10 Athletes with Insane Diets

[Herc]

Could you imagine how many shits he takes in a day?

[Bouncer]

We all know that won't happen so feel free to call me gullible and be a skeptic while I take him for his word and we can put another one of our seemingly more frequent disagreements behind us.

Chuck I hope you don't feel like we are being argumentative dicks just to be so.

I can just say that I have some experience with calorie and diet experiments. Most I've done was 5000 cals per day and while that is very easy to do on junk food occasionally, trying to get that amount of clean cals consistently day after day is insanely hard.

Now this guy your talking about is eating 4 times that amount. Yes he is a big guy but he isn't THAT big in terms of what he claims to eat. He's 400lbs but he's holding at least 75lbs of fat. Lets assume he would be 325lbs lean. That makes him 100lbs heavier then me at the same bf%. While 100 lbs is a lot it's not a 85% increase in cals difference bro! I'm also on test and deca which aids in how the body uses cals. He claims natural correct?

The sheer volume and weight of the food sitting in his body would do nothing beneficial for him. It would slow him down and make his body use a shit ton of energy just digesting food.

This is the most likely scenario. He goes on calorie benders. Every now and then he consumes as many cals as he can for whatever reason he can justify. BUT there is absolutely zero chance that he is consuming 20k cals per day every single day. There is also zero chance that his body is using even half of those calories. There is no way in hell he is as active as an NFL player or Olympic swimmer. There is a reason he is so fat.

All I ask is that you try to go through the experience of even 5k cals per day for a week just to understand what I'm saying. It's not about a persons ability to eat claories in 1 sitting. The far far harder part of this is to do it day after day. I'm not asking you ro eat 20k cals. I'm asking you to try and be consistent with 1/4th of that to get a real idea of what we are talking about here.

[Scrumhalf]

I'm also saying BS to David Carter's 10,000 kcal as a vegan. No way. The sheer volume of food to get to that calorie point would be ridiculous. There are no calorie dense vegan foods. He's either lying about the vegan part, or the 10,000 kcal part.

[rado]

Hotdog competition eaters don't eat 16k cals day in and day out.

Because competition eating isn't about cals lol...more so what the stomach can hold. Comp eaters practice stretching the stomach wall more so than eating tons of cals

[chuckz28]

I get it but not all people have the same level of appetite. On top there are drugs people take to supress the feeling of being full. Maybe he doesn't consume that many calories but looking up a handful of top strongman diets the least I've seen is 6k a day and generally 8.5k -10k. Would you say this is possible or is every single guy lying about mundane stuff like his food intake as well as the less mundane drug use? We are talking about one guy on a planet of 7 billion people with a diet of 15k a day. The human body can do amazing shit that seems incomprehensible. The world record time for holding ones breath is 22 min. Sounds more impossible than a guy eating 15k calories a day to me but it's been done.

[Herc]

It's not day in and day out. I'm sure that guy has had 20k days though.

[Bouncer]

I get it but not all people have the same level of appetite. On top there are drugs people take to supress the feeling of being full. Maybe he doesn't consume that many calories but looking up a handful of top strongman diets the least I've seen is 6k a day and generally 8.5k -10k. Would you say this is possible or is every single guy lying about mundane stuff like his food intake as well as the less mundane drug use? We are talking about one guy on a planet of 7 billion people with a diet of 15k a day. The human body can do amazing shit that seems incomprehensible. The world record time for holding ones breath is 22 min. Sounds more impossible than a guy eating 15k calories a day to me but it's been done.

I get what you're saying. Again though I have to point out that holding ones breath for 22min while very impressive is not done on a day to day bases. That's where the fabrication comes in. I'm not saying they are not capable of doing an extreme feat, I'm saying they are not capable of doing it day in and day out.

You mention the strongmen who consistently get 8-10k cals. While I still see that as being difficult I would say it's possible for elite strongmen weighing +400lbs. 20k calories however is not, not consistently.