GAINED 10 pounds in a 3 day vacation!

hdz_isaac2020

I went to Vegas for 3 days! Ate whatever food & dranked a lot of alcohol. Well now the scale says a 10 pounds! Kinda discouraging. I did eat a lot but sounds like 10 pounds is a lot . More after I got to my goal weight

AnnPT77

Chill, it's mostly water weight - especially if you *flew* to Vegas.

Get back to your normal, healthy routine, and it'll mostly be gone in a few days to a couple of weeks.

I suppose it's theoretically possible, but I find it extremely, extremely unlikely that you consumed nearly 12,000 calories over and above your maintenance calories, every day for 3 days. If you didn't, you didn't gain 10 pounds of fat (= about 35,000 calories).

Just get back to a reasonable routine, wait it out, and you'll know in a week or two what the actual impact was.

Speakeasy76

If it makes you feel any better, I gained 5 pounds in about 1-1 1/2 weeks and my calorie range was generally the same that whole time--no overeating! I blame mine on hormones and my body's response to certain foods/water retention.

Like what was said, try not to freak out as it's highly unlikely that 10 pounds is actual fat weight. Just get back into your routine, and if anything your body will feel better for feeding it more better-for-you foods.

cmriverside

Heat/flying/cocktails/salty food - it's mostly just water retention...just get back at your regular eating and it will drop back off within a week.

SnifterPug

I gain at least 3 pounds after eating one Chinese meal, even when my calories are in a deficit. It's water weight.

goal06082021

Did you spend the entire 72 hours in Vegas slamming whole sticks of butter down your gullet?

No?

Then you didn't gain 10 lbs of fat. It's water, get back to your routine and it'll come back off.

cwolfman13

hdz_isaac2020 wrote: »

I went to Vegas for 3 days! Ate whatever food & dranked a lot of alcohol. Well now the scale says a 10 pounds! Kinda discouraging. I did eat a lot but sounds like 10 pounds is a lot . More after I got to my goal weight

Did you fly? Airline travel bloats big time. Also, hot temps, more food than normal so more inherent waste in your system...alcohol...dehydration, etc.

Also, when in doubt, do the math. Pretty well mathematically impossible to gain 10 Lbs of fat in three days.

ChickenKillerPuppy

I just took a 3 week vacation and ate and drank whatever I wanted and I gained 7.5 pounds. We were on a motorcycle trip, so I got basically zero movement on top of it. I waited for a week to weigh myself to make sure it wasn't water weight. I am pretty small (was 121, weighed in post vacation at 128.6) so that is A LOT of weight to gain.

I was sort of horrified, but you know what, after being in my tiny condo in the middle of a big city for 18 months, it was wonderful to just enjoy myself, and I don't regret it. I got back on track the day I got back, am eating in a deficit (I was in maintenance), and it kind of sucks to be out of my goal range (120-125), but weighed in this morning at 126.2 and know I am moving in the right direction and will get back there.

Honestly, the lesson I am taking away from this is that I got back on track immediately with my habits and I'm losing and this is part of life -this is the long game. I think of the sort of trite saying but it helps me, which is that everyone falls down in puddles, but you only drown if you don't get back up.

yirara

Vacation water weight is the worst. For me, it might stick for up to 2 weeks. Thus fly on vacation, thinking of rocking that bikini... but no I'll look puffy for most of the trip. Then fly home again, rinse and repeat. Not that I care much about how I look in bikini, but I guess you got what I mean.