Ellen Pompeo says she eats 3000 calories a day

[Nova Mist]

She MEANT to say: I eat 3000 calories a day. I then spend two hours puking, take 20 laxatives, and do 6 hours of intense cardio, topped off with some Coke.

[marina]

She might be telling the truth. Very high fiber diets have reduced metabolizable energy. If she eats 3000 calories a day but 60-100 g of fiber she's only going to up take 60-70% of that. If she is also doing 2 hours of exercise per day it's viable. I can go up to 2000 or higher on a very high fiber day with 2 hours of exercise and I am pretty thin.

[powerorchid]

I think it could be possible. Some archaeologists think that women used to eat around 3000 calories per day, it was probably before highly processed foods - so if she east brown rice, whole grains, natural fats and and natural sugars it could be possible.

[Kittylady]

A friend of my mother's used to eat 4 big meals a day, snacked on anything she could get her hands on in between, drank several pints of full fat milk a day and stayed rail thin.

My ex boyfriend was the same - he must have eaten 3 times as much as me daily, and used to clear up anything I couldn't finish at meal times. If he was ill and didn't eat as much as usual even for just a couple of days you could literally see the weight melting away from him. The git.

[funky_chicken]

is it 3000 kcal or 3000 kJ? that's a big difference... I never counted calories so I don't really have a clue about that. But from what I've read now, a woman with 60kg body weight (132lbs) has a normal calorie requirement of 1440kcal or 6048kJ. And now I'm confused