Xmas water weight gain and drop - Give us your data!

Orphia

Weight goes up; weight comes down.

I'd banked calories with extra exercise this week, so I enjoyed myself on Chrimbo day here in Australia. Logged guesstimates, and was maybe 500 calories / 2000 kilojoules over my daily maintenance limit.

My scale weight rose 3 lbs / 1.4 kg on Boxing Day morning. Not to panic!...

It fell back down 2.4 lbs / 1.1 kg the next day.

Today's moving average weight in Happy Scale is the same as it was on December 24.

Let's see your gains and falls and hopefully ease some people's worries.

JaydedMiss

Im up 14 pounds. Down 3 of the 14 so far- Though keeping self VERY hydrated because im dehydrated and my skin hurts lol. Impressive christmas gains ;D Three days of overeating badly. So many cookies.... Ill be the first to say i ate like a months calories easy in those days xD EASY. Itl go away

Iwantahealthierme30

I did the same as you 500 over maintenance. Still up 3 pounds as of this morning.

Nony_Mouse

I lose, because I was actually lighter on Boxing Day morning (was also 500-600 cals over maintenance on Xmas Day).

GemstoneofHeart

Up 6 on the morning of dec 26, down 3 as of this morning. I expect to be back down another 1-2 tomorrow morning, and then after that, it’s probably my gain of 1 pound which was full expected from all the Santa cookies I ate

barbp7

Up 1# from 24th to 25th, maintained on 26th, back down 1# today, 27th. Tried hard not to repeat Thanksgiving gain of 4#s. But still enjoyed everything I wanted to.

DmaMfz

Up 3#yesterday, down .8 this morning. Looks like I may squeeze into my New Years Eve dress after all. That’s if TOM doesn’t rain on my parade. Don’t think I won’t make sweat pants a fashion statement

evilpoptart63

I ate too much for a week leading up to christmas. Yesterday I was up 3lbs, today Im still up one pound. I think I dropped most of my water weight and Im sure I have gained at least some fat.

Polo265

I ate too much for about a month leading up to Christmas, so on Christmas Day was up 6 lbs. Today (12/28), down 4.2. I'm sure at least some of the remaining 1.8 lbs is a true fat gain.

WhereIsPJSoles

I’ve been steadily creeping up in .2 lb increments since Christmas, but my moving average in happy scale is on track. I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get a loss, but I guess I didn’t get a gain to lose so I’ll stop complaining. And I’m fighting a badass cold and I feel like that might be some water retention (don’t know if that’s actual science, but since everything else can cause water retention, why not my cold?)

TavistockToad

My weigh in day is tomorrow... I'll let you know! :laugh:

charlenekapf

for the two people that were up a from going 500 over maintenance..is that a total of 500 for one day? or over 500 daily for a few days? if only over 500 on one day through all of Christmas Eve, Day, Boxing Day, that is impressive!

anewell28

started at 143lbs. i ate everything in sight from thursday until tuesday. tuesday morning i weighed 158lbs. thursday morning i was down to 153lbs. Ill be happy if i see the scale move to under 150lbs, if not I'm not worried. Ill just lose it in janurary and feb.

wizzybeth

Lost 2.4 lbs in one day... Gotta love it. Yesterday I got on the scale for the first time post holiday... 243.4. Yesterday I stayed on track and made sure I was well hydrated. Scale today... 241.0 lol

jonnyman41

I am up around 5lb in Dec as a combination of too many chocolates at work plus a couple of meals out and far too much alcohol and Pringles! Hoping to see a down turn from Jan onwards when things go back to normal foodwise. Not sure how quick the weight will go though as it can't all be water weight unfortunately

Iwantahealthierme30

Down all 3 pounds from Christmas Day now back to 219. Yay!

Iwantahealthierme30

charlenekapf wrote: »

for the two people that were up a from going 500 over maintenance..is that a total of 500 for one day? or over 500 daily for a few days? if only over 500 on one day through all of Christmas Eve, Day, Boxing Day, that is impressive!

For me it was one day - Christmas.

tar2323

Was 165lb the morning before Christmas Eve. Ate without counting cals on Christmas Eve and Day (including 4 mince pies, sticky toffee pud with Baileys cream, roasties with oil, etc) and was 171.8 on Boxing Day morning. 6.8lbs up in two days (which is fine - I understand how and why).

Back to deficit and each day weight has gone like this:
171.8 (26th)
169.0 (27th)
167.4 (today)

Mrs181

I was around 138 sometime before Christmas. Maybe like two weeks before. I don't know, but then I fell off the wagon and didn't want to weigh in.
Dec 26 I was 148.
Today 142.4.

NorthCascades

I left 10 days before Xmas for a vacation. Spent every day cross country skiing, and ate a lot of yummy food without regard to calories. Came home, got on the scale, lost 2 pounds.

ClaireGleek

I was 141# on Christmas Eve and after enjoying my Christmas lunch and evening buffet and boxing day leftovers and even more munchies - at least a thousand over maintenance for two days lol - on the 27th I weighed in at 144# so I gained 3 pounds of mostly water weight. I weighed myself today and I'm down another pound at 143# I think I should drop another pound of water weight and probably gained a pound of true fat but I don't care it was worth it.