So upset about this weight gain

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Since August last year I've lost 3 stone by calorie counting and exercising. I got down to a really good weight and was fitting in a size 8 in lots of clothes. I felt really good and confident.

I returned from a two week holiday a week ago. On the holiday I didn't diet as strictly as at home but I was very careful about what I ate. I ate no puddings, very little bread, went for the healthy options as much as possible. And I walked loads but didn't workout 6 days a week like I had been.

During those two weeks I've somehow managed to put a stone and a half on and I am so upset. I can't even get my jeans past my knees, and cellulite has returned everywhere from my tummy to my bum to even the cheeks on my face!

I bumped into someone I know today and they said 'oh, not doing your fitness and health kick anymore?' Looking me up and down.

I'm so upset. I was so careful on holiday and whilst I expected to get a bit 'wobblier' and put on a pound or two, I didn't expect for such a weight gain that seems disproportionate to just a couple of slightly relaxed weeks.

I feel like I'm almost back where I started from. Nothing fits, I can only wear leggings and I've got a muffin top in those.

Im just gutted

If you've genuinely put on 1.5 stone, that's 21lbs. so about 1.5 lbs a day over a fortnight. Which is about 5000 calories extra a day?

You havent put on 21lbs OP

Its not possible unless you were eating packs of butter a day or something

You might have put on a genuine pound or two, the rest of it will be water, inflammation, salt, bloating due to those things and sugar

Just start again, leave the scales alone (put them on top of the wardrobe and leave them alone), weigh yourself again in a month.

That level of weight gain is almost impossible. Are you sure your scales are right?

Quickly on, quickly off.

as others say - it will be water retention etc

If you were drinking it’s so hard to count calories.

Put it to one side, back to normal now - don’t sweat it.

I was on hold last week and I put on 4lb, I worked so hard to lose 18lbs over the last eight weeks. I was a bit upset but then I remembered that I enjoyed my holiday alot and had a good time a bit of weight gain is ok.. I highly doubt you've put on all that weight in such a short time. The scales can go up by quite a bit amount due to other factors. Water, inflammation, lots of salt. I put on five lbs overnight once cos I had a massive fry up (salty bacon, sausages etc. it was gone plus another 2.5 lb by the next week.

It's far more likely to be water retention than fat, unless you ate and drank everything in sight you can't possibly of gained 1and a half stone in 2 weeks.

Salt, heat and lots of walking will cause you to retain water, especially if you weren't drinking much.

Just go back to calorie counting and make sure you drink enough and it should fall off pretty quick.

I did 4 days in Butlins recently eating at the buffet and having copious desserts, out on 5 lb the next week it was gone.

Have you checked on another set of scales? It would be difficult to gain that much weight in such a short time.

You haven't gained that much weight, it's impossible. And faces don't get cellulite. If you were a size 8 before, even if you had gained 1.5 stone you wouldn't be very big. Don't be daft.

I dont know why people are telling OP to check another set of scales, do you think its not possible for a body to show 21lbs more after having water/sugars/carbs/inflammation etc?

Its perfectly possible to show that increase, but its not weight gain. (well very little of it)

21lbs is excessive weight gain! be it water or true weight, especially if as OP has said that they were careful about what they ate.

Something doesn’t add up? Either OP ate much more than she realised or the scales were faulty originally.

I'm not seeing other people's anecdotes about 4lbs gained much help when the OP has gained 21Lb. She wouldn't be fretting if she gained 4lb

OP it's been a week back has it? That's concerning most of not all of the listings retention should have passed by now.

Not much to say other than get back on it and see how the next week goes. I'm sorry. It's shit.

It's not possible to go on holiday and be as careful as you say and put on that amount of weight.

I'd even be sceptical if you had gone on an all-inclusive food and drink binge for 2 weeks.

It's water retention and constipation. You'll be back to normal soon.

I gained 10 stone in just over a year. It’s do able. I was always the sort of person who would go away for a week a size 10 and have to wear a size 14 on the way home (looking at you, New York holiday).

I sympathise OP. It’s truly shit.

I’ve lost a lot of weight and totally changed the way I eat, but if I ever went back, I guarantee I would put back on the 11 stone I’ve lost by this time next year.

Just get back on it. Drink lots of water, keep busy.

Good Lord. How did that happen? What happened in that one year that made you suddenly gain 10 stone?

I’ve always had to be careful with what I eat.

But then I wasn’t.

I had a shit time, I had to start working 3 nights a week and couldn’t sleep in the day as I had to look after my children. I hated my job, my dad was starting with dementia, not that we knew it, but he was making my life impossible and it was affecting my relationship.

I drank lager every night I wasn’t working, ate shit all day. I mean Greg’s everyday, about £20 worth, takeaways, constant chocolate to keep me awake. Id spend my 12 hour nightshifts eating, I was miserable, knackered and doing a job I detested. I just didn’t give a shit anymore about what I looked like and I ballooned.

I gain weight astonishingly fast.

I do not understand this at all, over a 2 week holiday where I eat everything in sight, I only usually put on 5lb😧

It won’t be fat it will be mainly water weight.
I spike up a lot if I just have a meal out.
Drink lots if water, walk and get back to your normal cc diet. It will come off fast.

Did you definitely weigh yourself accurately just before the holiday? Could you have put some of that weight on beforehand without noticing? Something just doesn't add up. Unless you have the slowest metabolism on record I don't see how it's possible to put on weight that fast!

I went to the US recently and was careful, exercised every morning and more or less kept within my daily calorie limit for maintenance even though I did have alcohol, but I still got back and was 10lbs heavier due to the long haul flight, added salt and alcohol. My thighs felt like they had bags of water strapped to them! It took about 5 days before it went and I was back to normal.