i want to know if this is common. I am on day 11 on phase 2. i have been perfect the whole time. i didn;t cheat once until sunday. my mom made homemade cream puffs for mother's day and i know that i should not of had any, i couldn't resist. i had 2 and i've been paying for it ever since. i've been feeling sick since sunday and the scale went up 4 lbs. it's a week before my period, so i ask, could it be the cream puffs or the water weight?

There is absolutely NO WAY that two cream puffs could have possibly made you gain 4 pounds. I would say PMS is more of the culprit. Just stick with it.

Yes, two cream puffs does not equal 4 lbs! It must be that PMS monster, it's known to do things like that. Hang in there, drink a lot of water, and those extra pounds should whoosh away soon!

Yeah, it's impossible that they made you gain 4lbs, unless they each weighed 2 lbs. You can't gain more than the weight of your food... like if you eat a whole pound of bread, you can't gain more than a pound, it's physically impossible. I guess it's possible that the sugar crash made you want to eat more than you would have otherwise, in addition to water retention from PMS.

PMS no doubt

I have seen between 1-5 pounds variation during the week before and sometimes during my TOM. It makes you freak out, but just stay true to your plan, drink lots of water, and I know your weight will normalize next week