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Anonymous
Hi /fit/,

The question that's been on my mind and that I haven't found an answer to is: is there a limit to the number of calories/fats/other nutrients the body can absorb from a single meal or in a single day?

Let's say someone works out every day and eats healthy but then they let themselves eat whatever once a week, and let's say they totally pig out on junk food or just fattie food. Let's say the meal is 5000 calories (I know that'd be hard to do but let's imagine). Do all those calories get absorbed and expended/stored or does some of the food not get digested and the calories stay in it? I can't figure this out.

Pic kind of related I guess.
>> Anonymous
Every single thing you put in your stomach that can be digested and broken down into useable energy, does.

Every single thing.
Drink a litre of oil for lunch, it'll get digested in its entirety.

Some shit contains cellulose and other stuff that your body cannot digest. That just gets shit out (carrots, broccoli, etc, and before you get stupid, there are some digestable parts of the carrots, just not in their entirety).

So, stop being fucking stupid. Every single little thing that you eat gets digested.
>> Anonymous
>>295766

That's close, but there are exceptions.

Like if you eat INSANE shittons of fiber, you will get the shits so bad that some of your food will sneak out before it gets fully digested. Just look at your turds.
>> Anonymous
>>295766

Errr thanks I think. It was a hypothetical question. I don't really do cheat meals like that, but I wanted to know.
>> Anonymous
>>295766
Ooohhh (not op). I was wondering if something was wrong with me because I shit out little carrot bits (they're my favorite veggie... I eat a lot of them). So, you're telling me you shit out little carrot bits, too? And that it's not really a problem... they're even less digestible than I originally thought?

tl;dr: I shit out little carrot bits, and it's normal?
>> Anonymous
>>295789
no fucker. you'r the new bugs bunny
>> Anonymous
>>295766

You are right for the most part. But there are exceptions. If I were to take insane amounts of multivitamins, I would end up pissing most of it out. So while everything gets digested, not everything gets used.

>>Do all those calories get absorbed and expended/stored or does some of the food not get digested and the calories stay in it?

If you're talking purely calories on the other hand, then no. If you eat 5000 calories your body will burn a lot of it from eating that much and from usual daily activities. The rest of it will go to making you a fat ass, or I suppose muscular if you work out an insane amount and it was a balanced meal.
>> Anonymous
Sugar always gets digested, AWAYS, bread pretty much counts as sugar. Complex carbs (think real, crazy fiber rich rye bread and such) are almost completely digested, though If you eat enough fiber, the amount of calories your body digests does down, and the amount of work it does to get them goes up, you also absorb more vitamins/minerals. Protien is digested according to the bioavailability of the protien source, egg whites will be utilised almost entirely, while black beans protien (for example) may go surprisingly unutilized. Fat can take 8-12+ hours to digest, and high fiber diets can severly decrease the amount of fat your body digests, the fiber often results in fat being passed through you before your body can get at most of it, fiber also absorbs fat to a certain degree.

So you can get away with higher fat in your diet, especially if its healthy fat and you eat enough fiber, but sugar is always bad, no way around it.
>> Anonymous
I forgot to mention that protien is always good (for losing fat) because it is inefficiently digested, raises your matabolism and has a disproportionately satiating effect on your apetite, compared to its caloric value.
>> Anonymous
Also, transfat is fucking cancer, and will fuck up your metabolism and apetite, avoid that shit, even on cheat days (you can find transfat free alternatives to everything, and they always taste better). Spicy food also gives you a metabolic advantage (it both reaises your metabolism, and prevents digestion to a certain extent).