Do you put on weight immediately after eating?
A 2012 study at Oxford University found that the fat in your food ends up on your waistline in less than four hours. Carbohydrate and protein take a little longer, because they need to be converted into fat in the liver first and it takes nine calories of protein or carbohydrate to make 1g of fat.
Is it OK to sometimes go over your calorie limit?
Bottom line? “As long are you are trying to keep your intake around some general average [appropriate to maintain weight] you shouldn’t worry about your weight going up or down too much because it is not going to,” he says.
Is it possible to get more than 3500 calories in food?
If you ate a straight pound of fat, for example, you would get just over 4000 calories. ( Using the typically accepted 9 calories per gram of fat, which is also not 100\% accurate ). So yes, it is possible to get more than 3500 calories in a pound of food.
Can you gain more than the weight of the food you eat?
@Aequitas, by the law of conservation of mass, you can’t gain more weight than the weight of the food + water you consume, and you will usually gain much less weight than the weight of the food you consume.
What happens if you eat more calories than you need?
If you consistently eat more calories than you need for a day, then you will gain weight. If you consistently eat less, then you will lose weight. The rate at which you do so varies on how big the deficit/surplus is, how efficient your metabolism, type of calories, many factors such as these.
Is it bad to eat less than 1000 calories a day?
If you’re eating less than 1000 calories it would mean your metabolic rate had reduced below that and that just doesn’t really work out in practice. Even when you calculate just your BMR (the largest component of your TEE), and don’t take anything else into account it will be above 1000 calories, unless you’re teeny weeny.
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