Stupid question

[Always Sore]

Ok was talking to someone the other day and debating protien consumtion and about how much the body can use in one session and a thought crossed my mind. Is there a limit to the amout of calories your body can process before it expends them as waste? If you downed a ton of bad food in one day is there a saturation point that makes it moot?

[250Ben250]

It would depend on how much of a calorie deficit you are in, in the first place. If you've been eating to gain size as it is, then a huge 2k calorie meal is probably not going to be utilized all that well- you'll end up storing excess calories, likely as fat if you don't account for the excess calories in the following meals/days, or during your workouts. If you're coming off a long diet, that many calories at once may still be stored, but more likely stored or saved to replinish glycogen stores, etc. before storing as fat. 

In general the 30 grams of protein per meal limit is considered a myth.

[Always Sore]

It would depend on how much of a calorie deficit you are in, in the first place. If you've been eating to gain size as it is, then a huge 2k calorie meal is probably not going to be utilized all that well- you'll end up storing excess calories, likely as fat if you don't account for the excess calories in the following meals/days, or during your workouts. If you're coming off a long diet, that many calories at once may still be stored, but more likely stored or saved to replinish glycogen stores, etc. before storing as fat. 

In general the 30 grams of protein per meal limit is considered a myth.

Thanks, But what I was thinking was not so much for gaining or losing but more so as in theory lets say you ate like crap for a whole day. Big fatty breakfast and lunch and dinner with snacks inbetween. Not everything is going to be put in fat storage because if that was the case you could eat crappy for two days and work hard and diet for the next 30 and still be "calorie surplus".? I think there a point that the body shuts off absorbing and shuttles the rest to waste. Just a theory.

[250Ben250]

Thanks, But what I was thinking was not so much for gaining or losing but more so as in theory lets say you ate like crap for a whole day. Big fatty breakfast and lunch and dinner with snacks inbetween. Not everything is going to be put in fat storage because if that was the case you could eat crappy for two days and work hard and diet for the next 30 and still be "calorie surplus".? I think there a point that the body shuts off absorbing and shuttles the rest to waste. Just a theory.

I see what you're saying now. You may be right - I remember reading something regarding energy turnover and that it takes @ 10 hours for calories consumed to be either used for energy, stored for fat, or excreted as waste. If theoretically you "turnover" 100% of those caloried in that 10 hour window, then I would think the more calories you consumed during a day of pigging out would force you're body to excrete more, store more, and burn more, all proportionally so. IOW, you force you body to burn more calories, store more as glycogen and possibly fat, and crap more, all in the same day.

I think the point you're body stops absorbing calories would depend on everything from your current average calorie intake to your genetics.