Can food make you heavier than itself?

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If i eat 1kg of sugar for example, is there anyway of me gaining more than 1kg of weight?

If I start the weekend, Saturday morning at 80kg, have a massive blowout 20 pints 2 kebabs etc, but on Monday morning I still weigh 80kg, does that mean the blowout will not make me gain weight? Or could my body somehow gain weight from no extra input?

Does it bind the oxygen I inhale to other chemicals, thereby gaining weight from the air? As I understand most of the fat dieters lose is by exhaling co2.

I can't find decent answers to this because I'm certain I'm not wording it in the right way.
 
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If i eat 1kg of sugar for example, is there anyway of me gaining more than 1kg of weight?
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Yes, as it can cause you to hold more water due to an increase in glycogen. So you'll have the 1kg of sugar consumed adding 1kg of weight plus the weight of any extra water drawn into your cells.
 
If you eat 1kg of food, you're not going to be more than 1kg heavier immediately after. But it's wrong to think of it in an isolated way like that, you're continuously eating and drinking and also burning off some of that energy at the same time.
It's going to average out and if you eat more than your body burns off then you'll get heavier.
 
Your body stores excess energy as fat, so there might be many reasons you still weigh the same by Monday. But you may have put on weight through extra fat from your not so healthy eating weekend.

Not quite sure what you mean by losing weight through exhaling. Yes you will be lighter in the morning from exhaling a bit, but not by much.
 
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Your body stores excess energy as fat, so there might be many reasons you still weigh the same by Monday. But you may have put on weight through extra fat from your not so healthy eating weekend.

Not quite sure what you mean by losing weight through exhaling. Yes you will be lighter in the morning from exhaling a bit, but not by much.
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Well if you lose 10kg over a couple of months, where does that 10kg go? I've read that it's mostly exhaled as excess co2, which is why dieters can have smelly breath. I'm not sure how true it is but it's what I currently believe.
 
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Well if you lose 10kg over a couple of months, where does that 10kg go? I've read that it's mostly exhaled as excess co2, which is why dieters can have smelly breath. I'm not sure how true it is but it's what I currently believe.
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...because C02 is smelly?
 
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Well if you lose 10kg over a couple of months, where does that 10kg go? I've read that it's mostly exhaled as excess co2, which is why dieters can have smelly breath. I'm not sure how true it is but it's what I currently believe.
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Co2 doesnt smell of anything :confused:

When you eat, your body takes what it wants and dumps the rest, but over time adding water and air will allow it to store things as fat (stored in case theres a famine to help you go for longer)

Different things can effect it, for example eating salt will give more weight gain over a short period not because of its own weight but because you will take on more water to bring the balance back to normal.

A freind of mine recently took a really stupid attitude to weight loss, going hell for leather in the gym but flat out refusing to drink any water because he wanted to see the tangable results of weight loss over the space of a 1hr session. It was only when he passed out on an exercise bike did he beleive me that the short term loss was just water in sweat and nothing to do with actual fat burning. (There was obviously fat burning going on, but not enough to tangably notice, for example i would actually get heavier in the gym short term because i was drinking a lot of water)
 
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Well if you lose 10kg over a couple of months, where does that 10kg go? I've read that it's mostly exhaled as excess co2, which is why dieters can have smelly breath. I'm not sure how true it is but it's what I currently believe.
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I'm pretty you defecate out your weight losses... fat or muscle.

Though fat is stored energy, so the more you exercise, the more you breathe as your heart rate increases. So there is some logic as it being expelled as gas.
 
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If i eat 1kg of sugar for example, is there anyway of me gaining more than 1kg of weight?

If I start the weekend, Saturday morning at 80kg, have a massive blowout 20 pints 2 kebabs etc, but on Monday morning I still weigh 80kg, does that mean the blowout will not make me gain weight? Or could my body somehow gain weight from no extra input?

Does it bind the oxygen I inhale to other chemicals, thereby gaining weight from the air? As I understand most of the fat dieters lose is by exhaling co2.

I can't find decent answers to this because I'm certain I'm not wording it in the right way.
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Is this to do with your jam salad? :mad:
 
When fat is consumed by the body it's obviously broken down into it's consituent parts one of which will be CO2, water another and then a whole host of other bits and bobs including things that have been stored within it. So yes you will be exhaling some of the "fat" you burn off, you'll also be weeing other bits out, sweating other parts out, crapping out some bits of it and expelling some heat from it as well.
 
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I just looked it up. Over 80% of fat loss is through exhaling co2...
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Is this a troll?

Fat is not loss through exhaling. You exhale CO2 as a result of burning energy/fat. I think you dont understand the basis for what you are asking and so are drawing wrong conclusions from answers...

Dont think that people are skinnier just because they breath quicker...
 
CO2 is a waste product of respiration. If I remember my GCSE biology, respiration is energy + oxygen = water + CO2 (roughly).

So that energy might come from stored fat (which is essentially energy). And burning that will create CO2 yes, but it's a bit of a stretch to say you lose weight just because of expelling CO2.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Is this a troll?

Fat is not loss through exhaling. You exhale CO2 as a result of burning energy/fat. I think you dont understand the basis for what you are asking and so are drawing wrong conclusions from answers...

Dont think that people are skinnier just because they breath quicker...
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http://www.livescience.com/49157-how-fat-is-lost-body.html

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/where-does-your-fat-go-when-you-lose-weight/

http://www.mensfitness.com/weight-loss/burn-fat-fast/breathe-breathe-fat-out


Your sources?

If you don't replace the fat you breath out then you will lose weight. It's generally accepted that calorie deficit is the most efficient way of losing weight compared with exercise.
 
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It's generally accepted that calorie deficit is the most efficient way of losing weight compared with exercise.
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Calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. Exercise is just a means of helping bring you into deficit.
 
smh

This guy :p

Didnt understand what i said, post something that agrees what i said to prove me wrong.

CO2 is exhaled as a result of burning fat not because you exhale. Everyone who passed year 9 should know this. You only disagree with my statements because you dont understand them.

Exhaling waste carbon as a result of burning fat is not the same as fat loss is a result of breathing. If i sat down and breathed like a marathon runner, i certainly wouldn't be losing weight like one. You need to burn the fat to produce the CO2 to exhale obviously. CO2 production is a direct result of fat burning, as has been said.

Sources? you posted them for me.
 
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interesting question I have often wondered the same thing.. on its own I cannot imagine its possible... depends on how much energy it takes to create 1KB of fat and weather there is a food stuff that provides more calories than fat... but since fat seems to be the highest calorie food I doubt its possible
 
You don't breathe fat out One. Your muscles use the fat (energy) to work, the waste product of the muscles working is CO2, which is breathed out.

Calorie controlled diets rely on getting the body to use your stored fat.
 
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