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Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner of Champions

Judging by his success, we should all adopt the Michael Phelps diet:

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.

I’m going to start this 12,000 calorie diet today.  Anyone want to join me?  In a short time, we should all be as fit as Michael Phelps.

Posted by Wendy at 0849 hrs
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1. Phelps is a freak of nature.  The dude has a 34” waist and a 32” inseam, he is 6’-4” with a 6’-7” wingspan, he has size 14 feet and is double jointed in his elbows, knees and ankles.

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2. I think you may have glossed over the part about swimming or working out for five hours a day, six days a week.

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3. I have a hard time believing that all adds up to 12,000 calories.  I know thats what the article states, but I think thats quite a bit of an exageration.

   I’m a bodybuilder 6’02” 297 pounds and its all I can do to physically stomach the 6000 calorie a day diet I’m on.

   Even with the proportionately low protein high carb regimen he’s on, I don’t think he’s getting anywhere close to 12,000 calories.

   I could believe he eats what they state in the article.  That wouldn’t be that hard.  Especially how easy carbs go down, but 12,000 calories, no way.

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4. One slice of pizza is 400-600 calories depending on what you put on it. call it 500 x 8 slices - 4000 calories right there.

   So if I just exercise 2.5 hours per day I can eat 6000 calores?

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5. Its hard to draw conclusions when it comes to food from the basic description given there.

   You are right that a piece of pizza can be 500 calories.  But only if it was a deep dish pizza PILED high with meat.  While a thin crust cheese pizza probably only has 230 calories per slice.

   Anyone can sit down and eat a whole “jacks” frozen pizza.  But can I see this guy downing a whole chicago style deep dish pizza piled with meat (which is what it would have to be to get to those calorie counts) AND a pound of pasta… No

   Anyway… There’s no way to verify it from the information given. I believe the guy eats ungodly amounts of food.  Like I said, carbs go down easy.  And I might believe that during the olympics with the extraordinary demands on his body from all the races he’s competing in he might have a few peak days when he’s eating perhaps close to that, but I guarantee he’s not eating 12,000 calories a day all year round. 

   In my opinion I think the story is at best misleading and not a true representation of his typical diet and at worst grossly exagerated for journalistic effect.

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6. The drive by media exagerate?
   tell me it cant be, i have a hard time grasping that.
   is that sarcastic enough?

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7. I’m not sure if this makes me hungry…or sick.

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8. Good gracious.  Can you imagine this guy’s grocery bills?  Or his check at a restaurant?

   If I ate all that food, there’s no way I could work out 5 hours a day, six days a week…I’d be a grease ball with legs.

   

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9. If he went to a NYC restaurant, they wouldn’t be able to get some of that food.
   It also shows that the food police are wrong.  You can eat like a pig and still be healthy.  That’s not what the food Nazis tell us.

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10. You can eat like a pig and still be healthy.

    If you ate like that and didn’t spend a huge chunk of your day engaged in vigorous exercise you would not be healthy.

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11. I’m about 8,000 calories into my new diet and I LOVE IT!  There are lots of dishes to wash after all that food, but that’s why we had kids. 

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12. Those 12 minute hot dog eating champs put away about 21,000 calories within that span.

    I wonder if Mark Spitz had a comparable diet to that of Phelps.

    Posted by Steve Burri on August 13, 2008 at 2113 hrs
    
    
    

13. You can almost throw up a little in your mouth watching those eating contests. I don’t think even in college I binge-ate like that even on a dare.

    Posted by Peter on August 13, 2008 at 2306 hrs
    
    
    

14. All my life I have been a slender person.  Entering high school I did not even weigh 100 pounds.  But for about the past three years I have been on a high carbohydrate diet, as prescribed by my dietitian, who also works with some of the UW-Madison football players.  I am one of those rare Americans that can eat his weight in food, and still not gain a pound.  That may sound great to most of you, but it actually has been a problem for me, and as such warranted medical attention.  Now with a special diet of insane amounts of carbohydrates, (60 grams three times a day) and calorie rich GNC energy drinks, (1000 calories per 32 ounce glass with whole milk) I finally bulked up to 163 pounds as the snow melted this year.  Being less sedentary in summer has put me back to about 155 pounds, and yet I eat carbs like crazy every day.

    Posted by Gregory on August 14, 2008 at 1130 hrs
    
    
    

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