How do competitive eaters stay so thin?!
Kimblesnbits13
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I'm really intrigued by competitive eaters and how they stay so thin. They only do events once or twice a month but still....they take in anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 (if not more). And here i am after some weekends of overeating by maybe 1000 trying to undo damage done lol. That alone takes a couple days to a week to get the water weight off! Anyone else wonder about these people and how they do it?!?!
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Not sure about all competitive eaters, but in Japan they are usually under medical supervision and include exercise into their daily routines to make sure they keep healthy.
- To clarify - I don't know if this is true for all of them in Japan, but the pros usually do this.1 -
Maybe they are very physically active, eg. Erik the Electric.
People don't get fat from acute overeating once/twice a month, they get fat from overeating on a daily basis.4 -
I've attended many eating competitions and am close to quite a few competitive eaters. They work out. And they don't eat for days afterwards. At least the ones I know don't.
They also "eat train" few days before by eating food that expands their stomach but are not very calorie dense, like lettuce or cabbage.7 -
Do they reguritate afterward? I would.1
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I would imagine that if you ate that much in a short amount of time, your digestive system would not be able to handle it and would "reject" a good portion of it...one way or another.4
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Only competitive eaters I've ever seen here in Australia are the Americans on pay tv channels and those dudes are like 400lb rednecks so I'm not sure what you're referring to.3
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When Adam Richmond had that Man vs Food show he definitely got fat over the seasons. I saw him on tv recently and he seems to be a healthy weight now.3
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When Adam Richmond had that Man vs Food show he definitely got fat over the seasons. I saw him on tv recently and he seems to be a healthy weight now.
He was the first one that came to mind. I always thought that guy was a heart attack waiting to happen while watching Man Vs Food.4 -
Workout diligently everyday and you can have a cheat day once a week1
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I've honestly always assumed most of them are hitting the ipecac syrup hard once they get home. Can you imagine the damn pain? Ugggh0
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JessicaMcB wrote: »I've honestly always assumed most of them are hitting the ipecac syrup hard once they get home. Can you imagine the damn pain? Ugggh
That's what i thought too. What goes in, comes straight back out asap.0 -
Shocks me, look up Matt stone. Skinny as a stick and can plow down mass amounts of food.2
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mca90guitar wrote: »Shocks me, look up Matt stone. Skinny as a stick and can plow down mass amounts of food.
Yeah Matt Stonie and Erik the electric were first that came to my mind!0 -
When Adam Richmond had that Man vs Food show he definitely got fat over the seasons. I saw him on tv recently and he seems to be a healthy weight now.
That why they later changed the program so that he didn't have to eat all of that food. Later episodes had him recruiting local talent to eat the food instead.
Don't think the program is on anymore but now there's a new program called "Ginormous Food" on the Food Channel where the host goes to places what produce obscenely large food products but he doesn't eat them -- he shares the food with people who are on the location at the time of the filming.1 -
Like everyone else, they abide by the irrefutable laws of calorie balance.
If they aren't gaining weight, then over a sustained period they are consuming maintenance calories.3 -
mca90guitar wrote: »Shocks me, look up Matt stone. Skinny as a stick and can plow down mass amounts of food.
I love watching his videos. He’s insane with what he can get down. The pizza video (a family pizza meal deal like 5 large pizzas and sides) and the massive burrito ones were my favourites. #fooddreams1 -
Like everyone else, they abide by the irrefutable laws of calorie balance.
If they aren't gaining weight, then over a sustained period they are consuming maintenance calories.
This.
Many fast and/or stagger calories over the week. There are also a handful that put the energy to good use in the form of exercise as well.0 -
Kimblesnbits13 wrote: »mca90guitar wrote: »Shocks me, look up Matt stone. Skinny as a stick and can plow down mass amounts of food.
Yeah Matt Stonie and Erik the electric were first that came to my mind!
Watch ETE's youtube. He trains a lot, often w/ extremely long bike rides and a long leg workout before his eating challenges etc.0 -
Kimblesnbits13 wrote: »mca90guitar wrote: »Shocks me, look up Matt stone. Skinny as a stick and can plow down mass amounts of food.
Yeah Matt Stonie and Erik the electric were first that came to my mind!
Watch ETE's youtube. He trains a lot, often w/ extremely long bike rides and a long leg workout before his eating challenges etc.
I know he trains a lot, so in his case, maybe you really CAN out-train a bad diet lol0
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