CALORIE CONSUMPTION CHALLENGE

Well I've done 6 saltines in 45 seconds, which both my HS and college teammates can vouch for.

This is pathetic. Load up on Snickers bars and you should have 10,000 within 10 hours. Then you can take a rest and go for 20. Candy is the easiest way to do it by FAR. Go to the store and buy some of those candy granola bars or whatever they're called. A box of 6 has 200 calories per bar. I have finished a whole box in an hour or so and still been raveously hungry. That's 1200 right there. These totals are puny.

Here's the thing - if you're doing this from Friday at 6 until Saturday at 6, you can pretty easily mess up your whole weekend. You'll be too full and in pain to party Friday night and too full and in pain to party Saturday night either.

Here's my advice - gets you off to a respectable start on Friday, but allows you to still go out and have fun, and then counts on Saturday as your make or break day.

Dinner Friday - Go to Domino's, order the 555 deal and get yourself three medium 1-topping pizzas. If you get all pepperoni, that's 1,784 per pizza. Make one of those pizzas your dinner on Friday. This is very manageable - just did this myself on Saturday. By the time you're done you'll be satisfied but there should be plenty of room for alcohol.

Friday night - party your ass off. Avoid light beer. A bottle of Budweiser has 145 calories and a shot of tequila has 101 calories. If you polish off 12 beers and 4 shots, that's 2,144 calories of fun.

But of course, after a late night of partying everyone has the munchies. Come home, polish off another one of those pepperoni pizzas and that's another 1,784 calories.

You know how you're supposed to drink water before bed to make the hangover not as bad? Go with two cups of orange juice instead, that'll get you another 216 calories.

By the time you go to sleep you'll have consumed 5,928 calories and you won't have ruined your Friday.

Then the next day you can worry about eating all the gross high-calorie food and nearly making yourself barf. If you push yourself hard enough, your Saturday night will be ruined, but luckily you had fun Friday.

By the way, here's the site I used for calorie info: http://www.calorieking.com/

make sure to take lots of pictures

For those of you who have less time/money, there is the Wendy's value challenge.

There are 13 times on the value menu at Wendy's, so you have each contestant order all 13 items and attempt to eat them within 15 minutes.

The chili/potato should have a chance to cool down, but besides that, those are the only rules.

A couple years ago me and teammates hit the trifecta of big boys breakfast buffet, pizza hut buffet and chinese buffet in one Saturday and we got our money's worth.

Hitting up any of those 3 might be a worth a few calories.

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Well I've done 6 saltines in 45 seconds, which both my HS and college teammates can vouch for.

I've done 7 in 60 seconds which I could get people to vouch for as well. My teammates have seen me get 6 in 60 seconds at least. I am thinking about really training hard and getting up to 9...

didn't really check wrote:

nobody can eat 50 eggs

yes! my thought exactly. best movie ever

i was trying to do 10,000 calories in a day once as part of a 10x10k in 24 hours (10K run, 10,000 points in asteroids, 1000m swim (10,000 decimeters), 10K bike, 10,000 calories consumed, 10,000 pounds lifted, strike out ten people, 10,000 character short story written, 10,000 seconds of sleeping, final 10K run). it's harder than you think. i thought i would kill two birds with one stone by entering a dumpling eating contest. i ate 90 dumplings in an hour but it only came out to 3600 calories. after that i was stuffed most of the day, and resorted to candy bars. still only got to 8000 though. it's tougher than it sounds. i got through everything but that and the final 10k run.

I'm up for that. haha

i would like to personaly challange the winning team of two to a challange vs. me. i run track ni new york, but is not my true calling. competitive eating is my future... my two biggest credits are eating every iteam on the mcdonalds dollar menu in just over 9 mintues. and eat three entire super sized big mac meals in one sitting, drink frys and all. i belive i can single handly take down 30,000 calories.

You need to run a nice easy 2 hour run right before the challenge. That will put you a couple thousand in the hole. Run another easy 2 hour run in the morning when you won't be too stuffed. You will burn another 2000 calories. This extra 4,000 calories may allow you to approach 14,000 and still feel decent after the challenge is done. Go with the thin crust pizza. Most of the calories are in the meat and cheese. Besides candy bars, pie is a great dessert because the crust is mostly lard and the filling is full of sugar.

I can do 6 saltines in a minute. No joke, done it many times for friends. No water either. Dont chew, take off a big chunk, swallow it whole, repeat. It works

better pacing would have been helpful

We are live from *^$#@ University. Tonight at 6 o'clock we started the ill fated calorie consumption challenge. We have 7 teams of 2 runners apiece. Currently we are not even sure the count of everyone. Teams have been in and out. However, we can report that 7 hours into the contest team "Her Boobs are 26 years old" (i guess its not funny unless you were there) lead the pack with 6200 calories apiece totaling a sick 12400 calories. Plenty of teams are clustered around 10,500 calories. There have been many low moments such as guys not moving (myself) for an hour and a half in order to not puke from a surge of 3500 calories in 1 hour (bad move). Meanwhile I have recovered and am working on my 800 calorie bag of trail mix. The lead team has centered their surge with cookies, egg nog, greasy dining hall food, and trail mix. Meanwhile, one member of "There is only one I in team but There are two I's in Vin Diesel" tried to do shots of canola oil for a sick total of 100 calories but puked it up 5 minutes later (5,000 calorie deduction) putting their team in serious jepordy.

As the first team to attempt this accurately stated there is a lot of "I want to die," "please give me one million CC's of morphine," "I am drunk on 4000 calories of cookies," "I think I am having a hot flash," and a consistent quote from all "I feel so sloppy or crusty or (insert any synonym for disgusting here)"

All for now...not too detailed but hopefully we will have more updates (if we are still alive tomorrow) for everyone. At the end we hope to have a complete run down of food and corresponding calorie consumption totals.

A final note..this is a LOT HARDER than we even imagine and we knew it would be terrible! Don't do this unless you are prepared to feel 3 months pregant and risk puking for 24 straight hours. Also a shout out to the guys who did this first, we have even more respect for you guys now, this is crazy...

peace

i, personally, have hit a new low on the challenge resorting to gingerbread cookies which i hate. this is terrible but ive hit the magical 6400 (4 mile mark) 8 hrs and 20 min into the contest...

peace

quick update...the leader is at 9600 calories, i just polished off two more ginger bread cookies and am on the verge of puking but i am a 9343 calories with 4 hours and 15 minutes to go. One compeitor is complaingin of burning pain in his pelvis, another complains that he cant see colors anymore. two guys currently claim to be on sugar highs. Finally one member of "freshmen challenge champions" is about ready to rock out on the licorice.

time to sprint to the finsih...

peace

Little Debbies Honey Buns and SunBelt Granola Bars are about 330 calories each.

a can of Dr. Pepper is 150 calories. Have one can for every box of Little Debbies (6) and one for every box of Granola Bars (8).

that's 2130 calories for every 'serving' of Honey Buns, and 2790 for each 'serving' of the Granola Bars.

I'm not even going to research what foods give you the most calories, but off of the top of my head I know those foods are high calorie.

I see no reason why someone couldn't do 4-5 servings of each in a 24 hour period. which would be between 19,680, and 24,600.

24,600 calories in this method means simply finishing a serving every 2 hours and 24 minutes. Cram those maybe a little bit closer together to have a sleeping period. Considering I can easily take down a box of either of those in about 20 minutes and then come back and have a large meal 45 minutes later, without any ill effects, I think this would be a piece of cake.

Can anybody explain to me why this is so much harder? I know it'll get harder as the 24 hours goes on, but I picked a really conservative method and still got almost 25,000 calories.

I'd try it myself, but don't know anybody who has so little of a life (I don't live with a bunch of college guys in a dorm anymore) that they'd witness it, so you'd never believe me. Also, I'm not sure I want to devote 24 hours to this (along with 25 bucks). And even if I did have a witness, you'd all just say it was me posting anonymously.

So in the end, I'll probably get ripped on this thread because I won't try it. But I just don't see why it's so hard.

For all these guys that maxed out 10 calories or so, and couldn't move, kind of makes you feel like dopes when you think that Michael Phelps and Lance Armstrong consume 7-8000 calories a day while in heavy training, eh?

We are feeling a bit drunk on food. On another note, the 2nd wind is about to come!! One last push for 12K+ and then a nice nap.