Holiday weight spike!
Jthanmyfitnesspal
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I hope everyone had a great holiday season. How much did you gain (if anything)?
I ate and drank everything I could get my hands on and gained about 5lbs since about 12/21. In addition to high consumption, I had a cold and stopped exercising for a week.
I'm going to be curious how fast it comes back off! And, I want to drop about an extra 5lbs.
How did you do?
I ate and drank everything I could get my hands on and gained about 5lbs since about 12/21. In addition to high consumption, I had a cold and stopped exercising for a week.
I'm going to be curious how fast it comes back off! And, I want to drop about an extra 5lbs.
How did you do?
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I was actually expecting and allowing myself to gain around 2-3 lbs on Thanksgiving and Christmas but stayed same on T-day and actually lost after Christmas holidays. Although, I did keep up with exercise each day and just sampled all the food and desserts. Happy New Year!8
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I "gained" 5 pounds in one week, but I know it was just water weight because when I snapped back into my routine it all went away the next week. I didn't expect to gain any at all because I didn't have many holiday parties to attend, but there were... ahem... a couple of significant mistakes made at home involving chocolate and red wine. I have another ten pounds to lose before I hit my goal, but am back on track now and trying not to dwell on the misstep.12
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I gained 2 lbs at Christmas, which disappeared the following days, and 2 lbs again at New Year's, which is already going down now. I ate 1300kcal above maintenance in total for the three holidays combined, so it's just a little blip for me, a few weeks delay.
My biggest issue is the hunger. For several days after these large meals, I'm a lot hungrier, so some discipline is required.8 -
I got flu but not til AFTER Boxing day! and maintained my weight.3
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I was up .6 lbs right after Christmas, which was still in my maintenance range. But, with exercise and normal eating, I am back down.2
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I am up a whopping 10 pounds! But I just let the holiday depression kick in and ate my way though. Back on track now, and not doing that ever again!!
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I actually dropped 3lbs because I wasn't working out consistently. Now it's back, phew.2
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Up about 4lbs but I was well under my upper weight limit before Christmas so I'm in "the OK zone".
A bit less to lose this year to get to my best cycling weight compared to most years.8 -
I am "up" 4 lbs after all the holiday eating! I managed to stay at maintenance calories for most of it and did not go over by much when I did
I am not quite maintaining weight yet so the jump is from going from deficit mode to maintenance so more water weight and food in my system...Hoping to lose another 13 pounds.7 -
The usual whacky water weight/digestive contents after holiday eating events, up to 3ish pound jumps a few times from one day to the next. But Libra trendline (60 day smoothing) slooowwwly creeping down as intended over about past 3 months, though near flat (maybe -0.1 pound?) over December.
I'm routinely a peaky (uneven) eater, so multi-pound fluctuations from one day to the next are a routine thing. What matters for maintenance is averages, though, right? Year 5 of maintenance begins sometime in 2020.7 -
Up about 4lbs but I was well under my upper weight limit before Christmas so I'm in "the OK zone".
A bit less to lose this year to get to my best cycling weight compared to most years.
I'm in the WTF zone! Getting a cold over the holidays making me stop exercising has really had it's effect. And, there were the many craft beers we were trading around at our various parties.
BTW: It is getting hard to find a craft beer with less than 5% alcohol these days in the US. It is very in vogue to make them >7% ABV (many as high as 9% and a few higher). This makes them nearly twice as caloric and, IMHO, not any better tasting!8 -
Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »Up about 4lbs but I was well under my upper weight limit before Christmas so I'm in "the OK zone".
A bit less to lose this year to get to my best cycling weight compared to most years.
I'm in the WTF zone! Getting a cold over the holidays making me stop exercising has really had it's effect. And, there were the many craft beers we were trading around at our various parties.
BTW: It is getting hard to find a craft beer with less than 5% alcohol these days in the US. It is very in vogue to make them >7% ABV (many as high as 9% and a few higher). This makes them nearly twice as caloric and, IMHO, not any better tasting!
"The Craft Beer Diet" - you won't lose weight but you might lose a whole weekend.
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I've had some wild swings over the past week, most of which - given reasonably accurate logging - can be chalked up to water weight. It's not so much the calories as it is the sodium; yesterday, I was 1K under for calories (too worn out after work to eat when I got home), but had 5 grams of sodium. My trend line is slightly higher than early December, but still beneath my maintenance range.3
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I had one day of gluttony on Xmas day and it took a week to return to my previous weight. That's ok, I planned for that and I feel good.9
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I'm afraid to weigh myself!19
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up 3 lbs but not too bad since I was sick 10 days with a cold and we went out of town, should be back to normal in about a week.4
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Love this thread, feel a bit better about my last month. I'm up 4-5 lbs. No way could I not be after friends coming to town and we ate out at several chi chi places with awesome food and dessert. It was almost (was) worth every tasty bite! Back to discipline and home cooking. Happy new year--everyone.8
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I was up 2.4lbs after Christmas.... I'm back on plan now, but I did eat chinese food for New Year's Eve... I'm weighing in on Saturday morning, so we'll see if it came back off or not. I'm doing intermittent fasting and it really helps me to bank my calories for celebrations so I can actually enjoy some foodzzzz.....other wise at 5'9" I can easily breath in 10 lbs---no joke there.... 5 lbs aint so bad!
I'm sick the last 2 days... so that is slowing down my workouts and forced me to take a rest day on the 1st--- painfully...I had to do it...but I was ruined by this cold I have.
Try not to sweat the holiday gain though--- it's part of the process ---you have to live a little---and then work it off...you got this!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!6 -
I stopped tracking for Christmas and Boxing day and didn't care - put on 2kg (4.5 pounds). It went away again by the next week6
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