Maintain or Deficit after holiday

emreysmith

Hi So I recently come back from holiday after being away for 5 days I kinda just enjoyed my self after being finding out my maintance from doing a reverse diet so after I had gotten back I had gained 10kg being at 74.1 coming back to 84.1 I don’t know if I should go back into a deficit or maintain I know you gain water weight when you eat excess amount of food though I can see in my body I’m not as lean as I was and a lot more fluffier could do with some advice

cwolfman13

10 kg is around 22 Lbs...are you sure your numbers are right? That's quite a bit for 5 days even when you consider water...but mathematically, gaining 22 Lbs of fat in 5 days would also be quite the feat. You would have had to consume 77K calories over maintenance for those 5 days.

If you've just gotten back, I'd just get back to normal eating and exercise habits and see what happens over the next week to 10 days. I can usually be up 5-10 Lbs after travel, especially if I've traveled by air. Airplane bloat is a thing. Also, presumably you were eating out a lot...if that isn't normal for you, the sodium in restaurant food will also cause water retention in addition to more inherent waste in your digestive track if you were eating more than normal. Also, water retention and bloating is going to leave you not looking as lean...doesn't mean it's fat necessarily.

emreysmith

Okay thank you I’ll give it a go and just go back to maintaince and see where my weight stays at and go from there but I mean I did eat a ton on holiday and just thought that was my permanent weight also Isit normal to look less leaner than before ?

AnnPT77

emreysmith wrote: »

Okay thank you I’ll give it a go and just go back to maintaince and see where my weight stays at and go from there but I mean I did eat a ton on holiday and just thought that was my permanent weight also Isit normal to look less leaner than before ?

If you're female, adult, not in menopause, you might even want to wait for a full menstrual cycle before you take any drastic action. Male or menopausal, sure, 10 days may be reasonable.

Yes, if you add water weight or have more food volume still in your digestive system on its way to becoming waste, you can look less lean - the ambiguous term "bloated" can apply here.