Eating 10,000 Calories In One Day Will Kill You (Subjectively)
Why you shouldn’t copy everything your favorite influencer does
Please don’t try such an experiment yourself if you are not fit or have any serious disease. If I can’t stop you from trying, get medical support and let a doctor have a look at you while doing it.
Lying in bed at the end of the day and being unsure if I should call an ambulance was not part of the expectations I had from this experiment.
There was this hype a few years ago about eating 10,000 calories in one day. Every Fitness YouTuber hopped onto that hype train and tried it for pure entertainment purposes.
As a clickbait title on Youtube, it worked pretty well. Those videos received millions of views. Everyone wanted to see how the body is affected and if a fit person could even accomplish eating so much in a single day.
I am someone who had been interested a long time in fasting, the human body, and how it evolutionarily works, so I have caught myself watching a lot of those videos and observe how these people managed the 10,000 calorie-challenge.
At first, I didn’t think it was possible but after seeing it work out for so many, I ended up wanting to see the effects on myself and what would happen with…