Is it possible to gain a pound in one day?

I just binged like mad, and i'm fairly sure i've eaten about 2982 calories for the entire day, but most were consumed just recently. I'm pretty sure I consumed about 136 g of fat! D=

I've added up the totals of everything so that's probably dead on, but I had to take a guess with the cheese i consumed and just assumed it was 80 g of fat worth of cheese. I had a lot of cheese.

Does anyone know how this is going to affect me?

Well, cheese is high in sodium so be prepared for water retention tomorrow.

It is possible to gain a pound overnight but here's the thing: I could drink two cups of water and the scale would jump up even though water has 0 calories.  Or I could eat a few ounces of ultra-rich fudge that wouldn't show an immediate weight gain even though they're full of calories.  There's still plenty of time today to get some hard-core exercise in, that will help alleviate the binge. 

Don't beat yourself up over one binge . . . but do what you have to to make sure it stays ONE binge.  Pledge to be extra-good tomorrow and then make sure you are.

It takes 3500 EXTRA calories over your maintanance to gain 1 pound of fat.

So no, you won't gain a pound from it.

However it may take your body some time to process it all and if you drink enough water the excess may be flushed from your body without much harm.


So 1 day like that won't make much of a difference.

Expecially sicne you probably maintain at what... 2000... 2500 or something... so you only had probably an extra 500 to 1000 calories which is only 1/7th to 1/4 of a pound that could be deposited as fat.

I plan to exercise for an hour tonight on that step thing that burns a lot of calories in a little amount of time.. I feel stupid for not knowing the name =( hah

Also i am consuming a bunch of water right now, about 12 glasses worth.

But no, I eat about 200-300 calories a day usually. so i did go a lot over my allowance but not 3500 thank god.

Thanks a bunch though, I feel a LOT better knowing it won't affect me too badly.

excuse me , i thought you just said you eat 300 calories a day???

I find it hard to eat much more than that.

OK, as a past annorexic-bulimic chick here, I can say for certain that you are one of those (if you aren't by some miracle, than please forgive me)

Here's why I say this, and I am taking the following from your words:

"I just binged like mad, and i'm fairly sure i've eaten about 2982 calories for the entire day, but most were consumed just recently."  "But no, I eat about 200-300 calories a day usually."  "I find it hard to eat much more than that."

OK, for starters: You don't find it hard to eat much more than that... you find it mentally battled at the mere thought of eating much more that; however, as a human being, your desire to control what you eat gets way out of hand and your body just can't take it anymore and you eat everything you can possibly get your hands on... thus eating almost 3000 cals in one sitting.   Once you do eat that much, you panic.  You freak out and hop on the scale to see how much it went up.  You realize the difference in numbers (maybe 2-4 or so lbs) and you shove your finger down your throat to see how much you can get up and then hop on the scale again.  Knowing that you probably didn't get up all of it, you ran on the computer and jotted a blog entry to figure out how much of it was going to stay... am I close?

So, if I am nowhere near the truth, again, I am very sorry.  If I am right, honey, listen to me... I have been there and battled it for years.  I am27,  5'5 and weigh 114lbs.  And I have made myself physically and mentally sick. No joke!  I'm not hear to preach because that sure as hell didnt help me.  I'm hear to listen and offer advice.  By all means, you want to own up to something and wanna talk to someone who really knows what the heck they are talking about, please contact me.. please.  I will not judge or ridicule - I will support your thoughts and help you overcome.  No bs.  Promise.

300 calories a day will kill you. Read a book.