Yesterday I was perfectly on plan Yay! And yah Robin yer right... I just stuck to my regular plan. What's an extra week or two of being fat right? lol!!!! Onward and downward.

You know, it just really sucks when this happens. I don't understand it, and I'm sure you don't either. When this happens to me I always think..."For crying out loud, why do I gain 7 pounds in a few days eating what most people eat daily, and they just stay the same?" Just doesn't seem fair. From the sounds of things you really didn't go crazy, you didn't sit and stuff your face. You got in lots of excercise. WHY do our bodies grab hold of every morsel and want to hang onto it so badly?? SURE, lots of it is water weight from excess sodium, BUT, if we don't get a handle on things quickly, the "water weight" just doesn't magically disappear...it stays and the pounds continue to add on quickly. What point does the water become real weight?

Sorry. I just get so frustrated at these detours. Seems so unfair sometimes.

It IS unfair... I didn't have a freaking binge! I didn't eat huge amounts of food! I ate what NORMAL people eat every single day... and gain 7 freaking pounds!!!!

Well this morning the scale was 218 so the water is coming off fast thankfully... it's irritating is what it is!

I think the thing that gets me is that this kind of gain often doesn't fit the "calories in vs. calories out" rule we know is true. You clearly didn't eat 24,500 more calories than you needed. So it's mostly water, then right? But sometimes it takes as much work to get rid of as the fat originally did. So then is it really fat? And if so, what happened to calories in calories out rule? Sometimes I think my body lives on different rules.