Is it harder to lose fat in the winter than it is in the summer?
970005
Yes it is, like most things alive your bodies metabolism slows down during the winter.
299200
Wherever you are north or south it is hotter in summer than any other season. Though the timing of summer is different for different places. This is what i could make out of your question.
1010212
Earth is closest to the Sun in early January (winter for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, summer for those in the Southern Hemisphere) and farthest in early July.  Distance, however, has absolutely nothing to do with our seasons.  (If it did, the whole world would have the same seasons at the same time.)  Seasons are caused by Earth's tilt.  \n\nAnd NO, summer in the Northern Hemisphere is not caused by the Northern Hemisphere being *closer* to the Sun.  Think about it - if the varying distance of the entire Earth - several million miles - makes no difference in our seasons, how would the varying distance caused solely by our tilt - a few thousand miles - affect anything?  This is a common misconception, but it is wrong.\n\nSeasons are caused by the varying height of the Sun.  In the summer, the Sun gets higher in the sky during the day, heating your area of the Earth more effectively.  In winter, the Sun does not get very high, and so its energy is more spread out, and thus heats less effectively.
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I believe in theory, both summer and winter are supposed to be equal. However, in reality, I believe that summer is more important. Not every country has ice/snow (where are people supposed to find snow in the Sahara desert, except if you're lucky to be living on a mountain that contains some type of ice/snow?). Therefore, not very many peole are able to compete in a lot of the competitions in the Winter Olympics. However, there's always something that somebody can find to do in the Summer Olympics (like running, or swimming, or gymnastics). That is why I think that the Summer Olympics is more important than the Winter Olmpics.
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Well, when you eat only certain foods or live in a certain climate or at a certain elevation, your body DOES adapt to a certain extent.  Your body is remarkably good at getting what it needs from whatever it can get.  That doesn't mean you shouldn't still try to eat a balanced diet, but if, for example, you're not getting enough of a certain vitamin your body will get every drop of that vitamin that it can out of everything you eat.  Certainly you can still end up with vitamin deficiencies, etc., but within limits your body will adjust its digestive processes to get the right nutrients out of whatever food it's getting.\n\nYour body does the same thing with cold.  Have you ever noticed that when it's the middle of winter and it's been below freezing for the past month, and then it's hits 50˚F and you want to start wearing shorts, whereas if it's been 80 for the past month, when it hits 50 you're freezing?  Well, your body gets used to the cold.  If you've lived in a cold climate longer, the change is more dramatic.  Like at my school, you can always separate Californians from East Costers because we Californians get out our winter coats while kids from the East where they actually have winters are still in shorts.\n\nThe same thing happens if you live in a higher elevation, where there's less air pressure.  If I, having grown up close to sea level, wanted to climb Mount Everest, I'd spend weeks at the base (which is already really high up) getting acclimated to the lower pressure, and then when I did go up, I'd need supplemental oxygen after a certain elevation.  But people who've lived part way up the mountain their whole lives can climb up without supplemental oxygen, because their bodies have adjusted so well to the lower pressure.
98025
Not a chance. It's safer to lose weight slowly, then there is less chance of putting it back on.
1072411
If you burn more calories than you take in, you will lose weight.
758299
Yes, I have noticed the same thing.  It tends to get cold in the winter and hot in the summer, with spring and fall being cooler than summer and warmer than winter.  At night it tends to get dark and in the day it is light, except in winter there is less dark and in the summer there is more light.  \n\nI have learned this based on years of careful observation at various times of the year.\n\nToday I also learned to tie my own shoelaces.
740599
Afraid you got it backwards, Lee -- in winter Earth is closest to the sun, in summer we're farthest away. The seasons of Earth are not caused by our distance from the sun but instead by the 23-degree tilt of Earth on its axis.
425609
It's a normal mechanism in your body. In cold, your body needs more calories to burn to generate heat and keep you warm, so the brain told you to eat more. What you need is to watch what and how much you eat. And yes you will gain weight if you eat more than your body use. Maybe you haven't fell that now, but you will.
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Well, I think the reason we put on weight over winter is because most people do not want to go outside in the freezing cold weather.  Think about it, who wants to go outside in 35 degree weather and run five miles? Nobody I know! I think you could prevent this from happening is eating foods that are not very high in fat, and going to the gym and doing things that you would do outside inside (i.e. track etc).  You can also get workout material in your house like weights and all in one gyms. Another thing that might help is if you are unable to attend a gym, or don't have a all in one gym at your house, go on a specialized diet for the winter and eat specialized foods.  I heard a lot of people get help from those.  I hope I helped!
482485
No. People get sick more in winter because they're indoors more and breathing the same air with sick people.
116505
Your teacher's statement is true if both male and female have the same body mass index (BMI). In these conditions, the male would have lower body fat percentage, therefore less insulation and will get cold faster.\nOf course, if you put a skiny female and a morbidly obese male in the same room, guess who would cool faster...
1149596
It's summer! Best diet is to get outside and walk! Exercise is essential to lose weight. Ask your doctor about a food diet. You may have a special need that needs addressing.
668623
That's what happens with weight loss - you lose a lot at the start, but the rate at which you lose goes down the more you lose.  It's those last few pounds that are hard.  Part of the reason is that the fat cells are still at or near their starting size, and you have to endure your program a long time so that they will eventually shrink up.  Just keep to a program.  To keep the weight off, you have to keep the calories in/calories out ratio.
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You will burn more calories being cold than being warm.  The body has to burn calories to maintain body heat.\n\nHowever, you are more likely to lose water weight from sweat running in warm weather.  But water weight and actual fat burning is not the same.  You probably want to burn fat rather than just lose water.\n\nHowever, in burning fat the body is more likely to retain external fat in cold weather as insulation, so during cold weather the fat you lose is more likely to be the internal fat which surrounds your organs.  So from a visual perspective you might not see much of a difference, but you will see a difference on the scales.
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The body needs energy to keep warm. Before winter, many animals go on eating binges to get fat for winter. But you are maintaining a lean diet.\n\nDiet and aerobic exercise will get you to your weight goal. Keeping a little cold will help, but not much. Don't do anything extreme that may induce hypothermia.