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Cheat days,excess calories and b.m.r thoughts?

pumpiniron

pumpiniron

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There are 3500 calories in a pound of fat yer? So if you ate 7000 calories over maintenance level in 1 day you would gain 2 pounds of fat?

This is what i thought but i dont see this to be the case,atleast not with me. I weigh 70 kilos and few days ago i had a massive cheat day, 1 jar of peanut butter, 2000 calories, 1 jar of nuttella another 2000 calories, 1 large pizza 1000+ calories and a bunch of other greasy shit, and i presume the whole days cheating would of been 10 000 calories. I weighed myself today and i weigh 70.3 kilos.

I remember as a kid i weighed 50 kilos, really skinny and id eat nothing but pizzas and peanut butter and chocolate and shit everyday. Probly around 3000-4000 calories a day by my calculations> and if i do the calorie maintenance formulas my daily calororie maintenance level would of been around 2000 there abouts (when i weighed 50 kilos in my highschool days), but i wasnt gaining weight at all.


Obviouslly overtime eating well over ur maintenance level your going to get fat> but people say if you eat so many calories over maintenance level say 5000 calories over in 1 day, ur going to gain 1-2 kilos, but i dont see this as the case THOUGHTS?
 
It's not as simple as that. You BMR is not static. If you eat a lot of food your body can ramp up the burning of carbs and fats. So many things can effect your weight. Carbs, salt even just the food in your guts.

Counting calories is just an estimate and is a thing that will work long term. The body is too completed to just eat a certain amount over BMR and calculate exactly how much you will gain.
 
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Bazza20 said:
It's not as simple as that. You BMR is not static. If you eat a lot of food your body can ramp up the burning of carbs and fats. So many things can effect you weight. Carbs, salt even just the food in your guts.

Counting calories is just an estimate and is a thing that will work long term. The body is too completed to just eat a certain amount over BMR and calculate exactly how much you will gain.
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What Bazza said^^^

Also need to remember that its the total over the week/month not what you do day to day...
 
pumpiniron said:
There are 3500 calories in a pound of fat yer? So if you ate 7000 calories over maintenance level in 1 day you would gain 2 pounds of fat?

Obviouslly overtime eating well over ur maintenance level your going to get fat> but people say if you eat so many calories over maintenance level say 5000 calories over in 1 day, ur going to gain 1-2 kilos, but i dont see this as the case THOUGHTS?
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Mate I don't think every extra calorie over maintenance gets stored away as fat. A lot would go to waste, out the other end. Otherwise we'd all get fat real quick! Bulking would be easy if so?!

Some people are more inclined to put away the extra cals as fats, others less so.

But yeah your maintenance level also varies, BMR changes a lot and is different from person to person or from one day / one month / one year to the next.
 
Well explained guys, But just like i said when i was a teenager, very skinny. i would eat pizzas and pies for lunch at school, come home and eat peanut butter sandwiches and then for tea have a massive meals of mashed patatoe and bacon and sausages almost every day and i wouldnt gain weight at all.
 
pumpiniron said:
Well explained guys, But just like i said when i was a teenager, very skinny. i would eat pizzas and pies for lunch at school, come home and eat peanut butter sandwiches and then for tea have a massive meals of mashed patatoe and bacon and sausages almost every day and i wouldnt gain weight at all.
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you should see how much my 13 year old son can eat. He's a walking eating machine and skinny as all fuck. Many calories burned for growing.

We old bastards don't get it so lucky.
 
What Bazza said, but if you ate double your BMR for an extended period of time there's a strong chance you'll get quite fat.
 
hang on a sec... why the fk did you eat 10000cals in the 1st place.. you still getting correspondence coaching????
 
as a teenager you could have also been a lot more active day to day e.g. walking/riding to school, playing sport at lunch times, playing after school. I know I was. Then I stopped playing bball, kept eating what I normally did. You can guess what happened :p
 
jzpowahz said:
as a teenager you could have also been a lot more active day to day e.g. walking/riding to school, playing sport at lunch times, playing after school. I know I was. Then I stopped playing bball, kept eating what I normally did. You can guess what happened :p
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Exactly. So much more active when younger and your body is growing.

I used to drink liters of chocolate milk, ice cream. Toasted cheese sandwiches with heaps of butter on them for lunch. Basically as much as I could stuff in my mouth every day. Heaps more than now. Never gained a gram of fat until I was past 18.
 
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