I just ate one of those bags of mini donuts after dinner of top ramen and chicken breast. With both I drank a quart of milk.
This isn’t the best choices of food, I didn’t eat any beef, but meat, carb, dairy, then a dessert I was craving.
Two main feedings this day plus the bag of dessert, this brings me to over 5000 calories.
The bag of donuts got me to thinking :
The skinny high schooler vs the built high schooler, when both are lifting their build comes down to which one knows how to eat.
The school linebacker, I remember senior year during first period he’d eat one of those bags of either hostess or little debbie’s donuts.
1500 calories during first period.
I’d guess preceding he had eaten a school breakfast or two, and at lunch a school lunch or two.
He’d eat anything up for grabs, I recall this.
His dad was the stereotypical big redneck, drove an suv with nascar stickers, into football, barbeque, and beer. I’m assuming dinners were hefty, full of meat and potatoes.
He got ample beer calories in at parties as well, this still counts as energy in.
Kid almost had abs, played linebacker, had a big bench, crazily enough could run a ~5:15 mile, and spent high school basically at 5’10 200lbs.
The other kids in the weight room had similarly high levels of activity, but he was eating calories, they weren’t.
He was built well, they weren’t.
Food intake and build, they correlate.
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