They are called “Food Challenge” and have been a youtube phenomenon for years that makes proselytes . You know the “Man vs Food” program? It was a program in which the protagonist tried to gorge himself on food as a bet in some American restaurants that offered enormous dishes, over five thousand calories. On youtube, the phenomenon is viral, and features women and men who consume ten or twenty thousand calories in a day, or who in a single meal can eat five thousand to ten thousand calories. Apart from the fact that I do not recommend trying, most commentators ask themselves: but why are these people who earn money online through binges of food thin, indeed very thin? Two of these web stars explained it: the New ZealanderNela Zisser, who weighs just 50 kilos and who managed to eat 22 Big Macs in a row or have a ten thousand calorie breakfast, and the oriental Peggie Neo , a skinny girl from Singapore, able to eat whole cheesecakes, mega portions of pizza and Cartloads of fried chicken without eating. With one difference: while Nela eats very fast, and says to almost hold her breath as she does (which is very dangerous), Peggie in her videos of her eats very slowly, chews well, and sips some water.
How is it possible to binge like this without gaining weight?

Imagine eating the equivalent of Christmas and Easter together in one day.
How is it possible not to gain weight?
Nela , medical student and model,exposes his theory: if you eat healthy every day, and little, when you eat too much the body cannot metabolize so many calories . Which is why the day after these challenges, Nela weighs just one kilo more due to the food on her stomach, but after a week of normal nutrition she comes back to weighing 50 kilos. Peggie, on the other hand, is more disciplined: in the days following her challenges she eats very little, in order to counterbalance the effects of the binge eating.
However, both reveal that, while earning money by doing these challenges online, which on youtube have hundreds of thousands up to millions of visitors, in reality they only binge these days once every two or three months.
I looked for scientific evidence on Nela’s statement, this idea that we can binge on food (one in two or three months) without going crazy thinking about how much we ate.
This interested me for two reasons: on the one hand, if it were true, every time we are invited to a wedding, it would be enough to return to a healthy diet without excess instead of feeling “sacrificed” with a compensatory diet, because this often leads people to over-compensate the same the next day, to feel guilty if they failed to eat very little before or after the event. This would allow us to experience the cheating in a less anxious way.
On the other hand, I would discover something about metabolism that I don’t know .
Here’s what I found, if you’re interested, it’s on page two.