Weight of food

jaim91 · 02-03-2006, 08:15 AM

If I eat a pound of food but it doesn't equal 3500 calories, will I still gain a pound?

**IainDaniel** · 02-03-2006, 08:29 AM

**Jodi** · 02-03-2006, 09:31 AM

Intially sure but during the digestion it will go down.

njc · 02-03-2006, 01:29 PM

if that were the case calories would be meaningless and packages would state weight instead

**Emma-Leigh** · 02-03-2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by jaim91

If I eat a pound of food but it doesn't equal 3500 calories, will I still gain a pound?

If you weighed yourself. Ate the pound of food, then weighed yourself again. Yes.

But that just means you have 1 pound of food in your intestines.

What % of that is converted into actual 'bodyweight' depends on your overall calorie intake, what the food was, how much was digested etc etc...

jaim91 · 02-04-2006, 05:58 AM

Cool, thanks!

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02-03-2006, 09:31 AM	#3
Jodi Super Moderator Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 22,265 Photos: 1	Intially sure but during the digestion it will go down.

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