I think i am going to cry...

i gained 10 pounds from the holidays... 6 months of work gone in one month... i really feel like giving up right now, i was so happy and now im incredibly sad. i was even hitting the gym hard this month! weight training and cardio. i dont want anyone to say it is muscle because you dont gain that much muscle in that short of time.

i wish i could go downstairs and throw away all the holiday cookies in the house, i just threw away all the candy i had from my stocking in my room. i feel like im loosing my mind right now. i could somewhat deal with 8 pounds but not 10........

i am so mad at my parents! they have both fridges crammed with every kind of sweet imaginable, there is virtualy nothing healthy for me to eat.

i know it's hard, but being sad about something that already passed isn't going to make anything better. in fact, it'll just make you more depressed if you keep hovering over it. so as blunt as this may sound, just get over it and start fresh. the sooner you start the quicker you'll get there. tomorrow is new years day.. so forget about all the downs you've had and kick yourself into gear in 2009. eat right and exercise regularly.. you know what you have to do in order to be healthy, so just do it and stop regretting something you can no longer control! good luck :)

Honestly, you can't blame your parents for having nothing healthy to eat. You chose to eat what you did to gain the weight. yeah, it sucks gaining all the weight back that you lost, but you can lose it again. I bet a lot of it is water weight anyway.

Get back on track and you'll feel better. Being negative isn't going to help.

If it went on that quickly it's probably a lot of water retention.  Just start eating right (aka enough but not too much and mostly healthy), get a reasonable amount of exercise and it will start coming off.

I very much doubt you've put on 10lbs in a month...i would say it was water retention more then anything, stablise your eating and I bet within a week the scale will have altered! don't give up, im sure most of us are feeling a bit down about christmas eating! I weighed 10lbs heavier after christmas day, it's pretty much all come off now once I began eating normally again!

i could only hope. the reason i am mad at my parents is because i have allready picked away all the healthy food! plus, i feel like im being guilted into eating the sweets before they go bad. all the veggies (i found out) were laden with butter also.

I'd just like to throw in my take on this concept:  I went IN to the holiday season with the INTENT of gaining 5-6 lbs.  There was no way I was going to be able, or even WANT, to avoid all the Christmas goodies!  After tomorrow, the season will be over, and I will go back to more conscientious eating habits.  But because I planned on the (temporary) weight gain, I have no guilt, no remorse, no crying.  Within 2 weeks, I will be back to where I was before Christmas, and I can continue towards my weight goal (which I hope to meet by summer) until next December.   

I gained 1.5" to 2" around my waistline this Holiday season. It sucks, but that's just the way it is. All's I can do now is learn from my mistakes, be reasonable, and go back to a healthy lifestyle. I probably put on 5 to 9 lbs of pure fat. I'm presently looking to lose that excess weight and hope to do it in a healthy, realistic way. Hopefully in a month or two, I will be back to my lean self. I was at like I 149 lbs pre-Holidays, now I'm at about 156...

I know the feeling is really bad, but it is not that easy to gain so much in such a short period of time. This may just be food weight or water retention, unless you ate every minute. A lot of us are in the same situation as you right now. Cheer up, and since it is already 2009 here in Singapore, let us embrace the new year with optimism. :D

I totally agree with the water weight theory. Eat clean for a few days and drink a lot of water, and weigh yourself again....And in regards to wanting to cry, just remember that discouragement is the worst enemy of us all......You can recover from the setback and I don't know about you, but I have been able to eat cleaner and exercise harder due to the guilt from the Christmas binge....And no crying on New Year's Eve..........

I know kinda how you feel, I've gained six pounds over the holidays and I still have three parties to go to before my holidays are over. But hey! now it'll be another 11 months before the holidays come again, plenty of time to lose the holiday weight and more. Next year will be another chance to practice self-control during the holidays.

wow, thanks everyone. i guess i reacted so badly because i have never "watched my weight" before and this is the first time i ever gained a considerable amount since i started. i joined cc last feb and i got used to my weight steadily going down.

i wont get discouraged.

Original Post by moonbay:

i gained 10 pounds from the holidays... 6 months of work gone in one month... i really feel like giving up right now, i was so happy and now im incredibly sad.

I feel your pain. I gained 6 pounds in my 4 day holiday binge. However, I have already lost three after getting back on track Monday. Quit beating yourself up and just get back on track.

I think this happened to alot of people. I gained 10 pounds too! It sucks.. Most likely cause its harder not to binge eat (which i did alot of). Next holiday just watch your calories. And how you said your parents have the kitchen full of sweets... I know what you mean, my parents did the exact same thing and didn't eat anything. Lol they got mad when i threw my weakness food out but i don't care because the only person who was eating it was me.

Well its a new year! Holidays mess everyone up thats why people always have resolutions to lose weight. Get back on track like wystaria said. Good luck.

10 pounds = 35,000 calories over and above what you burned. If you figure a burn of 2000 over the course of 3 weeks, that's a total of 77,000 calories you would have to eat.  I find that hard to believe!

Did you really eat that many excess calories?  If not, then the weight will come off because most of it is retained water.  If, somehow, you did, then you know what you have to do to lose it again. 

I've put on weight too.  I'm mad at myself, but I also know that I can get back on track again.  Don't beat yourself up too bad.  Tomorrow is a new start to the year and a new start for you.  Happy New Year!

I agree with the others if it went on that fast it likely is mostly retained water.  I gained almost around 15 lbs over the last 2 weeks between the holiday junk and lack of exercise. After getting back on track Monday I've already lost 7 lbs.  Stop beating yourself over something that is in the past and move on.  Tomorrow is a new year and a fresh start. Just get back on track and the weight will start to come back off.

Happy New Year and good luck!

Thank you to all who have given the facts about water retention. We've all probably eaten too much salt along with the extra calories. Getting discouraged will only compound the problem. Yay for getting back to logging in our meals and enjoying the conversation here at Calorie Count. Thank you to all you lovely people for your constant encouragement. Love you!

right there with you.  i completing believe that the majority of the weight could be water retention.  as barbarriba said that extra salt is likely the root of it.  i know i am feeling it too after the holidays. i caved big time on thanksgiving and thank goodness got it under control for xmas and new years...  my bloating is combo of extra salt intake (Salt makes everything taste so good!) And starting back on birth control.  just feel swollen right now.   trying to get back on track.  stay strong!

im crossing my fingers and hoping it was water retention because i just dont feel like i ate "that" badly. i indulged a bit more than usual but still...

i have been too afraid to get back on the scale since my last weigh in though.

There are lots and lots of us weighing in after the holidays and finding more than we wanted to find on those scales!  But I am reminding myself that the true figure may be obscured with water, salt etc.  I know I ate more and now I am ready to get back on board.  I find that I exercised much less, a few days without exercise at all, and I believe, for me, that compounded all that "stuff" I ate.  Let's give this a week and see how it goes!