Michael Phelps ' diet (12,000 calories a day)

Michael Phelps' recent tabulation of his daily meals conjured up an image of reckless abandon: 2 pounds of pasta, an entire pizza, energy drinks, two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast with powdered sugar, three fried-egg sandwiches with cheese and chocolate chip pancakes. The account left many asking, what do Olympians really eat?

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[mnicol12]

He must shit bricks.

[Mizoski2212]

imagine how fat Phelps would be if he didn't swim

[shep31000]

To comment on MrTinyLlama, I'm a swimmer, and I swim 2 hrs a day, 5 days a week, and I can come home and easily eat a whole pizza after practice as a 4th meal, and i barely weigh over 100 lbs. So I easily believe that he eats this everyday.

[runningman97]

These people are so clueless about nutrition it's not even funny!

'Protein for a quick burst of energy', I don't think so, and as if he's not getting enough protein eating all that. He eats 5-10 eggs for breakfast!! If this is true then he's in trouble down the road.

[mikeurtno]

@MrTinyLlama I am by no means an athlete on Phelps level but eating before exercise has never upset my stomach. I'm also sure he is not eating this 30 mins before he swims for two hours either.

Just think of the amount of calories he burns every day just swimming 4 hours without the 3 days a week of lifting. If I can burn 1000 calories in 90 mins and I am not a good swimmer he could easily be burning 4000+ calories a practice.

[MrTinyLlama]

its funny, i really dont believe that he eats this EVERYDAY, i mean, come on. if he were to eat this every single day, before and after workouts, im pretty sure he would throw-up. on the days he doesnt work out rigorously im sure he could do this tho.

[Aisha2178]

omg they should call it the michael phelps dream diet

[thehappybellybutton]

Well let's look at it this way he's probably been eating like this for a while....he's not fat so it obviously works:L and his food bill must be HUGE!:L

[kpappletech]

@msdancingqueen11 You have too look at it this way.

Phelps metabolic rate is off the charts (due to his lifestyle).

So when Phelps is sleeping about 6 hrs he probably has burned at least a thousand if not more (I'm guessing 2500) calories.

The body needs to maintain whatever muscle he has, and to do so, Phelps needs to consume a large amount of protein and carbs.

It all has to do with his metabolic rate, and with hardcore athletes, 12k diets are possible.

kp

[msdancingqueen11]

@sneaeky I know what a calorie is, Michael Phelps swims a lot, but not for 24 hours a day, he needs to rest and sleep cuz after all he's only human, and he goes on vacation once in a while

[sneaeky]

@msdancingqueen11 lol, Phelps burns WAY more than 100 calories an hour. You obviously dont even know what a calorie is. Its a unit of energy. Phelps is exerting an incredible amount of energy when he swims, therefore using much more calories.

[msdancingqueen11]

btw, it takes like an hour to burn about 100 calories by jogging, I believe, so 12000 calories-2000 burned calories is 10000 calories 10000 calories/100 calories=100 hours, there are only 24 hours in a day....whatever made my point, and he has a life, he doesn't eat all day, nobody has time to consume 12000 calories in a day