Of refeeds and diet breaks

tar2323

VintageFeline wrote: »

I went hard yesterday. So hard I had to nap the tummy pain away. Oops. As for calories. We'll just call it eye watering. Didn't log but I got through a lot of food and booze and orange juice which I normally rarely have. Pretty much just at Christmas. Will wind things down now and go back to normal portions!

I do still have some deli bits and delicious cheese left. Best friend and OH were going to come and see me today but she's wiped out after doing a nightshift (midwife) into Christmas day, getting 1 hour sleep then hosting dinner at hers. I think I can forgive her for cancelling and leaving me with delicious food.

It was the first year it really did feel like just another day for me. Which is nice because feeling blue over it gets old. I did get a bit sad at seeing some lovely gifts people got later in the evening, so I went ahead and ordered some boots that went on sale I had been eyeing up. Sometimes you have to be your own Santa!

This be my anchovy, garlic and rosemary slow roasted (half) lamb shoulder. Which I'm about to have leftovers of for late lunch/early dinner.




And these are my new boots. Shouldn't really be spending the money but oh well, shopping my feelings instead of eating them. Oh wait, I ate and drank them also. My bad. Sorrynotsorry.

Well, your boots pic ended up with me having a pair of sequin (yes, sequin!) boots sitting in my checkout basket until I come to my senses.

And here is a pic my son took of part of our Christmas table yesterday, posted with the line, "May your everything come wrapped in bacon this Christmas".




Having been in freefall for a couple of days eating ALL the bacons and the scale showing 7lbs or so more than before, I'm now back in control. Feels good to be able to reign it back in.

VintageFeline

I am already in possession of silver glitter boots. I love them and someone always comments how much they love them when I wear them. But then I am all about ridiculous clothing.

MegaMooseEsq

Ah, I had a wonderful mostly-non-eventful weekend and don't regret skipping Christmas at all, but it is awesome to see all the food porn! I've weighed a couple of times since starting my break last week and am up a couple of pounds, but considering I started a Fitness Blender four-week program right around the same time and am definitely feeling it, who knows what that weight is from. On the one hand it'd be nice to have more "pure" data, but on the other hand, I don't think the extra calories are hurting in terms of basically doubling my usual daily exercise.

Nony_Mouse

I was correct it seems that my weight would just balance out in terms of dehydration and food weight, same today as yesterday.

Did not get around to yoga or walk b/ I was crazy tired and it was crazy windy. It's fairly calm atm, but wind is going to build again. And it's cold! Only 13 C, which feels quite chilly when you've adapted to mid-20s. Meant to claw its way up to 18. If it weren't for the wind it would be a perfect hiking day.

@bmeadows380 I can point you at a bunch of non-flow stretchy yoga, if it's the flow aspect that you don't like.

bmeadows380

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

@bmeadows380 I can point you at a bunch of non-flow stretchy yoga, if it's the flow aspect that you don't like.

Thank you! It's the meditation/eastern religious aspects that I don't care for when it comes to yoga. So I would be up for things that would be purely physical fitness.

Nony_Mouse

bmeadows380 wrote: »

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

@bmeadows380 I can point you at a bunch of non-flow stretchy yoga, if it's the flow aspect that you don't like.

Thank you! It's the meditation/eastern religious aspects that I don't care for when it comes to yoga. So I would be up for things that would be purely physical fitness.

Oh, Yoga With Adriene is the one for you then! https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene. She does have a little of the whole yoga philosophy thing going on, but in a way that's easily ignored, and she doesn't do that goddam annoying syrupy voice that every other yoga teacher seems to think is mandatory.

collectingblues

bmeadows380 wrote: »

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

@bmeadows380 I can point you at a bunch of non-flow stretchy yoga, if it's the flow aspect that you don't like.

Thank you! It's the meditation/eastern religious aspects that I don't care for when it comes to yoga. So I would be up for things that would be purely physical fitness.

Do you have an iPhone? Sworkit is fantastic for building together yoga workouts. You tell it the poses you want to do, and it comes up with the rest. There are also other workouts you can have it put together.

collectingblues

So bodies are weird. I'm up three pounds from Dec. 23, which is fine, considering Christmas, some cyclical weight (another anovulatory cycle, but it still comes with water weight), and the fact that it was an end of day/afternoon weight because I was too stupid and stepped on the scale.

But, I am down half an inch in my bust, and an inch on my waist -- despite having said water weight and that cycle.

Ate slightly over (only 93 calories) over TDEE on Christmas, and was under on Christmas Eve by a significant amount, so I'm calling it a net deficit.

Leave for vacation in the morning. Game plan is to take the travel scale, use it if I need it for reassurance or confirmation, but otherwise just try to enjoy and ride this nonsense out. I'll likely be eating at maintenance the entire time, but know there will be water weight from the flight, so I'll just see where things stand when I get back to the States. And of course, right when I would expect any flight weight to be off is when my mid-cycle retention will happen, so I'm trying to tell myself I need to hold calm until January 19th.

But onward!

Nony_Mouse

*sigh* I was going to hike this afternoon, but pollen says no. I lasted less than five minutes outside before my eyes got itchy and I started to sneeze

Ne'er mind, I should be strength training anyway. Screw that Fitbit challenge I started.

anubis609

No way in hell I'm catching up with the pages missed lol.. just as an update, I'm alive and back from Vegas. I mentioned it to Nony, but I spent my Xmas eve and day feeling like complete dog crap from food poisoning that I may have gotten from the last buffet day prior to my return. I can't imagine from what since I ate all the things. Don't get on Santa's naughty list

As a summary, I trained almost every day I was there, ate, walked around, gambled, drank and came home to a glorious 8 lb dirty bulk gain. After projectile vomiting and wasting away all of xmas, I'm at a net 3 lb gain from everything. Much more manageable in terms of a controlled surplus, though it's not exactly the way I would have wanted to mitigate it.

Anywho, I put myself on a liquid and soft food psmf as of today, and so far, I've been able to keep down whey and cottage cheese. Volume eating is not on any of my to do lists anytime soon. I actually have a hankering for Asian rice porridge with salt, pepper, garlic, ginger and eggs. It's one of those cultural feel good foods that just seem to work because it's easy on the stomach.

alteredsteve175

VintageFeline wrote: »

But as you've been low carb when you return to "normal" carb you are going to see a scale spike as glycogen replenishes.

Holy scale spike, Batman! 12.5 lbs in 5 days. I'm thankful you warned me. And while I fed myself well over Christmas, that is unreal.

Regardless, I am staying the course for a two week break at around 2000 calories per day. I wonder what news the scale will have by the end.

Nony_Mouse

alteredstates175 wrote: »

VintageFeline wrote: »

But as you've been low carb when you return to "normal" carb you are going to see a scale spike as glycogen replenishes.

Holy scale spike, Batman! 12.5 lbs in 5 days. I'm thankful you warned me. And while I fed myself well over Christmas, that is unreal.

Regardless, I am staying the course for a two week break at around 2000 calories per day. I wonder what news the scale will have by the end.

Impressive!! But yeah, I doubt you've eaten anywhere near enough for that to be fat. You have officially broken my 'don't worry, you're not going to gain 10 lbs' line though! Don't panic, it will be fine. We based your calories on solid reasoning.

Nony_Mouse

Huh, weird. I just put my Chuck T's on and it appears I have some fluid retention going on. From what I have no idea. Certainly wasn't evident on the scale.

bmeadows380

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

Oh, Yoga With Adriene is the one for you then! https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene. She does have a little of the whole yoga philosophy thing going on, but in a way that's easily ignored, and she doesn't do that goddam annoying syrupy voice that every other yoga teacher seems to think is mandatory.

Thank you! I'll check it out

collectingblues wrote: »

Do you have an iPhone? Sworkit is fantastic for building together yoga workouts. You tell it the poses you want to do, and it comes up with the rest. There are also other workouts you can have it put together.

I do, but it's a company phone - I don't have a cell of my own. That being said, the company is fairly lenient on letting us use them for personal use, so I'll check it out when I can!

anubis609

alteredstates175 wrote: »

VintageFeline wrote: »

But as you've been low carb when you return to "normal" carb you are going to see a scale spike as glycogen replenishes.

Holy scale spike, Batman! 12.5 lbs in 5 days. I'm thankful you warned me. And while I fed myself well over Christmas, that is unreal.

Regardless, I am staying the course for a two week break at around 2000 calories per day. I wonder what news the scale will have by the end.

I've done 18 lbs in 4 days. You're completely fine lol. Obviously, there's going to be some mind-fornication happening as the scale shows spikes, but if all (or at least most) of your calories were accounted for, it's not bad since you know you didn't magically eat 35k calories over TDEE to gain >10+ lbs of fat. Even those youtube challenges to eat 10k calories in a day with bodybuilders show their initial post day spikes at +8-10 lbs.

VintageFeline

alteredstates175 wrote: »

VintageFeline wrote: »

But as you've been low carb when you return to "normal" carb you are going to see a scale spike as glycogen replenishes.

Holy scale spike, Batman! 12.5 lbs in 5 days. I'm thankful you warned me. And while I fed myself well over Christmas, that is unreal.

Regardless, I am staying the course for a two week break at around 2000 calories per day. I wonder what news the scale will have by the end.

I'm sporting about 9lbs at the highest over the last few days. It's as much about volume of food as salt and carbs for me. I feel like a stuffed bloated pig and the scale and stomach puff agree!

It'll all sort itself out. You may hold on to a little just by virtue of the fact you're not low carb, that would equalise if you remained at the same carb level. Same as when you start low carb most people have a whoosh and a stall, just water weight finding its new level.

Aside from cheese and some Italian meats there are no more calorie bomb foods left! Well, I am still going to make more roast spuds because the first batch weren't my finest work so I am still hankering after the good stuff. But I'm going to be logging again from tomorrow, I just need to get back to known intake to straighten myself out. I'll probably demolish the cheese new year's eve (a glass of wine and some nibbles are about as wild as I get, as with Christmas, I don't New Year as a general rule).

Rickster1967

I'm not weighing again until I've been back in deficit for a good two weeks, maybe more. Weight fluctuations are of no real interest to me.
The trend is all I care about and with 73lbs to target a couple up or down don't matter

End of March is my next big target, looking to be 90kgs then plus or minus 2

VintageFeline

I weigh daily, or at least generally speaking, for the same reason. Both get the same goal. I won't assess the real "damage" if there is any until a couple of weeks into January, I hold onto water like nobody's business.

collectingblues

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

Huh, weird. I just put my Chuck T's on and it appears I have some fluid retention going on. From what I have no idea. Certainly wasn't evident on the scale.

Apparently you got the inches, and I got the pounds.

Nony_Mouse

Ugh, next level hay fever today. Damn wind. I had to take another antihistamine while I was out. My eyes were so bloodshot I looked stoned.

Interestingly, though my skin hurts today, the redness in my face, neck and collarbone area seems to have subsided the past few days. Still some redness around collarbones and very top of chest, but I'd actually forgotten how damn pale I am! Oh hai, milky skin . My money is on lemon juice being the culprit, given what grapefruit did to me.

Thanks to Boxing Day sales I now have a hypoallergenic mattress topper, bamboo pillow and new Egyptian cotton sheets (cos not scratchy, totally justified). Oh and a pair of black crop jeans that I've been eying up for months that were finally on sale.

Hopefully I have enough food in the house, because I intend to not set foot outside again until this wind buggers off (which according to the forecast will be Saturday). Not quite sure how I'm going to burn enough to eat 1000 cals of pavlova...