Does weight gain equal food intake?!


Question: Does weight gain equal food intake?
So say that you have a peeled banana and you weigh it on a scale. You find that it weighs exactly one pound. You then eat the banana. Does that mean you just gained precisely one pound? Is it possible to determine exactly how much weight you will gain from a meal just by weighing it? Using this same logic, does the weight you lose directly correlate with the amount of waste you excrete from your body? Basically you get the point. How or why does this work the way it does?

Answers:

it seems like that would be what happens but as your body uses up the nutrients it needs you are going to excrete less that what you intake. keep in mind also all the many chemical reactions that take place in your body while you digest food.

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Yes and no.
A one pound banana then eaten gives you 1 pound, because you have just moved it to your stomach. But this is not a reliable way of measuring weight gain as you will probably excrete most of it. Some people may put on weight from everything they eat whereas others will stay thin eating the same things. It depends on your metabolism and you can't tell how much you will put on by eating something.
Weighing your poop is an idea but again, not reliable or realistic.



best time to check your weight is on empty stomach after you wake up weekly. Banana= high in carbs, too many will gain weight, because of all the sugar carbs. All of it will be fat, since it's not high in protein.




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