Lin, when we had the three hurricanes cross Florida in 2004, we had to clean up our almost 3 acres and I spent each day dragging downed limbs, etc. out to the front road for pickup. The weather was steamy to say the least and I lost 15 lbs., which I might say I rapidly gained back. However, I'm with you, I do my healthy lifestyle walking in the winter to shed the pounds I've gained eating dishes like Paul's creamed corn and BBQ!
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam