your weight after eating

[Fethos]

If you are say 10 stone weight and eat 1/2 a stone of mashed potates, will you then be 10.5 stone and if not, why not

[simms]

Half a stone = 8 pounds. Who could eat that weight of food at one sitting? The simple answer is that food goes in, and comes out, at a steady rate and one factor that stops you putting on weight is to keep it coming out.....

[ursula62]

Actually, half a stone is seven pounds as there are 14 pounds in a stone.  And the important thing to maintaining your weight is that you burn the food energy at the same rate as you take in food. If you just sent it out as fast as it came in you wouldn't use any nutrients and would be ill with, for example diarrhoea.

Yes, in theory you would weigh more.  Years ago we did an experiment - we all weighed ourselves on digital scales. Then one person ate a pound of plums (yes, you can do that in one sitting), another drank a pint glass of water.  The person who ate the plums was a pound heaver, but the person who drank the water was also a pound heavier.  What's more interesting is that after peeing,  the person who drank the pint of water was 1lb less than his original weight, so his bladder must have already been fairly full.

The whole point is that your weight is not constant, it fluctuates throughout the day, and from day to day, especially for women of childbearing age.

That's why when you're dieting it is recommended that you only weigh yourself once a week on the same day and at the same time of day each time.

[Cloned]

to answer the other question the average stomach can fit about 4 litres. Just so that u know.