How Do YOU Counteract the Desire to Hibernate This Time of Year?

[DCW]

After seeing some of the temperatures that some of you are experiencing, I need to be quiet and walk. My coldest temperature is a heat wave for others. Grateful that I can walk and if it's cold, it's not frigid.

[Vantreesta]

Originally Posted by DCW

After seeing some of the temperatures that some of you are experiencing, I need to be quiet and walk. My coldest temperature is a heat wave for others. Grateful that I can walk and if it's cold, it's not frigid.

Hey, we all have our thing! It was -6 when we walked this morning and I would take that over 75 any day! I start to melt when it's over 65.

[kat999]

Originally Posted by lreidgreen

I have a SAD lamp and a light box but I don't leave them on all day. I try to site in front of the light box for 30 minutes a day in the winter but haven't been doing it lately.

Get back to it! They really do help. Maybe not a super ton, but they do.

[FirmDancer]

Originally Posted by donnamp

I do like warm weather, but I'm totally dreading the clock change in March. Last year it did a number on me - even w/ working from home and having a freer schedule. The extra hour of daylight that came upon us so abruptly really set off feelings of anxiety and being "rev'd" up. I wish that we could do away with messing with the clock. I'm sure if given time, my body would adjust - but it literally happens overnight when we do that spring forward.

I agree!! It's very weird ... I get all rev'd up with that extra sunlight "after work", but it's too cold to do much outside. March in Maryland can still be quite cold! Then I'm still indoors and can't work off that extra energy.

[Lori_Michigan]

17 inches of snow on the ground and -10 this morning, so I totally hibernate. I've never had energy at this time of year, although I've tried to convince myself otherwise (like last year when I tore my meniscus from working out too hard!). I recently pulled an abdominal muscle simply by sneezing too much (part of my perimenopause constant injury parade: knee, shoulder, lower back, and now abdominal muscle).

So I'm giving myself February off. I will walk on my treadmill (and look at the snow) but if I don't have to go out, I'm cozy on the couch with my dog and blankets.

[hypnomoon]

Originally Posted by Gams

I don’t

Same!!

[DCW]

In one week, I have seen the red tail hawk three times in my neighborhood. Around this time last year I saw an eagle who does have a nest in the vicinity. So far no sightings of the eagle in my neighborhood. Yesterday's walk in a different location by a river I saw an eagle.

These bird sightings helps me to stay motivated.

[juliel]

I feel better after reading this thread. I typically have little energy this time of year and so far 2022 has been pretty flat. I’m listening to my mind and body and taking care of myself. I had to let my eldest cat go last week and that definitely has put me in a different mode. I am moving and doing workouts, but nurturing myself as well.

[Laura S.]

Thanks so much for all the discussion and information. When I started the thread, I was trying to figure out how to move at all. Some of it was the season and some of it was health issues. Since then, the health issues that kept me so immobile have been largely resolved, so that led me with the lack of motivation.

Thanks to all the good info here, I have thought about how to make my exercise goals more seasonal. It has been an interesting topic.

[Leonana]

Originally Posted by juliel

I feel better after reading this thread. I typically have little energy this time of year and so far 2022 has been pretty flat. I’m listening to my mind and body and taking care of myself. I had to let my eldest cat go last week and that definitely has put me in a different mode. I am moving and doing workouts, but nurturing myself as well.

I’m sorry to hear about your cat. It’s always so hard to lose our beloved pets.