I was fine going into the Christmas season, but I ate abominably for about a week, starting when the cookie plates started flowing in from the neighbors, continuing when I made my own cookie plates to take to neighbors, and then was exacerbated by having family parties and dinners, game-playing meetups, etc. pretty much every single evening. I ballooned up around 10 lbs, of which I estimate 4 lbs actually represents gained fat and the rest is just water bloat-up from the sugar and whatnot. I'm back on the wagon now and eating according to my plan over the last day or so, so I anticipate by this weekend about half the apparent gain on the scale will be gone. I'm hoping to be back to my pre-Christmas weight in two weeks or so.