I just read a story about Micheal Phelps in the New York Post. It seems in order to keep up his energy levels, he’s consuming massive amounts of food. Kinda reminds me of the Flash. This is a sample of his typical day’s diet:
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.
According to the Post, that’s a total of 12,000 calories in a single day! That’s nearly 8 times what I’m currently having per day and probably 3 times what I used to consume before my diet. This just goes to show you can definately eat all you want if you’re going to burn right through it. Maybe I should become an olympic swimmer! Just a thought….