Eat Well

I eat an enormous amount of food. My breakfast - weetabix, coffee, smoothie, boiled egg, donut, valenica orange, topped off with some vitamin tablets. My lunch is a dinner. My dinner has at least three courses. And so forth. I have good metabolism, and am not fat. I believe wholeheartedly in eating your fill.

And what of the greatest athlete (possibly ever) Michael Phelps? 11 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS! How does this physiological masterpiece eat?

Phelps' diet - which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal - resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

This titan of our time eats like a champion, a true Hercules.