This post is another reason there’s so much confusion in this area. I can gain or lose multiple pounds per day. I often have no idea why. For instance, I was hungry on Monday and Tuesday of this week and ate like a maniac. How much weight did I gain? None. Yet, yesterday I had my one drink I have per week and gained two pounds in one day. Now, there’s no way I could’ve gained two real pounds in one day, but the scale is highly variable and for reasons that aren’t straightforward.
You could have gained a lot of that weight because vegetables slow digestion and therefore you have more food physically inside of you. They are also higher in carbs, so you could be retaining water. We won’t even get into the havoc wreaked by alcohol, not to mention that’s hundreds of calories that must be burnt first. To attribute that weight gained due to calories is not scientifically sound.
And I don’t mean to point you out specifically, your post just happens to be at the bottom of this what is now massive thread.