For every 3500 calories you consume above the number of calories you burn, you gain one pound. The average person burns around 2,000 calories per day so, if you eat 3750 calories a day and live an average lifestyle, you will gain one pound every other day or about 15 pounds per month. There are a lot of variables in the equation but that's the mathematics of weight gain/loss.
thanks a bunch. any idea on the foods which contain high calories? and if we lose around 2000 calories a day then how much do we gain in a day on average?
If you ate 3,500 calories a day, 2,000 of them would be burned (assuming you're about average) leaving 1,500 to apply to your weight. At 1,500 per day you would gain almost one pound every other day (1,500 X 2 days = 3,000).
Pasta, rice, bread, meat and cheese all have plenty of calories.
thanks alot :) helpful, as always!
just onnneee more question if you don't mind. those foods you mentioned in your comment, how much of them do you think I would have to eat? would I have to eat alot of rice and bread and meat for example to gain those type of calories.. again, I am 15 and not sure if I mentioned but my appetite is not very large.
In the US, food is packaged with nutritional information. The label will have "serving size" and the number of calories. If the serving size is 8 ounces for example and the calories say 300, that means there are 300 calories in every 8 ounces you eat.
If that information isn't on the packages where you live, there's a list at this web site:
http://www.invive.com/Calorie.html