Highest gross number of daily calories ever recorded?

The tall guy from Texas who used to post here racked up an impressive 8,000 plus calories a few Thanksgivings back.

For me, personally, on a day that I actually tried to track accurately (usually some estimating but no random quick adds), it's somewhere in the 5000-somethings. I've done it a number of times. I wouldn't call it a true binge (don't feel driven to it beyond control; don't eat random things, foods I don't enjoy, or massive amounts of any one food).

On the one hand, 5000+ may not seem like that much. On the other hand, I'm a 62-year-old 5'5" woman who weighs in the 120s, so I feel like I'm competing above my weight class.

I'm in my 2nd year of maintenance, and strive to manage my calorie budget so I can significantly indulge periodically, since I figured out that I prefer life that way. It isn't always/usually 5000+ calories of indulgence, but it is sometimes. TDEE is in the mid-2000s.

I've hit about 16,000 calories/day once and 10,000 calories/day several times whenever I'd binge (my binge meals were about 8,000 calories and typically happened in the evenings) before my BED (Binge Eating Disorder) was diagnosed (I didn't know I had it & had never even heard of it, but just called my "big eats" as "pig outs" or "falling off my diet, again". Now that I'm getting treated for my BED (including medication with 75mg Topamax), I rarely binge anymore & a pleasant "side effect" from no more binges is stable blood sugars throughout the day (I'm an insulin-dependent Type-2 diabetic).

8000 was the best I could do. That was an all day meeting with Panera catering breakfast (4 cinnamon scones = 2400 cals) lunch and cookies (10 = 4000 cals). Plus a veggie wrap