This man ate a pizza every day for seven months
WHAT better way to restore myself to peak physical condition than to hit the gym hard while devouring an entire pizza every day?
My capacity to eat pizza ad infinitum was a surprise even to myself, and it came with an unexpected benefit. When your mealtime thought process only stretches as far as ‘‘BBQ or aioli swirl?’’, it frees up a lot of time and mental energy to focus on other things.
Of course, it wasn’t all sunshine and pepperoni. Choking down an entire pizza after already eating two burgers for dinner is no fun at all. Confession time: On Day 173 I donated two slices to a hungry homeless guy, and more than a few crusts went to my girlfriend. If I physically couldn’t finish, I made up for it the next day.
I was determined to prove the doubters wrong. By the time I cracked the 200 day mark, things were going swimmingly. The weight I had put on was mostly on my chest and back, with a little fleshing out of the chicken legs.
My waist was unchanged, and lumps faintly resembling abs could be observed in the right lighting. My body fat percentage was the same from start to finish, and came down on one measure.
I was the fittest I’d been in years. On the outside, everything looked good. On the inside, for all I knew, my arteries resembled a stuffed crust oozing mozzarella.
Day 222 had a nice symmetry to it, so I went in for a final blood test JASON CREAGHAN and called the whole thing quits.
It took two weeks to muster up the courage to check my bloodwork. Pizza is the poster child for unhealthy food. Yet after taking in over 350,000 calories of the stuff, my vital signs improved in almost every measurable way. How can this be?
Context is everything. The bulk of my calories came not from pizza, but from green protein smoothies, chicken, rice and vegetables, bananas, and oatmeal. I dragged myself to the gym four times a week, and did some sort of cardio most days.
Without the exercise component, the end result would not have been pretty.
It should go without saying that my pizza journey wasn’t a scientific experiment. It was simply a very tasty stunt.