You say you didn’t get fat…
You are currently carrying 55 pounds of EXTRA FAT(290 minus 235 contest weight).
You don’t consider an extra 55 pounds of fat to be a problem?
Assuming a 5% contest BF% (still 13 pounds of fat), that means you currently carry 68 (13 + 55 pounds) of fat.
You are, right now, 290 pounds at 23.4% bodyfat.
You have been mathematically owned, XS.
that is absolute worst case based on what he said.
could also look at it this way:
excess weight = 290 - 250 = 40 (some of this will be water which you neglected)
5%bf @ 250 = 12,5
and lets say 10 out of those 40 pounds are water (i have no idea how much water guys really drop before a contests so im just guessing). 42,5 (30+12,5) pounds of fat at 290 pounds isnt all that bad (approx 14,5% bf).