Comment by Adverblessly
1 year ago
> All things being even 200kcal difference per day is about 20lbs per year attributed purely to metabolic difference.
As you gain weight, you burn more energy, even just being idle, so 200kcal doesn't means 20lbs per year (obviously so, as otherwise you'd gain 600lbs in 30 years).
An extra 200kcals per day implies gaining extra weight until the extra energy you burn cancels it out, and then stabilizing there. IIRC the rule of thumb is ~25kcal/day/kg so you'd just naturally balance out to being 8kg heavier than the baseline.
> As you gain weight, you burn more energy, even just being idle
Only if you gain mostly muscle. Which I'd bet most people at a calorie surplus aren't, and the extra fat is burning very little calories.
You might become more sedentary as you gain more weight.