QOD: "I eat 5000 calories per day" Hasay - BS

swaggyp wrote:

Its called not being a r*tard. If you think Hasay eats 5k calories a day then you probably thought Barry Bonds was clean when he hit 73 home runs.

I am not saying she has an eating disorder at all but I would bet she averages less than 5k calories a day.

And for everyone saying Phelps used to eat 8-10k calories a day, he later said that got overblown. He meant at times he would, not that he ate that much everyday.

How many times has this already been said??? If Jordan had said "I eat like" instead of "I eat" then this convo wouldn't be happening.

So, I think it is safe to assume that, just like Phelps, Jordan has eaten up to 5,000 calories a day... Usually closer to 4,000. And OMG if she only gets to the mid 3000s sometimes!!!!!

However, instead of accepting this personal statement, and enjoying the interview... we have the message board warriors calling for every disorder in the book and saying she's a poor role model. Chill out.

if you're running 120-130 miles a week that means you're burning on average about 1,700 calories a day. if you're only consuming 3000 calories a day, you would be dead in a few weeks. you moron.

youreanidiot wrote:

if you're running 120-130 miles a week that means you're burning on average about 1,700 calories a day. if you're only consuming 3000 calories a day, you would be dead in a few weeks. you moron.

Well I've been running that kind of several mileage and I'm not dead yet. I said 3000-4000 calories a day. But by your calculations if by running I burned 1700 then that would allow 1300-2300 for everything else.

I like how anonymous idiots on here think they know better than the people who have actually done it. Your you'd be dead in a few weeks is laughable. Have you ever been on a college team with girls who have an eating disorder? They consume way way less than they need and they do that for an extended period of time. Granted its terrible for you and eventually your body craps out. But I've seen girls actually improve and run well while going anorexic for 6 months plus before the crash.

BTW everyone saying Jordan was trying to overstate her intake to cover up an eating disorder just stop it. She has been that skinny for years, there's no way she would have been able to maintain at this level this long with an eating disorder. Runners are skinny, I think her muscular build probably makes her look skinnier than she was. She was talking to a local central coast news outlet where the reporter and locals know little about running, read the article. If she went into incredible detail about her training/nutrition the reporter would have just given her blank stare and then written it completely wrong in the article. She probably didn't anticipate this would end up on Letsrun where there's people who actually know about running.

Typo I have been doing this kind of mileage for several years.

Two things:

I challenge anyone who thinks a 100lb elite female athlete has EVER consistently eaten 3,500-4,000 calories per day, let alone 5,000, to simply provide a sample day, consisting of healthy foods (because an elite female athlete, particularly one who is getting paid to run, and who is being closely monitored, is not going to be getting her calories from Big Macs) adding up to anywhere near that number. When you see it laid out, you will understand how absurd this claim is.

Now consider that most elite female athletes, and quite a few male athletes, have a very good handle on the caloric content of the foods they regularly consume, and are therefore not going to simply throw out some absurd number (like 5,000kcals) regardless of who they are talking to. If you actually KNOW the caloric content of food (and elites typically do), you will have a clear understanding of how much food 5,000kcal represents, and you will not claim to eat that much-- unless you really do (e.g. because you're a 200lb body builder), or you're blowing smoke.

That Hasay, a role model for many young athletes, appears to be blowing smoke around the issue of diet and nutrition for distance runners, male or female, is irresponsible. I've coached quite a few elite teenage female athletes, and they would all instantly call bullshit on this claim, then wonder what would provoke Hasay to make it.

Below is an example of a healthy 5,000kcal day, taken from a typical bodybuilding site (where eating 5,000kcal per day is considered a weight gain challenge for moderately active adult males looking to gain muscle mass!).

http://www.gobuilders.com/sports/sportsMed/releases/5000_gain_weight

Try to imagine a rail 100lb female athlete EVER eating anywhere near this much in a single day. The simple ingestion, never mind the metabolization, would actually cut into training time!

Breakfast: 2.5 cups of Raisin Bran with 1 cup 2% Milk, 1 Banana, 2 cups of Orange Juice, 1 cup Chocolate Milk

Morning Snack: 1 Bagel with 2 tablespoons Peanut Butter, 2 cups 2% Milk

Lunch: ¼ pound Cheeseburger on Whole Wheat Bun with Lettuce and Tomato, Veggie Salad with Sunflower Seeds, Dried Berries, and Reduced Fat Dressing, 2 cups of 2% Milk

Afternoon Snack: 1 cup of Cottage Cheese, 1 cup of Applesauce, 1 cup of Fruit Juice, 2 full-size Graham Crackers

Dinner: 2 cups of pasta, 1 cup Marinara Sauce, 6-ounce Chicken Breast, 1 cup Green Beans, 1 cup 2% Milk, 1 cup Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup

Late-Night Snack: 20 Pretzels, ½ cup of Grapes, 1 cup 2% Milk

I understand who were talking about is 100 lbs and female, whatever that means but for a high activity, fit man like myself - 160 lbs, I'm pretty sure I eat 5000 a day, anywhere from 3000 - 6000. S maybe I eat 4000 a day.

In conclusion, she must be making it up, unless she eats a lot of candy and soda.

If I do eat candy it can be upwards to 1500 calories at once.

Hasay runs 100+ miles a week AND swims AND does strength training. That\'s a lot of working out and it\'s known she has a fast metabolism. 5000 calories is certainly doable.

Thyroid medication will dramatically increase metabolism.

All I know is that she poops a lot.

Goucher Needles wrote:

Thyroid medication will dramatically increase metabolism.

Finally someone says it.

dfgggdfgdgdfgd wrote:

Hasay runs 100+ miles a week AND swims AND does strength training. That's a lot of working out and it's known she has a fast metabolism. 5000 calories is certainly doable.

Does she run 100+ or does she run and "run" (on a zero-g)? Solid difference between the two, calorically.

I'm surprised she runs over 100 miles a week actually when it took Rupp years to build up there.

Where does this claim that she only weighs 100 pounds come from? Has anyone ever seen her in person? This girl is all muscle, we're not talking Deena Kaster here. http://jordanhasay.com/wp-cont...hasay2.jpg

Where does this claim that she only weighs 100 pounds come from? Has anyone ever seen her in person? This girl is all muscle, we're not talking Deena Kaster here. http://jordanhasay.com/wp-cont...hasay2.jpg

1000^3 wrote:

What's the point of lying about that?

Because cheating and lying is the hallmark of NOP'ers. Hasay tried to cheat her way to a national 3000 title. She'll say and do anything that she thinks will benefit her.

nutri 2 the bone wrote:

Where does this claim that she only weighs 100 pounds come from? Has anyone ever seen her in person? This girl is all muscle, we're not talking Deena Kaster here.

http://jordanhasay.com/wp-cont...hasay2.jpg

Agree. She looks pretty muscular and healthy. Her first year with NOP she teetered on the edge with (perhaps experimental) weight loss but I think she and Alberto figured out the weight loss wasn't working out well for her.

Some of the top NCAA cross country women look much thinner than Hasay.

To the poster "Hasay is a Cheat", you must be Griswolds (I mean Grunwolds) husband talking, huh? Or perhaps a family member? Whoever you all are, you all are a bunch of losers and are certainly people who don't understand the sport - and should get out of the sport and off this website.

Maybe you are undereating??