Will I gain weight?

FitnessFreak1821

I decided to indulge with some pizza and chocolate since it's Christmas eve. Logged all my food and I ate just over 3500😫😑
I feel pretty guilty but I'm trying to let it go because I need one of these days now and then.

Can you gain a pound if I ate 3500 cals in one day only ? I'm planning to get back into everything and on track tomorrow

AnnPT77

You'd have to eat a pound above your maintenance calories, approximately, to gain a pound of fat. Eating 3500 total, or 3500 above deficit goal, the theoretical gain is less. IME, in practice, the rare well-over-goal eating doesn't usually result in the theoretical amount of fat gain, anyway, in the long run.

In the short run, it's reasonable to expect a scale weight jump of a pound or few that will persist for a day or several, maybe up to a couple of weeks, even a month if it hits your menstrual weight fluctuations just wrong, but it's not all fat, and it will drop eventually.

You ate the food. I hope you enjoyed the food? (I would've! 😉) Don't stress over it, it's history. A rare day over goal is a drop in the ocean. The majority of our days determines the majority of our outcome.

Just go back to your healthy routine: It'll be fine.

alexandramosenson

Concur ^

Lietchi

Theoretically, you ate enough to gain about 0.5lbs of fat. Even if you're following the slowest rate of loss on MFP, that's only delaying your weight loss journey by a week.
That's really nothing in the grand scheme of things.

PS: guilt is entirely optional for losing weight 😉 I'm not a fan of it and I never feel guilty. It's just food: I eat it, enjoy it and, if necessary, learn from my mistakes and then move on.

russellholtslander1

Pizza converts to glucose, and you store that as glycogen, which bonds with water. That, plus the salt from the pizza, which also helps you retain water, will cause temporary weight gain, until you burn off glycogen, and use sodium, releasing all the excess water.

This is due to the body functioning normally.. add salty carbs, and you gain water weight. Go back to your normal food, and in a day or 2, the weight gain will disappear.

FitnessFreak1821

Thanks everyone hope you all are having a Merry Christmas

elisa123gal

I've come to the conclusion that eating what I want on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas. Isn't the worst thing in the world. It is jumping right back on your eating and fitness plan that matters. That splurge will be gone within the week if you get right back to things. Happy New Year.