Winter weight

[truckdiagnostics]

This year I gained my winter weight way to early. I am naturally a skinny guy so gaining 8 lbs in the winter just tightens the jeans. However this year I gained mine way too early. They say gaining the winter weight is a northern thing. Am I alone here?

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just wait til you pack on the Thanksgiving and Christmas Weight. You'll be shopping for Mom jeans. :laughing:

 

[4570Man]

I probably work harder in the winter with firewood than I do the rest of the year.

 

[Industrial Toys]

A lot easier to work when it's not so HOT! Just firewood is miserible stuff to handle wet!

 

[Roadworthy]

Over time you may find your winter weight stays with you through the summer then when winter comes you put on additional winter weight. (My experience.) I cut back my carbohydrates and reduced portion sizes (I can't eat like a teenager any more.) The result over time was pleasing. The old and the new winter weight slowly went away but I must be constantly observant what and how much I eat.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Some people have more self control than others, but some people (like me) just really like food (and drink). Easy not to eat so much when you don't care that much about how, what you eat tastes. I often don't eat until I can decide on or find something I really look forward to eating. And then I eat LOTS!

 

[Jstpssng]

I never could understand people worrying about their weight until I was the one who is carrying too much.
I used to put on 20 lbs every summer but didn't worry much because the snowshoeing took it off every winter. That hasn't happened in the last 20 years though so I've been carrying about 40 lbs extra.
With another season coming up and remembering how hard deep snow is on my knees I've been paying more attention to what I eat; and have dropped about 10 pounds in the last couple of months.


When I clicked on the thread though, I thought that it was going to be about the best way to add ballast to your car or truck; and I was going to suggest inner tubes filled with sand.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Yes, either that or OIL.

 

[Thomas]

When t shirt weather no longer also start getting ready for winter,not made for speed but comfort during the winter months and winter already been knocking on our door.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

I wonder if they can use northern middle aged men's winter weight gain as a winter weather predictor. Like the bands on the wooly bear caterpillars? Maybe I am on to something, a grant?!, for a study?:laughing:

 

[truckdiagnostics]

We do not heat with wood and I am not a go to the gym work out or play basketball kinda guy. I can usually stay pretty active in the shop in the winter. We also do more outside once the ground freezes. So i usually put on a few right around thanksgiving in the fall. Not this year..... so I wonder if that means a long cold winter?

 

[East30]

A lot easier to work when it's not so HOT! Just firewood is miserable stuff to handle wet!

Agreed, I do a lot of chores in the fall when it cools down for firewood and such. Just moved 32 tons of rock, most every one of them moved from the bucket to final resting position by hand. Mid-thirties for temps and wind ahowlin', stayed just warm enough not to be cold. I did 150 feet years ago without a tractor, tractor made it much more enjoyable. And yes, my winter weight is an annual thing for sure.

 

[CobyRupert]

.........When I clicked on the thread though, I thought that it was going to be about the best way to add ballast to your car or truck; and I was going to suggest inner tubes filled with sand.

This thread isn’t so much about inner tubes filled with sand as it’s about spare tires filled with Ring Dings.

 

[Industrial Toys]

If you ever carried a car battery any distance or up stairs, you have to relaize how much you have to work to carry extra weight around.