Why is it, that you can eat a 2,000 calorie meal, and in theory, you shouldn’t need calories again until the next day, but you can be hungry again 6-8 hours after you finish eating? Is your body just not capable of actually processing that many calories?

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I think the title kind of says it all, but I watched a video of someone eating a 2.1k calorie burger, and his friend said, good now you won’t need to eat for 24 hours and they laughed, then I thought, ” wait why is it that you would be hungry again after 6-8 or so hours, is our body that inefficient with those calories? Does this mean that when you eat over a certain limit of calories you body just puts the rest into waste and some into fat? How does it work?

Update: Wow thanks for all the upvotes, awards, and comments. I really appreciate all the new information and help on this topic.

In: Biology

Answer 1

one meal a day diets are popular. it works but you may need to re orient the body for a few weeks to burn more fats while resting.

if you have been eating multiple meals a day along with carbs in every meal you can’t expect your body to switch the metabolism in one day. it’s a process and lot of people do intermittent fasting and one meal a day diet notable figure is Jack Dorsey CEO of Twitter