Is 5k calories a day going to make me gain weight?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to gain some weight and ate 5k+ calories both days over the weekend, how long would it take to gain some weight?

[Marushka]

It depends on how much calories you burn per day in the end. It will depend on your weight, height, age, how much muscle you have and activity level. There's calculators out there that make a rough assessment of you energy consumption you could use to have an idea. However it's usually somewhere between 1.8k and 3.5k from what I've seen (about 3.5k for a fit adult male with an active life style) so you should gain weight with eating 5k. It might actually even be a bit much and make you gain weight very quickly and I hardly imagine that being healthy. One kg of body fat is around 7k calories by the way.

[Guy__]

There is much more to this.

Just start thinking about what kind of calories they are?

Protein takes more energy to digest than it contains...

More importantly, is it nutritious or toxic?

Do you want a fatty liver or nice juicy skin? Both are made up of fat.

If you want thick skin how about swimming in cold water? That will make you burn calories but at the same time you will form protective healthy brown fat.

Is it that you want bigger boobs?

Probably not lean muscle that you want, and probably not a pot belly.

Dm me if you want a deeper conversation.

[Anonymous]

Hey I eat 5k a day too :) I’ll be completely honest I gain really fast doing that. So yeah I’m heavy enough to burn like 3.3k calories without intentional exercise daily, but the extra 1.7k cals always ends up as fat. Speaking as a 5’7” 230 lb fat person lol. If I eat less than 5k I usually end up feeling too hungry at the end of the day.
Eating as much as me will definitely make you gain really fast if you’re lighter than me, trust me.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Sure, unless you do a lot of sports or other exhausting activites, which will burn this many calories.

[Кураж]

Definitely.
Assuming that you have an average/slightly below average energy expenditure, you may gain nearly 1 pound a day on a 5000 kcal diet.

[Guy13]

Have you consulted a doctor? Obviously not… Do so and a geriatric may be a good choice as the elders have problems with weight maintenance.

[Anonymous]

It should. But it really depends on how active you are. Swimmer Michael Phelps when training would eat 7k calories a day.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing so, but it depends on what you're consuming.

[VikingWarLord]

What's your height and weight now?

[Anonymous]

what did you eat?