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There's got to be an upper limit as to how much the digestive system will actually process, right? Say 10K calories of food can get broken down and absorbed, but the remaining 20K calories must essentially pass through undigested. I'm imagining that some of this undigested food probably passes through relatively quickly, maybe within 6 hours of consumption.

I mean it seems pretty safe to assume that he's taking at least 3-4 dumps weighing 5+ lbs in the 6-48 hour post contest window. Not quite Randy Marsh, but still.

I bet he throws a bunch of it up not long after the contest. iirc they need to keep it down for a small amount of time X - I bet at X+1 seconds vomiting ensues.

Does he throw up after at all? I can't even imagine how violent it must be to throw up that much food.

I'm under the impression that they don't throw up for a couple reasons. First of all, once the contest is over they're immediately barraged by the media for a while. Logistically I don't think they could find the free time to puke it up for probably at least an hour post event.

Secondly, throwing up that much food strikes me as dangerous. Eating it in the first place is undoubtedly dangerous, but to puke all that up we'd probably be talking at least a solid 50 heaves of maximum expulsion. I can't put my finger on exactly what part of the system I think would break, but at minimum this would have to be a heavily monitored activity to minimize asphyxiation risk.

Third, they train to blunt the vomit response. Eating to capacity and then giving in to vomiting strikes me as incredibly detrimental to long term progress.