Calories In VS Calories Out Question

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  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    I might need to make some cupcakes and try ... for science of course
  • MityMax96
    MityMax96 Posts: 5,778 Member
    better yet...
    Why not eat a cupcake daily and fit it into your daily goals??

    The whole conversation stemmed from cleaning up after a potluck at work. Some one was trying to get people to take home cupcakes (because she made way too many) and someone told her to just take them home with her. She said she wouldn't be able to eat them all before they went bad because of her diet. That's when he said just eat them all in one sitting. And then the debate was on!

    Ah, ok
  • MityMax96
    MityMax96 Posts: 5,778 Member
    My view on it.
    You eat more calories than you need....your body will store as fat, til it can oxidize it.
    If you stay at or over maintenance.....then, prolly a good chance it will not get around to oxidizing that fat.
  • asdowe13
    asdowe13 Posts: 1,951 Member
    How big are these cupcakes?

    I am open to be a test subject on this matter!
  • VoodooChummy
    VoodooChummy Posts: 53 Member
    There are two separate processes in digestion the Mechanical and Chemical. In theory if the body does not have enough enzyme to chemical break down the food and absorb the calories in the small intestine the mechanical/physical process of digestion still continues and like mentioned before it would be passed through the system before it could be used in any way including fat storage.

    It is thought that some people have more or less of these enzymes and the questions would be:
    1) Does this person have enough enzyme to break it down before passing it?
    2) is 24 cupcakes enough physical food to cause this?

    It might turn out that they can chemically process all but the last two so they technically only saved 600 cal total over eating in any other combination. Technically the original statement is true however, over the course of a week that 600 cal can get lost in the shuffle easily and you'll still see a lot of weight gain.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    I would tend to believe this. I don't have any particular study to back it up nor do I know where that line lies but clearly you can take this to more and more extremes.

    Make it 48 cupcakes and 48 days for example. Assuming each day that single cupcake is over your maintenance level I fully believe you would put on more fat eating 1 cupcake a day for 48 days versus 48 all at once. I figure there is a limit to how much your body can process in a given amount of time and that it would be possible to overload that to the point where you end up just dumping unused calories.

    That said I can't imagine a way you would put this to practical use while dieting.

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