Reason I started the thread was that in another someone quoted Mike Francois eating 10,000 cals a day for 2 years straight.
My theory is that your body simply cant deal with that amount of food consistently before you have to simply stop eating because your body cant get rid of it.
Was it Victor Richards who claimed he ate 30,000 calories every day?! Gary Strydom was also said to eaten well over 10,000 calories a day.
Your right though, I've wondered as well about just how the body would digest that amount of food and make room for more calories. A lot of it must be liquid nutrition like weight gainers. I know Michael Phelps drank several thousands worth of calories in sports drinks when training and I too did something similar (though not as drastic) years ago when I was swimming. I reckon I was taking in maybe 6 000 calories some days, but a lot of it was liquid carbs that really require no digestion.
I wonder if a boatload of drugs, specifically GH and Insulin, play a role in digesting so much food?