Do you get hungrier when the weather gets cold?

kshama2001

I discovered spicy cocoa last winter:



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brightsideofpink

cwolfman13 wrote: »

Winter is a perfect storm for this kind of stuff...days are shorter and colder...I'm much less likely to be generally active in the winter even if I'm still getting some of my exercise in. In the winter I'm much more likely to be sitting on the couch watching a movie with my kids an enjoying a fire vs summer when I'm much more likely to have hitched up the bike trailers and ridden the 24 mile round trip to the zoo plus all of the walking.

If I"m just hibernating at home, I'm going to tend to reach for food...not because hungry, but because I'm not doing anything else...in the summer and warmer months, sometimes I actually have to pause to eat.

THIS. I am a snacker and often eat out of boredom. During the summer I'm so busy and easily get distracted. In the winter, I allow myself too much couch/free time.

Kimegatron

I'm actually worried about this Winter... I will be practically inactive, I am a boredom snacker, and with losing 32 pounds, I am also feeling the chill in my bones already. Maybe I will switch to .5/week during the winter and hope for the best

Kalikel

I don't get hungrier, but when the temp drops really low, which here is like 32-45F (at night) and not really comparable to the Chicagoland area, I do tend to want to make a stew. It just seems more appropriate to eat hot, filling foods when it is cold outside. That might be a mental thing, though.

I hibernate through summer. Winter is when I'm like, "Yay! I can go outside!" so I'm just now ending my bad weather.

Domicinator

So I've upped my goal to 1/2 lb a week--for my height/weight that translates to about 1900 calories a day. I've been doing that for the last 3 or 4 days, and suddenly this morning, I whooshed down 2 lbs. after an almost 3 week period of losing nothing.

I am still finding that when it's colder outside, I crave hot, fatty foods like burgers, hot dogs, pizza, etc. I'm sure that it's a psychological thing, but I feel like it also could be my body's defense mechanism for the cold. I was obese for probably the last 17 years and now I just don't have all that blubber keeping me warm anymore.

I have found that both times I've upped my calorie goal, my weight has whooshed down within days. I started at 1500, then upped it to 1700, then upped it to 1900. I hope I can stay at 1900 for this last 10 lbs. I want to lose and then go into maintenance after that.