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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We are using root vegetables, and keeping our eyes on cosy comfy calorie treats !

Hmm. DH (who is a "hot" person) and I (definitely "cold" person) always have battles over the heating settings this time of year. So I'm hoping at least the shivering will burn off some calories?

Love my veg soups and veg packed stews during autumn and winter. I actually prefer exercising during colder and darker nights as i don't have much on and don't get overheated or too sweaty as i do in the summer

I take soup to work for lunch, not too bad health-wise and lovely on a colder day.

I've managed to lose a stone in the past year as I hope to keep it up. But winter is a challenge! I want hot chocolate every night and plenty of carb heavy treats!

I always want carbs when the weather starts to turn - disaster. But on the other hand it is soup season and that's not so bad.

Thick vegetable soups from seasonal veg are cheap and easy. Instead of croutons, I throw in lightly toasted chick peas. Adds protein too!

Roast dinner on every Sunday, left overs Monday and Tuesday. Left over roast dinner is something to look forward to all day Monday and the kids love it too! Left over roast in fajitas is standard for Tuesday.

We tend to eat more hearty meals during the autumn/ winter months still quite healthy and I do admit we don't wanna go out the house but we have to make the effort to walk the dogs so we tend to burn off a few calories I do feel we probably do slack a little bit in the winter months than we do in the summer but we do still make the effort to eat healthy and excercise with walks but we're not as active as we are in summer

I am so bad at this time of year! I want comforting food, no salads. Hot chocolate, baileys, Froffy coffee.

I have hot lunches and larger portions than in the summer!

jacket potatoes - healthy, cheap and warm and filling, just be careful what you stick inside it!

I find it easier to stick to healthy eating in the colder months because I love soups and stews.
Lots of hot drinks help to keep snacking at bay.
Although, it is also a time for proper puddings too. Especially with a tree in the garden that produces lots of cooking apples!

Healthy win - making my own delicious squash/pumpkin soup!
Pitfall - it tastes even better if you whack a load of butter in it ...!

Find it difficult to keep motivated with the jogging once the wind, rain and cold really kicks in

Lots of veg soup and stews, lots of lentils, comfort foods as the weather cools. Puddings get easier with times of harvest - apples with raisins and a spoonful of sweetener and a custard made with eggs and semi-skimmed milk - better for you than a cheesecake!

I enjoy curries at this time of the year. They are usually low fat and very warming. No matter how much I eat I always try to exercise at home or at list take a short walk.

My healthy living triumph in winter is eat fresh and take vitamins also i follow weight watchers ethos of healthy eating, activity and wellbeing. As autumn comes I look forward to wrapping up in wooly jumpers and wearing dark Jeans though it's always a task to try and squeeze into my dark jeans at this time of year. I have to lay on the bed and wriggle around to get them up 🙈 I try and swim and go for walks frequently and follow receipes from the weighwatchers website, they have fab meal plans and even fashion advice for each season. I've definitely lost lots of the pregnancy weight I'd gained but still lots to go to squeeze into my favourite pair of dark jeans 🤗🤗

I think Winter is really hard for sticking to healthy food. Maybe because it gets colder I feel I need more calories - i love having hot chocolate but some actual chocolate with it would be much better.
If I restrain myself and have a couple of squares of characters I leave the bar out. That way my eldest polishes it off for me. No hiding it and no finishing it.

We make a lot of big stews and casseroles that can then be frozen

Soup, soup, soup!
Great for using up leftover veg, and so versatile. Adding different herbs, spices, pulses, etc , I can serve up light soups, hearty broths or chunky soups that fill you up with healthy goodness, and warm the cockles on an autumn day.

From traditional lentil or tomato, to spicy curried dhal, or Mexican chilli, soup can take your tastebuds on a culinary globe trot, all from the comfort of your own home. Make your own for naturally low cal, no added salt/sugar deliciousness that you can freeze for quick and easy family snacks or work lunches.

I actually like Autumn, the kids going back to school is a reminder that I like getting outside. Walking to school is great for the kids but also great for me, its 2 miles in total so thats a total of 20 miles walked each week. For me my motivation is that driving the school run is too stressful - mainly because of the other crazy parents and the way they drive (sorry), I like the feeling of having achieved walking two miles by just after 9am and thats my motivator to keep going.

Cold winters call for hot chocolate with whipping cream! My sweet tooth and cravings get the better of me

I do a celebratory dance as Autumn creeps in & I am able to cover my wobbly bits with a variety of knitted items!
I spend most of the summer feeling hot & uncomfortable & painfully aware of the extra flesh - it's a welcome relief to disguise my shape without sweating buckets!!
It's no surprise I'm carrying the extra pounds though as I do love tucking into a hearty stew with dumplings, especially during the winter months!

The seasons have made no difference to me... A slight weight gain every month for the last 2 years has resulted in need to lose 10 kg.
I have lost 2 kg this month by cutting out alcohol, and eating an early dinner with the aim of not being so starving hungry by dinner that I over eat.
Now to continue in the same direction..... Not so easy.