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rachieepachiee
rachieepachiee Posts: 38
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Just read that if you eat 300 calories over your RDA each day of the week you can put up to a pound of weight on per week.. just thought I'd share..

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  • chrisb75
    chrisb75 Posts: 395 Member
    Just read that if you eat 300 calories over your RDA each day of the week you can put up to a pound of weight on per week.. just thought I'd share..

    What is your RDA?
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    Just read that if you eat 300 calories over your RDA each day of the week you can put up to a pound of weight on per week.. just thought I'd share..
    300 a day? Not 3500 a week?
  • runfatmanrun
    runfatmanrun Posts: 1,090 Member
    Thats strange. I always thought it was 3500 a week, 500 a day. That is lower than I have heard. RDA=Recommended Daily Allowance.
  • rachieepachiee
    rachieepachiee Posts: 38
    300 calories a day over.. so for women its 2000 so if we ate 2300 calories every day then we can put a pound on each week...unless the radio is lying haha!
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    300 calories a day over.. so for women its 2000 so if we ate 2300 calories every day then we can put a pound on each week...unless the radio is lying haha!
    I think I don't buy it. Isn't a pound 3500?
  • BeautyAndTheGeeks
    BeautyAndTheGeeks Posts: 109
    don't believe everything you hear/read in the media.
    1lb = 3500 calories
    300 x 7 = 2100 = not 1lb
  • rachieepachiee
    rachieepachiee Posts: 38
    Oppsie..maybe I misheard them.. didn't even know you could measure a pound in terms of calories ha!
  • LovingLisa2012
    LovingLisa2012 Posts: 775 Member
    when i average eating 2600 - 2800 (not net) i am losing and average of .67 a week
    if i keep it more around 2000 - 2200 then 1.5 a week ..

    and yes 1 pound is 3500 .. you would have to eat 3500 a week over YOUR maintenance calories to gain 1 pound
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Just read that if you eat 300 calories over your RDA each day of the week you can put up to a pound of weight on per week.. just thought I'd share..

    Ya, someone there didn't know what they were talking about. Probably trying to report on some comment they didn't understand in the first place. Would be interesting to know what new "revelation" they thought they had there.

    Besides which, what does the RDA have to do with an individuals own energy expenditure on daily basis?

    And even the eating 500 extra daily to reach 3500 weekly or 1lb of fat - doesn't take into account there is not that kind of efficiency of conversion/storage of food eaten. Not all calories ingested are able to be broken down for use by the body, depending on the food type you don't get all those cal's out of it either, protein least efficient, to fat most efficient.

    So you actually need to eat more than 500 extra to put on a lb a week of fat weight.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    maybe it's origin is in the Body Weight Simulator story...
    For example, the average overweight person needs to cut 100 calories from their current intake per day to lose 10 pounds over three years.

    Half of the weight will be lost in one year and then you’ll reach a plateau, slowly losing the remainder by three years.

    In contrast, for the same calorie reduction, the 3,500-calorie formula predicts you’ll lose 10 pounds in one year – and 30 pounds by three years.

    1 lb = 454g * 9 cals/g = 4086 so presumably "3500" has some kind of efficiency factor or non-fat weight loss included ?
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