Weight of food

[jaim91]

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

 

[tucker01]

no

 

[Jodi]

Intially sure but during the digestion it will go down.

 

[njc]

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

 

[Emma-Leigh]

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]

Cool, thanks!