How many calories does one have to eat in a day to maintain being 600+ lbs, and how is it that your body doesn’t just burn it off as your metabolism speeds up?

Question

How many calories does one have to eat in a day to maintain being 600+ lbs, and how is it that your body doesn’t just burn it off as your metabolism speeds up?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Weight gain and weight loss are a simple factor of how much you consume vs how much you expend.

We require a baseline of calories each day to keep us alive. A consistent consumption above that will result in weight gain. A consistent consumption below that will result in weight loss.

A 600lb person may not have a much higher baseline consumption than a 100lb person. The real questions are “how much over my baseline needs have I consumed a day?” And “how long have I been over consuming?”