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by VladRussian 5321 days ago
the professional sportsmen (or people working very phisically challenging jobs) may consume up to ~10K/day. Doesn't look overweight in my view:

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/13/the-michael-phelps-di...

It all depends on where the calories go/spent on.

>wouldn't such a person consistently gain a pound or two a month, every month?

Looking around [Bay Area, smart people filling up gyms on weekdays and trails on weekends] there are a lot of people with 30-50+ pounds of extra weight - it just looks so typical, that it became a new normal (I myself being in relatively good physical shape is 190lb at 6' height - this is about 30lb heavier than when i was 20 years ago a student back in Russia and 40lb lighter than what i became after the first year in the US before i got back in shape.)