Eating a whole cake in one go vs a slice at a time over a week, which would cause the most weight gain?
I’m sure there are answers out there but I do not have the correct terminology to find the answer. Would also like any good articles or research links to read up on!
Eating a whole cake in one go is more likely to trigger your satiety hormones pretty hard and cause you to lose your appetite for the next while, whereas you can add a few hundred calories on every day with a slice without impacting your overall appetite and intake. I suspect you’d find most people gain weight through small, consistent calorie excess rather than through infrequent gorging.
From a mathematical stand point it’s going to be a lot easier to budget for a slice of cake, say every other day for a week. You could definitely work that in to those calories by holding back on carbs elsewhere during the day. Where as I don’t see any possibility of budgeting for a whole cake in a single sitting unless that’s all your eating for the day and that would probably still end up putting you in a surplus for the week over all and you’d have one day extremely heavy on carbs and fats with no protein.