Weight Watchers want you to share your autumn and winter healthy living triumphs and/or pitfalls - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

For many, Autumn often symbolises a time to be with family, wrapping up, staying indoors with a good movie and indulging in our favourite comfort foods. The healthy living habits from summer can often take a backseat and, as a result, these cooler months can often put our health goals and weight loss journeys on pause. With that being said, Weight Watchers want you to share any funny autumn and winter healthy living pitfalls or triumphs you have gone through.

Zoe Griffiths, Head of Programme and Public Health at Weight Watchers, adds: “For many, the shift in season will bring with it a change in outlook. It’s a time when we start to notice that maintaining a healthy lifestyle is becoming be more difficult. In fact, working with psychologist Professor Geoff Beattie, we have identified that 18th September is the date when the seasonal shift begins to impact Brits’ lives. But just because the seasons have changed, doesn’t mean your outlook has to too. You are very much still in control of your own healthy lifestyle!”

"Weight Watchers has a plan to help avoid those pesky pitfalls all autumn long! Introducing… The Weight Watchers Guide to Owning Autumn. The Guide will be updated each week throughout the season to help counteract the seasonal shift and make it easier for people to take control of their weight loss journey and overcome the lifestyle challenges posed during the cooler season."

Zoe continues: “At Weight Watchers, we believe that you can say ‘yes’ to the things that you love and still enjoy a healthy lifestyle – any time of the year! That’s why with food, activity and wellbeing deeply engrained in our philosophy, we have designed the new Guide to Owning Autumn, which provides motivation, support and tips and tricks, so that you can enjoy the cooler seasons while showing autumn who is boss!”

Watch this video to find out more!

Have you ever convinced yourself that colder weather calls for an extra glass of wine? Perhaps you’ve managed to fool everyone that you went to the gym by wandering around all day in your gym clothes, when actually they’re just so comfy? Or maybe you successfully managed to dodge all the chocolate that your kids collected at Halloween?

Whatever your healthy living pitfall or triumph, post them on the thread below. All MNers who comment will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky person will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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Every season has foods that are unhealthy, so I don't think it's fair to use the season as an excuse for unhealthy eating.

It can be harder to exercise when it gets to autumn- colder, shorter days. But if you have momentum from a summer routine you should have the willpower to keep going. You just have to look at the positives- go for a run with beautiful sunrises/sunsets, crunching through leaves as you run, better fitness means better health means less illness.

I lost about 5kg over summer eating less and spending a lot of time outdoors. The past week I have eaten enough to feed an elephant and been outside twice. It's not looking good, I don't think I'll be looking good myself very soon.

the triumphs are making lots of homemade vegetable / healthy soups and eating them. The pitfalls are less movement (don't fancy going out when wet and rainy) and definitely far too much hot chocolate to warm up! In the colder months I go totally off salad and i know I could replace it with healthy warming veg, but i tend to pick at high carb snacks instead.

Absolutely adore soup! A lovely cauliflower, carrot, butternut squash, onion and garlic soup with a veggie stock cube is delish! Great to make a batch and freeze, then pull out the freezer the night before for work with some nice bread. Love it! Alongside walks with the kids at the weekend to collect leaves for crafts

I feel we need more fuel as the cold weather comes in. Hot chocolate, toast rather than muesli, hearty homemade soup and stews with potatoes and bread.

My pitfall is hot chocolate with marshmallows and biscuits, especially if I've been out in the cold all day.

Hot ginger tea

A photo of me at my slimmest stuck to the fridge and snack cupboard.

Stops me in my tracks!

Soups and stews! And beautiful autumn days perfect for long walks and spending time outside. I usually spend summers hiding from the sunshine so am definitely happy in this season!

I try to eat lots of soup in the winter, usually at lunchtime, to try to keep healthy. I try not to indulge too much on the heavier, sweeter food but it's not easy when it all tastes yummy!

I'm terrible in winter for comfort food, especially Bread and lots of butter! Need to start making some healthier versions of our dinners!

Dark evenings mean I'm more likely to sit on the sofa and eat comfort food. Not ideal.

I still go down to the gym regardless of the weather. But unfortunately the darker, cold, wet nights mean I spend longer curled up on the sofa snacking and slurping hot chocolate. I alsodon't want to make a trip to the shops in the bad weather so end up eating more takeaways.

I have been good and have been having stews without stodgy bread.

as always it's diet that has the biggest impact. i can go the gym daily as i enjoy it but saying no to fresh bread is too hard

i love homemade low calorie soups

Good soups, broths and stews keep you warm, keep you on target.

I love making vegetable soup with all the reduced veg in the supermarket. I make a huge vat, freeze, and take it to work as well!

oh autumn.... season of pitfalls...

of butter and cream added mashed potato.....

crumbles with custard......

the "christmas treats" aisles in the supermarkets that spring up in october with their deliciousness....

I definitely fall off the healthy eating wagon once autumn comes along. It’s almost as if being more covered up gives me permission to allow a few extra lumps and bumps as I can hide them more easily. That added to the cooler weather means I crave those comfort foods like casseroles, pies and custard topped puddingsbfar more than salads!

The run up to Christmas seems to start in October and the only way to try and be a bit healthier is not to buy and Christmas chocolates until December itself.

Soup soup and more soup! Either fresh from the supermarket or made using left over veg from Sunday roast. Totally warming and healthy too!