binge eating session

Question
I've been on a low-calorie diet/low-fat diet for a few months
now and avoid eating high fat foods like cookies, cakes, etc.
Over the past week, however, I've been visiting home and have
had a lot of food around and have been unable to control myself
as much. I've binged on cookies, candy, bread, and ice cream
about four times in the past week, each time taking in
thousands of calories within maybe an hour's time. How bad is
this for me and how much have I ruined my diet? How much
weight can I gain from these few binge sessions and is this
damage reversible?

Answer
Relax, I PROMISE you, you haven't done any significant damage. In order to gain one pound, you need to intake 3,500 calories more than you need to sustain bodily systems (metabolism). STAY AWAY FROM THE SCALE!  
 -  If I say nothing that's meaningful to you - just listen to that part. STAY AWAY FROM THE SCALE!
 
Now, the lecture about "diets" to begin with. THEY DO NOT WORK. They cause binges (don't they?) and how happy are you living like that? I already know that you wake up thinking about what you can eat that day and you go to bed at night planning the next day's meals (at least in your head). All for what? When you 'go off' this diet, just like ALL the other diets, you'll regain the weight within 1-2 years PLUS 20% more and have a harder time, next time. Over and over again.  
 I've been there. Repeatedly. More than 30 years of it after my very first 'diet'.

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 By the way - after all those diets and gimmicks, it took less than 6 months to just drop ALL the weight I ever needed (or wanted) to lose in my whole life!  That was more than 5 years ago. It's still off! And I had a real candy bar after lunch (stay off the scale and stay AWAY from those ridiculous 'energy' bars or whatever they're called). You want a Milky Way? Snickers? Hershey bar? HAVE IT!

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