I faltered over the weekend

Water retention is definitely involved, especially if you ate a lot of high-sodium foods! Just get back on-plan and you'll see that 6 pounds disappear about as quickly as it came on. You cannot undo 3 weeks of living right in two days, promise! :-) In order to have actually gained 6 pounds of fat, you would have had to consume over 21,000 calories this weekend. That's about 30 Big Macs. I'm assuming you did not go *that far* overboard.

Also, for women, time-of-the-month plays a huge role. Most of us fluctuate 4-5 pounds the week of our periods from water retention alone.

Yup, I fell of the healthy eating wagon last week and over the weekend - I blame my husband being away and me being all alone, not bothered about cooking decent meals for myself.

But I am not going my past to determine my future, so I am going to a boxing class tonight and I am planning to give my absolutely best!!

Keep going, don't give up - we all sometimes slip, but as long as you're committed to this healthy lifestyle and determined to keep eating healthy and exercising, you will be fine!

You're probably just dehydrated from the alcohol. Be good this week, and you'll be right back on track. Maybe instead of bingeing on beer, have a couple in moderation every so often so it doesn't feel so taboo?

Oh wow twin! I did horrifically this weekend as well. All thanks to my buddy alcohol. I don't drink that often, but when I get absolutely hammered beyond comprehension Del Taco sounds like a good option at 3AM, haha.

Oh well, I have felt guilty about it this week.... plus the time change crippled me. Went on my normal 2 mile jog/run this morning and back on the wagon! I finally have been able to tell myself not to let 3 days of bad eating/habits get me down. I want to extend those wise words to you as well!

And yes, my scale said I gained over 5 lbs this weekend as well. I agree with everybody and say it's water retention, give it a week of back to good habits and those lbs should see a serious drop!

I do this about once a month!! I wish I could go out, have 2 glasses of wine, "normal" amount of food and enjoy the night. However, I end up getting home and binging on everything. I will gain 3-4 lbs doing this but... I get right back on track the next day no matter how bad I feel. It takes a week to get back to weight before doing this. My goal is to go out, have fun and realize that I need to watch what I eat if I am going to have a few glasses of wine.

I am A WINO. I enjoy my wine. Really now what i am trying to do is limit it to one night on the weekend, where I can really enjoy a couple of glasses. 2 small glasses?Yeah okay. More like a bottle. And thats okay, because come the following day i get back on it. In all seriousness, im not an alcoholic, but--if I couldn't enjoy my wine on game night--or a night out at the pub (either wine--or ever more calorie laden full bodied--delicious, delicious beer; none of that light crap, I want a guiness.) I probably wouldn't stick to the diet. And would say to myself--well hell I blew it all on wine so I just have more and eat this pizza...also lets get chicken wings and doritos. So--wine I have. And if theres cheese, I'll even have that too. When I reach my goal and am at maintence, I want to say; I did this, i didn't deprive myself of my one true love (aside from my husband and dog) so this is how im going to lead my life!

Water retention is definitely involved, especially if you ate a lot of high-sodium foods! Just get back on-plan and you'll see that 6 pounds disappear about as quickly as it came on. You cannot undo 3 weeks of living right in two days, promise! :-) In order to have actually gained 6 pounds of fat, you would have had to consume over 21,000 calories this weekend. That's about 30 Big Macs. I'm assuming you did not go *that far* overboard.

Also, for women, time-of-the-month plays a huge role. Most of us fluctuate 4-5 pounds the week of our periods from water retention alone.

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I totally read that as "I farted over the weekend" at first, and I was like, oh? What do ya want, a medal? LMAO

As everyone already said, I'm pretty sure it's water retention... you're totally ok.

Oh snap, I had an awful weekend too!

Scratch a line through it and start again, like the other said, water retention is highly likely especially as you drank heavily (dehydration and all that)

If you have to weigh weekly do it on a friday before splurge! then you have a few days after the weekend to even things out again