The Weather is Screwing With Your Weight!

Okay, we all do it when the weather is nasty outside--skip the gym and cozy up on the couch with a book and a warm drink (or a glass of wine).  In fact, a recent poll from Gallup-Healthways found that people were about 13% less likely to exercise shortly after Hurricane Sandy.  Stop letting weather be an excuse to stop working out.  Read on to learn how to motivate yourself to exercise in any weather.  

When it is cold and dark outside, like in winter, people are less likely to exercise--indoors or outdoors.  Maybe it goes back to our genetic make-up--we want to curl up under the covers where it is warm and dry.

Weather has become a socially acceptable excuse for not exercising, but making excused and skipping workouts will not make you feel better, and will in fact make you feel worse long-term--especially in the springtime when you are trying to hide the extra pounds of "winter weight."

Now, get ride of those excuses, and motivate yourself to exercise in any weather with these tips on: consequences, special workouts, winter workouts, fitness buddies, and guilty pleasures.

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