Archive for the ‘Pete C’ Category
Q & A
Like most of the worthless crap written here, this idea is stolen from somewhere else (but I keep things shorter than articles in Us Weekly, so at least I have the chance of reaching those with an attention span measured in milliseconds) . Pete C has a youtube video of himself answering a couple of questions. He went for jokes instead of anything revealing. While the guy is awesome most of the time, this is not a comedic homerun. Still better than reading about Justin Bieber dating one of the Kardashian’s. It’s worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25EFj1SPcs
Since Pete passed on the chance, I’ll answer candidly:
1) The digestion issue. I really don’t care to talk about this much. Not because it’s disgusting, but because it is so intensely personal. A 15-year-old doesn’t care to share the details about the best part of his morning routine and I don’t care to share the details about mine
The truth, though, is that for myself an eating contest doesn’t produce anything noteworthy. Twenty hamburgers, 30 hotdogs, eight pounds of cheesecake … so much of that junk is just going to end up filling fat cells, not the intestines
Further, if I am going to eat all that, I’m going to eat light for at least 24 hours before; sometimes that can even 48 or 72 hours or even longer. Then afterward I won’t bother eating much for another day or two. Considering all that, the after-effects of an eating contest can just as often be a reduced output
2) I’ve written about this exact thing before. Being able to actually like eating is the single thing that makes it so easy to avoid bodyfat. If a person likes to eat, they’re probably not going to be allowed to be in a lot of eating contests, so the ones they are involved in are no more than monthly, even at the highest frequency. Ten minutes once a month is never going to be the deciding factor between fat and thin
For a person who likes to eat, for those other 29 days, three pounds of fruit and four pounds veggies and a plate of fish or chicken is a great meal and you can even have it for three meals if you want. Or you could have all that once and be done with eating for the day (and it is mostly moisture so it passes through more like a liquid). For someone who hates to eat, that sort of meal sounds too repulsive to ever try, so sometimes they’ll force themselves to choke down a measly couple of pounds of lasagna and cake for lunch, then something similar again for dinner
For most people, whenever they find themselves hungry they panic. They think they must have that Snickers bar right away and follow it up quickly with whatever else from the drive through doesn’t totally disgust them. For some of us, we’re hungry all the time yet we don’t go through 30 or 40 Snicker bars every time we’re away from the kitchen (which is what it might take to avoid hunger for a day). Instead we learn it isn’t some horrible tragedy. When I’m hungry I have no problem passing on two ounces of candy. I know no matter how many hours pass, I’ll eventually be able to relax with eight or nine pounds of something else
Is Pete C Too Much Awesome?
I Say Yes
“No one can eat 50 eggs.” Everyone understands he really meant no one who hates eating can eat 50 eggs, whereas anyone who likes eating can eat 50 eggs. But if they explained it like that it wouldn’t have been so poetic
Pete C ate 50 eggs for no reason other than a radio station in the snowy part of the country doesn’t hate people who might like to eat. That’s 400 grams of protein, one of the reasons he isn’t skinny and weak. The sort of meals I should have more of
This morning the bathroom scale said bodyweight was 185-pounds — and that’s after a trip to the buffet yesterday. More trim than a few months earlier, maybe even a little closer to dunking a basketball again. Yet zero muscle, so why not go heavier on protein? (and really, I’ll probably never dunk again, no matter what I do. . . )
By afternoon lunch time it had been over 24 hours since last eating. Started with one pound of beef. The restaurant gave me the meal for free, which means I was willing to tip way more than 20% of the menu price, which means it cost way more than a one-pound snack should. The problem with small snacks like this is after it’s finished the main thought is “that was OK, need three or four more of those to make it good.”
So: Walked to McDonald’s for two double hamburgers from the dollar menu. These things are the eating equivalent of finding a quarter on the sidewalk. It may make you feel good on the inside for a moment, but it isn’t going to register when you calculate your net worth. Likewise, at under four ounces each, these do not register when it comes to hunger
Back at home: 14.75 ounce can of salmon, 84g protein; 32 ounce container of cottage cheese, 112g protein; and a dozen eggs, 96g protein. Another OK meal, $8 total (tuna instead of salmon would have been cheaper, but I was eating this with Pete C in spirit, so went with the expensive stuff). Probably around three times the amount of protein as the $5 hamburger, so not a bad deal
Finished in the early evening, so can still add another snack later tonight; 454 grams of protein would be a good daily total. For at least a little while I’m going to eat at least that much. Only every other day, though, the other days will be lighter
There is a bar a few miles north with a sign advertising some sort of three pound challenge. I’ve always just ignored it because after eating three pounds, the only challenge is thinking of something else to eat to actually make it a decent sized meal. Changing my perspective somewhat today, it would be worth it, not in spite of the Calories, rather because of them. Stop being so damn skinny and weak
one-pound hamburger, $5
two McDonald's double hamburgers, $2 and 38g protein
dozen eggs, two-pounds cottage cheese, 14.75 ounces salmon; $8 and 292g protein (white eggs on a white plate on a white counter top. Brilliant photography)
PC Update and the Economics of Eating
Pete C is going to attempt to eat 15-pounds of some snack food that may or may not be a new invention as I haven’t heard of it before: Poutine. Asking google about it, looks like this stuff is actually something good to come out of Canada. How does Nickelback go platinum and Poutine remain so hidden?
Inflation can be a cruel enemy or it can be used to your advantage. The average cost of all consumer goods might increase 3% in a given year. But by definition “average” means some things increase much more and some things even decrease. When it comes to eating this is truly an economic miracle
The food industry becomes much more efficient at production and distribution, while the overall happiness Americans get from eating continues to decrease. Increase in supply and decrease in demand can only mean outstanding values for those of us who like to eat. It means as wages match inflation and as interest compounds, we spend a smaller and smaller amount to cover both a basic necessity and major entertainment costs. Many others who hate to eat find themselves first spending money on the pain of eating, then to numb themselves from the pain they have to spend money buying so much stuff: cell phones, cigarettes, booze and restaurant menu prices, designer clothes, car payments, credit card interest and houses so much larger than necessary. Those of us who enjoy eating can pass on all of that with absolutely zero loss in quality of lifestyle
No matter what happens to the stock market, real estate prices or unemployment rates, those of us who like to eat can easily avoid letting all that cut into the way we live
UNLEASH THE FURY: A Tribute to Pete
With a last name covering 40% of the alphabet, Peter Czerwinski goes by Pete C, Iron Pete and most often, Furious Pete
The man suffered, survived and overcame anorexia as a teenager. In his 20s he became one of the few people in the world who truly like to eat
How much does he like to eat? He likes to eat more than I do and proved it years ago. He will continue to eat and eat lots more and long after everyone else has stopped. The biggest sign the guy likes to eat more than virtually anyone on the planet: More people hate him and hate him so strongly because he likes to eat than anyone else
He has won dozens of eating contests, eating an entire watermelon in 90 seconds, 72-ounce steak in six minutes and more than a couple 18″ or so pizzas in only a few minutes more. He has eaten 10 pounds of hamburger in the US and Europe, appeared on ESPN. Youtube and his own online site can fill in more details. Chicken wings were most recent, five pounds in four minutes and six pounds in 10 minutes
There are also youtube videos of him lifting 600-pound barbells
Does a lot of charity work
An entire feature-length documentary has been made about his life
He’ll be traveling through Europe eating and promoting the movie next month
Recently become one of the very few people ever to be allowed to sit down and enjoy a large meal with Japan’s Kobayashi and managed so close to three-quarters of the amount Kobayashi ate
