when does weight gain show?

squishprincess
squishprincess Posts: 371 Member
edited November 8 in Health and Weight Loss
how fast does weight gain become apparent when you overeat? is it literally overnight? or the course of a week, when you go over?

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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    You usually have to gain several pounds before people notice. But the actual gain is immediate because the food you eat simply won't leave the body and won't be used for energy.
  • ThePhoenixIsRising
    ThePhoenixIsRising Posts: 781 Member
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    You usually have to gain several pounds before people notice. But the actual gain is immediate because the food you eat simply won't leave the body and won't be used for energy.

    What? Please explain why overeating would stop my body from eliminating food waist.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Dr. Oz of MFP
  • squishprincess
    squishprincess Posts: 371 Member
    once the food enters it never leaves.... that explains my constipation from today :D jkjk

    i don't care about people noticing, or even myself lol i just wanted to kinda know the biological science behind it
  • ThePhoenixIsRising
    ThePhoenixIsRising Posts: 781 Member
    squishprincess wrote: »
    once the food enters it never leaves.... that explains my constipation from today :D jkjk

    i don't care about people noticing, or even myself lol i just wanted to kinda know the biological science behind it

    Every cal that is not used is stored. Depending on how many excess cals you eat depends on how fast you gain. Once you have eaten a cal it is in your body till it is used.
  • squishprincess
    squishprincess Posts: 371 Member
    ThePhoenixIsRising wrote: »
    squishprincess wrote: »
    once the food enters it never leaves.... that explains my constipation from today :D jkjk

    i don't care about people noticing, or even myself lol i just wanted to kinda know the biological science behind it

    Every cal that is not used is stored. Depending on how many excess cals you eat depends on how fast you gain. Once you have eaten a cal it is in your body till it is used.

    makes sense. fuel in, fuel out. i feel like it should be much more complicated than that but i guess it isn't
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    ThePhoenixIsRising wrote: »
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    You usually have to gain several pounds before people notice. But the actual gain is immediate because the food you eat simply won't leave the body and won't be used for energy.

    What? Please explain why overeating would stop my body from eliminating food waist.

    Initial responder is not really wrong here. The waste of course is eliminated but the body does store excess calories as fat. Body can store some as muscle if proper weight training and nutritional intake is used but if it is simple overeating, fat will be stored. The definition of immediately here should include the metabolic time of a few hours.


  • ThePhoenixIsRising
    ThePhoenixIsRising Posts: 781 Member
    kdeaux1959 wrote: »
    ThePhoenixIsRising wrote: »
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    You usually have to gain several pounds before people notice. But the actual gain is immediate because the food you eat simply won't leave the body and won't be used for energy.

    What? Please explain why overeating would stop my body from eliminating food waist.

    Initial responder is not really wrong here. The waste of course is eliminated but the body does store excess calories as fat. Body can store some as muscle if proper weight training and nutritional intake is used but if it is simple overeating, fat will be stored. The definition of immediately here should include the metabolic time of a few hours.


    But he didn't specify cals, he said food, so really he is wrong.
  • MagnumBurrito
    MagnumBurrito Posts: 1,070 Member
    Just worry about your weekly totals
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    ThePhoenixIsRising wrote: »

    But he didn't specify cals, he said food, so really he is wrong.
    If we're going to get technical, the body doesn't store calories and food doesn't contain calories. Calories is just a way to express energy. Food is broken down into various forms and either used or stored. Anything the body can't use leaves as waste. Which isn't really food, since the body can't use it. But why do we have to get overly technical to answer a simple question?
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