Michael Phelps’ Daily Diet a Whopper

Credit the New York Post for getting this story started, which gave the idea to the Wall Steet Journal and now it’s all over the blogosphere.

Let’s put the whopper right at the top: Michael Phelps, the best swimmer of all time, eats 12,000 calories a day when competing or training. 

He’s claimed that all he does is eat, sleep and swim. We get the sleeping and swimming part, but what about the food?

According to the Post, Phelps typical daily fare (he gobbles about 4,000 calories every time he sits down to eat) consists of:

Breakfast

Three fried-egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

Two cups of coffee

A five-egg omelet

A bowl of grits

Three slices of French toast

Three chocolate-chip pancakes

Lunch

A pound of pasta

Two ham and cheese sandwichs with extra mayo on white bread

Energy drinks, about 1,000 calories worth.

Dinner

A pound of pasta

A pizza

More energy drinks for another 1,000 calories.

For a little perspective, based on the calorie counts from Chowbaby.com, that is the equivalent of eating 20 Big Macs in a day, or about 17 Grand Slam Breakfasts at Denny’s or about 16 Cinnabons. Makes you hungry, eh?

Read the story in the New York Post