Jeez...I'm overfull just READING that list.

I couldn't even eat the whole first thing on the list.

I wonder if this is related to the people who eat that much to gain as much weight as possible. They think they're sexy that way. I saw some show on these people a few years ago. I was wondering why they thought they were going to live more than a few years doing this.

ooh, yucky!

Maybe if they lived somewhere really, really cold, and just burned up the calories working outside? It's a stretch, but I'm looking for some way this could work.

Oh, dear. That's hard to imagine. All of them must be nearly confined to home by now.

I was looking at Lin's general biology textbook last night, and in the study section at the end of one of the chapters, it talked about eating disorders. This thing claimed that some bulimics eat as much as 50,000 kCal in a SITTING. I don't mean to be argumentative, but I really don't think that's physically possible. All that food would take up more volume than the entire person, let alone just the person's digestive tract. Cripes.

Some call this stalking... I call this, you finding a whole bunch of really cool websites... I just joined spark, hah, let's see if this helps.

When I was in my early 20s I got a 5-pound Whitman's sampler for some occasion. (I don't remember why.) I was leaving on a road trip, so I took it with me.

You know those studies that tell you that you eat more when you are taking from a large bowl or box than from a small one? They're right. I couldn't wait to open the box, so I sat in the passenger seat of the car and ate a few chocolates. Mmmm! But the box still looked completely full, so I obviously hadn't had very many -- so I ate a few more.

I think subconsciously I was expecting it to look like a 1-pound box of chocolates does when I've eaten a few. So I ate another few pieces. But I still wasn't getting the visual cue I was apparently expecting, so I ate a few more.

I don't remember how much I ended up eating during the course of an hour or so, nibbling more and more, but it was a lot. After awhile I started feeling a little off, and eventually I felt really sick to my stomach. I think it was all that fat and sugar on an empty stomach.

I certainly never intended to eat so much candy all at once! It was so insidious ... I never realized how much I was actually eating until it was too late and I felt horrible. It didn't put me off eating chocolates (unfortunately), but I've always remembered that incident and have been more careful!

Aside from the long-term damage to their bodies, I don't know how those people do it without feeling sick. I guess their bodies are used to it -- mine certainly wasn't!

I suppose that on Thanksgiving Day, where I always eat myself sick, and where I sometimes treat myself to donuts for breakfast before cooking, I MIGHT be able to eat 30,000 calories' worth of food and drink. MIGHT. It's probably nowhere near that high, though.

Good lord. When I'm eating like a pig, instead of watching what I eat, I probably average 3000-4000 calories per day. I can't imagine eating & drinking ten times that much.

Okay this thread delivers but honestly I would like to recommend to anyone reading that they should support locally owned establishments rather than chains.

i'm impressed that you managed to keep it all vegetarian.