I had a spectacularly bad weekend foodwise -
I typically have 1200ish calories per day 6 days a week, up to 1700-1900 on the seventh day... Well, this weekend I had two "seventh days"... Saturday I only had 1650 calories, but 975 of those were chicken fingers and fried potato chips from Zaxby's with a lot of fat... Sunday I was good all day, then whacked it with probably 1200 calories of pizza with I'm sure even more fat (no nutrition info, so having to base it on another pizza place...) - still don't think I went over 1800, I had not eaten much during the day other than some yogurt, veggies for lunch and couple of small low al snacks and such that were pretty filling...
I did exercise for an hour and half-ish both days, pretty vigorous...
Monday I weighed 3 pounds more than Friday. Rationally I know that I didn't eat enough over the weekend to gain three pounds, but I'm curious now about what causes jumps like that after an indulgence - was it the higher fat content in the foods I ate? And, how long does it take to recover from a weekend like that?
I'm fairly annoyed with myself... I gave in to laziness, didn't want to cook Sunday night, and peer pressure from DH who is also dieting and exercising but was in a pretty strong "food is my enemy, I can't eat anything I like,what's the point" place all weekend and really wanted pizza Sunday night...