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Why Getting Fatter Isn't Easy

Why Getting Fatter isn't Easy

I was inspired by @eatdeepfriedgrits recent adventures diligently recording and reporting his impressively excessive intake, particularly his 10,000 calorie per day marathons.

Stumbling on a collection of online body measurement and estimation calculators at omnicalculator.com -- particularly the weight-gain one -- compelled me to plunge deeper into what it really takes to blimp up good.

omnicalculator.com

Weight Gain Calculator

The weight gain calculator helps you to estimate how many calories you need to eat to increase your weight.

If you give the calculator your current weight, how fat you want to get, your height, age, and some indication of how much you exercise (sedentary, light, moderate, hard, and very physical), and whether you want to gain slow (0.5 kg or 1.1 lb per week) or fast (1 kg/2.2lb), it tells you how many calories you need to put away each day and how long it will take to blow up.

Everyone's body responds differently to gaining, and regaining is easier than initially putting on weight, but it's interesting seeing how various factors could affect your progress. Although it illustrates why getting fatter sometimes seems so difficult, you may also discover that you're a lot better at it than you thought you were.

The calculator shows a graph of increasing consumption, week by week. (See the pictures.) You need more and more calories to maintain the weight you pile on, so you need to gradually increase your daily intake, so it shows a graph of that and how much you might expect to pork up as the weeks go by.

Generally, this means you'll need to add 25-45 calories per day each week. That doesn't sound like much, and it's not, but the challenge is keeping up the pace.

It's reasonable to assume all this is to gain new weight. If you're regaining, it can pile back on a lot faster in the beginning.

Out of curiosity, I ran scenarios for 25 and 35 year old guys, 5'10" tall, starting at 200 pounds and gaining 100 pounds at an aggressive 1 kg each week up to 300. Scenarios for being sedentary and at various levels of exercise intensity gives a sense of how much consumption can vary depending on activity.

Even so, the gains are at the same rate, so it takes 47 weeks for any of the 100-lb-gain scenarios to pack on 100 pounds.

The sedentary 25-year-old needs 2,278 kcal/day to maintain his starting weight and 4,590 kcal/day to begin gaining. That increases by 25 kcal/day each week until he's at 5,807 kcal/day when he weighs in at 300 pounds. These are averages over the course of each week, though, so "make up" experiences may be necessary (and fun).

If he exercises hard (4-5 times/week), he needs 3,322/day to maintain at the start and 6,235/day to begin gaining, increases his daily intake by 45 kcal/day each week, and maxes out at 8,010/day in the 47th week. It doesn't seem realistic, however, for him to be blimping up like that while sustaining hard exercise, so he very well may gain faster as his activity diminishes.

A less ambitious, 180-pound 25-year-old who exercises moderately 2-3 times/week and wants to put on 20 pounds at 1kg/week needs 2,892 kcal/day to maintain but starts out at 5,466 kcal/day and works up to 5,818 in Week 11. So, if he can consistently pack away around 5,700 calories every day, he can be 20 pounds fatter in just over 2 months.

The sedentary 35-year-old starts out at 4,500 kcal/day and needs to work up to around 5,800/day in Week 46. If he exercises moderately, he needs 5,706/day to start and maxes out at 7,328/day when he reaches 300 in the final week.

Of course, maintaining such an aggressive pace day after day, week after week, probably isn't practical or possible for most. Right? But if you've sustained and experienced this for shorter time periods, you know it could happen.