Hello I've been browsing 3fc for a while now but has only just registered so I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct place (apologies if I'm not!)
I've gone through something very weird about calories, weight gain and weight loss the past week and a half and would like to see if anyone's experienced a similar situation before:
From 22/11 to 30/11 (9 days in total), I was binging on and off every day, putting me at at least 10,000 calories above my TDEE for the 9 days total.
On 4 of those days I binged hard on cashews (polished off 1.5 lbs in 5 days), so 3,500 calories of the 10,000 calories came from cashews.
After trying very hard to get back on track, I've successfully restricted to 1000 calories per day for the last 4 days, putting me at a deficit of 2,400 calories (I'm a female and my TDEE is 1600 calories).
According to calories in, calories out, what I should be seeing is:
Total excess calories stored in my body: 10,000 - 2,400 = 7,600 calories
Which should equate to 1 kg of real weight gain.
What's puzzling me is that as of this morning, I'm only 0.3 kg above my weight on 22/11 morning. Since the other food I've binged on are the "classics" (i.e. chocolate, chips, bread, and PB), the only thing I can think of that lead to the discrepancy to calories in, calories out theory is eating cashews.
I'm not complaining about my "luck" but I'm just extremely curious about the effect of nuts on weight gain.
Any thoughts??
PS I'm sure that I calculated my excess calories of 10,000 accurately.