So how much weight did you gain?

Topher925

Over the holiday season I only ate poorly and didn't due my regular exercise for about 8 days. I managed to gain roughly 7 pounds or about a pound per day. It is amazing how fast fat can accumulate on my body yet it can be so hard to get rid of. I even went down about 10 pounds on my usually weight lifting routines. I think it was the pumkin pie that did it. That stuff is the devil's food!

Evo

I dropped 5 pounds. I bought a turkey and ate almost nothing but meat for two weeks.

lisab

I'm the same way, Evo. I eat far more protein in winter, and usually drop weight. I'm really not a sweet food lover...except chocolate! But it only takes a little bit to satisfy...

Danger

I don't have a scale, but I suspect that I've lost about 4 kg. If so, that puts me about about 58. I've gotta start eating more.

moose

I lost a few pounds. I don't really like turkey and that's just about all we had at my parents house. I probably ate 1000 calories a day of almost all protein and some fat for a week and a half.

EDIT: I like how trends on PF are so different from everywhere else. Everyone seems to have dropped in weight (except for OP).

Denton

Nothing. Its almost impossible for me to gain weight -.-

Monique

I'm exactly the same weight, I don't know how I do it

DaveC426913

So the poll results are in:

Me & Topher are normal.
Evo, lisab, Danger, moose Denton and Monique are great big dinks.

Topher925

It really sucks being normal Dave. I wish it was difficult for me to put on weight. If I eat more than 1500 calories in one day then I start packing on the pounds.

binzing

Yeah, I seem to have lost some weight over break and since Thanksgiving. Not the best for me when I could do with gaining 10 or 15 pounds.

G01

I have stayed at the same weight, probably due to the Judo classes I have started attending.

I actually have to lose around 10lbs before I go to my first Judo tournament next month. Any advice from you "easy losers?"

turbo

Steamed broccoli, steamed spinach (or other greens), baked potato (no butter, but spice them up by baking garlic cloves with the potatoes, and squeezing garlic into the potatoes after they are split), baked chicken breast...

30+ minutes a day of aerobic activity to burn fat.

Newspeak

I have eaten so much over the holidays and have gained nothing!
I probably should still exercise.

LowlyPion

I will confess I ate like a pig relatively speaking. Boxes of chocolate covered cherries - 44 of the little delicacies consumed in one week - the only week a year I permit myself - plus banana bread, feasting meals and other assorted desserts, a couple of pounds of peanut M&Ms from bowls set out to munch on just in case - all downed over the holiday week.

I figured I was going to be a bloated blimp on the scale and didn't bother weighing the whole week. I was shocked, truly shocked, to see I had only gained 1 lb. I was sure that my naughtiness had brought me a plague of pounds that I would need to chase away through unpleasant restraint for weeks if not months.

But no. One day of my Dr. Pepper only diet and I was back at equilibrium.

SticksandStones

I think saying 30+ minutes of aerobic activity is kind of vague. 30 minutes of jogging will give you nowhere near the results of 30 minutes of HIIT. However, backed potatoes are freaking great. :)

For snacks, eat raw carrots and celery.

Evo

Chocolate covered cherries - food of the Gods. I especially love the European ones in real liquor.

I will do anything for a box of those. Since I broke up with my source of fine European candies, life almost isn't worth living.

russ_watters

Yikes, I don't think I've ever gained weight that fast in my life - and I wrestled in high school!

I'm up about 5 lb since the summer - I haven't been working out as regularly as I like to. So odds are, that's more like 10lb more fat and 5 lb less muscle.