Can the amount of weight gained ever exceed the total weight of the food or drink?

Question

Say if you eat a pound of something...a pound of sugar, a pound of solid fat, whatever.....can your body weight increase more than one pound? does the body take all those calories and fats and sugars and carbs and somehow multiply them into body fat so that the total weight gain exceeds the total food intake??

Answer 1

No, but keep in mind...weight gain is cumulative. Depending on the time and composition of the food, some will leave the system and some will stay. Foods break down into proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You might not retain the foods you eat at one sitting, but overtime your body will store more fats and fluids than you need.

Answer 2

All food is breaks down to calories and where those calories comes from will be carbs, proteins, etc

It takes 3500 calories to lose or gain a pound

So lets say you ate a pound of sugar - that is 1757 calories
But lets say you ate a pound of green beans - thats 124 calories

You will see that you can eat a lot more green beans to make it up to 3500 calories to gain a pound of weight.

This is just one example of course - all food has its own calories. Hope this is what you were looking for.

Answer 3

Impossible, since mass is energy, and energy cannot be created, only changed from one form to another.