fatter but weigh less. How come?

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I just braved standing on the scales for the first time since early December. I'm a few pounds over top BMI normally, but I do about five bootcamps a week and go for a few walks a week. In December many bootcamps got cancelled, friends who walk were all isolating and then bootcamp closed for three week Christmas break. Meanwhile i ate my bodyweight in cake and chocolate and drank a lot of booze. I can feel a big wobbly tyre around my waist that wasn't there before. So I was dreading the scales. But when I stepped on them, I'd apparently lost a pound from my usual stable weight.

Is this because muscle is denser and so not working out has led to less muscle weight?

I feel motivated to get fit again but a bit confused, and want to get rid of the waist wobble as I had worked so hard to lose it last year until December.

@Allaboutthebooks - thanks for your reply. I am easing back into exercise with 10 minute HIIT weights sessions and gentle jogs.

Bootcamp restarts in a few days. Can't wait.

A pound is such a small amount. Get some body composition scales, they'll tell you what percentage of you is fat/water/muscle. This is the balance that will have tipped a bit. Slightly less muscle and a bit dehydrated, I'd guess. So you'll weigh less but a higher percentage of your mass will be made of fat.

@TheFoundation

A pound is such a small amount. Get some body composition scales, they'll tell you what percentage of you is fat/water/muscle. This is the balance that will have tipped a bit. Slightly less muscle and a bit dehydrated, I'd guess. So you'll weigh less but a higher percentage of your mass will be made of fat.

That sounds exactly right.