how easy is it to gain a lb?

khadijak17
khadijak17 Posts: 393 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
if you were to weigh yourself the next day it would show a few extra lbs on the scale after a days worth of eating whatever you wanted....however leave it a few days and those lbs come straight off so.....how easy is it to gain a lb of actual fat...are the 3500 cals needed over you maintenance cals or including your maintenance cals im confused and can't find the answer plz help

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  • Umeboshi
    Umeboshi Posts: 1,637 Member
    As easy as it is to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    YEP. ^
  • EMc4452
    EMc4452 Posts: 187 Member
    3500 calories OVER maintenance. Maintenance is what your body burns off during a normal day, and anything over that will become stored energy.
  • UponThisRock
    UponThisRock Posts: 4,519 Member
    As easy as it is to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance.

    ^^^this would be a pound of body mass, not all will be fat
  • ChitownFoodie
    ChitownFoodie Posts: 1,562 Member
    3500 over maintenance. I find it harder to gain weight than lose it.
  • hpsnickers1
    hpsnickers1 Posts: 2,783 Member
    As easy as it is to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance.

    ^^^this would be a pound of body mass, not all will be fat

    exactly. If you eat 3500 calories of food not all of it will go to fat for storage. The way the body processes the nutrients (carbs/fat/protein) is much more complex than that.

    BUT - it's actually very easy to "gain a pound" of water. Although how much water my body retains has to do with how many carbs I eat.
  • h82bfat
    h82bfat Posts: 77
    Your maintenance goal is the approximate number of calories your body will burn in 24 hours. If you are attempting to loose weight, your daily goal will be less that that; gain is more.

    To calculate your daily goal when loosing, take 3,500 calories for each pound you want to and divide by seven days in a week.
    To loose weight you will need a daily deficit of:
    Two pounds = 1000 calories
    One pound = 500 calories
    1/2 pound = 250 calories

    So, if you your goal is to loose two pounds a week and MFP calculates your intake to be 1500 calories but you eat 2500 calories every day for a week you still won't gain because you are meeting your maintenance goal.

    To gain just one pound you will need to average 500 calories a day over your maintenance (not daily) each day for a whole week.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    if you were to weigh yourself the next day it would show a few extra lbs on the scale after a days worth of eating whatever you wanted....however leave it a few days and those lbs come straight off so.....how easy is it to gain a lb of actual fat...are the 3500 cals needed over you maintenance cals or including your maintenance cals im confused and can't find the answer plz help

    I gained 4 pounds in one week, then another 2.8 the following week (and I wasn't eating much). I've lost 3.8 of that in the last three weeks. It didn't go away after a few days.
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