BLAKE HORTON: What’s up guys! Giant McGriddles time. Let’s go.
BLAKE HORTON: It’s like you are an unchaperoned
child in the kitchen, allowed to make whatever you want.
COMM: 34-year-old Blake Horton has made a
name for himself by gorging on an average of 4,000 calories worth of junk food inspired
meals, broadcasting his late night feasting daily to his thousands of followers on social media.
BLAKE HORTON: It’s pouring, if it drips, it’s pouring.
BLAKE HORTON: I basically save up all my calories
and spend them all in one shot.
BLAKE HORTON: Most people eat three meals
a day. I do everything in one meal a day, getting all my nutrients, carbs, fats, proteins,
everything all in that one big meal. Monstrous meal if you will.
COMM: Blake earns his daily spread from being
a dedicated gym bunny, spending hours working out every day.
BLAKE HORTON: I’m gonna scale this wall.
BLAKE HORTON: Well, right, ripped my pants.
BLAKE HORTON: My training, mainly body weight
based. I am also into cycling. Not too much in to body building.
COMM: Although these meals might look more
like a fitness fanatic’s nightmare, Blake insists the he meticulously plans them to
make sure they adhere to his strict calorie counting rules.
BLAKE HORTON: We are making giant McGriddles
today. It’s going to be just like McDonald’s, except much larger, pancake buns, egg in
the middle with, cheese and bacon, and syrup. Oh, with a giant hash brown.
BLAKE HORTON: A lot of my meals don’t look
healthy to the untrained human eye. For me personally, you can eat clean all you want
and you can end up hitting nutritional blind spots and end up unhealthy. So, I focus on
getting the proper nutrients and I do that with foods which are really enjoyable. People
are like, “What’s the point?” It’s like because you want to hold a giant McGriddle.
It’s the best feeling in the world and you wouldn’t understand it unless you have actually
held one.
COMM: Looking at Blake’s rippling abs now,
you’d never guess that just 4 years ago he wasn’t such an Adonis.
BLAKE HORTON: When I turned 30 years old,
I lost 60 pounds. A big portion of it was through eating small meals, spread out throughout
the day. I was miserable. I was constantly watching the clock, waiting for my next meal.
I was hungry all the time. I read about intermittent fasting. So this claims that you don’t get
hungry anymore. You get to eat huge monstrous meals, just basically like enjoy life again.
So, I figured, you know what, let me give it a shot.
BLAKE HORTON: Giant McGriddles. This is a
regular McDonald’s McGriddle. This is my McGriddle.
COMM: As well as his countless Insta-fans,
Blake’s girlfriend Jenni also watches the action unfold every night.
BLAKE HORTON : What’s up, guys! Giant McGriddle time. Let’s go.
JENNI HIRALDO: People ask me, “How do you,
you know, how are you in a relationship with guy who eats this much?”
BLAKE HORTON: I don’t share my food, but
she gets her own massive meal in relation to her.
BLAKE HORTON: She is 104 pounds. So, a massive
meal her is a lot smaller than a massive meal for me.
JENNI HIRALDO: And I’m not intermittent
fasting, but I do count my calories, count my macro and micro nutrients and I do eat
lighter during the week so that I can eat bigger in the weekends. So, you know, if we
go out for drinks on the weekends and to eat, you know, bigger meals and have fun with sprinkles
and all this stuff.
COMM: As you can imagine eating such a gigantic
meal is a tiring thing to do.
BLAKE HORTON: Time out.
BLAKE HORTON: And how do I physically feel?
Yeah, I feel great. You still, actually you can still kind of see abs under there. I believe
the body is meant to digest while resting. I make sure eating is the last thing I am
going to do. Later guys, have a good night.
BLAKE HORTON: You see my food baby, it’s
monstrous. I just want to go to sleep after that.
JENNI HIRALDO: We don’t haves sex after
he eats. Not after I eat either. I mean, we are stuffed, think about it, you want to go
to rest, after you stuff your face, you can’t even walk, let alone do physical activities.
Grown up physical activities.
BLAKE HORTON: I enjoy myself a lot more now
and my health is perfect. People are like, “Do you really enjoy that?” I am like,
“Why would I do this every day if i didn’t enjoy my meals?”