Over ate

IeuanAlexanderSaunders

Just ate 400 calories over my maintenance,will I gain weight from this? I know 400 calories isn't much but they came from chocolate cake and sugary deserts

janejellyroll

It doesn't matter what they came from. It takes approximately 3,500 extra calories to gain a pound.

Panda_brat

You will gain just over one tenth of a pound of fat. or just eat 50 less calories for the next 8 days, and it evens out.

IeuanAlexanderSaunders

Thanks for the advice ,I will have to hide the Easter food

CassidyScaglione

I ate 500 calories over maintenance two days in a row, and have somehow subsequently dropped 2 lbs... Not sure how that works....

IeuanAlexanderSaunders

I want your scales

brrrycicle

No harm, no foul.
If there's a day where I just want to celebrate my inner-fat kid and eat a little (or a lot) over my calorie limit, I either just go for an extra run/walk, or tighten things down for the rest of the week.

Thankfully weight loss is flexible and it can be fun if you allow it to be. ✌

cwolfman13

Thinking you put on fat in a day of surplus is as ridiculous as thinking you're going to lose fat from a day of dieting...your body doesn't work that way. The human body is a remarkable machine and strives for balance (maintenance)...it requires one to consistently over eat or consistently under eat to override your body's ability to balance energy.

enterdanger

enjoy your dessert. It will be ok.

CassidyScaglione

IeuanAlexanderSaunders wrote: »

I want your scales

lol. It's a happy coincidence I'm sure; wouldn't it be nice to eat a ton and lose? But it made me scratch my head when the scale went down instead of up.

IeuanAlexanderSaunders

Thank you all for the advice ,and happy Easter/holiday's for Sunday ✝