If you eat 5 pounds of food, will you gain 5 pounds?

Lets say you weigh 150 pounds and you eat 5 pounds of food.... will you weigh 155 pounds afterwards? What if you ate 5 pounds of fruits & vegetables... will it be same as eating 5 poun...

Lets say you weigh 150 pounds and you eat 5 pounds of food.... will you weigh 155 pounds afterwards?

What if you ate 5 pounds of fruits & vegetables... will it be same as eating 5 pounds of beef & fat?

Bob B	no, some gets digested into nutrients that your body uses so you dont gain all 5lbs

bemanni	not at all, the food is processed in our body so nothing or almost nothing is left out of it but it depends on the food you eat, some food are difficult to "process" while other are processed easily and leave almost no "trash" inside our body.

Bl3ss3dw1thL1f3	Immediatly after you would. 5 lbs is 5 lbs. But soon, it will go away ;) Fruits and veggies wont make you gain 5 lbs the next day, but 5 lbs of fatty oily foods may make you gain 3...

rcbrokebones	I got into a bad car accident a few years back and went from weighing 225 to 165 because of the injuries that i had..the hospital appointed a diet specialist for me to gain some weight back so i can help you with this question without any doubts ..in order to gain one pound you must eat five pounds of food..now if you eat only fruit you will not be eating any carbs so they are considered nutral foods you can eat as many fruits and vegetables as you want and the only thing you'll end up doing is spending alot of time on the toilet..the only vegetable that will get you up in weight is the potatoe..but everything else as a rule is 5lbs of food eaten will make you gain 1lb..good luck

anna	No and no. That's not how it works. The body assimilates the nutrients in what you eat, and stores some while it burns others. Any woman can tell you, that somehow you can eat a quarter pound of chocolates and put on five pounds! The nutrients in fruit and veg are totally different from the ones in the beef and fat. The fat will probably get stored; veg and fruit are high in fiber so a lot of that would get eliminated. Meat is protien and most westerners eat far too much of it.

Chanandler Bong	No because you'll sh!t it a large amount of out it out later on. Duh.

rachely1	Good question, I like to know too.

bwlobo	No, the water, fat, fiber and nutrients go through your system, some are burned by calories, some are needed for metabolism, and some are eliminated. What your body stores, depends on your metabolism and how many fat cells need extra stuff to "plump" themselves up.

mandylover	It all depends on calories. That's it. If you eat 3500 calories * 5, you will gain 5 pounds.

jbare999	No, the body produces waste in the small intestine, the large intestine, and ultimately the colon removed the liquid from the waste and then it's expelled by the normal means. Only a portion of the food you ingest is actually absorbed by the body. This depends on your diet.

♥I_rock_you♥	people dont know this some say yes ask your doctor he can help better ,unlike this people confusing you.good luck

satouqi	that's none sense. it all depend on individual ability to break the food into energy.

Becca	no, not unless you ate five pounds of food and it got stuck in your intestines. when you digest food you take nutrients out you will absorb some water as well. remember that you poo out leftovers from the digestion process. you need to replace nutrients because you use them up. so as you gain weight, you are loosing it as well. metabolism is what is constantly controlling your weight. when you move, exercise, even breath, you are burning energy. so, the answer is no, if we gained weight from everything we ate then the average person would weigh thousands of pounds in a matter of 30 years.

jdlifsey	You'll weigh 5 pounds more immediately until you either sweat it out, urinate whatever water was in it and/or have a BM. The fruits and veggies will metabolize quicker than the beef & fat. The long term effects depends on your activity level.

Cheryl G	If you eat 5 pounds of food you will not gin 5 pounds.. some of this will come out as waste and some will be spent as energy What you eat will absolutely have a effect on how much you actually gain.. You will gain more on the meats and fats and less on the veggies and fruits First off becasue the meats and fats are harder to digest and are higher in calories and the veggies are easily passed and lower in calories.

metstark	It takes 3600 calories to gain a pound. You would have to eat 18000 calories to gain 5 pounds (you would also have to factor in your bodies metabolism and exercise level to see how many of the calories you are burning instead of storing as fat). You don't just gain the same amount of weight of the food you are eating.

Wizard of Ahhs	what ever amount of it gets stored in fat cells

O yeah	Yes until you go to the bathroom a couple of times then it slowly go's away until you eat again.

Margorie	there are 3500 calories in a pound, in theory you would have to eat 17,500 calories to gain 5 lbs of fat. Now if you ate ALOT foods that were average in calorie amount but high in salt then you would gain a couple of pounds of water weight. But they will come off if you lay off the high sodium snacks and eat more vegetables/fruits.

Gulfstream_five_fifty	5 pounds of food minus 4 pound dump = net gain of 1 pound. 5 pounds of food w/no dump = brown eyes

Trinity	No because it depends on how many calories you use in the day and how many calories are in the food you eat.

graduate student	Well if you weigh yourself right after without going to the bathroom or throwing up, then yes you'll be 5 lbs heavier. However to actually gain that weight in fat, you'll have to actually have a daily gain of (3500 calories x 5) since it takes 3500 calories to gain one pound.

huggz	No, you are using energy all teh time so you will not put on 5lbs. Eating 5lbs of fruit and veggies will contain a lot less calories than meat and fat.

UVRay	Yeah to the first part(depending on what you eat) and no to the second.

wasabi_bebe	if you eat 5lbs of food it doesn't necessarily mean you gain 5 lbs. However 5 lbs of fruits and vegetables is better than 5 lbs of beef and fat

Stephen K	No, as we have to consider the caloric content. 5 pounds of carrots has notwhere near the caloric content of 5 pounds of chocolate

andrew n	Ya. Until you crap it all back out that is.

matt_archbold2002	No, when you chew and swallow, some of the food disolves and some gets burned immediately (depending on your metabolism).

whynot	only if you don't take craps

helplessromatic2000	Immediately afterwards, yes, you would weigh more. As your body processes the food, breaks it down, and expels what it doesnt need you would probably not continue to carry that extra weight.

Byakuya	you would be 5 pounds heavier until it passed through your system.. how much weight you actually gain would depend on how much "sticks" to your body and how much passes through you.. 5 pounds of fruits and vegetables would definitately be better than 5 pounds of beef and fat! 5 pounds is a lot of food though regardless of what you're eating..