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Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T17:18:45Z

I did a bit of cheating on Christmas. The day after, I went back to my usual ways. The strange thing is that I dropped four (of ten pounds that I have had an impossible time trying to lose) since then. I haven't changed anything else, so I wonder if cheating may have caused this to happen? Any insight?

That, and I felt instantly sick to my stomach after eating all of that Chinese food. Really sick...

Has anyone else noticed any holiday cheat related side effects?

Answer by Todd for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T17:37:54Z

This may be an overfeed, calorie cycling effect type result. A lot of people tend to cyle higher calorie days, with low ones to help break through weight stalls. I have used this practice with success.

In regards to your other question. I drank more than usual (mostly whiskey), and had a lot more sugar than I normally do (I usually try to keep 15gms or lower per day) and noticed last night that I had a minor acne breakout. Also, I have been a bit congested the last few days.

Answer by texasleah for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T17:40:29Z

Yes, my digestion is all out of whack. Feels like food sits in my stomach very heavily for hours. I did a lot of cheating (gluten and sugar) after six months of clean eating and I have gained four pounds. I really hope to remember this feeling next year and not repeat the experience! I signed up for Gluten-free January just as an added measure of motivation, but I am definitely back on the straight and narrow.

(how nice that you LOST four pounds!)

Answer by Bethany for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T17:54:33Z

Gas. Lots of gas.

Answer by Christie for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T17:56:05Z

I succumbed to the social pressures of bread. Paid for it with flu like aches, crabby mood, stomach upset. I asked my husband to slap the bread out of my hand the next time this happens.

Answer by James for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T18:08:50Z

A bit wierd. Scale indicates a pound heavier, but a subjective gut pinch feels like a lot more fat... :( I'm assuming I've got a bit of water retention from the carbs.

Answer by Carly for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T18:10:46Z

I tried to avoid gluten but there must have been some cross contamination as my usually "flat as a pancake" stomach looked about 5 months pregnant. I did eat way more sugar than usaul and felt sick as a pig for it. Next year we will have a "paleo" christmas at home. Oh one more side affect was irritation die to relatives sheer ignorance to our (me my partner and my 3 year old daughter) new way of eating..... they'll see :D :D

Answer by April for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T18:33:50Z

I had similar results as you, Jenna. It was over Thanksgiving that I had a lot of sugar and carbs. While I was bloated, feeling horrible, and generally unhappy with myself, I had finally moved past my weight plateau. As an added bonus, I shrunk as well. I mostly maintained my diet over Christmas except for one cheat meal and I have again dropped a few more pounds.

Answer by Bread-Eating Beelzebub for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T18:58:08Z

My allergies are bothering me :/

Answer by Kaz for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T18:58:51Z

I fell face-first into a dish of sugar these past couple days, and my digestive system is not letting me hear the end of it. Ugh. Painful, bloated tummy combined with...uhm...unpleasant lavatory interactions is steering me back to the path of the clean eating. I'm also up a couple pounds, and I'm willing to blame sugar-induced edema for that one. Oh, and my face itches now. (Am I reacting to all the sugar I ate? Yeesh.) Either way, I'm cleaning up my act and hopefully this water weight will fall off ASAP. =)

Answer by Stephen for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T19:31:14Z

It was inevitable for me that I'd consume some sugar and wheat/grain based things over this period. I added a lot of high quality cinnamon to ameliorate the effects - of the sugar, anyway - not had any side effects, but glad to be back.

Answer by Kikilula for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T19:53:49Z

About 50 g of 85% organic chocolate caused 3 days of constipation. And the wine and champagne added 2 pounds on the scale, even after the constipation problem is solved.

Answer by Cacktus Wayfinder for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T20:09:00Z

Cookies= uh oh. I finally caved in and ate the little buggers- like seven in a very short time. Now I feel bloated dizzy and weird.

Answer by Heather for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T20:34:03Z

I had sugar. I took a bite out of a several chocolates from a box someone gave me and had a little gluten free muffin/cake. I got a mild sugar headache, but that's it! I feel fatter, but I felt this way before Christmas, haha.

Answer by chantilly for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T20:39:02Z

I've gained a solid 3 lbs from 1 day of eating some bread, some chocolate, couple of cookies, a slice of cheesecake, but also lots of protein (turkey, brisket) & fats (cheese). Sucks. And since then I've gone back to my VLC lacto-paleo diet, but continue to feel "mentaly hungry", even though I know I'm not physically hungry. Hard to get back in balance.

Answer by Katie for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T20:49:21Z

I gained 6 pounds >> I blame wine, I drank like 3 bottles in a two-day period. And that's in addition to the Christmas pud, cake, breads, cheeses, chocolate... But it's two days post binge and I've gone with 2 of those so I'm not to put out about the whole thing. At least I said no to the lasagna and pastas ^^ Stark difference with Thanksgiving, seeing as I spent hours prepping several paleo friendly dishes and ended up losing weight. Bah, humbug.

Answer by No more. for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T21:04:36Z

I drank a ton (bourbon and wine) and ate good amount of sugar (damn gluten free treats). A little bit of back acne and a little bit of tension followed (plus a mild hangover one night). All expected, all treated resolved themselves quickly with some smart supplementation and hydrotherapy (ie taking a bath). A weird outlier side effect has been a decreased appetizer these following days. I'm currently sitting staring at an unfinished four egg omelet. The hypothalamus is telling me not to finish it but screw him! It's mine.

UPDATE/EDIT/Slash something I just read: I was reading 4 Hour Body and Ferris had another neat hack for getting over binges. He recommends a binge day as a part of his slow carb diet. The part of his binge day that caught my eye was "gastric emptying." He doesn't care about the quality of the food on the binge day so he doesn't care if it gets digested; he just wants to keep metabolism spiked. Since the food is crap he wants to crap it out ASAP. To do this he recommends taking diuretics like yerba mate and coffee (looking for a level of 100-200mg of caffeine; he weighed his poo to make sure mate sped digestion. It did.) Regularly scheduled binge days aren't my thing but this is a good step to help minimize damage when accidental binge days occur.

Answer by Ben for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T21:10:35Z

I didn't feel well after pigging out on holiday food, then I had a burger/fries Sunday...and Monday.

Now I have the poops.

Bad.

Answer by Ramsey for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T22:09:55Z

I committed carbocide and ended up getting salmonella because of it...

Answer by paleonyc for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T22:10:21Z

sucktastic sleep.

gas.

terrible recovery from an average-intensity workout.

a condition linked to inflammation flared up, hard.

and most annoying:

a gnawing, constant desire to keep eating the shit that is making me feel like shit.

enough.

if i wasn't convinced before, i sure am now.

Answer by Grottenolm for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T23:05:15Z

On boxing day, I ate wheat and sugar for the first time in 6 months (homemade christmas cookies)

No immediate effects, but the next day I woke up with a very puffy face/lips/eyelids, creaky feeling joints and fingers, and I was up about 2kg. The whole body swelling has subsided though, and I went straight back into paleo + intermittent fasting which got rid of the water retention quick. Lots of gas too, after having not farted in months!

Answer by Chris for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-28T23:29:48Z

Sugar and carb consuption = massive and uncontrolled increase in the appetite. I had a couple of pieces of Pumpkin Pie and large pieces of chocolate along with some rice on Christmas Eve. I was shocked at how ravenously hungry I was after eating that crap. Woke up the next morning 4 lbs heavier (I think it was just water retention, back to my normal weight today).

Also woke up with a Christmas morning zit after the Christmas Eve carb and sugar binge (my skin, which has always been problematic) had been clear for several months with paleo eating and some medication.

Totally not worth it. No more, not ever again. It wasn't even really enjoyable, I felt like crap 2 minutes after eating the junk. Lesson learned.

Answer by san for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-29T10:58:45Z

I threw up at 1:30 AM on the night to monday and my skin is acting up too. Damn those bought christmas cookies. But if I hadn't eaten them, my grandma would've been mad at me.

Answer by sherpamelissa for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-29T14:34:56Z

I got weight gain and water retention for Christmas. Woo!

I'll get it off next week. I'm not thrilled about it, but arguing with my mother is much less fun.

Answer by MikeD for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-29T15:05:59Z

Gained a few pounds from gluten-free chocolate chip cookies mom made, some GF pancakes shaped like Yoda--a Christmas present I had to try out--and subsisting on corn chips and chocolate milk for about a week. I did eat a giant turkey leg/thigh for dinner on Christmas with a side of mashed turnips. Probably my most paleo meal the entire time I was visiting.

Other side effects include not fending off everyone's colds which I am now getting I think and a sore back from shoveling the foot of snow on Cape Cod of all places.

Positives include my dad reading about half of Good Calories Bad Calories already--my present to him. Also I got Robb Wolf levels of sleep in. And when the power went out, my family all sat by our fire and played board games which is sort of paleo.

The good thing about Paleo is that I was so lean going into the holiday, the few pounds I gained are not a threat at all and I know, as I fry up my bacon this morning, they are not going to be permanent fixtures on my body.

Answer by VeganApostate for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-29T19:24:27Z

Violent, sudden illness befell me the night after a rather reckless neolithic food binge and I wound up praying to the porcelain God for a while.

I'd say I'll never do it again, but it would be a lie.

Answer by wjones3044 for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-29T20:18:54Z

Body odor. This from just two really bad meal choices in three days. (I'm on vacation.) (Damn dry roasted peanuts, among other things, including some not-so-heinous vegetarian meals.) I didn't pack any deodorant because I've stopped using the stuff. Otherwise I just feel "off."

Answer by PALEOBJJ for Hey Holiday cheaters, have you had any side effects?

2010-12-29T20:19:55Z

i had cookies, beer, wine, aguardiente (type of a spirit), but i also tried pigs ears! Notorius side effects, gain a few pounds, articulation aches, gas, tons of gas!.