Fell of the wagon this weekend.

Just relax and think how much better you can do tommorow and let it motivate you this week.
If you plan to keep up a healthy diet and fitness regime nothing you do tommorow will be worst than this weekend!
Good luck!

If you feel like the scale will be demotivating to you, then don't weigh! A portion of weight gain after suddenly eating a lot more than usual/more sodium or carb laden foods is water weight, which will go off after a few days of going back to your usual eating!

Maybe just focus on going back to your usual routine of sticking to your caloric goal and exercise and then weigh the following week? Remember that what's past is past! Stay positive and focus on creating more awesome days ahead!!

And you had fun and the precious memories you made with your family!! Don't let your worries about calories overwhelm that!

Just what I was going to say.. it's in ya not on ya, you will look the same. Just don't weigh.

First: get on the scale and face your fear. I also fell off big-time this weekend (Friday and Sat)- so bad yesterday I didn't even finish logging my day. I get on the scale this a.m. and I have lost 2 lbs since my last weigh-in on Thursday a.m. WTH? I really think my body was so used to a 12-1400 intake that it shed anything over that (and all the rich foods had me in the bathroom - LOL). If you did gain, no worries, a lot of it could be water weight from extra sodium. Get back on your plan, appreciate the new memories with family that you have, and move forward.

If it helps you to know. I have every Sunday like that! I call it fat Sunday! some can do this some can't and it has not hindered my 40 pound loss.

I had a similar "food bomb" weekend, of sorts, and was really down on myself. But I woke up this morning and read this:

Unless you're an athlete who has to make weight for a meet, missing a meal here or there is not the end of your long-term changes. Focus on establishing habits you can maintain for a lifetime. No one ever got fat by enjoying 2-3 meals per week that were outside of their healthy meal plan; they fell out of shape when those 2-3 bad meals per week turned into 2-3 per day. The lesson here: contain the explosion.

I hopped right back on the wagon and feel a new sense of freedom because we can have "off day(s)" and still be better off than we were before we started on this journey.

Don't beat yourself up, but also...try skipping the weigh-in if you know that's a trigger for your mood (it definitely is for me.)

Best of luck! God bless!

I feel your pain. My birthday just passed, and I indulged in a few savoury items that I mostly avoid. I pre-logged because people were coming to my house, so I knew what the menu would be, but I haven't had a chance to work out yesterday or today to burn off any of that oh-so-delicious-and -salty barbecue that I had! I weighed myself this morning and I am up almost 3 lbs! tal about depressing! I know it is just water from all the salty goodness of birthday food, so i am drinking lots of water today and eating a my normal stuff again, so hopefully within a couple of extra hard workouts, and a few days of being back to the clean eating, the new found water will be diminished again. As long as you are committed to the process overall, a day here or there once in a while isn't going to kill you.......after all, we all want to be healthy so we can enjoy life, and eating, drinking, shopping, sightseeing and laughing with the family are all part of that cheers