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Default May 07, 2019 at 02:31 PM
 
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Actually Saturday I was 153. Not Friday. 4 pounds in 2 days is ridiculous and I was eating well over 3500 calories each day so it was real weight. I went back on the lower dose tonight. I’ll weigh on Wednesday.
4 pounds would be 3500 * 4 = 14,000 above what you need to stay even for 2 days, so about 17,000 calories in 2 days. Something like 4 pounds of hamburger, 2 pounds of cheese and 2 pounds of butter would come close to doing it. Spread out over time, it takes less than most people think to gain weight. In a short amount of time, it takes more to gain weight than most people think. When this is really important is if you have a binge/setback - a lot of people throw in the towel and start gaining big time again when the setback would have been a half pound or so. But the immediate effects due to water and increased food in the gut is much higher and people freak.

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