Obviously you can kind of but its extremely difficult (for those pedantic commentators I foresee)

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    Yeah. After I sobered up I went through about 3 years of intense training (may have had a hyperfixation) … I was down to an A-cup, just lean muscle and bone. After a normal training session I’d get the greasiest half-pound double cheeseburger with bacon money could buy.

    These days I look at a stick of celery wrong and put on weight :-/

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      Had a friend training for Iron Man. He’d do like 15 mile bike in to work (and back), 5 mile run at lunch, and swim in the evening. Dude would eat sticks of butter straight out of the refrigerator for lunch. I couldn’t watch.

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      Yeah, I looked like a piece of leather wrapped around a stick when I was training that hard. And I pretty much just lived on takeout

      And yeah, 10 years later, older, no longer anywhere near that fit, and even as I train for a half marathon, it’s hard to shift my weight to where I want it to be for my race