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limit to how much your body can gain from overeating?

MrBiggiesworth
MrBiggiesworth Posts: 846 Member
edited February 5 in Food and Nutrition
If you overeat for a day, say maybe 4000 total calories in one day and you only used about 2500, will your body store all those unused calories or will some of it just be excreted with waste product?

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  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    A calorie is a unit of energy. Units of energy are not excreted. The only way to eliminate a calorie is to either not consume it or to burn that energy.
  • ZeroTX
    ZeroTX Posts: 179 Member
    I dunno, I've had overeating days where I didn't gain as long as I got back on track the next day. Your body is NOT 100% efficient with the food you give it. Valuable stuff goes out the back end on a pretty regular basis, so I imagine some of that is excreted, yes.
  • TArnold2012
    TArnold2012 Posts: 929 Member
    Turns to fat
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
    Turns to fat

    Ya your body stores it and it becomes fat. Its too bad the body doesn't have a way to just expel those calories.. then we wouldn't get fat.
  • nytrifisoul
    nytrifisoul Posts: 499 Member
    I tend to believe that some is excreted aswell. Logically if you eat 3500 cal over what you burn, you should gain exactly one pound. But i believe most people would maybe gain only 1/2 -3/4 of that pound.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    But keep in mind, your body doesn't reset at midnight. Your body doesn't care about 24 hour intervals.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    If your body excreted calories as waste, then people wouldn't get fat.
  • __Di__
    __Di__ Posts: 1,661 Member
    If you overeat for a day, say maybe 4000 total calories in one day and you only used about 2500, will your body store all those unused calories or will some of it just be excreted with waste product?

    It stores the extra in the way of fat.
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  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
    I tend to believe that some is excreted aswell. Logically if you eat 3500 cal over what you burn, you should gain exactly one pound. But i believe most people would maybe gain only 1/2 -3/4 of that pound.

    I think so too. So what I wonder is if you go on a binge one day, is it logical to just go all out with that binge since you will eat SO much that, yes you will gain some fat but your system is so overwhelmed with food that it just can't process all of it and a lot of it just goes out the other end without being processed?

    That's not logical, but it's accurate.
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