Winter comfort eating can add eight pounds and raise type-2 diabetes risk. The presenter suggests staying active with short indoor workouts like 7-minute YouTube videos, and retraining your brain to get the same reward from exercise as from sugary foods.
Today's big message: to beat the autumn winter blues, keep moving! When it's cold and wet, it can be really hard to stay motivated to keep the exercise going, especially if your default habit is to snuggle up eat more, do less, and hibernate. But we're not bears, we don't need layers and layers of fat, and although our overindulgence feels good at the time, it can also mean too much chocolate, too much stodgy food, and the need for baggier tops and generally feeling rubbish and hating what we see in the mirror. In the colder months, it's so easy to turn to food for comfort because it's satisfying and it makes us feel good. Well, for a little bit of time anyway. And then we feel guilty. It's so easy to go into hibernation for months. No wonder it's known as the winter weight gain period. You know, the average person puts on about 8 pounds over the winter. Isn't that shocking? One way to make up for those added treats is to make sure that you're conscious of your activity level slipping and do something about it so that you stick to the exercise habit that you've been working on so hard to build. Ingrained comfort-seeking behavior can easily kick in and you don't even realize it's happening because it's all going on subconsciously without even thinking about it. So if you're noticing your comfort eating and you've stopped doing the same amount of exercise that you were doing during the summer months, then get on to it and work out how you can improve things so that you won't be feeling yuck in January and get all panicky about your weight. I was talking to a lady the other day who told me the cold weather triggers her to eat more and stay inside. All through the summer she runs and then she stops in the winter because of the cold. No wonder she puts on weight because her activity level goes down through the floor. But there's an easy solution to this. If you can't go outside, then do something inside. There's plenty of YouTube videos that can help you to keep active, and if you can spare time to do an hour's run in the summer, then a 7-minute exercise video should be perfectly doable and a real doddle. You can train your brain to get the same buzz from exercise as it does from food and sugar, and the best thing is you feel great when you've done it rather than feeling the guilt associated with munching on the rubbish. I hope you really enjoyed my video. I'm on a mission to help stop people from becoming diabetic, and I'd love you to share the help and advice on this video. Type 2 diabetes is a big, big worldwide problem, but it can be reversed. So many people are living with prediabetes and they don't even know. If you're at the prediabetes stage and you do something to change things before you become diabetic, your blood can go back to being perfectly normal and you prevent the terrible health risks associated with this awful condition. If we can stop just one person becoming diabetic because you've shared this, I'll be very, very happy. If you also hit the subscribe button below, you'll get more video tips from me on how to lose weight, improve your health, and diminish the risks associated with type 2 diabetes. Thank you so much.
