I would practice by simply trying to eat 5lbs of potatoes in a sitting.
I’d get so high/sick off of all that starch it would put me in a coma.
Not to mention you’re going to have the worst thirst imaginable and no room to drink any water.
Please post before and after pictures.
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
Please post before and after pictures.[/quote]
Of what?
The food, what it does to him, or what he does to it later?
I have eaten at the restaurant in Denver where they serve that burrito, their normal burritos were delicious. That is my contribution.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
Please post before and after pictures.[/quote]
Of what?
The food, what it does to him, or what he does to it later?[/quote]
Yeah…let’s have a cut-off “later” time of the plate the moment you finish.
No need for ones the next day.
Next day if he’s lucky!
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I would practice by simply trying to eat 5lbs of potatoes in a sitting.
I’d get so high/sick off of all that starch it would put me in a coma.
Not to mention you’re going to have the worst thirst imaginable and no room to drink any water.
Please post before and after pictures.[/quote]
Double edged sword huh?
Like gonna be REAL thirsty but need to use all the space in your stomach for potatoes. Yep fuck this challenge.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Taken from Takeru Kobayashi’s wiki entry
"Kobayashi expands his stomach for a competition by eating larger and larger amounts of food, and then exercises to ensure that fat will not impede expansion of his stomach during a competition.[18]
Kobayashi’s official web site gives his height as 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) and his weight as 58 kg (128 lb). However he’s weighed as much as 87 kg (191.8 lb) according to a June 29, 2006 blog entry.[19] As of July 4, 2009, Kobayashi weighed in at 60 kg (132 lb) for the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating competition on Coney Island.[20]
Kobayashi is also known for his trademark body wiggle, referred to by some as the “Kobayashi Shake”, to force food down his esophagus and settle more compactly in his stomach.[21] He eats the hot dogs by splitting the frankfurter in half, dipping the buns in water, Sprite, or 7-Up and then stuffing both parts in his mouth. He calls this the Solomon Method.[22"
I’ve tried and failed several different eating contests. Good luck…it’s harder than it looks![/quote]
Haha, thanks for that. Yeah, I’ve seen quite a bit of stuff on Kobayashi and remember reading some of that stuff as well. I’m sure it’s going to be difficult, thanks for the words!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I suck at these unless my food intake has been greatly increased for several weeks. I can eat a hell of a lot more right now than I could a few weeks back. It takes time for my stomach to expand to hold the increased food intake or I just get nauseated. Just based on that, if this was the goal, I would spend the time before the contest eating like I used to when at my heaviest weight and working out twice a day to help with any fat gain.[/quote]
Interesting, and good point. I admittedly have been eating like a rabbit lately. Like, an incredibly diminished capacity. I had a cheat meal last weekend that would normally have been gone in under 15 minutes, and I struggled to get halfway through. Perhaps not a good sign. I like the idea of extra workouts, perhaps even two-a-days. I’ll look into that. Thanks.
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
SSC, stretch the hell out of your stomach, these guys train by drink 4 litres of water in one sitting to stretch it out, also guys train with salads. Yeah sounds weird but its a hell of a lot easier to stretch ur stomach out a few kg’s of salad, plus the little cals help out here. [/quote]
Damn man… I will try that. I don’t know about salad, honestly. I don’t mind iceberg lettuce but there is no dressing on this planet that I enjoy, and just don’t think I can eat that many dry leaves. :S I will definitely work on stretching with lots of water, though! Good call, thanks.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I wish you good fortuen, but man…5 lbs of potatoes!
When I did my big burger I skipped lunch and only had oatmeal for breakfast…but in all honesty I think nothing can help unless you have the knd of stomach like Kobayashi’s that can expand.
I barely finsihed a quarter of my food (there were fries, mashed potatoes and a liter of cola) and even if I’d drunk more water the hourse before, or sjkipped breakfast too or whatever… it still wouldn’t have helped me finish…maybe only get up to 40% complete.
I know on Man V Food he talks about strategy, but I don’t believe there is any strategy.
You’ve got one stomach, and so much food. I don’t care if you eat the protein first, then the starch, or the other way around…you’ll still fill up and the more you eat the more it’ll hurt.
I quit mine when after eating non-stop for about 35 minutes, then still ate some but I stopped before I felt sick because I knwew I wasn’t going to finish.
But please try to get photos![/quote]
That’s honestly what I was kind of thinking, the more I’ve put thought into this. Just going for it. I’m not planning on any one day in particular, I’ll let my body tell me which day is right. What makes me nervous is that I seem to have just broken free from a “eat everything in sight” type of appetite surge, so I hope that doesn’t mean I’m going to be at a diminished capacity. And don’t worry, I will definitely get pictures to some kind of capacity. Win or fail.
[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:
Good luck for your challenge…BUT…why do you want to get into this? For the experience? To win (obv.)?
My thought was that you’ve worked so hard to get yourself lean, you’re pretty clued up on the science and practice behind lifting/nutrition - to me (IMHO) I’m just questioning why you’d want to do something like this. why dude, why?! Anyway - each to their own and I know you’d have reasons but this is my immediate reaction to this. No offence meant.[/quote]
Yeah, I really want to do it because I talk a LOT of shit about my eating capacity, and feel like doing something like this would justify to myself that yeah, I can eat like a motherfucker. You’re right about the being lean thing, and being a little setback, but I don’t believe it will be too hard on the body. The worst thing will be the dairy, and I’m glad that’s somewhat sparing… compared to the potatoes anyway, haha. And no, no offense taken.
[quote]americaninsweden wrote:
Realistically though he is going to gain no more than 3. I just don’t see you or anybody that isn’t pro putting down 5lbs of potatoes, not to mention 2lbs of other shit. It does sound delicious though, if i ever come to colorado I would give it a shot.[/quote]
Well, I guess I’ll have to prove you wrong, haha. 
I had some friends who doubted I could eat 13 eggs in under 5 minutes… and I took a video of me doing it in under 3:30. I like to be underestimated, haha!
[quote]fisch wrote:
If I were hell bent on winning, I would do what X said and build my stomach capacity up over a few weeks and hit the gym harder then usual. Train your body for it basically. If I was just going to do it and have fun and try to win, I would just eat a small breakfast, eat nothing else during the day except a pre workout shake, then go do a hard leg workout where I bust my ass, go shower and head over to do the challenge. Whenever I lift about 45-60 mins later I can eat so much food its not even funny.
So basically small breakfast + hard lifting session immediately before food challenge.[/quote]
Right, I’m thinking something similar. Probably fasting, a good, fast workout, and some cardio. Take a quick shower at home and head there, leaving my body some time to STARVE and get ravenous. Who knows, the game plan really could change, but I was giving that kind of methodology a lot of thought.
[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I would practice by simply trying to eat 5lbs of potatoes in a sitting.
I’d get so high/sick off of all that starch it would put me in a coma.
Not to mention you’re going to have the worst thirst imaginable and no room to drink any water.
Please post before and after pictures.[/quote]
Man, I’d honestly love to practice by eating a shit load of potatoes but realistically, 5 lbs of potatoes may be damn near more carbs than I get in an entire week’s span at this point, haha. I can’t afford to do that, as far as my physique is concerned right now. Like Xander alluded to above, I’ve worked a little too hard lately to play with fire to that capacity. But thanks for the sentiments! Pictures will be had.
[quote]VikingsAD28 wrote:
I have eaten at the restaurant in Denver where they serve that burrito, their normal burritos were delicious. That is my contribution.[/quote]
Good to know! My roommate, who is a TINY girl, is planning on trying the half burrito if that’s still an option. I don’t see that going too well… haha.
I’ll keep things updated as the day gets closer.
Here’s a pic of a one pound smoke meat sandwich I had a few months ago. I finished it in 8 or 9 minutes without rushing then had another 350g turkey one after.
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Then there’s the burger I couldn’t come close to finishing, including fries and at my left elbow you may see the mashed potatoes and at my right you see the 1.8 liters of cola served in a glass vase.
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I ate 120 Chic fil a nuggets in under 30 minutes one time. I ate dinner, then took a 4 hour car ride (a group of us were going to California) then some guy challenged me to this. Completed but felt like death. Drank like 6 diet cokes and used at least 10 dipping sauces in the mean time. They say its supposed to serve 15 lol. I ate approx 15000 mgs of sodium not counting sauces or diet coke!
[quote]SSC wrote:
I’ve decided to undertake a big food challenge around here, a 7-lb burrito consisting of 5 lbs of grilled potatoes, 12 eggs, ham, cheese, chile, whatever. I know the guy from Man vs Food tried it early on and failed, so it makes it a little more daunting.[/quote]
Heh saw that episode recently, that fresh green chili looked spectacular but that challenge also looked darn near impossible.
Def work your plan and go in there ravenous, and also make sure you’re mentally tuned-in the whole way. And def good luck.
[quote]americaninsweden wrote:
I ate 120 Chic fil a nuggets in under 30 minutes one time. I ate dinner, then took a 4 hour car ride (a group of us were going to California) then some guy challenged me to this. Completed but felt like death. Drank like 6 diet cokes and used at least 10 dipping sauces in the mean time. They say its supposed to serve 15 lol. I ate approx 15000 mgs of sodium not counting sauces or diet coke![/quote]
Sodium bomb aside, these are unquestionably the SAFEST fast-food “chicken nuggets” to get down n dirty with, nutritionally speaking
A few things I learned after a horribly failed attempt;
1.) Eating 7lbs of the same thing is much more difficult than it sounds. Give me (cumulatively) 7 lbs of pizza, burgers, candy and other stuff and maybe I’ve got a shot.
2.) Climbing a 14,000 foot mountain prior to trying a food challenge does not guarantee success.
3.) Although not overtly spicy, the green chili on this bad boy stifled my chances right from the get-go due to the incessant desire to drink water.
4.) I don’t care how one would prepare for this food challenge, 5lbs of potatoes alone is enough to drive a man right to edge of vomiting/insanity/vomsanity.
5.) Do NOT try food challenges if your diet is in check and you’re not force-feeding or consistently challenging your stomach.
Dude-- you tried!!!
How far did you get?
I heard the ‘pros’ stretch their stomachs by eating those huge bags of shredded lettuce everyday.
Good job…indeed 7 lbs of anything would be hard, if not simply impossible.
How many of your friends kept flapping their mouths later about how they could have eaten more than you did? I hate those guys.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Dude-- you tried!!!
How far did you get?[/quote]
Haha… at least I can say I did try, that’s for sure. I got under halfway before I threw in the towel. What’s crazy is I wasn’t legitimatly full, but I was sicking of eating the same consistency/taste and all. I actually went home and binged out to a large degree after the challenge, if you can believe it. This was mostly due to… (see ensuing paragraph…)
[quote]Nards wrote:
Good job…indeed 7 lbs of anything would be hard, if not simply impossible.[/quote]
This. It was just the same stuff over. And over. And over. Granted, it was delicious as all get-out but there were so many crazy factors that went into it. A lot of the times I would go in for a spoonful, I would come back with 1 chunk of potatoe that took over an entire spoon, lol. It’s crazy how mentally exhausting that is when you look down and see a smorgasboard of whatever else in front of you!
Plus, as I alluded to, the temperature of the dish itself was INTENSE. It never cooled down, and I was even warned about this by the waittress who offered me some good tips.
FWIW, I do know that I had a couple folks try some of the leftovers afterwards and they were all extremely impressed how far I got given the spiciness of the challenge. It wasn’t a SPICE challenge, obviously, but it added enough spice to the meal that the need for water was plentiful and unrelenting. Just epic.
Incidentally, none! All of my IRL friends who know about it said they couldn’t have even gotten close. A few people saw the leftovers AFTER the meal and after my roommate and I had already put in work on said leftovers, and commented that it was still multiple days’ worth of eating for them. So that felt good.
Incidentally, the only person who really talked shit was my dad, who I gained my appetite from originally, and watching how he ate growing up. What’s funny is he’s all diabetic now (go figure) and has to eat like a bird, and told him he would’ve stood NO chance. Lol!
Overall, I have no regrets and am actually legitimately happy that I was humbled in such a way. Maybe someday… maybe someday…
I’ve said before that the idea of a “Strategy” for these things is silly.
I don’t care what part of the meal people say you should eat first, be it the potatoes/fries or the protein…it’s all going in the same stomach.
So if you eat the “difficult” stuff (usually people say it’s the potatoes/fries/bread part) first then you’ve got that in your stomach already…if you eat the meat first because it’s easier…then you’ll just be putting the starches in on top of it later anyway.
I did a big burger challenge with fries and mashed potatoes and almost 2 quarts of Coke and I was eating non-stop for almost 40 minutes…only got about 30% of it done so I quit…as I of course couldn’t finish so I didn’t want to keep stuffing it in till I got sick for nothing (if I had finished they’d give me $300US!)
When I mentioned your buddies giving you a hard time it was just because I had one guy who came with me and he was acting like he would finish whatever I couldn’t, making “pffft!” sounds like it was nothing. So I gave him what was left and he ate about another quarter of what was left and he quit. But that fucker started up again on Monday saying if he were hungrier he could do it blah blah blah.
He’s one of those guys that brags about how spicy he can go and tells you about some Thai place that’s so hot it’s insane “even for him” so you go, eat what he has…then if you even sweat a little he’ll say “But this ain’t even spicy!” Really? You said before we came this was the spiciest place…then when you tolerate it, he has to act like it wasn’t spicy.
How do you train???
For years I only eat 2 huge meals per day. (breakfast min. 1200 calories and feast at night). so i think that helps.
what about water? Chug water once or twice a day? with meals?
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
How do you train???
For years I only eat 2 huge meals per day. (breakfast min. 1200 calories and feast at night). so i think that helps.
what about water? Chug water once or twice a day? with meals?[/quote]
There is no preparation for the food challenge I did.
You either get lucky and are having an “on” day, or you’re fucked.
Seriously.
If you ever find yourself in Denver, I recommend against trying the challenge. It’s a volume AND a speed challenge. Cold potatoes = Instant fail. Plus, when it comes out, it’s searing fucking hot. The waiter/waitress also gives you the whole rundown before you order. It’s THAT serious.
haha. cold potatoes and searing hot. almost like they want you to fail. heard food is disgusting at a lot of those challenges.
i only do for fun at all you can eat places with friends family. slow eater though.
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
haha. cold potatoes and searing hot. almost like they want you to fail. heard food is disgusting at a lot of those challenges.
i only do for fun at all you can eat places with friends family. slow eater though.[/quote]
I will admit, the food was IMPECCABLE and I dominated all the leftovers in the day or so after I attempted the challenge.
I mean, it was seriously dee-fucking-licious. The green chilis that are grilled literally right outside the restaurant are to die for; and the rest of the burrito is fantastic. That being said, shoving that same texture/consistency into your face for bite after bite after bite after bite for 25 minutes, to only see ~1/4 or so of it diminished was pretty disheartening. I got around halfway before I just had to call it. Probably 30-35 minutes total with barely anything to show for you.
I know the feeling with potatoes man.
For my 23rd, a group of mates and I went to a steakhouse for their 1kg steak challenge. What they neglected to mention, was the other kilo of wedges you also had to eat, total under 30minutes.
I finished it in 23, but as I chose to finish with the wedges, I was on the verge of throwing up on my plate, instantly lethargic, morose and thirsty as fuck, and that was only halfway through them.
Potato is off the hook delicious, but there’s a limit 