Eating poorly, losing weight faster- what's happening?!

I was eating very well, strictly clean foods, and losing weight about 1 lb a week for about a month and a half.

I celebrated reaching a weight goal with a day of unhealthy eating- still under my calorie goal- then had four days of end-of-college partying with pizza, cookies, milkshakes... I didn't even count calories. BUT in those 6 days I've lost 3.5 lbs. What is this all about?? What's going on?

Weight loss or weight gain over the period of a week is pretty meaningless to be honest. Could be anything. Perhaps its your monthly cycle, perhaps you drank a lot and your sodium level decreased, perhaps the moon was full that day. Who knows.

You don't "weigh" one weight, you weigh a range of weight...an average. You happened to weigh yourself when your weight was on the low end of that range.

Stress can affect weight loss. If you were celebrating graduation (and the end of all that school-related stress), it's not surprising to see a loss.

It takes about a month for your body to get used to a diet plan or exercise plan but you won't really see big results until you reach the 3 month mark. When they say you will lose one pound a week it does not mean that every week you will weight a pound less. The weight loss shows mostly all at once. That week you binged will probably show some weight gain but not right away, or if you go back on track it might not show at all. Either way your suddent weight loss was not from the week before but the combined effort of the month or months before.

So if you see a pound change don't hold your breath but once you see a 5 pound loss or more than you are seeing the real results. Also, the body gets used to a low calorie diet and you will plateau on your weight loss, doing cheat meals once a week is a good way to boost your metabolism and it will help you lose weight. Keep it down to a meal or two a week though, not two days or a week Good luck

It takes about a month for your body to get used to a diet plan or exercise plan but you won't really see big results until you reach the 3 month mark. When they say you will lose one pound a week it does not mean that every week you will weight a pound less. The weight loss shows mostly all at once. That week you binged will probably show some weight gain but not right away, or if you go back on track it might not show at all. Either way your suddent weight loss was not from the week before but the combined effort of the month or months before.

So if you see a pound change don't hold your breath but once you see a 5 pound loss or more than you are seeing the real results. Also, the body gets used to a low calorie diet and you will plateau on your weight loss, doing cheat meals once a week is a good way to boost your metabolism and it will help you lose weight. Keep it down to a meal or two a week though, not two days or a week Good luck

Certainly true of me. I am hyper-consistent with my diet hitting my mark almost every day and/or adjusting the next day if I did not. For the first 6 weeks I saw no change at all to my scale weight and after changing basically nothing about what I was doing I moved into a steady 1.3 pound per week weight loss. If later on the line I again stop losing weight for weeks I probably won't think much of it unless it continues for several months because its probably just another one of those random things with water retention that happen on the time scale of weeks.