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waiting to see if he finishes it off the
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other day I was being productive
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watching a hot dog eating contest and
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noticed
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[Applause]
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something all the top eaters are pretty
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healthy I mean just look at the lean
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faces on the major league eating
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leaderboards I wanted to find out how
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somebody who regularly eats over 10,000
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calories a day looks like this many
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speculate about a darker side to the
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career but these cizzy gobblers give
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those of us with scary appetites hope
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and again I don't have like this crazy
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metabolism of the Gods so how are they
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doing it and should we use any of their
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tactics
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ourselves strangely almost all
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competitive eaters have deep backgrounds
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in health and fitness Matt Stony studed
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Nutrition santel a registered
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nutritionist Neo a registered
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nutritionist ktina eats kilos background
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in bodybuilding beard meets food an
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impressive Fitness background and it's
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not a coincidence with this sport
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getting your nutritional approach right
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can quite literally be a matter of life
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and death here's a CT scan of a
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competitive eer stomach after they were
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rushed to hospital you can see the food
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pushing their organs around it's a risky
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Escapade this is 69 hot dog buns 69 hot
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dogs and over 2 quarts of water this is
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what it looks like inside the human VI
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surely no human is able to stomach this
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without ruptures right the rock of which
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she stands is not aaq it is the United
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States of
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America this is Joey Chesnut he just
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devoured 71 hot dogs in under 10 minutes
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making him the greatest competitive vaa
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in history a man of unhinged powers and
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one of his Secrets maintaining a healthy
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weight I do gain weight and it's it's a
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battle I have to be aware of it because
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if I lose track of my long-term calorie
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intake I gain weight then I start losing
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contests I hate losing coincidental
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this is the ideal body according to PR
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vus a short neck long torso and wider
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build but this doesn't mean fat the belt
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of fat Theory suggests that belly fat
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restricts the stomach's abilities to
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expand limiting the amount of food the
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compensative beta can ingest excessive
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fat gain also limits the contestant's
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ability to breathe while shoveling food
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down their gullet if I wasn't taking
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care of myself if I wasn't physically in
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great shape then I wouldn't be able to
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physically compete at a high level okay
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so we know that saying someone fit is a
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requirement for elite competitive eating
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this doesn't explain how the mukbanger
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hungry fat chick ended up with off the
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chart obesity while competitive eaters
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maintain an ideal weight many believe
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it's a difference between a slow and a
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fast
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metabolism competitive eating comment
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sections are full of people dissatisfied
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with their slow metabolisms but
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according to competitive eaters their
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metabolisms aren't anything special
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there are so so many misconceptions
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about food challenges and food
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Challengers one of them is that we've
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got some magic metabolisms and that
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we're just able to eat loads of food all
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of the time it is not the case Mason has
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an estimated BMR at
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1,516 calories per day Mickey pseudo
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1,223 calories and beard meat food
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1,623 calories according to studies two
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people of the exact same height weight
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age sex body composition and lifestyle
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could have energy needs that differ by
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800 calories per day this could be the
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difference between a 1,100 or 1,900
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calorie BMR some people are genetically
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gifted with a faster metabolism but it's
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rare and it doesn't mean they can
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swallow sausages all day without getting
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fat statistically most people were
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within 200 calories of their estimates
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this is why competitive eaters get
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frustrated with people talking about the
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metabolism like it's some ancestral
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curse all the while they put a lot of
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effort into losing fat gain weight does
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not matter how fast your metabolism is
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if you eat in excess of calories
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consistently you're going to gain weight
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also believe it or not I do have an
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average metabolism but there's something
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many do to speed up their metabolisms
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weight lifting it's estimated that by
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gaining 10 kg of muscle losing 10 kg of
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fat your BMR increases by 85 calories
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per day giving you an extra 31,000
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calories to play with over the year
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although I'm not some muscle bound Juice
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Head what mass is on my body is mostly
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muscle so to sustain my body weight and
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the activity level in addition to
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keeping me alive my body needs more
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calories than somebody who doesn't
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weight train competitive eaters may burn
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a few hundred more calories per day
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there's no way this could ever offset
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weekly 10,000 calorie challenges so I
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wanted to find out how they eat outside
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of competitions most of what I prepare
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at home is uh raw fruits fresh
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vegetables a lot of lean meats after
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contests is to eat super high fiber is
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that I focus a lot on vegetables maybe
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like a lean or a fat-free Dairy
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otherwise I kind of just fill the gaps
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with whatever else works I am massively
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into eating clean and then when it's
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time to throw down then I go in on the
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food my daily diet consists of a lot of
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vegetables fruits lowfat proteins but a
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lot of micro dense foods and I in fact
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actually enjoy eating like salads and
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broccoli green beans corn healthy eating
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great but how exactly is this helping
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them lose weight your body does reflect
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what you do over 90% of the time and I
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am probably a competitive eater four
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days of every month the average
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competitive eater doesn't eat like this
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all the time in fact most do around one
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challenge per week the single most
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important factor and I can't stress this
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enough when it comes to gaining weight
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or losing weight is the amount of
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calories you consume over time this
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makes it a simple equation to maintain
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my weight I need to eat roughly 18 to
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20,000 calories per week so if I film a
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restaurant challenge that's say 7,000
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calories I know that throughout the rest
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of the week I have 11,000 calories to
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play with on their off days they'll drop
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their calories to prevent weight gain to
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F their larger than average stomachs
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with few calories they volume eat it
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lets me eat a large amount of food uh
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without having to consume a large amount
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of calories take this example this is
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what 1,000 calories of strawberries
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looks like next to 1,000 calories of
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donut
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competitive eaters opt for very high
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volume foods to stay sane while in a
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calorie deficit 2 and 1/4 lb of salad
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it's rich in protein really good macros
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basically I'm eating this entire meal
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for roughly 1,000 calories the fiber
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content also helps keep competitive
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eaters full and the micronutrients helps
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keep their bodies healthier if you want
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to do food challenges you better love to
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learn vegetables and fruit many
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including Matt Stony supplement with
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whey protein and high protein diets
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protein not only helps prevent muscle
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loss in a calorie deficit but has the
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most filling macronutrient per calorie
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so a high protein diet can help you lose
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weight if we come back to the diagram
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that shows how we burn our calories
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there's a section called TEF which
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stands for the thermic effect of food
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it's the amount of calories your body
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Burns breaking down Foods it typically
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takes more energy to break down protein
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in comparison to the other
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macronutrients this seems to also be the
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case the nutritious Whole Foods versus
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is ultra processed foods so the thermic
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effect of eating a high protein diet
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with lots of Whole Foods is another very
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small factor helping competitive eaters
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maintain a healthy weight but let's not
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get distracted it all comes down to
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calorie balance makes sense but if this
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is the case what about practices before
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competitions and many comment suggesting
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they have more disordered habits we'll
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get to that but first we need to explore
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their cardio cuz they must do tons of
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right I can't think of anything worse
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than getting on trimill and just
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sprinting for you know 15 minutes I
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don't do any crazy amounts of cardio I
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go to the gym I purposefully lift my
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weights maybe four to 5 days a week
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right now and that's it surprisingly
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many competitive eaters do very little
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cardio for weight loss cardio is
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overrated for burning calories for most
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people which is why it represents the
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smallest amount of calories burned per
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day on this chart it's not at all
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necessary for fat loss that's not to say
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competitive eaters don't do cardio I'm
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usually doing between 3 to four hours of
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actual training and that's endurance
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training so wow yes Salam is another
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competitive eater an endurance athlete
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his energy expended to chart probably
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looks more like this this is how the
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most decorated Olympian of all time
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Michael Phelps was able to maintain his
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weight eating 8 to 10,000 calories per
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day it was brutal brutal but
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aggressively swimming after a 10,000
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calorie Curry is likely to result in
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embarrassment and a ban from your
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Leisure Center even if you run an extra
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10 km every day it's only an extra
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600ish calories the equivalent of this
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much peanut butter which is why most
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competitive eaters if they do any cardio
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at all are more moderate with Joey
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Chestnut claiming to run two to three
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times per week to help them push the
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boundaries for human hot dog consumption
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doing cardio helps me with my breathing
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during contest but I don't depend on
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cardio to burn calories necessarily I
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try to get into a calorie deficit
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because while it's a helpful fat loss
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tool competitive eaters like to use a
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much more sustainable fatless
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accelerator but I don't do anything any
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crazier than going for regular walks
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outside for cardio I walk a lot like I
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walk like a lot every day like neat
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represents a large proportion of the
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calories we burn per day non- exercise
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activity thermogenesis is a calories you
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burn from fidgeting walking and any
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activity that is in exercise there's a
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reason in bodybuilding when the goal is
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to get incredibly lean most people
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increase their step count it's low
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intensity so can be done after a big
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challenge for long periods and while
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multitasking making it easy to fit into
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daily life I [ __ ] hate high intensity
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interval training that's why I walk for
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a long long time this is all pretty
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healthy stuff so what about the comments
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suggesting that competitive eaters are
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hiding their true weight loss methods
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from the
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public is me trading on an eating
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disorder for money is what the 2024
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Nathan's Hot Dog Champion Patrick
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beretti admitted to an interview it's no
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surprise why psychiatrists suggest that
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there's an overlap between competitive
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eaters and eating disorders and why so
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many people in the comment section
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suspect they all throw up after
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competitions says I heard you and
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basically all competitive eaters make
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yourself sick after the challenge any
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truth to that um I definitely don't
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think there is any truth to that I think
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some people probably do but I think you
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can't really base that on all
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competitive eaters many do an
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intentionally but this is a dangerous
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assumption the best competitive eaters
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do digest the food people
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always assume that um you're going and
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PUK after that but for my rule of time
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is I don't induce if it comes out it
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comes out we don't going induce vomiting
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I never have vomited after any of these
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food challenges besides when I tried to
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chug a gallon of milk while they may
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digest the food many fast for long
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periods of time cost about $4 to do a
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practice I'm not eating anything for 2
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days leading up to that practice and
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then afterwards I'm not eating very much
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I'm eating vegetables this is how
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they're able to fit a few practice runs
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in each month all with the supervision
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of medical professionals one of my big
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splurges is my doctor all the top eaters
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are pretty healthy the healthier you are
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the harder you can push your body this
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is why most competitive eaters try to
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keep their weight down sustainably and
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their approach is clearly effective to
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use beard Meats food as an example if we
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give them a generous BMR estimate of
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1,900 calories he walks a lot so let's
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put his knat at 600 calories he eats a
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lot of protein and healthy foods but
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also does some challenges so let's put
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his fermic effective food of 300
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calories and lastly he trains in the gym
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putting his exercise activity
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thermogenesis about 200 calories per day
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each day he burns around 3,000 calories
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which is 21,000 calories per week if he
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does 1 8,000 calorie challenge a week he
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now needs to eat under
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2,167 calories to avoid weight gain
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without doing anything too crazy
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hopefully it helps some people out and
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like I said you can kind of apply this
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knowledge you know a less extreme level
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if you like this is the exact process I
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use myself to stay in decent shape while
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still enjoying food just with more
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moderation so I don't have to spend most
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of my days in a calorie deficit this is
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what matters not whether you're a
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carnival keto or fruitarian and it
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doesn't matter if you can't run have a
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slow metabolism or a rampant appetite
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there's something everyone can do the
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point is if competitive eaters can stay
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in decent shape you can do so too while
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still enjoying the food you like if you
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want to see what happens when a once fit
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tribal Island the exact opposite of
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everything in this video I recommend
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