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Michael Phelps Diet
PHELPS' PIG SECRET: HE'S BOY GORGE
By CLEMENTE LISI with Post Wire Services
Last updated: 2:45 pm
August 13, 2008
Posted: 3:59 am
August 13, 2008
Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success - and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day.
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This isn't completely food news, but I was surprised at what he eats on a daily basis to make up that 12,000 calories.
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.Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
- 08-13-2008 05:19 PM #2Site owner
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Hey whatever they are feeding him... don't stop. What a remarkable young man. I am so proud of him!!
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- 08-13-2008 05:21 PM #3Fan of the Food Network
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Did you see the picture of him in the article?
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
- 08-13-2008 05:24 PM #4Site owner
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Yes, I can only imagine how he feels. He has worked so hard his whole life for this.
- 08-13-2008 05:27 PM #5
hes awesome i watched him win his 11th medal last night! USA rules!
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire
All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- 08-13-2008 05:38 PM #6Fan of the Food Network
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I've only been following him online a little. I think its awesome he's been doing so well.
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
- 08-13-2008 05:45 PM #7Crazy Ol' Southern Lady
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Read that article this AM, and made me feel stuffed just reading it! It's a wonder he doesn't sink when he goes into the water. But, it's seems to be working, so he better keep it up!
- 08-13-2008 05:51 PM #8
goodness when does he find time to swim?
he must be busy if you know what I mean!
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- 08-13-2008 06:29 PM #9Site owner
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Maybe he's like a goose. That's the only way I could see he would be able to keep eating. 
- 08-13-2008 07:17 PM #10
like a factory!
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire
All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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