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If you ate some Halloween Candy, had some baked goods or cake, or enjoyed a few drinks over the weekend, you can breathe easy: you didn’t blow your diet or gain five pounds.
It takes a long time to gain weight, and if you typically stick to a relatively healthy diet and get some exercise, the occasional day of overindulgence will do nothing to throw you off—as long as it doesn’t happen repeatedly.
In order to gain a pound, you need to eat an additional 3,500 calories on top of what you already eat, generally speaking.