How much weight can you gain in one week?

I can gain weight (not fat) at the rate of 1lb/day without doing anything extreme or outright gluttony.
The morning after my last 10 day vacation I was up 10lbs.

Best guess - 3lbs of that may have been fat.

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CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »

you asked this question in another post as well. but you said 4 lbs this post says 5 so which one is it?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10577821/can-alcohol-make-me-gain-4-pounds#latest

the difference is negligible, no?

If I worked really, really hard at it, I could probably gain about 0.5-.75 pounds per day, but I'd have to work at it with great determination, and I'd be stuffed and bloated throughout, big time. A larger person could probably gain faster (I'm 5'5",: 120s).

If you haven't been pretty miserable every day from over-consumption, it would surprise me if you'd gained more than a pound of fat. The alcohol's under 200 csls, and if you ate only a bit extra it's probably only another few hundred - but you're in a better position to estimate.

Bottom line: It's mostly water weight, likely from extra carbs/salt. Get back on course, and it'll drop off.

I'd think if you were seriously determined you could probably gain 10lbs in a week give or take. I could see eating 6-10k calories per day, especially if you avoided most of the healthier options.

The two vodka shots are like 150 calories (70 per shot or so), maybe closer to 200 if at a bar or something, so that's not adding significantly to your weight. Worst case, half of a pound from the alcohol. As long as you haven't been binging hard as well you're fine.

tuckerrj wrote: »

I gained 13 lbs. in one week while on a cruise where every meal was an "all you can eat" buffet.

This cruises will get ya every time! I have also gained 10 lbs on a one week cruise. Between the fruity drinks and buffets at all hours.

You have asked something similar several times this week...:

Above you say you over ate, but in this thread, on the same day: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10578425/i-gained-6-pounds-in-one-week-help
you stated you haven't changed anything apart from the vodka shots.

Then on the 18th you posted:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10578543/weight-gain-after-six-days-of-binging
where you say you you went mad binging...

Which is it? Just vodka shots, just not being very careful over tracking or a massive binge...?

I've gained at least 5 lbs in a week, a few times. Not including water weight. (It took me 5+ weeks aiming to lose 1 lb per week to get back to my previous weight. I was up 7-10 lbs in total.)
It takes a ridiculous amount of food to gain that fast. Would not recommend.

tuckerrj wrote: »

I gained 13 lbs. in one week while on a cruise where every meal was an "all you can eat" buffet.

Oh what a warm, blissful place this would be We go to an all you can eat buffet once every few months, it's the highlight of my year

I would come back resembling shamoo if i ate like that every day for a week!

Besides whatever I was eating that week for breakfast/lunch/dinner which was probably around 2.5-3.5K/day calorie-wise, I ate three dozen homemade peanut butter toffee cookies over a couple days along with a 5 oz bag of gummy bears, 3 mini-magnum ice cream bars, a 3.5 oz bag sour gummy things, a three piece Pecan Turtle, and IIRC, a standard sized chocolate bar (1.5 oz?). Oh, yeah, and a 6 or 7 or 8 oz-ish bag of "cheesy poofs" (what I call store label Cheetos).

I ballooned from 196 lbs to 207 lbs over four days. Took three weeks to shed the water weight and ended up at 200.8 lbs. So I gained somewhere between 0-4 pounds of legitimate fat for the overeatingpalooza of, conservatively, 11-12K calories.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

(aka, pretty much lock step with the math)

L_Master wrote: »

The two vodka shots are like 150 calories (70 per shot or so), maybe closer to 200 if at a bar or something,

how does a bar add 33% to the calorie value of vodka? nothing to do with anything, but just huh?