By ‘weight gain’ I mean weight that would be retained once the food/liquid has passed. So muscle mass and fat gained.
(Simplified) The upper threshold of weightloss is calories in calories out. If I eat nothing in a day I will lose the amount of weight my body burned. Approx 3500cal/lbs.
What is the upper threshold of weight gain? I presume my body can only produce so much muscle and store so much fat in a given time period. If I managed to stuff 35,000 calories down my gullet, I wouldn’t gain 10lbs. Most of it would pass unused.
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Little brother had a professional MMA fight, missed weight, had to be 146 but weighed in at 146.8. This was 10:00am Friday morning, by Saturday at 7pm he stepped on the scale at 184lbs. So under extreme circumstances close to 40 lbs..
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