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

I would bet its just a matter of calories in and calories out. I met some olympic athletes who would eat McDonlds everyday but it didn’t matter because they trained for 4-5 hours almost every single day. They were still ripped (they were also late teens early twenties).