Did you gain weight over Christmas / New Years?

NinjaChinchillaNZ
NinjaChinchillaNZ Posts: 56 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I go back to work on Monday and back to my normal routine. Been off MFP for 3 weeks, have way overdone it on the junk food and feeling like a bloated slug. I haven't worked up the courage to get on the scale yet and see what the damage is! Anyone else nursing a Christmas / New Years diet hangover?
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  • chriss0787
    chriss0787 Posts: 4 Member
    5lbs lol so terrible but I can't not pig out on the holidays it just wouldn't be the holidays. :#
  • choppie70
    choppie70 Posts: 544 Member
    I actually lost almost 2 lbs on my holiday vacation. I had been at a standstill since mid November!
  • NinjaChinchillaNZ
    NinjaChinchillaNZ Posts: 56 Member
    choppie70 wrote: »
    I actually lost almost 2 lbs on my holiday vacation. I had been at a standstill since mid November!

    Well done! I look like I'm 6 months pregnant with a food baby.
  • ARGriffy
    ARGriffy Posts: 1,002 Member
    3lbs. Damage is actually a lot better than expected as I ate really bad... but really bad for me I guess is normal to others so yeah maybe that's why not higher. .. Most of it is alcohol I'm pretty sure!
  • andyluvv
    andyluvv Posts: 281 Member
    NinjaChinchillaNZ wrote: »
    choppie70 wrote: »
    I actually lost almost 2 lbs on my holiday vacation. I had been at a standstill since mid November!

    Well done! I look like I'm 6 months pregnant with a food baby.

    I lost initially and then it went back to my usual weight...really odd lol
  • kazminchu
    kazminchu Posts: 250 Member
    If anybody needs to make themselves feel better - I gained almost 13lbs.
    Go hard or go home.
  • XXMISFITGIRLXX
    XXMISFITGIRLXX Posts: 10 Member
    10 lbs, eating on the go is what did it, not the holiday meals...and no exercise.
  • XXMISFITGIRLXX
    XXMISFITGIRLXX Posts: 10 Member
    kazminchu wrote: »
    If anybody needs to make themselves feel better - I gained almost 13lbs.
    Go hard or go home.

    10 lbs here!
  • kazminchu
    kazminchu Posts: 250 Member
    XXMISFITGIRLXX wrote: »
    kazminchu wrote: »
    If anybody needs to make themselves feel better - I gained almost 13lbs.
    Go hard or go home.

    10 lbs here!

    Woo!
    I'm hoping some of mine will be water weight, or something else I can use as an excuse. As long as it comes off in the next few weeks I'll be alright. :)
  • Quaters
    Quaters Posts: 85 Member
    Hey we are along time dead, life is for living as long as we can stop over indulging, i finally popped on the scale 2kgs ,back on track this week healthy eating more exercise we can do it you will be fine, lots of luck
  • Blueseraphchaos
    Blueseraphchaos Posts: 843 Member
    kazminchu wrote: »
    If anybody needs to make themselves feel better - I gained almost 13lbs.
    Go hard or go home.

    12 lbs, i said the exact same thing: go big or go home, lololololol. Working it off now.
  • reddeament
    reddeament Posts: 51 Member
    I gained 1 pounds. Bit annoyed at myself but I was expecting worse. I suspect walking heaps (average 20,000 steps a day) on a week trip meant I burned most of the pastries, cakes, fast food I ate.
  • Quaters
    Quaters Posts: 85 Member

    we all enjoyed our christmas indulgence, time now to get back to the healthy plan
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  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    My scale went up 3 lbs but it was just water retention and returned to normal (135.8) within 2 days .

    I'm all about enjoying myself on a holiday or special occasion but that doesn't mean the entire month is a holiday !
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Real weight? no. The scale went up on the 26th, but was back to normal before the new year.
  • AmyJo527
    AmyJo527 Posts: 90 Member
    I gained 10 lbs between the stress of finals and eating horribly over the holiday. Been back on track for a week now, and down 2.5 lbs. It happens, everyone goes overboard around the holidays.
  • jotough
    jotough Posts: 11 Member
    8lb in 3 weeks and I don't think any is water! I jiggle again running!!! : ( Still a new year and back in the zone!!! ; )
  • smcrimmon84
    smcrimmon84 Posts: 135 Member
    I only ate bad on Christmas Day and then we went to a super fancy restaurant on the 27th for dinner and I splurged a little. I weighed in on Mon the 28th at +5 and was shocked..but by Saturday, that 5 was off and 2 more. Sodium gets me every time ;)
  • Teresa_3266
    Teresa_3266 Posts: 298 Member
    10 lbs!! :s
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I had a scary weight for a while but I'm back to only 1.5 pound gained since October, and I'm really happy about it, considering how much I ate!
  • healthybearey
    healthybearey Posts: 140 Member
    5LB!! :(
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    My goal between thanksgiving and New Years was to "maintain not gain", and although my weight fluctuated up and down by as much as 5 lbs through the holidays, when I weighed in on January 4th, the net was actually that I had LOST 1.8 lbs. So yay me!
  • boombalatty123
    boombalatty123 Posts: 116 Member
    One pound up. My husband managed to lose a pound (of course ;) ). Considering how crazy our holiday was, I'm pleased with it. We'd intended to stay with a relative and cook most meals, but wound up needing to stay in a hotel and eat restaurant food the whole time, so I think I did pretty well.
  • louisedbatchelor1983
    louisedbatchelor1983 Posts: 42 Member
    I weighed this morning and 3lbs...I was overjoyed as I literally thought it would be close to 5/6...I ate what I wanted and didn't get to the gym so 3lbs is a godsend!
    Back to normal this week!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    About 8 lbs. That's about average for me over the holidays even when I was thin so I'm not too worried about it.
  • Slashnl
    Slashnl Posts: 339 Member
    kazminchu wrote: »
    If anybody needs to make themselves feel better - I gained almost 13lbs.
    Go hard or go home.

    Me too! Yay us!
  • echmain
    echmain Posts: 103 Member
    I was away for Christmas and New Years so I couldn't weight myself on my scale.

    When I finally got home I stepped on the scale...no change.
  • Jonna13
    Jonna13 Posts: 288 Member
    I went from 143 up to 148.2 from Christmas Day until January 2, when I weighed in on the 3rd I was 145-so a lot of water retention, food weight etc. Weighed in today and back down to 143. I'm highly motivated to get to my Goal of 129, so I'm trying to be really careful and stick to losing these last few stubborn pounds.
  • bibif
    bibif Posts: 2 Member
    Got the guts to go on the scales since the 21st. Lost 2lbs. I was really good over Xmas week. The new year week I was terrible. Got a few good walks in tho (6miles on Xmas day!) which is my main excecise routine due to a knee injury so I'm chuffed with myself. I've got a lot to lose tho!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Not the holidays themselves...I've put on about 6-7 real Lbs since the beginning of October...I generally put on 8-10 Lbs over that period of time, so I'm ahead of the game. It happens every year but comes right off when my training ramps up in January.

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