how do bodybuilders have cheat days where they eat 10k calories of junk food and sugar and still remain in top condition?

Question

I occasionally see this on social media where bodybuilders will gorge on giant meals of desserts and junk food and somehow dont end up with diabetes, become ill in general, or just wreck their physique. I understand they probably eat healthy on other days that we dont see, but still it seems odd to not have any negative effects from these wild cheat day binges.

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Answer 1

You can’t ruin everything you gained on one cheat day. 10k for a big man isn’t horrendous. You can get water retention from a lot of sodium in one day. A continuous bad diet and no exercise are causes of type 2 diabetes.

Edit: a cheat day isn’t the same as a gorge day.