Christmas Weight Gain - be honest!

Okay let me be the first to say that everyone I know is having this problem please know your not alone. To be perfectly honest I'm afraid of the scale right now but then again I always am. I'm not quite sure how many lbs. I gained but most likely it's probably somewhere in the ball park of 3-7lbs.

My momma is one of the best cooks out their. I love my momma's cooking but I think I let her over feed me. Also there is the fact that everywhere I go see candy. Even at work.

Also during the day I crave snacks that are sweet & salty, but also healthy or at least I try to make snacking healthy. The problem I'm having is that if I snack it makes it harder to losses weight. My days always entail me going from work to a sport activity at least 2x a week with no real down time in between.

I try to pack at least 2 to 3 snacks on the days that I won't be able to come home in between work & a sport activity. The other challenge I have is I'm on so many meds for different health conditions I have like Asthma, allergies, and not to mentation a seizure disorder. One of my meds in particular makes me gain weight and I can't get off the med because if I do I will have seizures which aren't fun.

please anybody that has advice or suggestions please reply.

I gained about 8 lbs from thanksgiving to New Years. I lost all sense of discipline visiting my parents and such. :sad: :embarassed: :frown: :sick:

I put on 7lbs in a fortnight, weighed in this morning. How so easily it all goes on, and it will be a battle to get it off. So unfair.

I do this every year, cant stop myself. Have enjoyed bread, chocolate, mince pies with cream, biscuits, all of which I have been able to resist leading up to Christmas and quite frankly I will resist again.

I have been very bad about the exercise, but have walked the dog this morning - 2 miles to slowly getting back on track.

The cupboard is almost bare of all the wonderful goodies, I have felt like a pig at the trough!!!! I havent even touched the cheese, biscuits and the Christmas nuts!!!!

Anyone want to come round for tea??? lol

I put on 7lbs in a fortnight, weighed in this morning. How so easily it all goes on, and it will be a battle to get it off. So unfair.

So so true! I lost 9.5lbs before Christmas, took me about 8 weeks and i can guarantee i've gained it all back in the past 2 weeks and maybe then some (i gain big amounts so easy) but i know for a fact what i gain in a week or 2 will take at least 4 weeks so get off, so unfair as you say

6lbs, but straight after was more like 9lbs,...amazing how much is water.

We need some time to just say "yes" when always being committed so I won't feel bad and work twice as hard in Jan!

Good luck y'all!

ive been slacking since a little before xmas, a bit scared to step on the scales. my eating habits and exercise has went to pot. i plan on getting my *kitten* back to the gym soon and starting to log my diet again, its just the inital step which is hard to make after a bad month.

I'm very happy to say that after eating whatever I've liked since the beginning of November I've only put on 2lbs.

We had house guests early November and ate out everyday. Then we went to Hawaii for a holiday and experienced our first Thanksgiving dinner and of course ate what we liked every other day. Arrived back home in Australia to commence our round of Christmas functions (we belong to a lot of social groups and clubs). Then had parties on both New Years Eve and also New Years Day. Still have lots of left over food in the pantry which I've been eating each day but in much smaller quantities than before.

Therefore I'm very pleased with only a 2 lb gain and I've already lost half of that. Now it's time to get back into it and get rid of the last 28lbs (13kilos for us Aussies).

I hope everyone gets back on track and we all have a great New Year and lose lots of weight.

1 and a half pound I guess!

I gained 3kgs. But to be perfectly honest, it wasn't just the holidays that "helped" me gaining weight. At the beginning of December my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, so I've decided (...) to stop trying to loose weight, and eat my emotions instead thus resulting to gaining back the 3 point something kgs I've lost. Seemed like a good plan at the time....
Now that the initial shock has passed, and we've settled in to our Chemo-routine and all the "joys" it brings, I'm starting over again.

i last weighed in on Thursday 19th december, weighed in again this morning and i have gained 2lbs, considering i had christmas, my birthday and new year in that time with alot of alcohol and food i was really surprised!

I didn't actually eat anything during Christmas, but I did eat a lot on New Year's Eve. Didn't weigh myself right afterwards but this morning I realized I'm 1 pound heavier than the last time I weighed myself (on Dec 30). So I guess it had to be somewhere around 3 pounds LOL. No problem though, I'll beat the scale by Monday

7 pounds...I'm disgusted with myself. First time in a year that I've been this weight. I've been at goal since last January and am now six pounds above. I'll get back down, I know I will, but I'm disappointed that I let myself slide so badly:(

5lbs in 3 weeks - plus another 2lb water I lost in last 36hrs - Not a problem, I ate drank and be'd merry, wouldn't want it any other way! And now I'm back here, back on track :-)

From 12/11 to this morning I gained 6 pounds (at least I think that is what the scale said before it died.... needs new batteries).