In a list of athletes who mostly eat super clean (minus Ryan Lochte, of course), the amount of food a professional athlete needs to eat can get lost in the weeds. Well, not if you’re Michael Phelps. While training for the Olympics, Phelps didn’t adhere to a specific diet. He ate everything from dairy to meat, and carbs to fat, but he was very conscious of how much he ate. On an average day, Phelps would ingest around 10,000 calories, per NBC. To put that in perspective, the amount of recommended calories for an average moderately active man is somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 calories, per VeryWell. So Phelps was ingesting around 5x the amount of calories as the average man on the daily.
Exactly how did he meet those numbers? Well, first, it helps that Phelps was always hungry, thanks to the number of calories he burned working out every day, so it follows that he needed to eat at least as much as he was burning. According to the athlete, who wrote extensively about his diet in his autobiography “Beneath the Surface,” on a typical day when he’d visit Pete’s Grille — one of his Baltimore favorites for breakfast — he’d order just about everything. “Start with three sandwiches of fried eggs, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions, and mayonnaise,” he wrote. “Add one omelet, a bowl of grits, and three slices of French toast with powdered sugar; then wash down with three chocolate chip pancakes.”
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