Settle this argument with friends

heybales wrote: »

Momepro wrote: »

I have friends that are honestly convinced that one slice of cake that weighs about a quarter of a pound, including frosting and beung very rich, can make you gain at least a pound of weight.
I say physics makes that impossible. Technically you can gain 1/4 pound from that, most of which will quickly be digested and go away. They think I'm crazy and deluding myself. I'm saying it's not possible gor something to cause you to gain more weight than the item weighs.

Sure - the wedding cake syndrome.

Bridal party starves themselves all week long to fit into their dresses on Sat, has 1 piece of cake at reception, and gains 5 lbs on Sun. (probably some alchy too!)

They depleted their carb stores below normal on their weigh-in on Sat morning.

Ate a bunch of carbs that stores with water.

Weighed Sun morning.

happens all the time.

In those types of situations - doubtful they stored anything as fat, as insulin would have sent it off to liver and muscle stores for the carbs, fat used as energy source right then for likely dancing along with some carbs.

That would be unintentionally performing the kind super compensation bodybuilders do for a show: carb deplete to ramp up receptivity, then carb load to fill muscles with glycogen and water. Probably a fair amount of salt at the meals too, which is also often used in that situation.

Momepro wrote: »

I have friends that are honestly convinced that one slice of cake that weighs about a quarter of a pound, including frosting and beung very rich, can make you gain at least a pound of weight.
I say physics makes that impossible. Technically you can gain 1/4 pound from that, most of which will quickly be digested and go away. They think I'm crazy and deluding myself. I'm saying it's not possible gor something to cause you to gain more weight than the item weighs.

So... I saw you said you were arguing over simply eating the cake and not anything else. But as others have mentioned it can happen in conjunction with other things. The first thing I think of however is inflammation and other such reactions to the ingredients in the cake. I know if I eat something my body doesn't like I can gain 1 to 5 lbs. I can't say that it's "fat" though. I'm guessing it's water weight because I also get bloated. It can be gone the next day as long as I watch what I eat and exercise. I haven't weighed the food items in question but I'm pretty sure I'm not eating over 3500 calories. It can be a few slices of pizza, some cake etc usually things containing dairy, gluten and or soy.

1 lb of fat weighs the same as 1 lb of muscle