How did you all fair over the festive period?

not so good, I guess I got complacent, been on her 2 yrs in Feb. I am up 6 lbs so it is doable. I made mistakes and I am planning on learning from them. I really did worse right after Christmas, got big bags of cheese popcorn (cant do big bags) Mom sent me home one of those tin popcorn things which I cant do that either, should have given it away. Hubby and I ate it in two days. Made a cake, cant have a whole cake in the house. Got stressed with tree lights and got distracted and went to Walmart, stopped by Sonics eating late at night, those dirn onion rings, coudnt think I was Christmas lights crazy. Like I said learning from my mistakes. Oh well, forgiving myself, getting back on track, can handle it if I don't gain any more. Last yr I did fine, like I said I thought I could handle it, it got tricky. I got greedy. Cant handle certain foods in the house, it is a fact.

Bad, really bad. I had occasional days of eating too much, not even every day, and in just 2.5 weeks this put 7 lb back onto me!!! I'm sure some is water but at least half must be fat. So now it's got to come right back off and I'm going to the gym more than ever to make sure this happens. Also cutting out alcohol until the weight is back off. It gives me the munchies.

I went over on my calories for a few days due to having a few drinks and chocolates here and there. But kept the water intake high and took my protein shakes and supplements around my workouts and managed to maintain my pre Christmas blow out weight of 144lbs. Great feeling. Maintenance and getting back on track quickly is key!

I ate above and below maintenance since November and today I'm on the low end of my maintenance range (+/-3 pounds)

I ate everything I wanted over thanksgiving, and we went to many holiday parties.
I just made sure the calories were "worth it"--I only ate home made desserts and cookies. I only ate food I knew I really, really, liked. If I got something new and didn't like it, I wouldn't eat it.

For example, we went to a party and the potato salad looked yummy but when I tasted it, I didn't care for the mayo they used, so I stopped eating it.
At that same party I had three slices of jello cheesecake. No regrets.

However, I got sick three days ago and just stayed in bed most of the day.
AND I've been incredibly hungry, eating/snacking every two hours.
I hope that doesn't mess me up after I've done so well after the holidays.

I weighed in this morning and was in my maintenance range. Not sure I could have said the same last week because although I was exercising, I was really indulging in all the treats at work. This week, I've been so sick and haven't been eating much at all. Next week might be another story still because I've been given a course of steroids. Looking forward to feeling better and getting back on track.

I did pretty good! I started Dec at 135.6 (my goal weight) and today, I'm 136.8. But during the month, I varied from 133.9 - 136. So I'm not at all concerned. Just going to drink lots of water and eat a deficit to get back under 135. I really only above my calories for a couple days so I don't think it should take me more than a week to compensate.

edit: whoops didnt see this was the maintenance forum

funny - I just posted the same topic in a different thread.
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maintained my weight w/o accurately tracking. still went to the gym. Now it's time to get back on track as I want to shed the last half by the end of April.

During the last 2 weeks, on most days, I ate more than usual and then I would eat less than usual to try to make up for it, so my weight fluctuated up and down by 1.5 lbs. a couple of times. and I didn't like that yo-yo effect at all, but overall, I maintained.

After reading many pre-holiday posts about whether people were going to log or not on the holidays, I planned not to log on Christmas and actually forgot to log on my birthday, LOL, and enjoyed the holidays.

Now it's time to get back to business, which I'm not thrilled about, but I'm sure I'll feel better once I start losing weight again.

I'm the same weight I was at the beginning of December. I don't count unless weight is starting to creep up so don't know if I overate but weight stayed the same

Gained 4lbs, overate quite a bit on Christmas eve and Christmas day, good inbetween, then a wedding, and then NYE and NYD were overeating as well.

But you know what? I thoroughly enjoyed my calories and time. I still exercised most days, so I am expecting some of the gain to be bloat. I am not going crazy to get rid of it, I am notching it up to experience and just continue on a sustained, slow loss. It will come off again.

I ate waaayy too many homemade sweets and just more overall....continuously exercised except for a week when I was ill. I've been back on track food-wise for a few days now and already feel a bit less bloated. Am going to try to work hard on continuing to make better food choices!

I lost weight over the holiday's. I started doing Insanity again everyday to prepare my body for Insanity Max 30 on Jan. 5'th. so I think this is probably why I lost weight. Although I don't eat any cookies, cakes, or other snacks even during the holiday season.

Yeah, I screwed up. Gained 7 lb. It did not seem to me I was eating enough to cause that, but it happened. It takes me for EVER to lose 7 lb, too. like 3 months. Even with workouts my maintenance calories are so low because I'm short and middle aged. So now I am increasing workouts and being very strict on calories. This just shows me that I can't ever let things slide, and holidays can't be an excuse, unless I want to be fat. Ugh this ticks me off so hard. Without eating out even once and without buying *any* junk food 7 lb flies on. GLARGH