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Simply speaking yes.
For example, Michael Phelps' diet on a full days training (12000 calories):
Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelette. One bowl of grain. Three slices of French toast topped. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.
Lunch: One pound of pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread, plus energy drinks that supply him with another 1,000 calories.
Dinner: One pound of pasta, an entire pizza and even more energy drinks.
It gets a bit more complicated as there is more at play with swimming (due to increased metabolic stress from loss of body heat to water).
If you're swimming 8 miles a day, you can eat a lot of shit.
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Acliff
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Not sure getting this. If your intake is 2200 per day and you use 2200, your weight remains the same.
If you use more, your weight drops; use less and weight increases.
Are you saying that due to exercise, you can increase your intake daily?
Today I played squash, did weights and hope to play footie in 40 mins. If that adds up to 2000 I can have a McDs on the way home and not worry? I have my doubts about this. But, I could be wrong - that’s not unusual!