Can we eat soaked chana in empty stomach to increase weight?

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Today I am going to talk about the relationship between soaked chana or chickpeas and weight gain.

I have already discussed about weight gaining phenomenon in my previous posts. 

You can also check these posts:

What is bulking or gaining weight?

Clean bulking or gaining lean muscle

Dirty bulking or gaining weight

Here, I will discuss about basic terms that led  to weight gain.

Weight gain simply occurs when we start consuming more calories than our maintenance calories.

i.e.CALORIES IN>CALORIES OUT=BULKING 

So, for gaining weight you have to eat more calories than your maintenance calories if you want to gain weight.

Now, if we talk about consuming soaked chana or chickpeas in empty stomach than it will provide limited amount of calories.

100 gram of soaked chana or chickpeas will provide around 240 calories.

Macros for 100gram soaked chana:

Protein:   11g
Fats:         3.5g
Carbs:      40.6g
Fibre:       18.9g

Let's see an example:-

A person is of 150lb and his maintenance calories is something around 2500 calories.

So, for weight gain he has to consume calories above than his maintenance calories i.e. 2800 calories.

So, he has to eat something around 1200 gram of soaked chana, which is very large amount.

#Conclusion:

No, we cannot eat soaked chana in empty stomach to gain weight. But we can can add it to our bulking diet and use it to fulfill our daily caloric intake.

#Note:

Consume 100gram - 200gram of soaked chana and not more than that as it is loaded with high amount of fibre so, it will cause bloating.

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