Real calorie question

DarthSamson
DarthSamson Posts: 172 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Is there a maximum amount of calories, that the body can absorb per day ?
What I am asking "Is there any difference in eating 9 pieces of KFC and eating 18 pieces of KFC in 16 hours ? "

At what point would the calories and all just go right thru you ?

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  • mom22dogs
    mom22dogs Posts: 470 Member
    I believe every calorie you ingest gets absorbed by your body. How else can someone eat 10,000 plus calories and be 900 lbs?
  • DarthSamson
    DarthSamson Posts: 172 Member
    maybe they do it day after day mom...
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Challenge.... accepted??
  • allyphoe
    allyphoe Posts: 618 Member
    Maintenance for me is about 2,000 calories a day. One time I gained 42 pounds in six weeks. So if there is a limit, it's more than 5,500 calories per day.
  • DarthSamson
    DarthSamson Posts: 172 Member
    ally I did 15000 calories in a day before
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    There isn't really a practical limit. Your body can slow the passage of food through your intestines based on how calorie dense the food is. We evolved to be efficient at extracting calories because food stability is a relatively modern invention. For most of our species' history, eating every day was not likely to happen. So clearly when eating far below TDEE on many days, we had to eat far above on others.
  • MissusMoon
    MissusMoon Posts: 1,900 Member
    At some point a person is going to vomit because their stomach can't hold any more food. That's the only out.
  • DarthSamson
    DarthSamson Posts: 172 Member
    See nobody really knows ! I think I have had a few 20,000 calorie days in my life and I Just wondered what is the max my body could absorb Just looked it up a 5 piece KFC meal has 4000 calories !

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