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One cheat meal won't add a pound of fat because your body burns calories digesting food and needs a sustained surplus over days to gain weight. A single high-calorie meal can be offset by eating less the rest of the week.
One cheat meal won't add a pound of fat because your body burns calories digesting food and needs a sustained surplus over days to gain weight. A single high-calorie meal can be offset by eating less the rest of the week.
This is 3,500 calories of candy. And butt sniffers on the internet will tell you, you would need to eat all of this in order to gain 1 pound of fat. The only issue is they're wrong. And here's why. Science tells us there's 3,500 calories in 1 pound of fat. But what science also tells us is your body burns calories digesting food. So if you did eat 3,500 extra calories, your body would end up burning more calories than usual, meaning you wouldn't just gain a pound of body fat right away. And not to mention, you wouldn't just eat 3,500 calories. You would need to eat that many calories above your maintenance calories. You would need to do that over the course of the entire week. So if you were in a calorie deficit all the other days, if this happened, you wouldn't even gain a pound of fat.
