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by dahart 3555 days ago
> if you eat 15,000 calories, how many of those calories will your body just pass right through your digestive tract?

Depends on how much you're burning, how much you weigh, and how many calories you normally eat. If you're not used to eating that much, you will find it really hard to.

There are loads of videos of average build people trying to eat 8000 or more calories, and at least some end up puking like this guy -- does that count as passing through the digestive tract? ;)

https://youtu.be/jWgsLGJUOc0

> I could see liquid calories like pop or juice being metabolized easily, but do all the beans in a Chipotle burrito end up clinging on your thighs and gut also?

When you eat more than you need in the form of a combination of fats & carbs, since carbs metabolize faster, fats get stored.

A Chipotle burrito is very high on fats, and carbs, and calories. So the answer is that the burrito will hit the thighs or waist almost as easily as juice, but it's not the beans, it's the whole burrito, and specifically the tortilla and cheese, sour cream & guacamole, those are the big ticket items.

A Chipotle burrito is:

  Beans:                      120 cals, 22g carbs
  Tortilla:                   300 cals, 46g carbs
  Cheese + Sour Cream + Guac: 415 cals, 36g fat
http://www.chipotlecaloriecalculator.com
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Using net carbs (since you don't digest fiber), those beans drop to 12g of carbs. Also don't forget rice:

  Beans:   115 cals, 12g carbs
  Rice:    185 cals, 33g carbs
Thanks for the detailed answer!

The reason I asked about beans specifically was because, as I understand it, they're harder to digest. I'm guess the corn I see in the toilet doesn't leave many calories on my stomach either.