Can i gain one pound in one day?

daisy2920
daisy2920 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
If i eat 3,500 calories in one day will i gain one pound? I am on a journey trying to gain 5 pounds , i was wondering if i can gain 5 pounds in 5 days eating 3,500 calories per day

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  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    If you want to gain one pound, you need to eat 3500 calories more than your body uses. In other words, if your body burns 2000 calories for body functions and exercise in one day, you must eat 5500 calories that day to gain one pound that day.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    You would have to eat 3,500 calories above what your normal caloric intake is to maintain your current weight. So to make it easy - let's say your maintenance daily calorie limit is 1800. You would need to eat 5,300 calories in one day.
    Furthermore - it's not linear - you may not gain right away. It doesn't mean you'll automatically be 1 lb heavier tomorrow.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited December 2017
    Theoretically, you would think you'd gain 5 pounds in 5 days if you ate at a 3500 calorie surplus each of those days. But nothing about the human body works that simply and neatly.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    'If' it was just about math it would maintenance + 3500 calories.

    You may be up several pounds the next day consuming 3500 surplus calories in the form water weight and more food in gut etc. but this does not mean that the weight gain in the form of fat/muscle is working in a linear fashion as stated above.
  • Thr33N1N3
    Thr33N1N3 Posts: 39 Member
    I gained 30 pounds in a month before. It wasn't healthy food. I was eating fast food 3-4x a day. It would be a slower gain on 3500 calories. If that is all you can eat, and you don't move much, you will do it..just not in 5 days. I don't advise eating fast food. Graze on nuts and use more oils in your cooking and you can raise those healthy numbers. There also is the path of gaining lean muscle if you research that.
  • Davidsdottir
    Davidsdottir Posts: 1,285 Member
    The question is, why? What is your weight gain purpose and why so quickly?
  • 99JT
    99JT Posts: 59 Member
    Don't know why you want/need to gain 5 lbs in a week but a gallon of water weighs 8.4lbs you should easily be able to dirink 5lbs of water and that's better than fat.
  • daisy2920
    daisy2920 Posts: 9 Member
    edited January 2018
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  • MaryBethHempel
    MaryBethHempel Posts: 513 Member
    daisy2920 wrote: »
    If i eat 3,500 calories in one day will i gain one pound? I am on a journey trying to gain 5 pounds , i was wondering if i can gain 5 pounds in 5 days eating 3,500 calories per day

    I gained one pound yesterday just drinking wine....and only had a little over 1000 calories....it is the sugar though for me. I have a problem with sugar absorption....
  • se015
    se015 Posts: 583 Member
    daisy2920 wrote: »
    If i eat 3,500 calories in one day will i gain one pound? I am on a journey trying to gain 5 pounds , i was wondering if i can gain 5 pounds in 5 days eating 3,500 calories per day

    If you want to gain muscle, it won't happen that quickly I don't care how many calories you eat. If you want to get fat quickly that will still take longer than a few days but a lot easier. Do you just want to gain weight or do you want muscle or does it not matter to you? As for calories, depending on your current height, weight, age, gender and daily activity level is what your calories should be. Also don't weigh yourself everyday, I'd suggest weighing yourself once per week or once every other week, your weight can go up and down 5 lbs each day and especially if you're not weighing yourself first thing in the morning every day. You can be 5 lbs heavier from food and water at night compared to the morning.
  • notreallychris
    notreallychris Posts: 501 Member
    You would need to eat 3500 SURPLUS calories. Calories above your maintenance. Recommend adding this over the span of a week though. So take your weekly goal. Add 3500 over a week or 2 and you should gain. Unsafe to gain too quickly.

    Could set your goal to add 1lb per week, too.
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