I'm not 20 something, but I've faced this so many times in my 35 years of dieting experience (I started in kindergarten - or rather my mother started me in kindergarten).
In my experience, trying to compensate by being more restrictive, has never worked out well for me. Getting up and moving on as if nothing odd had happened, does.
It's hard advice to take. Last week, I ran out of my diuretic and couldn't get it filled for three days (it's for my blood pressure) and I gained 8 lbs. Gaining, even though I knew it was drug-related, was extremely frustrating, and I overate in response to it (then wondering how much of the 8 lbs were "real" pounds and how much was water weight). I decided not to change my ticker until I'd been back on the medication (and continuing to push extra water) for three days. Today is day four (and the day to change the ticker if I needed to) and YEAH, I don't need to, I'm back to where I was before the gain.
I think when you try to "compensate" it builds stress, guilt, and anxiety. Now, if you want to give yourself some kind of reward for putting a little extra effort in the next few weeks, that might work ok, as long as you're not looking at it as compensation and especially not looking at it as punishment.
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