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Highest gross number of daily calories ever recorded?
tintarandy
Posts: 69 Member
Just wondering
Mine was around 4500 after a binge (can't remember thw exact number.. it was something like 4485)
Mine was around 4500 after a binge (can't remember thw exact number.. it was something like 4485)
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Wooo.... no.
I am just bored3 -
If you google it there are some pretty impressive numbers.4
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I have never tracked a binge, but I can guarantee you I would probably be entered into The Guinness Book of World Records.4
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57003
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Mine has been around 5,000 and it wasn’t even a binge! I just ate out all 3 meals at decadent restaurants plus booze. And drunk me can never get satisfied lol.
It was along the lines of:
Crepes
Chips
Avo toast
Eggs
Mac n cheese
Chicken Marsala
Fries
Mashed potatoes
Mac n cheese
Eggplant and Mozzarella pasta
Filet mignon
Lobster
Fried chicken
Mochi ice cream
Lava cake
Chips
Cheese and crackers
All in one day :-) and I was tipsy the entire day so that doesn’t even include alcohol lol
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The tall guy from Texas who used to post here racked up an impressive 8,000 plus calories a few Thanksgivings back.7
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Google eric the electric. He's put away some massive numbers.5
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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.8 -
I didn't count calories but a couple of months ago, I was in an eating contest and I was able to gain 5-lbs in about 1-hr (I won total weight-gain-wise but not %-wise)! Some of it was liquid weight in the form of chocolate milk but most was solid. Don't know if I should brag about that! I'm sure that is light-weight compared to some.
In college when I was running track, I tracked calories for 1-week because I was curious as to how much I was eating (a lot) and I counted between 4000-5000-kcals that week. That was my normal feeding and I weighed only 160-lbs at 6'1". I was trying to gain weight in those years but couldn't!5 -
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).12
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I doubt I've ever tracked on my highest days - I'm sure there have been some good ones. The most I've tracked was in the 5,000 calorie range, but that was when I was in the police academy and doing my own workouts on top of my training, so I was expending like crazy too. I didn't bother tracking when I was going through black belt testing (probably the most fit I've been in my life) as I was eating everything and anything I wanted and was still ending up below my body's "happy weight" (not that I was complaining). Only issue was that wasn't a maintainable level of activity, so put those few pounds back on once I was done with the testing.2
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5300+. It was delicious.3
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I'd be scared to find out. I've eaten out three plus meals and had a good drink on so it would be some kind of scary. Plus I'm a sweets guy so the calories would be off the chart.1
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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
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2700 on a twelve hour work day, all fatty free food from work.
I burned it all, then ended up sick the next morning with the super poops.1 -
Oh geesh 9,000 or so. Not pretty.2
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Ever recorded?? I am sure its got to be well over 100,000 if you have all day. Heck Michael Phelps eats 12,000+ on a regular basis training. I'd estimate I've eaten about 20,000 for a 36" pizza eating challenge and I'm sure many regular eating competition guys have gone way over that. When I was training heavy, your 4,500 cal binge was a regular day, and just had 4 days over that for Christmas, dont feel bad.1
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After a really bad binge I tried counting the cals I had eaten but stopped when I hit 10,000...3
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Joey chestnut ate 73.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes. 73.5 * 250ish calories = 18375 calories in 10 minutes. I'm guessing that's going to be tough to beat. for anyone.2
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This year my highest was.....
And a big deficit from a long cycle ride.
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Nah. Not going there.2
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*dont do drugs kids* during the down, when the munchies hit, I can handle a 5k binge. All the while eating the most disgusting combinations life has to offer.
Like a fully loaded shawarma and frozen condensed milk as desert. (: I have no shame lmao4 -
I participate in the 6000 calorie Thanksgiving challenge, every year. I didn't make it, this year, but I thought my goal was pretty "up there." I see from this thread, though, that I'm in the peewee leagues, instead of the big leagues.
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Highest legitimately recorded (No misc. entries) was approx 3300 cals.1
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Attempted the youtube 10,000 calorie challenge and failed at 7200 lol. My stomach is the size of a teen girl.2
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No big numbers for me like that since MFP. But when I was a college pitcher and took a nutrition class, we had to log all of our food for 2 weeks. I averaged 9300 per day for those 14 days (and that was how I ate all through college). I was also running 7 miles per day, 5 days a week at 7:30 min mile pace, plus 3 hour practices and an hour of morning weights. A normal lunch would be 12-15 grilled cheese sandwiches. If I ate pizza, it would be upwards of 20-25 pieces at a setting. I was maintaining at 210-220 lbs. while eating all that, so my calorie burn was off the charts. I was hungry literally all the time. Not to mention, adult beverages were also consumed in large quantities. If I ate like that now, I would gain 100 in a year easy.2
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