Loopy Lou |

Have you ever noticed how the cold weather makes you hungrier?

Over the past few weeks it’s been freezing and I’ve got through masses of extra food. Well, that’s my excuse for being a pig anyway!

Seriously though, a lot of us do tend to eat far more when it’s cold. I wonder why that is? Maybe it’s because we all have a subconscious fear that suppliers won’t be able to keep the shops stocked with food. Or perhaps it is some instinctual thing where we automatically eat more so that we gain extra weight to keep us warm.

Weird, isn’t it? But I’m not the only one to experience it. Loads of people have said the same thing to me over the years. It seems that there are an awful lot of us that start troughing when it gets a bit chilly!

But it makes you wonder why the Eskimo people aren’t affected… All of the Inuit’s that I have seen are perfectly healthy looking people. Surely, if this cold/extra food theory is correct they should all be built like houses. Strange. Maybe, because they have built up a tolerance for the extreme conditions they are no longer affected by a need for larger amounts of grub. Or perhaps it is a simple matter of all of us in the West being weak in the elements and greedy in the supermarkets…

I’m just trying to remember what my eating habits are like in the summer. It seems so long ago since it was warm that I’m having a job remembering. But, from what I can recall, I do eat less when it is hot.

So, there we go. If we all want to lose weight then forget Smartlipo, and just carry on polluting! A hotter planet means that we will all eat less!

Who says I can’t come up with a useful idea now and then?