weird question

MissAnjy
MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
okay so i was driving today and was thinking and came across a question i wanted to ask.

Since there is such thing as a plateau in losing weight where your body just kind of stops after awhile, is there a plateau you can hit in weight GAIN? I mean, when you start getting upwards of 400, 500+ lbs, is there any time where you hit a plateau where your body doesn't gain anymore? Or do you just keep gaining, and gaining and gaining, etc.

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  • curlytop89
    curlytop89 Posts: 163 Member
    You will keep gaining as long as you are eating more calories than you are burning. I think people that end up over 5 or 600 pounds and keep going until they are bed bound just get used to eating so much, and then a little more and then a little more until they are out of control. If you stay eating the same amount of calories a day you will stay at the same weight.
  • Willowy_Jen
    Willowy_Jen Posts: 40 Member
    I think it all depends on the person and habbits. I got married and gained weight, I have reached a plateau in gaining. Never went past 190. Although now at 173 and trying to get to 150.
  • TaraMaria
    TaraMaria Posts: 1,975
    After I read your question I was like "Woah!! Good question!!!" Ha ha! Makes sense though curlytop! Makes me sad everytime I see those tv shows like half ton man. :o(
  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
    After I read your question I was like "Woah!! Good question!!!" Ha ha! Makes sense though curlytop! Makes me sad everytime I see those tv shows like half ton man. :o(

    i know eh!!! I was just thinking, i "topped out" at 195lbs. I felt like I ate a TON all the time but I never went above. I wonder how much I would have had to eat to be 200, or 300.
  • watkinsc
    watkinsc Posts: 177 Member
    In my practice I see patients (adults) weighing as low as 60lbs to those weighing well over 500lbs. BOTH of these extreme ends of the weight scale are suffering from severe malnurishment. The severely underweight eat very very little, and those at the high end of the scale, eat very very high calorie, high sodium, high fat, highly processed diets. In the end, It really does boil down to calories in versus calories used. We do seem to hit plateaus, but they are temporary. If you eat more than you use, you will gain weight and if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. I work with a Dr who has a saying (that I will admit can be offensive, so I will apologize up front. But it is true.) "you didn't see any overweight people leave the nazi concentration camps" The victims of the camps, were grossly underfed, and they continued to lose weight. No one plateaued.
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