OK: Question? Last night I did nothing different except eat a very small (less than 3 oz) piece of chocolate turtle creamcheese pie. I added 4.5 lbs to my weight today. I often joked about how some things "break me out in fat". But, THAT was ridiculous! NO MORE! WHAT do YOU think happened? There were NO other changes to diet and/or exercise.

I get one every year. Yes, I do remember the year there was a shortage -- I called to find out when I could come get one, and they grilled me as to whether I qualified. (I have asthma and a heart murmur, so I got one.)

When I was 42 I had pneumonia, and it really knocked me for a loop. I couldn't even get out of bed for a week. I couldn't sleep with the window open because it would make me cough uncontrollably. I was used to walking several miles a day, and it took me something like six months to be able to regain that ability. I don't want ever to get that sick again, so I get my flu shot. And as soon as I qualify for the pneumonia vaccine, I'm going to get that, too.

My last pneumonia shot laid me up for two days. And, I rarely get sick with anything viral. I must have gotten "a live one".

Hi Carol. You have both causes to really seek out the annual vaccine's. I am like whitemanitou. When I was 18 my employer offered the flu vaccine. I got it and became so ill. I questioned my family doctor and he said it wasn't from the vaccine although it was flu I sought treatment for. He said it was something like just bad timing. That was the first and only vaccine I got. I have only had a stomach flu once in all these years, so I am not going to change my stance for me. We do have to authorize it for my 91 year old MIL in a nursing home. So we have to make responsible decisions for ourselves and for others.

whitemanitou, the body does fluctuate in weight up to 6 pounds (water--and maybe more for a man) per day. I am positive it is temporary and I do not see from what you listed a cause. For me, I discovered fried foods and cold cuts will cause a 5 pound gain on the scale the next day, so I have given up those foods. Look carefully at what you ate and determine by tracking if it were one other food you had that you react to like that and eliminate it. Other than that the body, doing it's own thing (did you eat something salted?) retained it and will loose it just as quickly.

My diet (except for that small piece of pie was the same (portions and content). My weight had not fluctuated over .5 pounds (and mostly in the Down direction) for a week.BTW, my wife said she too gained 2.5 lbs after eating same cheesecake.

Ah ha! Now you have your own answer. Ban that dessert from the house. How did the weight look today? That gain will dissipate as it was a false negative.

-1 lb this morning. 3.5 less to go. Wife has already banned the dessert. Hey, it was her idea!!! She "vhant schocolate pie". Now were back to "Need Keep Body"