New Weight is Tentative- A Study

I am a walking science experiment for weight gain and loss.  One theory that I have had for years is that weight you gain recently is just visiting and weight you have had a long time is settled in and has paid off the mortgage.  The three pounds I gained on vacation is proof.

While away I did about the same amount of exercise I do at home, just a little less walking on flying days and not as much heavy lifting.  What I changed was eating carbs.  I also had vacation constipation, which I know you really don’t want to hear about.  Anyway, put all those factors into my oh-so-studied body and when I got on the scale first morning home I was up three pounds.  No surprise.

Yesterday I went to the gym, walked my steps, ate my regular being good diet and this morning I was down two and a half pounds and TMI alert…I still have not gotten regular, sorry.  In one day of doing exactly what I always do I lost almost all the weight I gained in one week of being bad.  I would not usually lose that much weight in three weeks, but since it was just new weight it was only visiting.  The secret is to get it off very fast before it starts looking at houses and trying to find a way to stick around permanently.

I am not advocating eating a lot regularly and then taking it off quickly, but I am saying that a vacation every once in a while does not have to completely sabotage a healthy life.  In fact it seems a lot easier to get back in the saddle because the scale was up a few pounds.  If I had come home and not gained any weight I might have been lulled into some false sense that I could eat that way all the time, even though I know that is not true for me.

I am interested in what the next week holds for me once I am fully back to normal.  I wonder if I can break past the low I was at before vacation.  That weight has been with me a long time and really likes living on my thighs.  Eviction is tough and it seems that all the laws of nature are on the side of the fat being allowed to hold it’s ground.  I’ll keep you posted about any success I have on moving the undesirables out of town.