How many calories can your body process at once

[ph0en1x22]

If i were to have a healty meal consisting of say hypertheticaly 1500.... would your body process the lot.... or would it store some as fat because theres simply to much at once?


or is it a case of just how many calories you eat in 24 hours?

[sunngodd]

hypertheticaly

[Gettingthere69]

lol

[RpplesonFrmiSea]

Ph0enix, you have such amazing questions, I legitimately think we should start a thread for you to ask all your questions in. You would get so many hits and I'm not even trolling/flaming right now. Given, a lot of your questions are either mis-informed, malformed or misspoken, but I'm sure they'd all get answered seriously eventually. But this is like the third thread you'd started today that has ended with someone posting a funny picture to encapsulate their opinion of your question. That said, it's not really the calories your body processes, it's the nutrients. If you give your body 400g of carbs in one sitting you'll have the food coma sleepies, 400g of protein and you probably wouldn't have that. 400g (or in someone else's case...250g) of fiber and...well let's not talk about it.

[ph0en1x22]

Ph0enix, you have such amazing questions

well you know... i try to think outside the box

[gixxer0.6g]

If i were to have a healty meal consisting of say hypertheticaly 1500.... would your body process the lot.... or would it store some as fat because theres simply to much at once?


or is it a case of just how many calories you eat in 24 hours?

It's called your metabolism and it depends on countless variables. Find your maintenance and go from there.

[Ruz4life]

Didn't I plead with you to never make another thread? I begged you even...


you really let me down man, really bad this time..

[ph0en1x22]

Didn't I plead with you to never make another thread? I begged you even...


you really let me down man, really bad this time..

the question was playing on my mind... just had to let it loose!

[Ian_B]

Your body will process whatever you give it... meal size affects the rate of digestion but that doesn't mean your body will be unable to absorb the nutrients or something.

Every meal you eat causes fat storage, and a bigger meal will cause more fat storage, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. 24-hour energy balance matters.

[Ruz4life]

the question was playing on my mind... just had to let it loose!

[IGF-WON]

If i were to have a healty meal consisting of say hypertheticaly 1500.... would your body process the lot.... or would it store some as fat because theres simply to much at once?


or is it a case of just how many calories you eat in 24 hours?

storing as fat is a form of processing... what else did you mean as processing? storing as muscle? storing as glycogen?

[dimasso69]

the question was playing on my mind... just had to let it loose!

Kinda like a fart that builds up and when u let it out..it just stinks

24-hour energy balance matters.

i go by a weekly energy balance, i am for a certain amount of cals per week, not per day, so if one day im hungrier i eat more or if i feel sluggish i eat more but the next ill eat less or two days later ill eat less or w/e..it works out for me..does no one else do it this way?

[Alyion]

It wouldn't matter in the long run - this is kinda the idea behind IF and the warrior diet. I haven't gotta clue on the matter mind, but I would guess if any of it was stored as fat it would eventually be burned off given the time spent your body waits for it's next meal.

But what do I know

[s.o.u.p]

|ceman recently made a thread in response to an argument with sumdumgoi where he quoted scientific testing that showed that eating larger amounts of nutrients decreased the bodies ability to utilise them (as pointed out before, the body uses al ingested nutrients, if nothing else, for bodyfat, but in this case words like "utilise" and "process" imply that the nutrients are NOT stored as bodyfat)

Another study recently quoted on this forum stated that while eating smaller meals less frequently did not increase metabolic rates, eating larger meals less frequently resulted in storage of bodyfat.

The latter mentioned article was performed at maintennance calories, however this effect would also occur when eating only a little under maintennance, but probably not if eating a lot under maintennance.

Having said that, the warrior diet (as an extreme circumstancial example) would therefore seem like a bodyfat gaining bonanza of a diet, but I believe that the longer fasting periods of the warrior diet make for a different circumstance.

[stancel]

The body doesn't just use food for energy, it uses fat also, or people wouldn't ever lose fat.
so if it's stored as fat, well, it's not going to permanently be there.

[blast00]

The body doesn't just use food for energy, it uses fat also, or people wouldn't ever lose fat.
so if it's stored as fat, well, it's not going to permanently be there.

HOWEVER, once its stored as fat, its much harder to use as energy because other sources like glyocgen get used first.

[tensortrucks00]

HOWEVER, once its stored as fat, its much harder to use as energy because other sources like glyocgen get used first.

o rly?

[Forumite]

Kinda like a fart that builds up and when u let it out..it just stinks



i go by a weekly energy balance, i am for a certain amount of cals per week, not per day, so if one day im hungrier i eat more or if i feel sluggish i eat more but the next ill eat less or two days later ill eat less or w/e..it works out for me..does no one else do it this way?

I just eat whenever I want and only worry about if it's junk food or not.

[blast00]

o rly?

yes, rly. but its not like it gets stored into fat immediately either.

[ph0en1x22]

The body doesn't just use food for energy, it uses fat also, or people wouldn't ever lose fat.
so if it's stored as fat, well, it's not going to permanently be there.

it will be there permanently if your on a bulk.... because your always in surplus calories

[Kataz]

it will be there permanently if your on a bulk.... because your always in surplus calories

assuming you're ALWAYS bulking

[BecomeLegendary]

HOWEVER, once its stored as fat, its much harder to use as energy because other sources like glyocgen get used first.

Sorry dude, but your 100% WRONG. Muscles get over 70% of their energy during rest from stored body fat and anywhere from 30-60% during exercise. Your organs (especially the brain) suck up most of the glycogen that is circulating in the blood. The brain uses roughly 2/3 of the calories ingested from carbohydrate per day.

[exy]

I just eat whenever I want and only worry about if it's junk food or not.

That's why you look like Jay Cutler.

[s.o.u.p]

Sorry dude, but your 100% WRONG. Muscles get over 70% of their energy during rest from stored body fat and anywhere from 30-60% during exercise. Your organs (especially the brain) suck up most of the glycogen that is circulating in the blood. The brain uses roughly 2/3 of the calories ingested from carbohydrate per day.

I've never seen anything to this effect, I'd love some reading on the matter....

[BecomeLegendary]

Read an exercise physiology or sports nutrition text book. It's in there.

[s.o.u.p]

Read an exercise physiology or sports nutrition text book. It's in there.

Well if it's that easy to find then how come I havn't once read anything like this?

Surely you can find one article that confirms what you're saying.....

[BecomeLegendary]

I can recite it from the book that I have in front of me right now labeled "human anatomy and physiology" or would you like the author and book edition so you can read it yourself?

[stasgolbom]

[anabolicgiraffe]

the question was playing on my mind... just had to let it loose!

like others have already said... too many variables to really give an answer.

[s.o.u.p]

I can recite it from the book that I have in front of me right now labeled "human anatomy and physiology" or would you like the author and book edition so you can read it yourself?

You can recite it, that's fine with me.