Michael Phelps’s 12,000-calorie day

Just how many slices of white bread, fried eggs, cheese and scoops of mayo do you need to be an Olympic gold medallist? Flipping loads, it turns out.

Enormous man-mountain, Michael Phelps, he of eight golds and counting fame, has shared his diet with the world. It makes for incredible reading, not least because it’s not much different to that of enormous teen-mountain, Georgia Davis.

The day begins with a ‘breakfast of champions’: three fried-egg sandwiches embellished with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Not just the tommy sauce for this Olympian.

He continues to nosh through two coffees, a five-egg omelette, a bowl of grits (what the!?), three slices of French toast with powdered sugar and three chocolate chip pancakes.

That’s about 4,000 calories, right there, just under double the recommended daily intake before most of us have polished off our toast and marmite.

For lunch it’s a pound of pasta, two ham, mayo and cheese sarnies on white bread and a thousand calories worth of energy drinks.

It’s carb-overload for supper: another pound of pasta - nothing says large food quantity like measuring in pounds - and a whole pizza. Plus the next thousand calories of energy drink.

All that grub powers Phelps through five hours of training, six days a week. The rest of the hours in a day are spent eating. And frying.

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