Xmas water weight gain and drop - Give us your data!

Orphia
Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Weight goes up; weight comes down.

I'd banked calories with extra exercise this week, so I enjoyed myself on Chrimbo day here in Australia. Logged guesstimates, and was maybe 500 calories / 2000 kilojoules over my daily maintenance limit.

My scale weight rose 3 lbs / 1.4 kg on Boxing Day morning. Not to panic!...

It fell back down 2.4 lbs / 1.1 kg the next day.

Today's moving average weight in Happy Scale is the same as it was on December 24.

Let's see your gains and falls and hopefully ease some people's worries.

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  • Iwantahealthierme30
    Iwantahealthierme30 Posts: 293 Member
    I did the same as you 500 over maintenance. Still up 3 pounds as of this morning.
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    I lose, because I was actually lighter on Boxing Day morning :D (was also 500-600 cals over maintenance on Xmas Day).
  • barbp7
    barbp7 Posts: 22 Member
    Up 1# from 24th to 25th, maintained on 26th, back down 1# today, 27th. Tried hard not to repeat Thanksgiving gain of 4#s. But still enjoyed everything I wanted to.
  • evilpoptart63
    evilpoptart63 Posts: 397 Member
    I ate too much for a week leading up to christmas. Yesterday I was up 3lbs, today Im still up one pound. I think I dropped most of my water weight and Im sure I have gained at least some fat.
  • Polo265
    Polo265 Posts: 287 Member
    I ate too much for about a month leading up to Christmas, so on Christmas Day was up 6 lbs. Today (12/28), down 4.2. I'm sure at least some of the remaining 1.8 lbs is a true fat gain.
  • WhereIsPJSoles
    WhereIsPJSoles Posts: 622 Member
    I’ve been steadily creeping up in .2 lb increments since Christmas, but my moving average in happy scale is on track. I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get a loss, but I guess I didn’t get a gain to lose so I’ll stop complaining. And I’m fighting a badass cold and I feel like that might be some water retention (don’t know if that’s actual science, but since everything else can cause water retention, why not my cold?)
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    My weigh in day is tomorrow... I'll let you know! :laugh:
  • charlenekapf
    charlenekapf Posts: 309 Member
    for the two people that were up a from going 500 over maintenance..is that a total of 500 for one day? or over 500 daily for a few days? if only over 500 on one day through all of Christmas Eve, Day, Boxing Day, that is impressive!
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    Lost 2.4 lbs in one day... Gotta love it. Yesterday I got on the scale for the first time post holiday... 243.4. Yesterday I stayed on track and made sure I was well hydrated. Scale today... 241.0 lol
  • jonnyman41
    jonnyman41 Posts: 1,032 Member
    I am up around 5lb in Dec as a combination of too many chocolates at work plus a couple of meals out and far too much alcohol and Pringles! Hoping to see a down turn from Jan onwards when things go back to normal foodwise. Not sure how quick the weight will go though as it can't all be water weight unfortunately
  • Iwantahealthierme30
    Iwantahealthierme30 Posts: 293 Member
    Down all 3 pounds from Christmas Day now back to 219. Yay!
  • Iwantahealthierme30
    Iwantahealthierme30 Posts: 293 Member
    charlenekapf wrote: »
    for the two people that were up a from going 500 over maintenance..is that a total of 500 for one day? or over 500 daily for a few days? if only over 500 on one day through all of Christmas Eve, Day, Boxing Day, that is impressive!

    For me it was one day - Christmas.
  • tar2323
    tar2323 Posts: 141 Member
    Was 165lb the morning before Christmas Eve. Ate without counting cals on Christmas Eve and Day (including 4 mince pies, sticky toffee pud with Baileys cream, roasties with oil, etc) and was 171.8 on Boxing Day morning. 6.8lbs up in two days (which is fine - I understand how and why).

    Back to deficit and each day weight has gone like this:
    171.8 (26th)
    169.0 (27th)
    167.4 (today)
  • Mrs181
    Mrs181 Posts: 36 Member
    I was around 138 sometime before Christmas. Maybe like two weeks before. I don't know, but then I fell off the wagon and didn't want to weigh in.
    Dec 26 I was 148.
    Today 142.4.
  • ClaireGleek
    ClaireGleek Posts: 15 Member
    I was 141# on Christmas Eve and after enjoying my Christmas lunch and evening buffet and boxing day leftovers and even more munchies - at least a thousand over maintenance for two days lol - on the 27th I weighed in at 144# so I gained 3 pounds of mostly water weight. I weighed myself today and I'm down another pound at 143# I think I should drop another pound of water weight and probably gained a pound of true fat but I don't care it was worth it.
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    Up 4lbs over 25th and 26th. Down 1.8lbs overnight. Expect the rest to come off when get the next few days
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    charlenekapf wrote: »
    for the two people that were up a from going 500 over maintenance..is that a total of 500 for one day? or over 500 daily for a few days? if only over 500 on one day through all of Christmas Eve, Day, Boxing Day, that is impressive!

    There were three of us, I just didn't have a corresponding scale spike. Probably at least partly because I'm at maintenance anyway (but then so is @Orphia), so it really was only 500 extra for me. It also followed two days of accidental deficit, so balanced out really. Glycogen stocks are probably pretty full so no replenishment and corresponding water weight there. And as for only the one day, single, live on my own, had family here for Christmas Day but the others are just normal days for me.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Stopped logging and switched to diet break on the 18th but weight remained stable after expected 2lb maintenance bounce. Went a bit hog wild 24th/25th/26th. Topped out at 166 (lowest has been 156 but was trending 158-9 since diet break start).

    Started logging again yesterday, at maintenance as on diet break until new year. Today weighed in at 162 so 4lbs gone overnight. I don't expect anything more than 2lbs of true gain, if that. All that extra food had me bouncing off the walls at times, never sat still for three days so a nice increase in NEAT probably.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    Oh I don't know....like 5 in water/food and almost back to where I started today.
  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,069 Member
    I'm actually losing right now. Not really changing anything other than maybe my eating patterns, doing pretty good with cooking for myself. Focusing on the things I really enjoy, and passing on the rest. Still getting in all my workouts, too, with the exception of the actual holiday.

    That being said, there was one night I had wings for dinner - super salty. I was up 3# that next morning. It was gone in 48 hours though.
  • charlenekapf
    charlenekapf Posts: 309 Member
    Interesting to see the variety here. Holidays can be hard. This year was personally easy for me as I stopped restricting so much leading up to Christmas and increased my activity a bit before, during and after. I was able to stay in a deficit as I was pretty active throughout the past week as I knew I'd be indulging. I managed to eat 2200-2500 and burn 2800-3200 daily. As of this morning, 165. Pretty happy with how things are going despite being slow weight loss, I don't feel like I am yo-yoing as I have in the past this time of year.
  • newheavensearth
    newheavensearth Posts: 870 Member
    145 on the 22nd. 152 on the 26th. 149 this morning. A lot of Italian food, movie snacks, hot chocolate, and fruitcake involved. Started logging again a couple days ago. Also increased water, herbal tea and cardio.
  • MissMaggieMuffin
    MissMaggieMuffin Posts: 444 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I went all crazy for a couple of weeks or so (long story) with multiple days over maintenance and several at around double maintenance. I didn't track all that carefully, but I'm guessing I've probably added something like 3 pounds of fat.

    I've been maintaining for a while in the upper 120s. Last time I saw that was 12/20, 129.8 pounds, so just barely. I'm not going to be exhaustive, but here are some key points, all AM weigh-ins:

    12/24: 133.6
    12/26: 137.0
    12/27: 134.0
    12/28: 131.0

    In year 2 of maintenance, none of this is remotely worrisome or stressful. I'm eating a bit under maintenance again, and if I don't do anything else extreme, I'll be back in the 120s in a week or so. If I throw in more big day(s) around New Years, it'll be a little longer. Meh. ;)

    @AnnPT77 Thanks for that post - inspirational and reassuring. You are in the mindset that I aspire to in that you can trust the process & know that you will get back to where you want to be. I'm not quite there yet. I'm 3 lbs. or so up over the holidays and, while my head knows that I am in control and NOT going back to where I was a year ago, a part of me still obsesses over those lbs.

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