Who Gained Weight During The Holidays? I Have A Solution!!!

Rickster1967

I planned and executing a two week diet break for the holidays

Multiple benefits not least no stressing over calories. Although that is largely due to my average TDEE is 2760 and I have been walking, doing lots of NEAT and standing up.

If my TDEE were more like 1600 like some smaller females have then even diet break would be hard.

I don't even care if I put on a few pounds of fat, probably won't, but the upregulated hormones and higher BMR will be worth it if I do.

Back at deficit straight after diet break finishes

echastee92

Thanks for that. I didn't gain weight but it's still reassuring. I let myself "cheat" and I didn't log but according to my mental tally of calories not one day did I go over the calories it would take to maintain my current weight but I am still really worried because it was so easy for my to become obese in the first place, even when I wasn't pigging out all the time. I gain weight really easily, and losing it is hard. But I really doubt anything I did would cause me to even gain a single pound, much less a few. I usually don't eat anything above 1,290 calories a day but for christmas eve and christmas day I let myself eat up to 2,000 calories. I still think I did a really good job in retrospect and now I am right back to my usual goal.

Orphia

I'd banked calories with extra exercise this week, so I enjoyed myself on Chrimbo day here in Australia.

Logged guesstimates, and was maybe 2000 kilojoules over my daily limit.

My scale weight rose 1.4 kg on Boxing Day morning (yesterday).

It fell back down 1.1 kg this morning.

Today's moving average is the same as it was on December 24.

evilpoptart63

Thank you, I really needed this!! My nutrition was on point until about a week ago but Ive been slacking pretty bad and not enjoying feeling like a whale. I havent missed any workouts (even on christmas) but my food choices have sucked! Im up 3lbs, which was a whole month's progress. Im really hoping it drops off now that Im back to eating like im used to.

mrsloganlife

I am bumping this so hard for the holidays.

mgalsf12

I'm not even going to step on the scale for a few days. I took a five day break from logging my calories and from working out. I enjoyed the holiday cookies, eggnog, champagne, wine, chocolates, second helping of whatever I wanted...yes I am bloated and a less firm, but hey I enjoyed all those holiday parties! Today I am back on track. :-)

SueSueDio

Might be time for a bump...

purpleannex

I lost weight over Christmas and I wasn't dieting.

Starsetxo

I love everything about this

junodog1

:drinker:

diannethegeek

Could use a bump.

Red5092

The holidays are quickly approaching, and I needed to read this.

snickerscharlie

The gift that keeps on giving.

Beka3695

Bump

snowflake954

Bump--timely.

WandaVaughn

My first time reading this post. Wow! Great words of encouragement to me! I spent last year losing the weight and this year maintaining. I'll admit that I was starting to worry about the upcoming holidays. Now I'll just mind my PP and pee pees.

Keto_Vampire

Time of year/holidays should not influence how you run your life in terms of diet & exercise says a vampire who works a job that never closes and works 90+% of holidays. Any day is a good day to pretend it's New Year's day

veganbaum

Time for a bump.

quiksylver296

Bump

babysaffy

Thanks for bumping! My first time reading this!

mds1207

Great post! Thank you!!!

debtay123

So glad this was bumped because I confess I was just about to start!!!! Now I can just start the PP program and cool out for the holidays!!

WinoGelato

I think this needs another bump, we are between Thanksgiving guilt and Christmas apprehension...

AnvilHead

Just posted it in another thread, but I’ll share it here as it’s good food for thought for this thread:

As the saying goes, “It’s not what you do between November and January, it’s what you do between January and November”.

pinuplove

WinoGelato wrote: »

I think this needs another bump, we are between Thanksgiving guilt and Christmas apprehension...

Otherwise known as 'Cookie Season'

RetiredAndLovingIt

This is so true. I overindulged almost the whole weekend..kids & gkids here. On Sunday, I was up 3 1/2 from my lowest about 2 weeks ago. Started back watching it closer & drinking my water, and today I am back down to the lowest again. Now to keep it going, lol. (only 6-10# to go)

fiddletime

Gained 4 real pounds in the past month. Time to get back on the horse. It WAS fun eating all that I wanted since before Halloween, but.......!

Orphia

WinoGelato wrote: »

I sure have noticed a lot of threads the last week or so with people concerned about all the weight they gained over Christmas, and wanting to get back on track for the New Year. Never fear, I have a solution - it's called the PP Program.

What is the PP Program you ask? Well it's simple.
Perspective + Patience = PP

Let's start with Perspective. This has two critical components.

First, Perspective about the holidays themselves. In mid-December, there were so many threads about how people were dreading Christmas and what it was going to do to their diet and worrying they were going to undo all their progress. Christmas is supposed to be a joyful time! It comes once a year - and it is filled with so many wonderful things - and one of those wonderful things are food traditions. It is sad how many people are dreading something that should be so enjoyable! After Christmas, I've counted dozens of threads of people regretting their eating/drinking choices during the holidays, talking about throwing out food and never doing this again. Seriously - perspective people!

Now let's talk about the numbers Perspective. Does everyone remember that it takes 3,500 extra calories ABOVE Maintenance in order to gain 1 pound of fat? Did all of you who are lamenting your choices during the holidays log what you ate? Even guesstimating? I did. I ate and drank everything I wanted, and then some, for an entire week (we had a lot of celebrations and a lot of leftovers!). I was over my calorie target every single day - nothing but red for the entire week. OMG, can you imagine seeing all that red? EEEK! Guess what the weekly overage was? 3,657 calories. That's right. With indulging to my heart's content, by logging what I thought I was consuming, I realized that I really didn't go over that much. That's about 1 pound of true fat gain, even if my estimates were way off, I know they weren't off by a factor of 5. Perspective!

What's that you say? You've been weighing yourself and you gained 10 pounds? Who here ate a lot of sodium rich, carbohydrate heavy foods during the holidays. Oh yeah - everyone, right? That's what holiday meals are made of. Guess what - those things cause a big spike in water retention. You know what happens with weight gain from water retention? It goes away in time...

Which brings me to the second P. Patience. Everyone just needs to take a breath and be patient. You didn't put on all your initial weight over night, you didn't lose your weight over night, and you didn't put on 10 lbs in 3 days at Christmas. Things will normalize, you just need to be Patient.

But wait, I'm not done yet! You know how you get rid of water weight? You drink a lot of water (I know, sounds counter intuitive) and guess what you do? You go Pee Pee!!!! And the more you go Pee Pee, the faster you'll lose that water weight and the faster things will return to normal.

So just to recap:

Patience + Perspective = the PP Program. (And in the meantime, if you can go PP, it will help!)


Now, who's ready for New Years!?

A bump with an OP quote.

Orphia

quiksylver296

This needs bumped regularly through February.