What would you eat if you could eat 12,000 calories a day?

[sarea]

Holy Moses. MSNBC’s Tamron Hall takes a look at which foods comprise the 12,000 calories Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps consumes in one day.

12,000 calories. *boggle* I mean, I know he needs it given the workout he puts his body through, but just seeing that number totally wigs me out. That's literally 10 times the number of calories I aim for per day. That is amazing. Oooh I found a breakdown of what he eats (supposedly from his autobiography + other sources):

Breakfast: 3 fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise; 2 cups of coffee; a 5-egg omelet; bowl of grits; 3 slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar; 3 chocolate-chip pancakes

Lunch: 1-lb of enriched pasta; two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread; then about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks

Dinner: 1-lb of pasta; an entire pizza; then about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks

Clearly all I need to do is work out 5 hours a day, 6 days a week, and I can eat like I've always wanted to. *dreams of what those 12,000 calories would consist of*

Tomorrow is my work BBQ (I love BBQs!), then Saturday I'm having sushi and Tropic Thunder with corianderstem! Woot.

In about 40 min I have a meeting with my manager to discuss this last year's compensation rewards (I'm going to guess ... very, very little), and then at 3pm it's off to the farmer's market for my pig fat! I can't wait! (This is not as contradictory to my need/desire to eat healthier due to bad cholesterol results as it might seem. More later.)

Edit: Wow, okay, totally unexpected. I got a promotion, lol. It was so unexpected even my manager was like, "I was surprised too!" Not due to my job performance, but because I just got one last year and it's fairly rare. Plus a decent bonus. Hmm now I have to decide what item I'm going to splurge on as a reward for myself ... oh who am I kidding, we all know it'll probably involve Louis Vuitton.

Comments

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

Back in the mid-'90s, I was in a booster club for a minor league baseball team. Those guys (mostly around age 18 to 24) ate easily 6,000 calories a day during the season. There was a buffet restaurant in town where they ate lunch nearly every day because it was the cheapest way to get a LOT of food (it was under $6 including beverage).

Baseball players don't get nearly the workout that swimmers do, so 12,000 calories wouldn't surprise me. :)

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Yeah totally. I wish I were more athletic so I'd have a reason to eat a lot!

[embe11ished.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the promotion! It's too bad it doesn't mean you get to eat more, though! :)

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

You just had to rub it in, didn't you. ;) Thank you!

[ceilidh]

OMG that is a lot of food. I feel sick! :P

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I guess there is such a thing as too much of a good thing...

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

See, that is totally how I lost weight last time - because I still ate a lot, really, but I was *ridiculous* with how much DDR I was doing. I burnt like 3000 calories *just* with that, plus walking, plus etc. etc. Sigh. I gotta stop being a slug.

Yay promotion!! Buy Betty's bag!

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Congratulations!