This is how many kilos you can gain per day

It was Christmas and I ate and I ate and I ate. On the third day of Christmas, it felt like I was three kilos heavier, on January 1st I estimated the damage at five. I'm back on a regime of soup and water, but the question remains: how many kilos can you actually gain in a day?

The basic rule is simple: you need to burn more than you take in to lose weight. You would think it works the other way around too. It does, if you eat more than you burn, you gain weight. Simple logic, but you really have to work hard to gain weight. If you want to gain half a kilo a day, you need to eat and drink 3500 calories on top of the recommended daily intake of 2000 calories. That's quite a lot.

To get a bit of a visual:

• You need to drink almost 52.2 glasses of dry white wine. I'm no lightweight, but this is even a bit too much for me.
• Or 31.8 glasses of beer, if you're more of a team yellow rascal. 
• With three Margherita pizzas a day, you can also make it, as breakfast-lunch-dinner. 
• Ten slices of cheesecake also bring you to 3500 and thus half a kilo up. 

Long story short: gaining weight is definitely possible if you really push through, but more than two kilos after Christmas and New Year's is unlikely. Phew, now I'm brave enough to step on the scale again.