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consumed more than 3 times my allowed calories for 3 days in a row and yet lost 2.6lb?!

Well, the title says it all! I had around 3000 calories on Friday, 4000 on Saturday and am currently at 2500 today Sunday and it's 16:30 here. I have not been working out at all, I've just sat at home all day like a couch potatoe. Can anyone please explain this to me?!

Thank you.

i have noo idea. 

but keep it up! thats awesome! :D

Hey...have actually experienced something similar (didn't intake calories on quite as grand a scale as you did)...I assumed that I had kicked my metabolic rate up by "religiously" exercising each day and eating a more nutritious balance of calories.  Figured my body got used to burning what I put into it, so when I took "extra" calories (900-1200 over my recommended calories) three days in a row, my system just burned them off.  Of course, I was afraid to step on the scales on day four, but after weighing in (and wiping the metaphorical sweat off my brow) with a 2 lb loss  I decided NOT to push my luck and am back to the occasional "splurge" day

Pearsnapples and Akgrl- you two are so lucky! If I ate like that for 3 days, I would blow up like a balloon... I've reached my maintenance weight exactly a year ago, but I am currently trying to shed the extra pounds I recently gained...  4 more lbs and I'm back at the maintenance weight.  

3 times your normal allowed calories??  That means you're eating only 1000 calories a day, on a normal day?

If that is actually correct, your metabolism probably had completely shut down since you are way under-eating.  Once you start eating more, your metabolism revs up again and starts burning.

It's good to have the occational 1 or 2 days of higher calories to keep your metabolism in high-gear.

One other thing to keep in mind - your body doesn't work on a 24hr schedule, and it often takes a few days for your weight to catch up.  So binging one day might not show up on the scale the next day, but instead shows the day after that.  This is one of the reasons most people don't recommend weighing in every day, but one a week minimum instead.