Baaaad Weekend Question

So from Saturday morning until today I consumed somewhere close to 11,890 calories for 4 days. It was multi-grain cereal, mini wheats, saltines, oatmeal, subway, some fries and cake. Will this put on a lot of weight? Also, what should I do now? And also, I used to be 225 pounds, and I am down to 170 pounds by the way. I would love answers, because it feels like after that 4 days that my face has gotten pudgier and my stomach feels bigger. Thoughts?

Get back on the wagon! You can't pull it back out of your belly. Time to work it off. Drink lots of water, get some exercise, and don't stress about what's in the past. 

Oh man, I think my weekend was so much worse than yours. Chinese take-out, Halloween candy, pizza, the list goes on.

The best we can do is pick ourselves back up and get back on track.

I ate 4 lbs of burrito over the weekend, haha. I had one on Friday, one on Saturday, and a giant one on Sunday. Needless to say, I had the worst intestinal pain/nausea/indigestion on Sunday night/Monday morning. Monday I could hardly eat, and was generally grumpy and miserable due to spending the previous evening curled up in fetal position instead of sleeping. Serves me right for being a glutton, I suppose.

Also: like 5 tacos from the Border Grill Truck while drunk on Friday, and churros on Sunday at Olvera St. for their Day of the Dead celebration. And a bottle of wine (over a few days), along with a mimosa, a bloody mary, brunch at some Cuban place, and 3 glasses of elderflower prosecco. Oh, and half of a red velvet cupcake I baked + a homemade chocolate brain. And salt and vinegar chips at a Halloween party on Saturday. Terrible food with 0 nutritional value, basically.

I'm not really seeing any weight change, despite the feasting. I gained about 3 lbs of water weight, but I've already shed most of that.

You can get a rough estimate of the weight gain by calculating your daily caloric expenditure over the 4 days (BMR*4), subtract that from the number of calories consumed (11,890), and divide by 3500.  That will give you pounds of potential weight gain if every single calorie was to be converted to fat and you did absolutely no physical activity during those 4 days.  In other words, this calculation represents the worst case scenario.

Ok, so it said I didnt even add a full pound, how accurate is using that tool for weight?

That sounds about right. It's a high estimate of potential weight gain.  It's not very accurate because it does not take into account calories you would consume exercising, walking, etc, and you need to have an accurate value for your BMR. 

When it comes to fat retention, it's all about the physics.  Take the energy input into the system (Calories from food), subtract energy expenditures (Calories from BMR, Exercise, etc) and you get the caloric difference.  That's the amount of energy you lost or retained.  The body uses fat tissue to store excess calories for long term storage. 

So, if we have a 4,500 calorie surplus and we know there are 3,500 calories in a pound of body fat, we can take the 4,500 and divide it by 3500 to get 1.28 pounds of body fat that could potentially be created.

  CALORIES IN - CALORIES OUT
-----------------------------------------&nbs p; =  Pounds of Fat
  CALORIES PER POUND OF FAT