I wonder.. maybe 10,000 calories in one day isn't as unreachable?

perezlau
perezlau Posts: 35 Member
in Food and Nutrition
It's probably easier to do than it sounds. Haha maybe..

So cheesecake factory has a salad that has 2150 calories. Say I eat one for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's 6,450 calories in salad! Say I have a side of fries with my 'salad' which have 1,060 calories. That's another 3,180 calories. If I had a coke in those 24oz cups I'm assuming another (140 Cal x 3) 420 calories per meal brings me to 1,260 calories. That's 10,890 calories without even eating snacks or dessert.

Which makes me wonder. Someone on a diet ordering 2 of these salads a day, only drinking water, and not snacking on anything else can still be on a caloric surplus and gain weight. Seems cruel.
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  • lucadeangiles
    lucadeangiles Posts: 55 Member
    i’ve been wanting to try the famous 10k challenge just to see if i can do it. I feel like I could fairly easily but i don’t think trying it is worth the 8000 calorie surplus i’d have to work off to stay in maintenance 😅
  • meganpettigrew86
    meganpettigrew86 Posts: 349 Member
    I could eat that easy but could I burn it? I can burn max 700cal per hour 10k/700 = 14.3 hours... At a hard pace... So nope.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    edited June 2019
    I was looking at a few restaurant menu's with calorie postings and no I don't think it would be that hard. or at least to get close. add some alcohol and a calorie dense dessert (can be like 1000 cals right there). But I would imagine you'd be feeling pretty rough eventually.

    There was one place where the Cesar dressing alone was 520 calories!
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    I don't think I could do it. I could probably hit 6-7k but it would involve a lot of (if not mostly) alcohol. My typical bulk calories are about 1/3 of that and that is enough for me.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    I've tried on Thanksgiving and the best I could do was ~7,000.

    yeah i think 5000 or so range would be much easier. maybe worth really truly honestly tracking a day like thanksgiving at home point.

  • Spencerport
    Spencerport Posts: 270 Member
    Your obviously forgetting about the various cheesecakes/desserts at Cheesecake Factory. Some of those will get close to 2000 calories.
  • J_NY_Z
    J_NY_Z Posts: 2,540 Member
    The "secret" of doing a high calorie intake day is to eat foods that are nutritionally dense and low in volume like peanut butter, olive oil, etc. You could eat a 40 ounce jar of peanut butter over 1 day and ingest more than 14000 calories.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    Boba_14626 wrote: »
    The "secret" of doing a high calorie intake day is to eat foods that are nutritionally dense and low in volume like peanut butter, olive oil, etc. You could eat a 40 ounce jar of peanut butter over 1 day and ingest more than 14000 calories.

    now that would be a very nice day ;)
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    Panini911 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    I've tried on Thanksgiving and the best I could do was ~7,000.

    yeah i think 5000 or so range would be much easier. maybe worth really truly honestly tracking a day like thanksgiving at home point.

    I could easily do 5000, but 10000? Not likely without feeling very ill.

    I would NEVER order a salad with that many calories. For that many calories I’d get something truly extravagant.
  • a_candler
    a_candler Posts: 209 Member
    Just what the heck is ON that salad? Wow that's a lot of calories. Sad thing is many would still think they are healthy because it is a salad! I may have pre weight loss.
  • Phirrgus
    Phirrgus Posts: 1,894 Member
    I don't think it would be hard at all for me. Some desserts (may favorite meal :D ) have 1k per serving or more. Dinners at some steakhouses I've eaten at (not to mention the Cheesecake factory) hit ~2500...

    I would have to set my mind to it, but it wouldn't be that difficult. I just don't see any reason to do it.
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    I've certainly probably done it, especially back when I was a drinker, because you can ads at least a couple thousand calories from alcohol in a night there.

    It's also quite possible I've done it more recently at all inclusive resorts and/or on a cruise. Give me three meal of buffets and it's not hard for me to get 3000+ calories a meal, plus a snack and a few drinks.
  • Phirrgus
    Phirrgus Posts: 1,894 Member
    a_candler wrote: »
    Just what the heck is ON that salad? Wow that's a lot of calories. Sad thing is many would still think they are healthy because it is a salad! I may have pre weight loss.
    I was told a while back it isn't the salad that gets you, it's the company they keep lol. True...
  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    Yeah, it sounds like a lot but I don't think it would be that hard. I hit 4270 last Thursday without really trying, I was that special combination of bored and tired at a work conference.
  • TravisJHunt
    TravisJHunt Posts: 533 Member
    I could easily do it! No problems at all.
  • thanos5
    thanos5 Posts: 513 Member
    a couple five guys burgers, some fries, desserts, and copious amounts of alcohol. pretty easy if you ask me!
  • J_NY_Z
    J_NY_Z Posts: 2,540 Member
    Panini911 wrote: »
    Boba_14626 wrote: »
    The "secret" of doing a high calorie intake day is to eat foods that are nutritionally dense and low in volume like peanut butter, olive oil, etc. You could eat a 40 ounce jar of peanut butter over 1 day and ingest more than 14000 calories.

    now that would be a very nice day ;)

    Amen sister!
  • kevkus1
    kevkus1 Posts: 1 Member
    why?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,589 Member
    I've hit approximately 5-6,000 a few times while tracking, not explicitly trying to hit a max level, just going off-leash (and I'm not even a very large person, 5'5", mid-130s pounds). I'm pretty sure I could get to 10,000 without being sick or super-miserable, if I started in the morning, went all day, and made food/drink choices that were very calorie-dense. I think it would be fairly easy.

    Why? Well, I know why the 5-6,000: Yummy self-indulgence. I admit I don't see the point of eating 10,000 just to do it.
  • bigbandjohn
    bigbandjohn Posts: 769 Member
    edited June 2019
    Spencerport wrote: »
    Your obviously forgetting about the various cheesecakes/desserts at Cheesecake Factory. Some of those will get close to 2000 calories.

    The slice size must have shrunk in the last 5-10 years. I am certain a slice of the cinnabon cheesecake was over 3000 calories. Now it's less than half that.

    and a Monte Cristo is over 1800 calories. That and a slice is well over 3000 calories, huge for one meal, not counting fries - pushing that one meal to 4000.
  • nooboots
    nooboots Posts: 480 Member
    I could do it easily

    Start the day with some cream crackers, around 4 or 5, absolutely slathered in peanut butter, add some jam to some of them too. The reason for crackers rather than bread is that the crackers wont fill you up as much as hunks of bread. Half a jar (lets be sensible here) is around 1300 cals, the crackers are about 170ish.

    The drink of choice for the day is anything with cream and sugar in it or fizzy drinks (fully sugared up), say 800ish if you get through a litre in the day.

    Mid morning snack is a cheese board, with some oils to dip some bread in. Lets say you manage 125ml of oil (flavoured, Im not an animal!) thats another thousand. Say 200g of bread (trying not to get too full up on it remember), another 500 and then around 1500 cals for the cheese in the cheese board, possibly propped up by some salami in there too.

    Havent even reached lunch and we're nearly on 5k

    Another snack, some fruit with clotted cream, a whole pot (easily eaten with a big glut of strawberries) around 1100cals.

    Lunch time - prawns in garlic and chilli oil with some bread. Yummy. Get some raw prawns, chop up finely chilli and garlic, put the prawns in the oven in a pot of oil, lets say 125ml for instance with the chilli and garlic and then get it out when they're sizzling and cooked. Eat the yummy oil with another 2-300g of bread. So another 1500.

    Time for a rest as this is hard work.

    A bit of exercise takes you down the seafront and past the chip shop, so mid afternoon snack bag of chips with an ice cream with cream on it and a flake, a good thousand if the chips are done in the deep fat fryer.

    Dinner - good old curry preferably a korma, something using lots of ghee, coconut cream and nuts. Meat for the extra calories. Fried rice. You could easily get 2k out of that.

    Nearly about 10k if I have done the sums right.
  • PWRLFTR1
    PWRLFTR1 Posts: 324 Member
    Challenge accepted.
  • New_Heavens_Earth
    New_Heavens_Earth Posts: 610 Member
    If I had 4 meals of 2 pints of Hagen Dazs and 2 Double Decker Little Debbie cakes I could do it. I'd be horribly sick if I did it now, but that pint and a cake used to be a snack for me.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I do not have that kind of appetite and would be stuffed full, and I absolutely hate that feeling.
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    10,000 net calories? Not without feeling ill unless a fair amount of alcohol was involved as well as an especially calorie dense dessert. That said, I'm also not someone who typically likes or eats a lot of the "easier" calorie dense foods. Things like nut butters, cheese, pork belly in any of its preparations, etc.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I've hit approximately 5-6,000 a few times while tracking, not explicitly trying to hit a max level, just going off-leash (and I'm not even a very large person, 5'5", mid-130s pounds). I'm pretty sure I could get to 10,000 without being sick or super-miserable, if I started in the morning, went all day, and made food/drink choices that were very calorie-dense. I think it would be fairly easy.

    Why? Well, I know why the 5-6,000: Yummy self-indulgence. I admit I don't see the point of eating 10,000 just to do it.

    I don't see the point either outside of a speculation game like planning the perfect murder. I think it would be more interesting to try and plan a 20k day because I think that is where it would probably get tough. I wouldn't be surprised if most people with abundant food availability have hit in the ballpark of 10k at some point in their life.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    With the average reccommended daily calorie intake to be between 1000 to 3000 calories, depending on gender, age, activity level, it’s a lot of food for anyone. I very seldom drink any alcohol. To get to that many calories in one day, I would be physically ill, but at the very least, extremely uncomfortable. Not an enjoyable endeavor to me. Gluttony to see if you can consume 10000 calories in a day? No thanks.

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