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I just read an article that discussed what Olympic gold-medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps typically eats for breakfast:
- 3 fried-egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions, and mayonnaise
- A 5-egg omelet
- A bowl of grits
- 3 slices of French toast with powdered sugar
- 3 chocolate chip pancakes
- 3 cups of coffee
I love food. Looooooove food… oh yes, my pudginess does not lie. Yet I am having a really hard time imagining how one person can eat that much in one sitting. I am trying to visualize all that food laid out side by side (one of my tricks for weight-control-by-guilt), and it’s kinda scary.
I guess that when you’re burning off 10,000 calories each day, though, it’s necessary.
Contrast that with what Doc and I ate for Sunday breakfast yesterday… a small portion of hash browns, a pumpkin spice waffle with syrup, a small slice of grilled ham, half a peach, and coffee. (Each, of course.) I was so stuffed that I didn’t eat lunch until 4 p.m.
So, here is my question. If you had to eat 10,000 calories every day, what would you eat?
6,666.66… Tic Tacs. mmmmmmm…..
I like egg sandwiches!
I saw the Good Morning America clip where they talked about that and they had all that laid out. It was a lot of food. He eats 12K calories a day but then he swims for like 8 hours too.
I’d want to eat a big variety of things, a small steak, a bunch of sushi, two or three donuts, garlic cheese mashed potatoes, mozzarella caprese, a loaf of bread from Macaroni Grill, and maybe an omelet. Mmmm sushi potato bread steak omelet.
I'm thinking that I could get at least part of the way to a zillion calories with red wine, cheese & fruit, ice cream, sausages, garlic bread, pizza, pistachios, and oatmeal cookies.
red wine by the case; fettucini alfredo by the tabletopful; krispy kremes; steak; lasagnas; more fettucini alfredo
So when we all join the Olympic swimming team, and I am cooking before our big day, we will immerse Bender in a refrigerator box full of Tic Tacs, tape the seams shut, and let him eat his way out. The rest of us will be enjoying our eggs, steak, pasta, donuts, and red wine. 🙂
While the thought of swimming through a refrigerator box of scrumptious mints is appealing and brings back fond memories of the Chuck-E-Cheese ball pit, I would really prefer to have the Tic Tacs pounded into a fine powder and fed to me via feeding tube. That way I don’t waste energy chewing and swallowing and can conserve all of the precious Tic Tac calories.