I've noticed that when I PB--the next day I seem to gain a little weight--even when calorie count was low.

Anyone else experience this?

Pinky...

You can't relate anything that happens in one 24 hour period to real weight gain - not PBs or exercise or a bag of Snickers. For anything to be truly reflected on your scales, it must take place over a fairly long period of time.

You can't work out enough in one day, for example, to lose 5 pounds.

Your weight will normally vary a pound or two from day-to-day. It doesn't mean anything unless it's still there (or still gone) a week later.

I read some research once that said that it took an average person 4-5 days to show true weight gain for something they had eaten. In other words, if I pigged out today and was all excited because it didn't show on the scales in the morning, then I should WATCH OUT on Thursday!!

It's really hard to eat enough in one day to cause significant weight gain. If you ate 5 pounds of chocolate candy in one day (and nothing else), you would gain 3 pounds or so.

The "Super Size Me" guy who ate nothing but McDonald's three times a day for 30 days only gained 30 pounds. That's one pound per day, even though he was consuming a ton of calories (no pun intended) and getting very little exercise.

We did not get to be MO because we had an ice cream cone twice a month. We were over-eaters and made very bad food choices on a daily basis, for a very long time.

Between the spring of 2003 and the end of 2004 (about 20 months), I gained 80 pounds. That's about a pound a week - maybe one Snicker's bar per day. Who would have thought????

Pinky, it might be that you see a change in the scale because of swelling from the PB. Swollen tissues that absorbe more water to protect the body.

Just a thought.