Whoa.
So far my birtday has been a ton a fun. My husband came home with presents yesterday, and 3 of my friends logged into the new game I'm playing. I stayed up super late, drank wine, ended the day at ~1750 calories, including the wine calories. I didn't think that was so bad... maybe 450 calories more than I burned for the day. I let myself have whatever I wanted really and didn't think that was really that high for having a free-for-all.
And wow, look at how much my weight went up. I'm hoping it's just the salt from the canned artichoke hearts (marinated in water) that I ate on wasa rye crackers because it would totally suck to gain that much from 2 days.
Tonight we have more plans. We're going to a friend's house for a while this afternoon, then a small pack of us are heading downtown to dine, and watch some comedians spoof Footloose. I intended to have more of the same... you know, some wine, some food. I really figured that I'd drink and dine over my birthday and try to maintain. Hello, I'm already up 3 lbs!
This week has been wonky for calories. I didn't feel well at the beginning of the week and had a 500 calorie day, and an 800 calorie day - then I followed those with a 2000 calorie day (not sure since we ate out) with wine calories, and a 1750 calorie day with wine calories... maybe I just finally pissed my body off. If you take the average of those, I'm probably right on target, but apparently it doesn't work like that =P
Anyways, since today is all birthday stuff, I expect another messy day for calories. I'm going to try not to worry about it. Since it doesn't look like I'm going to maintain, I'll just get used to the idea of working off what I gained.
Nox