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putting on weight without eating

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so can someone put on weight without eating. i thought they cant, mag says they can, app ur more likely to put on weight if u dont eat. :confused:

Reply 1

qwerty_st/n

11

i dont see how that works :confused:

but then i spose if you replaced food with beer youd soon develop a beer belly

but then i heard once that if you starve yourself you will put weight on whenever you do eat cos ur body holds on to it

Reply 2

Dekota

To put on weight you have to carry something with you. E.g. In a mechanical point of view, if you were to carry/lift a big rock and weigh yourself carrying the rock, obviously you have gained weight as the rock carries weight.

Now to gain weight people normally carry fat (or protein etc.) these have to come from food.

Hence proof by induction shows that your thought of putting on weight without consuming food is impossible. - It has a probability of 0.

Reply 3

Dekota

qwerty_st/n

but then i heard once that if you starve yourself you will put weight on whenever you do eat cos ur body holds on to it

This is called 'detoxication' where you spend a whole day without food or regular intervals and your metabolism adapts to the change, by using food efficiently.

Reply 4

G_S

OP

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thats what i thought but its a medical mag, and its stressin out that if u dont eat food, ur more likley to put on more weight than wen u eat ur food

Reply 5

G_S

OP

13

hmm im always skippin my food, dont eat that regularly and i still put on weight... :eek:

Reply 6

homoterror

Ricki

To put on weight you have to carry something with you. E.g. In a mechanical point of view, if you were to carry/lift a big rock and weigh yourself carrying the rock, obviously you have gained weight as the rock carries weight.

Now to gain weight people normally carry fat (or protein etc.) these have to come from food.

Hence proof by induction shows that your thought of putting on weight without consuming food is impossible. - It has a probability of 0.

proof by induction? not quite mate!

Reply 7

dazmanultra

1

Considering the first law of thermodynamics (mass-energy conservation...) i'm gonna go with a "no" on this one.

Reply 8

SB

2

I expect it's referring to the fact that when you don't eat regularly your body thinks it's starving, so when it does receive food it will store as much as it can in fat to prevent starvation if the same thing were to happen again. If you're not eating at all, you can't put on weight. If you don't eat for a while and then begin gain you will put on weight far more quickly than someone with a healthy diet.

Reply 9

covered farm wagon

11

Ricki

To put on weight you have to carry something with you. E.g. In a mechanical point of view, if you were to carry/lift a big rock and weigh yourself carrying the rock, obviously you have gained weight as the rock carries weight.

Now to gain weight people normally carry fat (or protein etc.) these have to come from food.

Hence proof by induction shows that your thought of putting on weight without consuming food is impossible. - It has a probability of 0.

But proofs by induction are fallible! And I'm not quite sure how that is a proof by induction anyway.

In any case, if you ate absolutely nothing then you wouldn't gain weight. But if you started eating drastically less than is healthy, then you might because, as has already been said, your body starts converting pretty much everything in sight into fat because it thinks it is being starved.

Reply 10

Mad Vlad

19

Water retention?

Reply 11

Dekota

covered farm wagon

But proofs by induction are fallible! And I'm not quite sure how that is a proof by induction anyway.

Proof by contradiction then! (lol)

In any case, if you ate absolutely nothing then you wouldn't gain weight. But if you started eating drastically less than is healthy, then you might because, as has already been said, your body starts converting pretty much everything in sight into fat because it thinks it is being starved.

I think it is wrong to presume that eating nothing will have the effect of not gaining weight without experimental evidence. - According to the Darwnian thoery, Organisms adapt to the present conditions. So defiency in food in the body will cause the body to look for other sources of 'energy' preferablly adapt to the plant system of photosynthesising(!) otherwise the body will 'eat air'.

Reply 12

covered farm wagon

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Ricki

Proof by contradiction then! (lol)

I think it is wrong to presume that eating nothing will have the effect of not gaining weight without experimental evidence. - According to the Darwnian thoery, Organisms adapt to the present conditions. So defiency in food in the body will cause the body to look for other sources of 'energy' preferablly adapt to the plant system of photosynthesising(!) otherwise the body will 'eat air'.

How is it a proof by contradiction? I STILL DO NOT SEE. However, I do see that this post is in contradiction to your last one - perhaps that is what you meant?

Actually, are you drunk? Photosynthesis?! Where is the chlorophyll in humans? And 'eating air' would not cause weight gain because air has no calories. As for experimental evidence - I'm sure there's plenty about but I do not feel like looking it up.

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