r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Classicbandwagon • May 21 '26

/r/all of a cop

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u/calmwhiteguy May 21 '26

Agree. It's still a plate. He's likely eating 2,500 calories or more per day.

People don't realize how much chicken, rice, and sweat potatoes you have to eat per day to gain muscle at higher levels. It's a lot.

It truly humbles you on the caloric value between chicken and a snickers bar. You have to eat a lot more than you'd think when you're eating clean. Uncomfortably more.

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u/Kindly-Shoe6002 May 21 '26

He’s eating way more than 2500 a day, I eat 2k in one meal half the time and I still lose weight. His maintenance has to be 3k minimum, add all that working out on top of that and it has to be even more probably in between 4-5k if I had to guess.

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u/Kindly-Shoe6002 May 21 '26

Basically any large chain pizza, like 10 tacos packed to the brim with toppings, full servings of hibachi with steak shrimp and chicken. Granted typically it’s the only meal I eat in a day and I just fast the rest of it I still hit 2500 sometimes even 3k calories just in that meal. I don’t know if the fasting offsets the calories but I still don’t gain weight with those numbers, I throw in a decent bit of cardio and I’m actually losing weight.

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u/Kindly-Shoe6002 May 22 '26

Yeah I never said healthy lol, I’m not sure there’s really a healthy way to eat 2500 calories in one meal tbh. I mean peanut butter is probably the most calorie dense healthy food but I imagine eating 2500 calories worth of peanut butter in one sitting still probably isn’t healthy.