AMERICA DEFEATS REST OF WORLD
 

Folks, it's my pleasure to relay the most amazing news on the planet. It appears America has defeated the entire world, YES, that's RIGHT. America has WON!

Our new national hero trained for six weeks in preparation for the most competitive sport known to man.

"It's crazy," he admitted. "I love to compete. I know it's what I have to do to be No. 1."
His whole focus right now is "work and eating."
In the meantime, he's supposed to throw the first pitch out at the New York Mets baseball game Sunday -- a previously scheduled event that will be even better given the world record, Chestnut said.
Afterward, it's back to training.


Wow. THAT's a REAL American champion. I know I can speak for basically the entire country when I say that I am damn sure glad to live in the same country as this Hercules.

You know what -always- amazes me? That the eating contest winners are always some scrawny little blighter.

Hey, us scrawny little blighter's are freaking hungry! Those chubby people participating can't win because they may have eaten once or twice before they showed up, and they can't process the food as quickly as us.

Us runts can actually metabolize the hotdogs while we're wolfing down more hotdogs, due to our close relation to rodents.

Well, when you stop eating for three days at a time, it isn't very surprising that you're going to be skinny.

Edit: Well, not that skinny.

We finally beat Kobiyashi! That guy was unstoppable for a while!

Eh, how much fat you have doesn't really affect how big your organs are, and it certainly doesn't do much for your metabolism as a whole. Drinking large amounts of water might help you stretch things out a bit, and you can drop that easily. JUST starving yourself would probably be a bad idea, but there are certainly things you could stay away from to help keep your appetite large.

I wonder if they test competitors for marijuana usage? That would definitely help.

Actually, the chubby people can't win because they have a lower metabolism. The skinnier people often have a heightened metabolism which can at times result in a heightened appetite. Said heightened appetite means that they'll have eaten more per day over time versus the fatter people.

I know this because there's numerous people at where I work who are about 100-150 pounds that eat two to three times what I eat(And I'm well over 300).

I can vouch for that fact easily - I've been trying to gain weight for the past couple years but my metabolism is too damned fast. I'm virtually stuck at 110. Which would be cool if I didn't mind looking so gimpy. (but working out is haaard...)

It is awesome to see all that food vanish into such seemingly small people. Like Shaggy and Scooby Doo on a sandwich binge. You crazy Americans.

I'm stuck at 130. >.>

And I can't eat very big meals. I have to eat lots of small things more times than usual. Two small burritos makes me wanna take a nap. :shifty:

I'm the same way. I can never eat big meals, but I can snack constantly. Eating even a medium-sied meal, my stomach will start to feel bad, so the idea of eating 60 hot dogs just plain scares me.

Whereas I can eat a small meal and feel full. A full meal and feel full. Or numerous snackings throughout the day and feel full.

Yet I can not lose weight. FOR I AM PIGLORD, MASTER OF PIGGYDOOM.

You do any sort of exercise to burn those calories? During rowing season, I'm always hungry, but I just can't ingest all the calories that my body needs.

An american winning a hotdog eating contest? Ridiculous, he must have cheated. The man was probably on some sort of appetite-enhancing drug.

I walk an unspecific amount of miles each day, minor heavy lifting on top of that.

Body type also weighs heavily on how much that moderate amount of excerise affects your weight.

Body....type?

I'm an orc. totally an orc.

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Actually.. at 6'1 220 is still pretty skinny...

I dunno, I'm 5'11" and 145, so I don't really consider two inches taller and 75 lbs heavier to still be skinny.

Marijuana would do it.

You know what I've learned? First off, many people on this forum seem to be either large beefy people or scrawny toothpicks. Second, the most hotdogs I've ever succeeded in putting away at once was 11, so 50-something is kind of gross when you think about it. Thirdly, a guy who entered hotdog eating contests was actually on Wifeswap last night (my girlfriend loves it... not me... seriously...), so thats kind of coincidental for me.

I'm 5'11 and 170 lbs. Solid muscle I tells you.

We're all a bunch of nerds on this site! Nerds only come in scrawny or large flavors! D:

As long as we are disclosing our attributes to avoid being polarized.... 6'1" 170lbs, prizefighter....

I guess being 6'4.5" and 280 has made me a bit skewed in my view of large. :P

Well, one thing, the contest is how fast one can eat umm, 86 hotdogs. It's not an endurance contest. You give those chubby 450 pounders long enough time they could probably pack away hundreds of the things, non-stop.

But having the hugely distended stomach of Kobayashi shows that being fat is not the real way to winning.

I wonder if he also set the record for them coming out the other end. If I ate 59 hotdogs I pretty sure it would be a marathon event for me the next day.