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WESTARR61205
11/26/07 12:42 P
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GOLFPRO,
You are correct. Yes your body will only store the callories and will send out the waist tommorrow but tommorrow, if you eat nothing else, no liquids or anything and you dont remove anything from your body you cant weight more than a pound.
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It sounds like you're talking about weighing yourself, eating a pound of something, and then stepping right back on the scale.
You're correct in that, at that very moment, you won't gain more than a pound. I think your wife, and others are thinking about effects beyond that very moment.
At that instant, your body won't have started digesting anything so you won't be able to gain more than the actual weight of the food. Later in the day, or the next couple days, your body will realize the caloric intake.
matt
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WESTARR61205
11/25/07 4:53 P
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| But how can your body create mass. If a car has a (lets say) 20 pound tank and no mater if what you put in it is 20 pounds how can it weigh more, yes your car will only burn gas but it will only weight phisiclly 20 lbs more.
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MOTIVATED@LAST
11/24/07 11:02 P
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Well if you ate a pound of salt, you would probably gain more than a pound because of all the water you would be drinking pretty soon after.
but generally yes, the law of conservation of mass would hold.
M@L
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Are you talking "literally"? As in, stick a pound in your mouth, you gain a pound. Then take it out of your mouth and lose a pound?
Or, are are you talking about eating a pound of something and it causing you to gain a pound?
If it's scenario 1, then you're right. As soon as you remove the pound from your mouth, you'll be down a pound.
If you're talking about scenario 2, then mass doesn't matter one bit; it's all about calories. 1 pound of chocolate has a heck of a lot more calories than 1 pound of carrots. You may temporarily gain the pound of food you ate, and possibly gain MORE. It all depends on how many calories the food has, and how you're body processes/digests the food.
Make sense?
matt
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WESTARR61205
11/24/07 6:26 P
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| I belive if you stick a pound of something in your mouth all you can gain from it is a pound, my wife belives you will gain more! How can your body create stored mass greater than the amount you give it to store?
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