Obviously, I am very very wrong

Scale today is UP 3.5 lbs!!! WTF?

Obviously I need the accountability of writing up my daily food.

I ate:

1 cup raspberry kefir
small potion turkey/black bean chili with a fried egg
1.5 finn crisps w butter

1 Cadberry egg

5 olives
over 6 hours, I ate 6 mozarella sticks - one portion -  and about a third of a portion of chicken parm plus 1/4 of the pasta that came with it.
the top crust off a roll
dark chocolate crumbles in the bottom of the chocolate covered matzoh container - I have no shame. They were from Jacques Torres, peoples! - but we are talking less than one bite.

OK, so there was a little chocolate. And the cheese sticks were excessive. But still, 3.5 lbs!?!?

Also, I was able to drink more easily, so I had about two quarts of water with benefiber. I feel my restriction easing up a LEETLE bit, which is ok - I had to be super careful this past week, and it's not like I've started eating the world.

Two things -  I probably had a lot of salt yesterday, and man is it good - I added salt to the chili, the egg, the chicken and pasta, and the cheese and olives had a lot of salt to begin with.

Second thing is that my Doc had me start a ten day cycle of hormones to induce a cycle. That's a (.). She said it's not healthy not to have one for more than 3-4 months, and my last one was early December, after my friend gave me a Reiki treatment. So I am doing this course of hormones, so I guess I probably have PMS, or at the very least have some sort of hormonal cause for my weight...

I used to eat so so so much more than what I had yesterday, and not gain 3.5 lbs - I know everyone has wondered about this before, but if 1 lb lost = 3500 calories burned, then how can I gain the equivalent of over 10,000 calories when I only ate at MAX 2500?