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>>14434030
It takes an excess input of 3500 calories to gain one pound. This means you need to eat 3500 more calories than you burn to gain 1 pound of weight.

62 pounds gained = 217,000 excess calories input than you burned.

In the span of 7 to 8 months, that means you have consumed on average 27,125 - 31,000 more calories than you have burned for every month this year. That averages to 6,028 - 6,888 excess calories a week, which means you are consuming 861 - 984 excess calories a day, which is the amount above how much you burn at basal metabolic rate + any exercise. I am going to assume you don't exercise for the sake of this post.

If you started at 138 lbs and ended at 200 in the span of 7 to 8 months, that's an average of 7.75 - 8.86 pounds gained a month. If we assume your weight went up in equal amounts at an average of 8.31 pounds, you are a 25 year old male, and you didn't exercise, than that means we can calculate your daily total calorie consummation per month.

Month 1: 138 lbs daily BMR = 1,617 + avg excess calorie intake = 2,478 - 2,601 calories a day
Month 2: 146.31 lbs BMR = 1,655 + excess calorie intake = 2,516 - 2,639 calories a day
Month 3: 154.62 lbs BMR = 1,693 + excess calorie intake = 2,554 - 2,677 calories a day
Month 4: 162.93 lbs BMR = 1,730 + excess calorie intake = 2,591 - 2,714 calories a day
Month 5: 171.24 lbs BMR = 1,768 + excess calorie intake = 2,629 - 2,752 calories a day
Month 6: 179.55 lbs BMR = 1,806 + excess calorie intake = 2,667 - 2,790 calories a day
Month 7: 187.86 lbs BMR = 1,843 + excess calorie intake = 2,704 - 2,827 calories a day
Month 8: 196.17 lbs BMR = 1,881 + excess calorie intake = 2,742 - 2,865 calories a day

This is using averages and assumptions, but the bottomline OP is that you are eating anywhere between 2,500 - 3,000 calories a day on average and not exercising, and if you are exercising you are consuming more than that a day. Just thought it might help if you saw the numbers.

>get 3+ beers in me
>Immediately consume 1,000 - 2,000 calories worth of food

Anyone else?

I used to just eat oatmeal with a chopped banana, two tablespoons of chia seed/hemp seed/flax seed mix, scoop of vanilla protein powder, stevia sweetener, and 6 oz. of blueberries/raspberries/blueberries (whatever they had at the store the day I went shopping).

I now add 2 to 4 tablespoons of ground coffee and I like the added coffee taste as well as the energy the caffeine gives me. Might go back to no coffee in the oatmeal but definitely helps if I don't have time to make a cup before leaving for work.