Bad weather blues

It must be a jinxed month, I have been having really good successes I feel with my fitness but getting on the scales this morning the bad news was another pound back on! I have of course understood that this week has again been one of those weeks where customer dinners have meant a couple of nights where my nutrituion isn't what I would have wanted it to be. However I have kept the level of exercise, to my mind, quite high, this worries me as what would have been the story if I hadn't of maintained the fitness sessions! This is after a very gruelling 25 mile X-country bike race yesterday that resembled the Somme, the mud was atrocious and even with special gripper tyres I was skidding and sliding all over the place (it was great fun but extremely hard work) This has been a couple of weeks on the trot where the weight has crept back up so I will have to work extremely hard to maintain the plan getting me to 12 1/2 stone for the fitness test. I may have to revise this figure anyway as it is becoming plain to me and to others that I am putting on a lot of lean muscle compared to the challenge I did 2 years ago, where I lost 2 1/2 stone. At the current weight I am, compared to then I am much leaner and noticeably thinner so perhaps it is the increased muscle that is starting to effect the results I am seeing (more likely it is having Shelly's steak and ale pie the night before I weigh myself :))