Simply put, the fat you store in your body is the leftover protein, fat and carbohydrates that you haven’t burnt up as energy. Therefore, if you take in a surplus of calories and don’t use them after incorporating your exercise regime, your body will simply force itself to store the excess intake or to pass it out. The way your fat cell system works is that instead of replacing or passing out old fat cells with your current intake, your body multiplies more fat cells. This means that it will be easier for you to gain fat next time, rather than lean muscle mass, and your metabolism rate will also decrease quicker compared to the natural decline with age. Your wellness could also be at risk to obesity-related complications due to the sheer amount of fat cells in your body.
The number of meals you eat a day is also a factor to consider. Eating three big meals a day is not the best way forward for weight gain, but rather you should eat as many times as you can in a day in small amounts. This means that you will keep your metabolism rate up and your body consistently fuelled according to the chemical chains of the food. For example, it takes a maximum of 4 hours to break down carbohydrates, so if your next mealtime is more than 4 hours away, your fat deposits and the glycogen storage in your muscles will be providing you with energy, which in turn means you will have lesser growth and a higher likelihood of more fat cells multiplying over a period of time.
Finally, visible growth is the last effect of a moderated diet. If you pile on the pounds through overeating, you’ll be unable to find out how much lean muscle mass you gain you go through ‘cutting’, which is another catabolic phase in the muscle-building cycle. ‘Cutting’ means your muscle size will decrease as they are being deprived from water and changed in type to one which has an extensive network of capillaries and trigger slowly under pressure. If you’re putting on weight for muscle-building reasons, this is obviously not the result you want.