If to gain 1 pound (450 grams) you need to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance, how does it make sense that eating 400 grams of straight oil (which is 3536 calories) leads to a 450g gain which is more than the weight of excess food Where does the roughly 50 extra grams come from?

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If to gain 1 pound (450 grams) you need to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance, how does it make sense that eating 400 grams of straight oil (which is 3536 calories) leads to a 450g gain which is more than the weight of excess food Where does the roughly 50 extra grams come from?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You have other energy sources in your body, that would normally be used to fuel you, that it stores away when given fuel like this. As well as most likely salty oils would make you retain more water throughout the day. In a vacuum this wouldn’t happen, but there are so many other things happening in and to your body that you can’t just look at the weight of the oil and expect it not to effect other things.