Originally Posted by wens

When i was in Fl for winter training in college and put in a 30ish hour week (swimming and cross training) for a week and a half i found i had to eat stuff that was really calorie dense, or i'd lose 5 pounds in a week, have joints hurt like crazy, and get sick. I don't know how that would've worked out differently if the ramp up in volume had been more gradual, or if i'd gotten used to putting in those kind of hours, but for a week I was eating all the junk food I could find just to try to keep up.

Now I wish I could eat multiple pints of ben and jerry's every night for a week and lose weight.