Really Really Bad Weekend

sherisse5
sherisse5 Posts: 14 Member
edited November 26 in Health and Weight Loss
So I didn't do any exercising this last long weekend (Victoria Day), and i didn't count calories. I let loose and just had fun. There may have been pizza and cupcakes, chips and snacks, ice cream and beer. Oh so very much beer. I stepped on the scale today, and oh my!!! I knew I had done damage, but 7 lbs?!?! Is that even really possible?? I am so disappointed in myself. And also somewhat discouraged. It has taken so much patience, will power and work to get where I am. I was close to 250 a few months ago, and just before the weekend I thought I was a week or two within being in ONEderland (under 200 lbs) and now..... sigh.... Can one bad weekend really set you that far back?

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  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    Water weight. Most of it will be water weight and it will come off over the next week or so.
  • sherisse5
    sherisse5 Posts: 14 Member
    Thanks guys. Feeling a little better about that spike now.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    sherisse5 wrote: »
    So I didn't do any exercising this last long weekend (Victoria Day), and i didn't count calories. I let loose and just had fun. There may have been pizza and cupcakes, chips and snacks, ice cream and beer. Oh so very much beer. I stepped on the scale today, and oh my!!! I knew I had done damage, but 7 lbs?!?! Is that even really possible?? I am so disappointed in myself. And also somewhat discouraged. It has taken so much patience, will power and work to get where I am. I was close to 250 a few months ago, and just before the weekend I thought I was a week or two within being in ONEderland (under 200 lbs) and now..... sigh.... Can one bad weekend really set you that far back?

    yep, its mainly water weight
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    Just get back to your normal life calorie tracking and it will whoosh away in a few days to a week. I went on vacation for a week and came back up almost 15lbs and within a week and a half it was all gone--and I ate pretty much anything and everything I wanted. When I got back from vacation, I just went right back to my normal tracking and all was right in the world again!
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    mst of its water weight. will fall off within the next week or so

    otherwise, glad you had fun! get back on track!

    one day, or even one weekend, does not make or break long term success.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    keep in mind that restaurant food is high in sodium. alcohol leads to water retention too
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,321 Member
    sherisse5 wrote: »
    Thanks guys. Feeling a little better about that spike now.

    For further evidence, you might find this thread fun:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10603949/big-overfeed-ruins-everything-nope

    tl;dr: Detailed case study of eating several thousand calories above maintenance over a weekend, and being back at 128 pounds in less than a week, with no extreme deficits or exercise required to get there.

    Just don't do it very often. ;)
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