What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day

How 'bout that Michael Phelps last night? Wondering what he eats to fuel the kind of performance we've been witnessing? Well, on Monday night NBC's Bob Costas reported a tidbit of jaw-dropping info: Michael Phelps recommended calorie intake is 8,000 to 10,000 calories. That's three times more than the average calories intake for people like us, 3000 per day.

Costas read Phelps' typical breakfast order from Pete's Grille in Baltimore, Maryland, as is recounted in Phelps' autobiography Beneath the Surface:

Start with three sandwiches of fried eggs, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions, and mayonnaise; add one omelet, a bowl of grits, and three slices of French toast with powdered sugar; then wash down with three chocolate chip pancakes.

The kicker: This was his typical meal as a teenager. Now he trains in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where local restaurant owners are giddy with excitement describing how good he has been for business.