This seems to be describing “reactive hypoglycemia” which is actually quite rare and confined almost exclusively to those with previous stomach surgery (resection) and rarely, inchoate type II diabetes. Reactive hypoglycemia, like so many “fad” and “popular” diseases is vastly overdiagnosed (usually in the absence of a medical opinion).
Yeah. I was trying for flipness and was hoist with my own candybar.
Mathematically are you saying …
Calories don’t count (if you eat while standing up, while alone, while in your pajamas) or (directly out of the fridge)?
So if you cannot eat directly out of the fridge you must eat standing up, alone and in your PJs?
My mistake - the numbers on the site I was using are not what I thought they were.
Yes, but if I eat a pound of celery, then I lose ten pounds! So clearly you just need to balance your diet 
It seems to be describing what anyone should expect to experience after eating a pound of chocolate. It’s not rare for anyone to experience an insulin spike after eating a lot of simple sugar and to have the symptoms described.
No, mathematically it’s that distributive law thingie:
If you eat while standing up
if you eat while alone
if you eat while in your pajamas
or
if you eat directly from the fridge
Thank you, ZipperJJ, for the parallel construction. It’s so refreshing.
What none of you are taking into account is that chocolate is like an iceberg: only 10% of it is in our dimension and the remaining 90% is in the fourth (or was it twelth) dimension. However, the digestive juices in your stomach gradually bring it back to our dimension. Thus you will gain 10 pounds from eating a pound of chocolate.
The cashews I bought yesterday have 180 calories/oz. Still, that’s only 2880 calories/pound.
Let’s say you’re a 30 year old woman who’s 5ft 5in tall and you weigh 135 lbs. Your daily expenditure of calories is approximately 1900 calories. You eat the pound of chocolate for a light after dinner snack after eating your normal amount of food all day which was probably in excess of 1900 calories. (Face it, you’ve been putting on weight). Everything you eat for the next day and a half is excess calories. It’s how many calories a week you’re eating that’s putting on the weight. It’s not what goes down in a single meal.
I am insulin resistant. If I eat pretty much any simple carbohydrates, one consequence is that my metabolism changes and I gain weight for several days afterward, even if I eat a diet that i was losing weight on before I ate the bread/candy/potato.
And, of course, everyone has ignored the simple fact that weight gain may not be a function of increased intake at all, but rather a reduction in calories expended, as, for example, caused by reduced activity levels. So, you eat the pound of chocolate on Monday, next Monday morning you are 4 lbs heavier. You investigate thoroughly and figure out that that pound of chocolate was the ONLY increased caloric intake over your normal rate for the week, but you ignore the fact that for the last week you spent an abnormal number of nights esconced on the couch with a movie as opposed to being out shopping in malls, forcing you to walk around a lot, etc.
Calories Ingested - Calories Expended = Calories Retained/Lost
There are too many variables to control in short window of time. When discussing weight gain and referring to the 3500 calorie rule, this is to be used when calculating over a longer period of time, so that the rule of large numbers starts to take over.
I think the whole chocolate = 10 lbs is begging the question.
Create 3500 cal deficits over many months and one would be able to predict with great accuracy the expected weight loss.
You could gain five pounds right now by eating a large meal and plenty of fluids, but the weight is just the mass of food and fluids in your digestive track. How much will be added as muscle, fat or create a side effect of fluid retention or cause reduced activity resulted in slower metabolism? Too many variables to measured in a day or two.
Concern yourself with body fat %, weigh one’s self not more than every 15 days… …and measure yourself to back up any apparent weight losses and gains.
(You could drop 2-3 pounds by taking a dump, too, but the spirit of losing weight is losing body fat, and scales don’t exactly track that accurately).
I don’t see how that’s possible without violating the laws of physics-how can one pound multiply itself into ten?
Because the storage of energy (as fat) in the body is inefficient.
Most body fat is not stored in isolation - there is additional water and cell walls, etc that may actually increase the weight gain.
At the end of the day, it is all pretty subjective - people do not tend to measure all the inputs and outputs from their body, so we don’t really know how our body is reacting to what we eat, and it is not particularly deterministic anyhow. You need to work with loner term trends.
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