IT's Not Easy to Lose Weight in Winter

As I've blogged about before - I am not in to winter sports. Spring, summer and fall, those are my months - I'm on my bike all the time. (At least, I used to be, before moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming where the wind blows all the time and makes it unpleasant to walk, let alone jog or bike).

It is imperative to combine an exercise regime with a change in eating when you are losing weight - and when you are maintaining your new weight.

Gradualness is the key in both of these. It's easy to control your appetite if you gradually decrease the amount of food you eat, and it's easy to increase your exercise if you work up to walking around a block once a day, to walking twice around the block after a couple of weeks, to alternating jogging and walking, to working up to a full-scale jog.

And it is easier to do this in warm weather than in cold weather. In cold weather, it's necessary to go to a mall where you can walk around in comfort, or a field house if you're near a university that has such a thing, or even a health club.

You can have a series of weights in your own home for weight training, but for cardiovascular - which is more fun, it must be admitted - you need to be able to move.