what are you eating? anyone hitting 12,000 calories a day?

[skategeezer]

What if skaters ate like Olympic Athletes?


From the NY Post...

Phelps, 23, will swim 17 times over nine days of competition at the Beijing Games - meaning that he will need all the calories he can shovel in his mouth in order to keep his energy levels high.


Phelps' diet - which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal - resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
Phelps remains on course to at least equal Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals won at the 1972 Munich Games.

[bucksaw87]

k-felpz needs all the calories he can get

[Mr. Sociable]

I ate probably ~8-9k a day when I was a swimmer, but Phelps' breakfast makes me want to vomit. That's so much food...

[Dinghy]

How does that much food even fit inside of him? I'd have to take a #### or something a couple times between every meal...

[pithaya]

I would have thought he'd use more whole grains, veggies or more balanced foods. I wonder what his... i'll say it in french... toilette looks like after all of this.

Check out Dean Kamaze's story.

Wired 15.01: The Perfect Human

"Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days. He does 200 miles just for fun. He'll race in 120-degree heat. 12 secrets to his success."

"He carries a cell phone and regularly orders an extra-large Hawaiian pizza. The delivery car waits for him at an intersection, and when he gets there he grabs the pie and rams the whole thing down his gullet on the go."

[SpeedFiend]

I could eat 12k calories in a day but not for consecutive days. I have a gluten intolerance and have been eating to gain weight the past few months. Hard work.

[Hmann]

the last time i did a major thru hike i ate almost 13,000 a day during training. and upwards of 19,000 on the trail. cause when you move 40+ miles a day on foot throught the mountains with a 30lb backpack you tend to burn a few calories.

[SpeedFiend]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
thats a ridiculous amount of energy.

[HerBDerb]

I could eat that much, not everyday though, just once in a while.

[BUboarder]

i wish i had a reason to eat that much stuff...







you could substitute energy drinks for a few beers per meal excluding breakfast...that'd be a few additional calories

[Xgecko]

Just an idea of what he's doing to need that much food yesterday in addition to racing a total of 400meters for 2 two Golds he also swam another 7900meters...for a total of 8300meters...that's 5.15 miles which considering every swim mile is roughly equal to 4-4.5 miles of running. That means he did almost a marathon yesterday. BTW that's pretty much an average day for him.

[GPymp]

I eat about 1800 calories a day just to maintain my shape..in the couch cushions. (except for the weekend when I skate.)