Hi guys today I am taking part in yet another video challenge, and of course, it is a food
eating challenge. Now this is quite popular on YouTube at the moment, and it's called
the 10,000 calorie eating challenge where basically you have to eat 10,000 calories
in a single day.
Now I'm taking part in this challenge with another YouTuber call Josh Baldwin. He has
a channel called VeganFit, so I have linked to his channel in the description below. There
will also be his version of this video online so make sure you go over there and check it
out.
Now watching some of these guys take part in this challenge, they eat a lot of junk
food, fast food, sweets and crisps, and they make it relatively easy on themselves to hit
that 10,000 calorie target.
Speaking with Josh we wanted to have a slightly healthier approach to this, or at least as
healthy as you can get when you're eating 10,000 calories in a single day. So we're
not going to be eating any junk food or fast food, and we're going to base this solely
on the vegan diet. Now I'm not vegan but I eat a lot of plant-based meals, so that's
something that's relatively easy for me to follow. But 10,000 calories is A LOT so let's
get started, let's have breakfast and see if we can make a dent in this 10,000 calorie
goal.
Okay slight change of plan already. I'm a little bit late for work so I am making myself
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I wouldn't consider it to be the healthiest thing in
the world, but it's on Dr Zaks protein bread. I need to start making a dent in this pretty
quickly or these 10,000 calories are all going to be at the end of the day, so here goes...
NOM.
So I'm now at the office and I have my breakfast ready to go. I have 250g of oats with 250g
of raisins. I have 5 bananas. I was going to chop these up and put them in but I think
I'm just going to eat them now, and I have a litre of coconut almond milk. So yeah, that
is nearly 3,000 calories which is more than I would normally eat in a day.
What do you think Steve? It looks like a counter of a hotel breakfast buffet. Haha. This is
the biggest bowl I could find, so I feel like I'm going to be eating out of a bucket basically,
so yeah not very civilised. But here we go.
Oh wow that is quite coco-nutty. I didn't realise how much coconut that was like. Oh
my god. Let's give that a try. If I can't make all this work I'm going to have to drink
that as well. Oh I can get more in there than that. Let's try this. Do you want some Steve?
I'm good, I've had my breakfast and... no. Hahaha. Right then, let's give this a go.
When do you eat the bananas? I'll just eat them. So that's like a pudding? It's like
a side-order. Yeah, like a pudding. You know they don't give the monkeys at Blackpool zoo
that many bananas? Hahaha. Yeah I know this going to suck. Let's give it a little try.
Mmm. That's pretty good! It tastes like muesli; if you like that kind of thing. This is going
to take a long time to eat though. I'm feeling full already. Are we going to have to time
lapse this? No...
Okay so I've been eating for about 2 minutes and I'm already full, and I haven't even made
a dent in this. Although I've had a banana so that's a good start, right? Yeah just 4
more bananas to go. And the milk. Yeah there is about 500 ml of milk left as well.
It still looks the same. It looks thicker. It does. It looks heavy. Filling. Yeah, yep.
Absorbent. Yep all those things. Sponge. Why don't you wash it down with a banana? That's
a good idea. It's like cement. It feels like I'm eating cement now.
Oh no it's actually less calories than I thought actually. Nooo. It's 2,593. It's still 93
more than I would normally have in a day, but, nonetheless it's a lot less. You need
to pick up the pace.
Here we go. That's it finished and here are my 5 bananas. Oh crap. I still have this to
drink. Right, I'll drink that now. Damn it.
Oh this belly is so full. Right then, I am still so full from breakfast which was 3 hours
ago now, and I have all this food to eat. I've got 4 avocados, and apple, 500g of grapes,
some tomatoes and 4 more slices of Dr Zaks protein bread. So let's try and get it ready.
What do you think, Steve? It looks incredibly tasty and healthy but just if you had one
of them, a bit of that, and some of them. Yeah I concur. You have to eat all of that?
I don't how I'm going to do it to be honest. I can't even face drinking water at the moment
I'm so full, so I have no idea how this is going to go. I wouldn't eat that much guacamole.
Let alone just avocado. Yeah. I'm beginning to regret this, quite a lot.
Oh I almost ended up in A&E there! It would have been a great way to get out of this?
You could bring it with you. You could bring it all in a big bag. I might have to blend
this. Right there we go! Crikey, that is a lot of food.
Enjoy! Thank you. Don't forget your other food. Yeah a kilo of fruit. God the weight
of this. Oh God this is going to be painful.
Oh I tell you what, let's start with some nice refreshing tomatoes. One. You can mush
that up into some fake guacamole. Mush it all together? Yeah. You just 10 bags of Doritos.
Alright stop talking, let's get this done.
Was it? I've been looking at it for ages thinking the chocolate one looks really nice. You can't
eat it then? You can eat it. So you think it will be a bit... it's probably fine. I
looked at it and though, nah, there's no way you can have something like that.
It's coming. It's stuck so badly. I'm in so much pain. It hurts so bad; it's right there.
Oh God I'm going to vom. Please be sick... *Belch* Ah I had to get it out, I couldn't
prolong it I'm sorry.
*long belch*
Phew. Okay so it's about one o'clock. I've had about five and half thousand calories
so far today, and if I'm completely honest I feel dreadful. I'm just trying to walk it
off a bit now, but I've never eaten so much food in such a short amount of time before.
I just feel, I feel a little bit drunk if I'm completely honest. So I'm just going for
a quick breather. I'm just trying to walk it off a little bit, and in about 2 hours
I'll be eating my next meal so let's see what happens.
Okay so I think I may have of underestimated how difficult this challenge was going to
be. I feel terrible. I have never been this full in all my life, and I'm finding it difficult
to drink water. I last ate at one o'clock it's now nearly four o'clock, and I'm supposed
to be having my next meal which is supposed to be beans and rice and I cannot bring myself
to even think about it let alone eat it. So I'm going to knock this back a little further
and maybe have that around six, and then have dinner much later than anticipated to see
how I get on. But I feel useless, my brain is not even working right now. I don't think
I have ever eaten this much food in such a short time in all my life. So let's just see
how we get on and see what happens. But, the way things are going at the moment I may,
I may, have to forfeit but let's see what happens.
Okay so I'm now back home. It is just after seven o'clock. I didn't have that rice and
bean meal so I'm now really behind on my calories, still on about five and half thousand. So
my plan is to have a really big dinner around eight o'clock and see if I can get as close
to those 10,000 calories as I can so let's see what happens.
Okay so this is what I have planned for dinner. Essentially it is a Thai Green curry but of
course it is a vegan Thai Green curry so we have tofu instead of chicken, and we have
a vegan friendly Thai Green curry kit. So I'm going for calorie dense foods at this
point, so we have full fat coconut milk, coconut oil and I'm going to try and fit some side
dishes in here as well I think just to try and get the calories up and try and get as
close to 10,000 calories as we can. So let's get cooking!
So dinner is bubbling up quite nicely now, it's almost done. Then we have a ridiculous
amount of rice, it's about 300g of rice in there hence the spillage that overflowed out
of my pan a little bit. So I'm going to get some extras for this now and then we'll be
good to eat.
Okay so I have just finished my dinner and I am still incredibly full. It's now about
9.30 and the only way I can finish this, the only way I can get to the end of the 10,000
calories is to eat this little bag of nuts which is about 600 calories; I'm about 1,500
short, and unfortunately I need to cheat. I need to use these. Oreos. That whole pack
would take me over the edge and into the 10,000 calorie bracket. I did say I wasn't going
to have any sweets and Junk. I'm sorry Josh, I'm sorry if you have made it to the end on
all clean food then respect to you, but if I want to hit the 10,000 calories unfortunately
this is what I need to do so. So I'm going to scoff these now, then hopefully that is
this challenge done.
So it is now the morning after the 10,000 calorie challenge and I can safely say I still
feel pretty full, I still feel pretty rotten after eating so much food and it was much
harder than I thought it was going to be. I thought I was going to breeze through this
no problem, but after the first meal I was so full, and it was just an uphill struggle
basically after that. Now I went through MyFitnessPal this morning to double check my calories.
I thought I was on about maybe 10,300 in total, but when I went through it I suddenly realised
I didn't eat all the grapes that I said I was going to eat and the cashew nuts that
I had for dinner was actually a slightly smaller portion than I thought. So when I updated
everything, it said I hit 10,001 calories which is about as close to hitting the target
as you can get really, Now I should point out as well that the only reason I hit that
target was because I did exactly what I said I wasn't going to do and I ate some sweets.
I ate Oreos basically and a whole pack of them as well. That's the only way I could
have completed this challenge because no matter how full you are, there is always room for
Oreos. So I feel like I failed this test, failed this challenge. I'm very curious to
find out how Josh got on, and if you are too then make sure you go over to his channel
and check out his video. He's got some great content on his channel as well, all about
nutrition and fitness so make sure you check him out.
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