Eat Like a Champ: The Michael Phelps Diet - a list by DLP

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12,000 calories a day?! When your exercise regimen is this active, your body pops into burn mode. You have to fuel the fire with insane amounts of quick burning carbohydrates, protein for rebuilding muscle, and fat for slow burning endurance. This is a run down of what you need to eat in a day to be an Olympic medal-winning phenomenon....

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Pioneer's Porridge

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Porridge... a breakfast staple of the three bears, Goldilocks, and now Michael Phelps.

Updated Aug 20, 2008

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Wonder Bread

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Yes, Michael Phelps eats white bread. Whereas the rest of us are told to avoid this whole-grainless wonder like the Bubonic plague, Phelps uses this to make Dagwood-sized sandwiches.

For breakfast.

Updated Aug 20, 2008

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Land-O-Lakes Salted Butter

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While the rest of us are attempting to cut unwanted fat from our diets, Phelps is loading up on the butter - at a whopping 11g of fat per tablespoon.

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Fried Eggs

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Watching your cholesterol? Ha. Phelps isn't. He's downing these puppies every morning....

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French Fried Onions

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With breakfast? Indeed. Because you'll need to pack in the calories if you're going to work out all day long every day.

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Lettuce

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Not that this adds extra calories or anything, but I suppose it's nice to throw in a vegetable here and there... for effect... and maybe a crunch to those fried eggs sandwiches.

Updated Aug 20, 2008

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Tomato

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Lycopene, beta-cerotene, and Vitamin C. Load up!

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mayonnaise

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If you are going to burn through calories like Michael Phelps, you will have to use globs of emulsified egg, oil, vinegar, and seasonings to coat your three fried egg sandwiches.

Updated Aug 20, 2008

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Five-Egg Omelette with Parsley

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In addition to your three fried egg sandwiches, you will need to have a five-egg omelette. Every. Morning. With parsley to garnish, of course.

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French Toast with Powdered Sugar

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And you thought you were done with breakfast! Not even close! Add to that three pieces of french toast, loaded with powdered sugar!

Updated Aug 20, 2008

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