Featured Image Credit: Facebook / Laurence Shahlaei
The Swindon-born lad who upset the odds to become Europe's Strongest Man, defeating Game of Throne's Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson in the process, has revealed he gets through a massive 7,000 calories a day.
Beating 'The Mountain' was no mean feat and now Laurence Shahlaei has shared the nutrition regime which led him to glory, which involves consuming seven meals from morning until night.
Speaking to Gloucestershire Live, Shahlaei said: "I have put some size on this year. The guys are so big. The Mountain (Hafthor Bjornsson) is about 30 stone and 6ft 9ins and I'm only 6ft 2ins.
"It's pretty much the same every day, so it's easy to monitor what I'm eating. It's not forever, after the competitions I relax my diet for a while.
"My fiancee Liz Mason does a lot of the cooking, but she eats less than what I eat for breakfast in a whole day!"
His breakfast includes a monster 1,000 calorie smoothie made up of oats, bananas, milk, two scoops of whey protein, and sometimes a scoop of ice-cream.
For lunch the ultra-hench lad devours two large chicken breasts, with a portion of rice and green veg, although when he's feeling more chill he switches the rice for oven chips.
Mid-afternoon he has some lean mince kebabs, made with onion, turmeric and salt and pepper, plus a side of rice and a large green salad.
At 5:30pm Shahlaei has a repeat of his lunch, according to his Facebook, before sitting down to a family meal at 8:30pm - which consists of 300g lean meat or 500g poultry, plus 500g of sweet potato or 150g of rice.
Then finally at he has a pre-sleep six egg whites and four whole egg omelette.
Fair does, I had a £3 meal deal for lunch and I'm still feeling pretty full - but there again I'm a scrawny bastard.
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Words by James Dawson
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