10 lb Christmas gain!

I doubt it's 10 pounds of fat. I'm up exactly 9 pounds over what I weighed on the 9th (the last time I stepped on the scale), but I also have TOM coming this week, plus whatever other water is still being held onto because of sodium.

I avoid the scale until February for that reason. I know I have gained, and really don't care how much. I would guess my weight would be up about 10lbs as well but am pretty certain it will be gone by mid January.
Totally worth it, and it ain't over yet, my anniversary is today (another dinner date), and new years always means too much of everything. Oh well....gotta hit the gym hard

I actually went from 171 to 166 by Christmas morning. Since then I'm up to 167. I can't really go by that short of a time frame though. In about a week I'll know where I'm really at. I ate every thing I wanted and then some.

Sodium can do that. I'm shedding a few pounds of water weight from sodium.

I am up five pounds. I blew my diet for four days straight. Tottaly worth all the yummy holiday food but it's back on track today.

Me, Me, Me!!!! No, actually, I stopped taking birth control about 5 weeks ago, and within 3 days I saw a 5 pound increase. (And I thought we were supposed to lose weight when we stopping taking them?!?!). Then, I've been splurging...badly! I am not getting on the scale until Friday, but I am back to logging my food as of today. Last time I weighed, which was about a week ago, I was up about 9 pounds total. It is amazing how quickly we can gain it back! Luckily, I have a membership to the YMCA, and my boyfriend got me a 3 month membership to TITLE gym. He is the best!!

I ate like a mad woman over the long holiday weekend, that was the plan To enjoy the long weekend and get back to the grind come Monday (today!!!). I was a little nervous when I stepped on the scale this morning (I'm a daily weigher) there was a 2 lb change in my weight! That doesn't make me perfect tho, I'm thinking maybe my weekly deficit is bigger than I realize.

WinoGelato wrote: »

algrif37 wrote: »

I was bad. But it was oh so good. Gained all I had lost and then some. But back on it today. Any other imperfect ones out there??

I planned to enjoy all the yummy foods during the holidays, I did enjoy them, I logged them, the scale reflected it (mostly water, possibly 1-2 lbs of actual weight gain). I'm not sure how that makes me bad or imperfect. If anything, I feel like I perfectly executed my plan to enjoy the holidays.

I really don't understand the need to punish yourself by labeling yourself bad or imperfect for enjoying the holidays. It is EXTREMELY unlikely that you gained 10 lbs of actual weight during this time. That means you would have had to have consumed 35,000 cals above your maintenance level. Do you really think you really ate that many excess calories?

^^This. I enjoyed myself and all the yummy things, and I was able to take part in the socializing and the sharing of familiar family food traditions and the new things we were trying this year (including 25-calorie appetizers I made with a molecular gastronomy kit that was an early Christmas present). I wasn't bad or a failure. I had enough extra calories to gain about half a pound of body mass. The scale went up 4.5 lbs since earlier in December, to the top of the range I've been maintaining in for the past year, so I guess that's about four pounds of water.

hookahbinx wrote: »

I was up 7 lbs. Started at 208 ended at 215. Only 2 days of eating badly. I took water pills to get rid of the bloating.
I'm now back down to 207.

You have to be careful with diuretics. It can lead to low potassium.

sarahredhaira wrote: »

My scales show a gain of several pounds this week, which I was completely expecting. I went over my calorie goal on 3 days, and was under a few days. I did loads of exercise, and I'm happy that I didn't over eat to a ridiculous amount, and I drank plenty of alcohol. Apart from New Year's Eve , when I will probably do the same again, I am back to eating and exercising as I was before Christmas Eve. But just out of curiosity, what do people mean about a lot of their weight gain being water gain? And that this will go quite quickly. Still fairly new to all this, so I'd like to understand what this means.

Your scale weight can fluctuate fairly dramatically for any number of reasons - some of those are actual fat gain/loss and some are basically water retention. There are also a lot of things that contribute to water retention - increased carbs, sodium, time of month, hormonal changes, etc. When initially starting a low carb diet - a lot of people experience a huge woosh of loss on the scale and attribute that to magical success from going low carb, when in actuality a big portion of that is water weight lost from reduction in carbohydrates, but it tends to normalize in a few days. Similarly, if you eat a high sodium meal (meat lovers pizza, mexican food, chinese food, etc) - you often to see a big spike on the scale the next day or so which leads people to believe they've totally blown their diet. If people are patient, and either keep weighing, or wait a few days after such events to weigh, they would see the normalization.

I almost always weigh 2 lbs more on Monday mornings than I do on Friday mornings. The weekends are when I go out to dinner, or indulge in extra treats at home. I know this is the case, and so it doesn't bother me at all when it happens.

I weighed 119 on Dec 18th, the lowest weight I've been since college. I weighed 124 on Dec 25th, and there's no way that I gained 5 lbs of actual fat in one week, I would have had to consume 17,500 cals above my maintenance level, which didn't happen. This morning, I weighed 122.5, even though I've continued to indulge, just not as heavily, so things are starting to normalize. By Friday the 1st, or more likely Friday the 8th, I expect to see what the true impact of the holidays are, and I don't expect it to be more than 1-2 lbs gained. Hardly a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Sounds like you've got a healthy outlook on it - so just keep plugging away!

Same thing here. Put on 4 lbs and there is NO way I ate that much. Things are settling now. Lots of hiking so should be fine in the next day or so. Christmas yummies with loved ones... worth every minute. Especially because I can know (with confidence) what will happen if I follow the min-calorie load prescribed by MFP. Lovin' MFP. Looking forward to the next few months and losing 50lbs before I turn 50!!

Many people in this thread don't understand how weight fluctuations work. Nobody legitimately gains ten pounds in a few days of "bad" eating unless they ate around 35,000 extra calories in those few days. Water weight due to sodium, TOM, and other factors can drastically change the scale. I started the week at 114.4 pounds and now I'm 116.8. I know I didn't gain 2.4 pounds and by next week I'll even out.

synacious wrote: »

Many people in this thread don't understand how weight fluctuations work. Nobody legitimately gains ten pounds in a few days of "bad" eating unless they ate around 35,000 extra calories in those few days. Water weight due to sodium, TOM, and other factors can drastically change the scale. I started the week at 114.4 pounds and now I'm 116.8. I know I didn't gain 2.4 pounds and by next week I'll even out.

I don't know about many people, I think most people responding are explaining that it is impossible to gain 10 lbs from a day or two (or even a week) of indulgence and that it is likely water weight which will normalize in a few days and thus nothing to beat yourself up over.