My clothes can! I blame it on the chocolate chip cookie thread
I opened this thread while eating the last chocolate chip cookie from the taste test I did in that thread. Literally while chewing an cookie.
I refuse to get on the scales…
That’s what bulky winter sweaters are for.
I’ve gained 5 between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I’ve done worse other years.
This is why every day (so far) I have talked myself out of making those chocolate chip cookies. We all had awful stomach flu the week before Christmas-lost 7 lbs. Not the holiday weight loss plan I’d recommend…My analytical side is telling me I could eat the cookies and still be even with Thanksgiving weight. I have printed out the recipe in case I waver 
I’m wearing my scarves around my waist to cover my lower half, instead of my neck. I was at the perfect weight the middle of November, slipping into my jeans so comfortably and several pants from last fall put in another closet because I was swimming in them. I actually had to wear one today because I was tired of my jeans feeling so tight. It seems I’ve just been going crazy since Thanksgiving. The only good thing about the kids heading back is I won’t be cooking and having junk food around. I’m disgusted with myself right now.
To gain 6 pounds, one needs to eat an excess of roughly 21,000 calories. That’s a lot of cookies!!!
The average person gains less than one pound over the holidays. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200003233421206
Unfortunately, I’m above average!
A Toll House cookie is about 120 calories, so 175 cookies make up the 6 pounds. Thanksgiving was 40 days ago. That’s only four or five cookies a day, or the caloric equivalent. Doesn’t sound that outlandish to me.
Alas, we are overachievers.
And that’s just the cookies! I never eat candy…but have had more candy, chips, dip, carbs in the last 6 weeks than since last a January.
And then there’s the liquor: champagne, mixed drinks, wines. I feel bloated just thinking about the sins I’ve committed in the past 10 days
Very pleased that I am holding the weight loss of 2015 through the holidays – down 32 lbs from a year ago.
Well done @cnp55 !
@cnp55: Is that the equivalent of butter shaming?
I am happily surprised to have held steady over the holidays. I certainly ate more sweets and drank more wine than usual, but I was more active too. And I didn’t try the chocolate chip recipe…
I’m down 2.5 pounds since Thanksgiving (intentionally). My family are not big holiday people or drinkers, which helps a lot.
OP, I can’t tell. You look great!
^^^ I was thinking the same thing!