OK, so maybe you were a perfect health saint over the weekend, but something tells me if you're like most of us, you indulged in something: maybe too much to drink, too much cheesecake (me!) or perhaps you played hooky from the gym. Big deal? Well, one expert says it actually is ...
In an article for Health.com, Julie Upton, R.D., writes: "If your scale is fluctuating more than the stock market, what you do on the weekends could be at fault. Kicking back and being less vigilant about what you eat and drink even just two days out of the week can add up to an almost nine-pound weight gain over the course of a year, according to new research published in the journal Obesity."