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I was a borderline elite athlete at one point, training with actual elite athletes. Most of what we ate would be considered a "wildly unbalanced diet", and when we were competing it was just large volumes of calorie dense food, be it pasta, protein bars or milk.

Elite athletes often eat pretty poorly. But they can get away with it because they work so hard.

I know a lot of D1 football players not only eat cereal for breakfast but also as a late night snack.

Diet is not something you can scale linearly with calorie usage of your job

That seems an odd claim. Do elite athletes eat all their meals at the gym?

They all eat at the gym?

Presumably people occasionally still talk to each other

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