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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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"The U.S. Olympic swimmer told ESPN that he eats roughly 8,000-10,000 calories a day"
https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20080813/the-olympic-diet-of-michael-phelpsSo that's 4000 cal that's just disappeared into the internet...
"Bonci estimates that to support his 6-foot-4-inch, approximately 190-pound frame, Phelps' rigorous training regime requires roughly 1,000 calories per hour while he is racing or training; she suggests he probably eats closer to 6,000 calories per day."
As someone who has actually measured and consumed this amount of calories I'm calling bullshit on this one. Maybe one day he did but there's no fucking way it's regular and almost certainly not the foods he says he eats. For me to consume ~13000 calories I was awake and racing a bike for 24hr and eating almost all carbohydrates in mostly easily digestible liquid, gel (and some bars) form.
If you add fat and protein into that, as he claims, digestion slows right down and it would be heading towards spew time.
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“Don’t believe everything you read. The stories were just ridiculous. I was probably eating anywhere between like 8 to 10 [thousand] probably at my peak where I was really growing. Still, it became a job.”
hippy
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!