier person is up to you, but whether you attend Birmingham gyms regularly or simply take a 30 minute walk every day, you have to remember that weight loss is made up of two parts - exercise and healthy eating.
Both exercising and eating healthily are great separately, but you'll find that weight loss is greater if you combine them both together.
It's important that you always keep in mind that losing weight so that you can binge eat at Christmas isn't the message here and is strongly discouraged. Instead, the idea is to start losing weight now so that any weight you do put on over Christmas will be, to some extent, counteracted by the amount of weight you've lost leading up to it.
More importantly, however, you'll be so focused on losing weight and leading a healthy lifestyle that you'll be able to cut back on the amount of food that you eat over the festive period without feeling like you're missing out.
by: Paul Delaney
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