Vacation Weight "Gain"

Oh and don't do anything to try and speed up your vacation water weight drop. Frequent urination can play havoc on your electrolytes... trust me I know. Just let it happen when it happens.

etherealanwar wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

19.4 pounds - It took 8 days to return to pre-vacation weight.

Because of my very large amount of fat loss I seem able to retain a lot more water than normal.

Wow that is an insane amount! And I am going back to my regular diet and not trying to do anything to speed up the process. It usually takes me longer than usual to get back to where I was after a spike in water weight. Anywhere from 1-2 weeks sadly

lol... aren't you glad you only have a measly 7 pounds to deal with?

I say that but the reality is it is no fun to spike up on water and 7 pounds can make you feel miserable at times. It sucks but it is how our bodies operate.

Obviously in my 8 days I experienced quite a bit of unloading. Luckily only one day was really high - 5 pounds. The rest of the big days were just short of 3 pounds.

In the end my numbers (which I track closely) showed I only regained .5 lb of actual fat. Considering I ate enough for 2 pounds of gain that was a great end result for me.

I wrote a post about a similar experience here, with full detail of calories/weights:

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

Quick summary: Up 6.4 pounds between Thursday and following Monday; back down below starting weight by that week Friday, without doing anything extreme, just back to a slight deficit I'd been using at the time before the crazy-eating long weekend.

Spent a day in Asheville and ate my face off. I'd done a long run the night before, so I actually stayed in my calories, but I ate a lot of food in a small window, which was a lot richer and saltier than usual, so I gained about 10 lbs overnight. It's been 8 days, and it's come off at about 1-1.5 lbs/day.

I am very careful of what and how much I eat when I am on vacation, since I don't weigh or log anything unless I am home and cook the meal myself. I don't drink alcohol and I don't have a sweet tooth, so I save a lot of calories. The other thing that I do is to eat at a deficit for few weeks before vacation (I am in maintenance), and try to lose a couple of lbs. So if I get home with extra weight, I know that a couple of lbs are due to water retention, and the rest is part of my maintenance range.

My mom used to tell me "don't sweat the small stuff".

Compared to the entire weight loss journey, vacation water retention is small stuff. 😉

I’m going to France in a month and am a bit afraid of how much I will gain, as I am already drooling over cheese, baguettes and macarons. Not necessarily in that order!

If it helps, I had an extra bowl of Kix today. It was the best. But that’s not the worst part I also had a piece of enchilada casserole after that. I loved it. What’s worse is that I don’t know how many calories it was so I just took my best guess and logged 350cal. Have no idea if I was spot on but I’ll know in the morning. I wasn’t even on vacation this all happened here at home. I feel like I robbed a bank.

sugarcakes38 wrote: »

If it helps, I had an extra bowl of Kix today. It was the best. But that’s not the worst part I also had a piece of enchilada casserole after that. I loved it. What’s worse is that I don’t know how many calories it was so I just took my best guess and logged 350cal. Have no idea if I was spot on but I’ll know in the morning. I wasn’t even on vacation this all happened here at home. I feel like I robbed a bank.

That's not awful. It's fine: You made your best guess. It's fine, a drop in the ocean of life. You're fine.

In the morning, your scale might have a blip from extra carbs or random water weight of any sort. Don't worry, regardless. It's one thing, one day.

Roll on. In the big picture, you'll be fine.

I’ll tell you in a couple of weeks. This vacation will be somewhat stationary...total 4 days in the car and 6 days on a boat. Not a ton of opportunity for exercise. There will be some, daily walks (wow..I sound like a doggy), short bouts of strength training (pulling rope to lift heavy sail and small boats), and Did I mention the homemade foods including breads and desserts?

Oh well...it’s a needed break from the world and I’ll be right back at it when I get back home so I’m not that worried.

purple4sure05 wrote: »

For what its worth, I got back from a month long vacation 5 days ago and my experience is not similar to everyone else. I was between 58.7 And 59.8 kg before I left. When I came back from my trip I was 60.7 the first day, less than I expected based on everyone's stories here. The next day I was down to 59.9 and was pleased with myself, but since then its gone up and up, from 60.6 again to 60.7 and now 60.8. I've been eating about 1350 calories per day so I really am not sure why my weight seems to be climbing after a vacation, the opposite of everyone else.

I'm going through the same thing. You're not alone. I cut carbs for a while and it started to drop but then I got sick and gained it all back. I'm still up about 6 pounds. On holiday I was good and stuck within my calories all but maybe three or four days and admittedly I overate those days. I can't figure it out. I'm back to weighing everything and counting every bite because somewhere along the line I must be eating more than I think. The only other thing I can think of is that I stopped vaping so my metabolism may have slowed slightly from the lack of nicotine. Logically I know that I have to eventually lose it because I can't gain weight from air anymore than I can drive my car on empty. Hang in there.

I recently came back from a 5 day vacation and was 14lbs heavier than when I left. It’s been 6 days since I’ve been home and I’ve lost 11 of those 14lbs. I’m guessing I probably gained about 1.5lbs of actual fat during my vacation.