How did you make it through Christmas without gaining ?
mpkpbk2015
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How did you make it through Christmas and the Holiday without gaining weight? See my blog for some tips if your interested. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/mpkpbk2015
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I ate as normal without eating traditional holiday food. I prepared my own meals all day and although I did not get my usual daily exercise in, I did not gain.7
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Ah, lets see...I didn't.17
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I cooked and I ate/sampled everything, a little overindulged on the alcohol but "filled up" mostly on greens - I weighed in .7 pounds lighter than I did on 12/22
What I am learning through these discussion threads and based upon my own behavior is that when I get to maintenance, that I will absolutely need to continue to log meals. It's the key to maintaining for my warped brain because right now I plan all of choices and activities by what I would like to eat that day. Sometimes even though you plan the unexpected happens - after all this is life! and when life happens choose the heathiest option on the menu.8 -
So far I haven't gained. Kept up with my exercising and ate my normal healthy diet most meals. when we were out I enjoyed myself and ate a little more, but didn't go crazy. this approach has worked for me for about 10 years.11
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I ate mostly protein on Christmas dinner, which is our holiday event. Chicken wings smoked and chili! I had only one piece of pumpkin pie, which I sliced in half. I went out to lunch (a rare occurrence for me on boxing day), and had a bread roll and the creamy seafood soup. That is all that is out of my ordinary!8
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I didn't gain, light sampling of food. I am not a sweet eater😀5
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I caught covid and couldn't eat a thing. I do not recommend. 🤷♀️17
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Well, I didn't make it through without gaining. I will be truthful. I went into it knowing I was going to gain. I gave myself a 2 to 3 pound weight gain. I stepped on the scale this morning and I gained every bit of 3 pounds. I don't feel bad. I'm back on today with intermittent fasting along with Ketogenic eating. It's worked for me so far. I lost 7 pounds in one month when I added intermittent fasting with Keto. It will be interesting to see how long it will take me to knock off those 3 pounds. Was it worth it? Yes It was, and I enjoyed my Christmas! I refuse to feel guilt over a 3 pound gain.16
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I just ignore the "gain." For me it's just one or two days of eating more and of foods I wouldn't normally eat. No binging, nothing excessive, just more than typical.
If the scale jumps from that, then it's all water weight. I just don't weigh myself for a week after the 25th, because I don't need stress associated with eating a totally reasonable amount of my mom's Christmas cooking.17 -
Pretty much normal eating all month plus a bit of extra exercise during this weekend.3
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girl idk i didn't even attempt to track yesterday and i woke up 2lb lighter you tell me
(real answer: planning and consistency the rest of the time; anticipating "special occasion" meals throughout the year; looking at my calories for the week rather than obsessing over the day-to-day; being mindful about my food and exercise choices and paying attention to my body, to better judge what I need to give to it in order for it to do what I need it to do.)6 -
Ate just above normal calories by a little. Up a couple, but nothing to fear since most of it is water from all the extra sodium consumed.
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I decided to be at maintenance for the holiday season so I had a few more calories to play with. For Christmas I had a reasonable dinner and just made as much as my spouse and I could eat. That way there wouldn't be a massive amount of leftovers. I expect to have gained a couple pounds in water weight but I also expect for it to leave pretty quickly, doing the math on my actual overage I couldn't have gained more than a few ounces in actual fat, if that. So basically I just enjoyed myself and didn't overdo it.4
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I over indulged the past few days and planned to. I know if I stood on the scales now I would be up about 7lbs but the 27th is my cut off date. Personally for me if I didn't allow myself this period of overindulgence I would feel deprived going into January. I'll weigh myself tomorrow and know I'll drop the majority within the next few days. It will likely take a week or two to be back to my maintenance range. At the moment I've eaten so much rich food I'm looking forward to a few days of light meals.5
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I indulged but I watched my portion size.3
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I gained .6lb. I did my normal exercise routine and my usual meals up to, and including Christmas eve. My son in law prepares Christmas dinner every year and each course is a plated portion (including dessert). No helping yourself to seconds lol. I enjoyed every bite.3
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I ate a very healthy yesterday: mixed salad with strawberries, brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, and a piece of dutch apple pie.6
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I ate an estimated 3000kcal on Christmas Eve, 2700kcal on Christmas and 2500 calories yesterday. Probably nearly 2000 calories over maintenance. I enjoyed everything, in relative moderation.
My weigh-ins on the 25th, 26th and this morning were the opposite of what you'd expect:
Part of that drop will be from my period ending, but I'm guessing there's other water weight weirdness going on to explain it. In any case, not much indication that I gained any significant bodyfat.
Other times when I have a high calorie day, I will see an increase the day or days after, but that won't stick around if I get back to my regular eating and working out.2 -
I have been keeping to my general plan, but started eating what I thought was maintenance calories on Christmas. I have bumped up my walk a few days I did double the 5 miles, and that helped a lot and helped me be at a loss. I am actually on schedule this month. I lost, I didn't even maintain!! So, I will keep to the plan. But I am unafraid to go to maintenance calories at any time. I don't have to constantly lose all the time. I am down 105 lbs as of this morning!! I was really thinking about going maintenance calories for a few more days, to properly celebrate the Christmas season!8
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I have a daily Calorie Goal Which I adhere to.
Yes, I may go a little over or under but I monitor and stay within 10% (weekly average).
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