Gaining

Faster regain

I lost about 10 pounds recently because I was busy and I don’t tend to eat much when I’m not making an active effort to do so, and a little over a week ago I decided I’d try to regain it (and hopefully more). I still don’t have that much time so unless I’m counting them wrong, which is possible, I’m only eating a surplus of about 300 calories per day on average, but I weighed myself today and was shocked to discover that I’ve already regained five pounds! Even if we assume that my gain started sooner than my active effort to gain started, that would still be 5 pounds in just a couple of weeks. I knew that regained weight usually comes on faster than new weight, but I had no idea it was this dramatic. When I was first starting to gain, it took me two or three weeks of 1000+ surplus calorie days to put on that much. This speedy gain came as quite a surprise and is very exciting. It’s real motivation to try a bit harder, too- if I can gain 5 pounds this fast on such a small surplus now, I would love to see what I can gain if I find a way to fit some real overeating into my schedule.

I’m looking forward to winter, last year I was able to gain around 30 pounds by drinking a lot of egg nog, which was my record gain and changed my natural “not trying to gain or lose” weight from 100 to 125. If I can get that set point to change again, I’ll be well on my way to getting chubby for real.
4 years