2-wk binge resulted in weight loss?!

joowelz

I posted here last week about emotional eating. With the holidays underway, I've repeatedly gone over my weekly calorie budget by 700-1,500 calories. Last week it was cookies and cake. This week it was fried greedy food at Mandarin, followed by all you can eat dessert bar, chocolate and cookies again later in the week. Today was my weigh-in day. At first, I was going to skip weighing myself because I was sure that I had gained weight. But when I got over my fear and weighed in, the scale said I lost weight (1 lbs in 2 weeks). How is this possible? My activity level has been the same so how did I create a calorie deficit?

cmriverside

For me, my weight is a range of five pounds in either direction. Too many variables to account for.

I've eaten 1000 calories over per day for most of the past two months and haven't gained, so go figure. I should be up nearly six pounds - but I'm not.