I just don't get it. Yesterday I got up and expected to see a loss. My body felt smaller, but nothing much on the scale. Then yesterday I had the worst day I've had all year diet wise. My daughter and I got up early and went somewhere. I had 2 sausages for breakfast. After a busy day at someone's house and then shopping for a gift for a baby shower, we came home to change clothes, then went to the shower.

We didn't have time for lunch, so the shower foods were a temptation and I said "to heck with it" for the day because we don't go to a party often. All they had around the place was little miniature candies, nuts, some gold fish crackers, punch (looked like it was made with lemonade, soday and with sherbert floating on top), and cake. We had some of it all. Then after the shower we went to Foster Freeze and had a hamburger each, (yes I ate the bun), then we came home rested for a few hours and then started cleaning my daughter's room. I did some work in there installing a closet bar for her (she lives in the basement in a room I never completed building for her).

Finally about midnight she and I were hungry and decided to have cooked frozen burritoes for dinner with salsa and cheese and sour cream. We also had some sourdough bread with butter and I had an orange and some grapefruit juice.

We talked about how bad the scale would be this morning and in reality I felt pretty horrible about the bad awful way I had eaten all day, but I figured it was already so blown after the party that there wasn't a lot of point in trying to salvage it. I thought it would be better to eat some of the things I've been missing and get it out of my system, before going back on course today.

Naturally I expected a huge leap in the scale today. When I got on it, it was down a pound from my first weigh in yesterday, and down a half pound from what I finally accepted after several hours of being up. 242 first try.

I've had this happen before, and I never can understand it. I will go for days or weeks being good, eating very little, eating low carb, and the scale won't change. Then I have a horrible day and I expect horrible results and at times the scale instead goes to a new low.

How does this happen?

Of course, I remind myself that I didn't 'get away' with anything. There is always tomorrow and the next day and sometimes any bad things I've done can still show up later.

It is just weird though. Why can't I see good results on the days when I deserve to see good results and why after a bad day do I sometimes see something like this?

Sherry some times you need to mis things up for the body to respond that is why some times if you really carve some thing it is better to go with it than not. (I am not giving permission to pig out al the time but on occasion)

Really wish I could help out on this one. Sorry

often its the increase in calories that will help your body let it drop weight it has been holding on to.

So, my first thought after reading your post, is to check to make sure you are eating enough calories in your day.

If you are eating enough calories, it could just be the change in your diet ....you know.....mixing things up a bit to fool your body.

No. I got the gains today that I was expecting yesterday. I guess it just takes awhile for the weight to show up. Up by 5 pounds this morning.

Awe Sherry.. that must have been an ugly surprise. Expecting the gain is one thing, but 5 pounds can be shocking. I was up 2 after the wine alone. *sigh* It's hard, but you can come out of this. If it put you out of ketosis (surely that is the case) it might work out going on strict induction again. Hey, maybe this is your chance to try induction as it is layed out.. I don't know, but I just wanted to give you a BIG !

Ok ladies, you cannot gain 5 lbs of fat overnight -- none of you can eat 17,500 calories in one sitting and don't try to tell me you can. And the wine isn't 7,000 calories -- there probably aren't that many in the whole bottle!

Can you say water retention?????

You have to consume an extra 3,500 calories to gain a pound of fat. I'll bet you see those pounds gone within a few days of getting back with the program.

EWWW Sherry, I'm so sorry that nasty 5lbs. showed up. Happy Induction though...they'll be gone before you know it!!!!!!!!

Drink drink drink (not chocolate wine either ) it will be gone before you know it!!

This has happened to me before too. The week of my birthday I had some chocolate cake. It didn't show up the next day. It took a couple days. Gained a lb. and I went back to 20 carbs for a couple weeks and lost 3 lbs. Sometimes I don't eat enough calories or carbs and find I need to increase to shake things up a bit, then go back down on them.

Im sure it was mainly water. a couple of days induction and you'll be right

It's fluid retention just drink your water and it'll be gone before you know it. Judy