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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day — two and a half times the average intake for an adult male — has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound mark:

Dinner out from his mom.

"I'm a medical mystery," said Matt Chaffee, who weighed in at 101 pounds on Saturday. "I've accepted it."

Chaffee, who has a 26-inch waist, had several health problems as a newborn. One of them, pyloric stenosis, prevents food from emptying out of the stomach. The condition and ulcers he developed in his esophagus reduced his ability to gain weight.

Chaffee weighed 8 pounds when he was 4 months old, and 17 pounds when he reached kindergarten, his mother said. He was up to 85 pounds at age 14, but couldn't participate in some activities, including swimming.

"He sinks like a rock," his mother, Kelley Chaffee, told the Post Register.

 

[Tiger]

Uh, I don't believe for one milisecond that this dude weighed 17lbs when he was in Kindergarten. Not a chance. :lol

 

[Iceman]

women everywhere are now internet searching like crazy to find out if they can have pyloric stenosis and esophageal ulcers injected somehow.

 

[LakeEarth]

I've heard about this disease before. They just gotta keep on pounding away food all day. Sounds awesome but if your body can't absorb/digest the food right I can't imagine what pain it is when it comes out the other side.

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

If I eat what a normal person would eat per day for about a week.... I lose about 5-10 lbs.... and I only weigh 130 :lol (5'11").

Obviously this guy has it a lot worse than me though.

EDIT: I also sink like a rock... I have 3% body fat.

 

[Jacobi]

I've heard about this disease before. They just gotta keep on pounding away food all day. Sounds awesome but if your body can't absorb/digest the food right I can't imagine what pain it is when it comes out the other side.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking all the time when I hear of this disease, still, imagine how many nice tastes you could taste in a day !

 

[Kai Dracon]

I've heard about this disease before. They just gotta keep on pounding away food all day. Sounds awesome but if your body can't absorb/digest the food right I can't imagine what pain it is when it comes out the other side.

A close friend I've known for the last 10 years essentially has this. He's naturally bigger in frame - the dude is over 7 feet tall. But he's like, SOLID bone and gristle. He also sinks like a rock in water. He doesn't have a scrap of body fat; he can pack in the whoppers all day and never gain an ounce.

However, aside from problems with "the other end", it also really sucks because of that gotta-keep-eating factor. If he doesn't wolf down the right foods in enough quantities, he gets sick, dizzy, nearly passes out, several times a day. He can't drive more than an two hours at a time without stopping to grab food or he risks passing out behind the wheel.

 

[Diablos]

A close friend I've known for the last 10 years essentially has this. He's naturally bigger in frame - the dude is over 7 feet tall. But he's like, SOLID bone and gristle. He also sinks like a rock in water. He doesn't have a scrap of body fat; he can pack in the whoppers all day and never gain an ounce.

However, aside from problems with "the other end", it also really sucks because of that gotta-keep-eating factor. If he doesn't wolf down the right foods in enough quantities, he gets sick, dizzy, nearly passes out, several times a day. He can't drive more than an two hours at a time without stopping to grab food or he risks passing out behind the wheel.

Ugh, that blows.

 

[Pochacco]

Man. That would suck. Imagine all the money you'd wasted on 'filler' food.

 

[Instigator]

Man. That would suck. Imagine all the money you'd wasted on 'filler' food.

The guy must be seriously unable to do any type of physical work too without feeling drained, tired and hungry. I pity him.

 

[Ristamar]

If I eat what a normal person would eat per day for about a week.... I lose about 5-10 lbs.... and I only weigh 130 :lol (5'11").

Obviously this guy has it a lot worse than me though.

EDIT: I also sink like a rock... I have 3% body fat.

3%? If that's true, you should be dead... or in danger of dying.

 

[pnjtony]

wow, that was me for a while, course I didn't weight 101lbs for long! haha

 

[Guzim]

Poor guy

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

?!?

 

[Shawn]

Wow, I think he's thinner than my 6'3"(?) 143-pound frame.

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

3%? If that's true, you should be dead... or in danger of dying.

Or the machine is broken.

 

[Jewbacca]

he is like me.... I gulf down 5-6000 calories a day.... That one day I was downing the coke blaks I had over 10,000 calories.

 

[Mashing]

6'1" 130lb here

I'm skinny becaue I DON'T eat a lot. I never had 3 meals a day and on weekends it's usually just one.

And I don't eat vegatables (besides potatoes and beans) and I eat lots and lots of meat. Oh and milk products? Fuhgedaboutit.

I'll never gain weight. I have super high metabolism and ever yone has been telling me for 10 years now "just wait" (I'm 28).

If I could bottle up my metabolism and sell it, I'd be fucking rich.

 

[Matrix]

I weigh more than this guy,but Ive been in this guys situation due to having Ulcerative Colitis.

I have no problem losing weight,but it takes me a year to even put on 5 pounds,its pretty fucking depressing and it doesnt matter how much I eat.

 

[jerrymaguire]

it's not about how much you eat though but what you eat and when you eat.

 

[BlackMage]

it's not about how much you eat though but what you eat and when you eat.

the whats and the whens dont matter when you have a high metabolism.

 

[temp]

That guy looks like Edward Norton.

 

[Jacobi]

I weigh more than this guy,but Ive been in this guys situation due to having Ulcerative Colitis.

I have no problem losing weight,but it takes me a year to even put on 5 pounds,its pretty fucking depressing and it doesnt matter how much I eat.

Haha, I have Morbus Crohn and I always gain 10 kilos more through higher medication. Sometimes I lose 10 kilos in a week though. Stil, I wish I wouldn't have problems losing weight

 

[Mashing]

the whats and the whens dont matter when you have a high metabolism.

Indeed... I've ate some pretty fucked up stuff at like 11pm at night. Don't gain a damn pound.

 

[Oldschoolgamer]

Truth.

I weigh 128 and I'm around 5"7-8. My metabolism is crazy. Whenever I do eat a ton of food to the point where I should be gaining weight, i get sick. My stomach starts to hurt like hell and goes through a damn system restore. Everything goes.