What would happen if...

sashaverlene

What would happen if I ate 9,000 calories in ONE day (besides risking the possibility of explosion)? haha would I gain that weight over the course of a few days or a week? Or would it not matter if I continued to eat healthy afterwards?

RyonsLions2

I don't really KNOW for sure, but I think if you ate extremely healthy after that and didn't do it again for a while... like a month or so, you would be alright. I would throw in a TON of extra cardio and do some major time lifting weights... a little on the heavy side to get your muscles burning fat for you.

LesliePierceRN

How much would 9000 calories weigh? Is that 15 pounds of food? The food you put in yourself has a weight too, so initially that would be added to you just like putting on a 15 pound vest, etc. I'm not sure you body could process that many calories at once though, so you might get a raging case of the pukes or something even nastier.

lesliefoste

Well that's an interesting question. Hmm, there are 3500 calories in a pound. Assuming that you're using at least 2500 calories to survive, you're looking at a surplus of about 2 pounds' worth of calories that day. But if you went back to eating well (at a caloric deficit, so as to continue to lose), I would imagine that you wouldn't see those two pounds by the end of the week; at least not all of them. Maybe you stay the same that week, or go up a little bit. But one bad day (even a REALLY bad day) won't make or break your diet. The problem comes in with multiple bad days.

JMun

How much would 9000 calories weigh? Is that 15 pounds of food? The food you put in yourself has a weight too, so initially that would be added to you just like putting on a 15 pound vest, etc. I'm not sure you body could process that many calories at once though, so you might get a raging case of the pukes or something even nastier.

she means you'd poop yourself skinny again.. and it would not be pretty.

noxx27

It sounds like the four hour body diet. Or (slow carb diet) the fact is it wouldn't do much. And if you continued on your normal diet it could help speed your metabolism for about a day (the yoyo affect) though I wouldn't recommend it, it's bound to be pretty hard on your body. You show a few pounds on the scale and it would come back off in 24 to 48 hours. The best why is to just be aware of what you eat, make good choices. If you mess up go back to it and it will be fine.

mamagooskie

I've had a few (like 2-3) really bad days up in the high thousands (usually due to a wedding or something) and really you may not see a loss for a few weeks after, you could get diarrea, and you definitely will feel bloated and the scale will intially go up, but since this is not something you plan on doing often you will be okay as long as you move ahead and keep doing well it will in the long run do no harm.

michelletyler38

That's a LOT of calories! On days where I've logged 3000 I;m usually PIGGING out!!! I couldn't even imagine eating triple that!