Weight-Loss How long for weight gain

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After you eat something 'bad', just say a pizza. how long does it take before you know how it affected you weight wise. I'm not talking about the pizza physically sitting in your stomach, but after you've digested it. If after 3-4 days you don't see any gain, are you out of the woods per se?
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Haha.

You have to think more long term than this. If you are worrying about your weight on a meal by meal basis.... you've got more to work on than the number on the scale.

So you gorge today eating 10,000+ calories.

Big whoop if you starve the next 6 days. At the end of the week you'd be in an energy (caloric) deficit and lose weight.

Optimal? Certainly not.... but you get my point I hope.
 
I'm not asking for that reason, i think you misunderstood. I'm just in general trying to understand how long it takes for your body to metabolize that stuff, then store it. lets say you normally eat 1800 cal per day. on one day you gorge and eat 5500, how long would it take before you see that extra pound on the scale? is it immediate? does it take a week or two?
 
Steve said:
Haha.

You have to think more long term than this. If you are worrying about your weight on a meal by meal basis.... you've got more to work on than the number on the scale.

So you gorge today eating 10,000+ calories.

Big whoop if you starve the next 6 days. At the end of the week you'd be in an energy (caloric) deficit and lose weight.

Optimal? Certainly not.... but you get my point I hope.
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What you eat one day, in one meal doesn't make you gain weight. What makes you gain weight is what you eat everyday. If you have Pizza today, Fast Food tomorrow, and something else the next day, and the next, and the next that's when you're in big trouble!!
 
WendolaPM said:
What you eat one day, in one meal doesn't make you gain weight. What makes you gain weight is what you eat everyday. If you have Pizza today, Fast Food tomorrow, and something else the next day, and the next, and the next that's when you're in big trouble!!
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Isn't that what I said?

And it's not the foods you eat, per se. It's the caloric content of said foods.

I could eat big macs and fries every single day. However, if I structure it so that I remain in an energy deficit or maintenance, I'm not going to gain a ton of weight.

Food doesn't make you fat, calories do.
 
right, so if you're not burning / maintaining the extra calorie intake, how long does it take before your body stores it as fat?
 
Good question, although it is not quite so simple to answer. Given the digestion time can very meal to meal greatly, its hard to exactly give a definitive time line for "fat formation" (triacylglycerol formation). Though, the closest I could come to a direct answer to the question would be within hours...
 
38 hours 5mins and 42 seconds

i swear
 
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