Phelps Eats 12k Calories a day.... WOW!!!!

**Dirty** · 08-14-2008 08:43 AM

PHELPS' PIG SECRET: HE'S BOY GORGE

By CLEMENTE LISI with Post Wire Services

Michael Phelps cheers on Peter Vanderkaay, who was swimming the last leg of the Men's 200M freestyle relay, earning Phelps his 11th gold medal.

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August 13, 2008
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August 13, 2008
Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success - and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day.
"Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do," Phelps, who won two more gold medals today, told NBC when asked what he needs to win medals. "Get some calories into my system and try to recover the best I can."
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By comparison, the average man of the same age needs to ingest about 2,000 calories a day.
Phelps, 23, will swim 17 times over nine days of competition at the Beijing Games - meaning that he will need all the calories he can shovel in his mouth in order to keep his energy levels high.
Phelps' diet - which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal - resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
Phelps remains on course to at least equal Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals won at the 1972 Munich Games.
At these Summer Games, a typical day for Phelps starts with a 5 a.m. wake-up call. Most of his races have taken place between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET when in China - 12 hours ahead of East Coast time.

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**The General** · 08-14-2008 09:53 AM

I seen this on CNN yesterday morning and I thought he was bluffing, but I recall back in the day when working out in the Corp. Physical training and a high protein diet I could throw down serious calories, but my metabolism was so good that it was like a snack eating to Wendy's doubles. I worked with a recruiter for a few months and he was a body builder, taught me a lot. We sat many days together and ate like fat hogs, but never gained a pound while training hard.