Matthew Kai Stonie is a competitive eater of two twenty-year-old Americans ranked third in eating the Premier League and he has own YouTube channels where he filmed many of the meal challenges. He is known as “Megataoad” because of the frog of Super Mario.
He has a weight of 130 pounds (59kg) and the height of 5 feet 8in (173cm) which can be very difficult to maintain when your work takes a lot of food. That’s why he witnessed what he had eaten after the competition and went to the gym five times a week. Before he made his career from eating, he was studying nutrients who helped him stay healthy and understood his body. When he first started, he had a problem adapting with so much food and he bloated and dehydrated all the time. Eat very large food portions as competitive eaters, can be very dangerous and it brings a lot of risk later.
All of these risks are higher if eaters don’t watch what they eat every day. Luckily for Matt, he tried to eat as soon as he could. The knowledge he obtained from the nutrition course helped him handle it all. When it comes to actual preparation and training for competition, Matt usually eats two large foods per week. He rested for a few days between these foods and he said he thought of this training like bodybuilding. So that your body is ready for bodybuilding, you have to go to the gym, practice hard with the hardest you can handle, and then go home and let the muscles relax for a few days. That’s what he did with his stomach and his entire body.
- 5 lb (3,4kg) burger in 4 minutes and 43 seconds in 2013.
- McDonalds Happy Meal in 15.22 seconds in 2014.
- 182 strip of bacon in 5 minutes in 2015.
- 103 tacos in 8 minutes in 2015.
- 25 Big Macs in 22 minutes in 2015.
- 343 gyozas in 10 minutes in 2015.
- He shocked the world when he out ate the eight-time champion Joey Chestnut and ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes in 2015.
- 85 moon pies in 8 minutes in 2016.
- 113 pancakes in 8 minutes in 2016.
- 255 peeps in 5 minutes in 2017.
- 203 cookies in 27 minutes in 2017.
When he saw how many people came to see other people competing and eating large amounts of food, he decided to use this and make business and money from him. People like to spend time watching different things, and if you see someone ate burger 7.5lb (34kg) will definitely catch your attention, and make you watch it until the end. He began filming for his YouTube channel in 2010, and the first video he was uploaded from him ate 6LB pizza (2.7kg) in 18 minutes. He now has almost 10 million customers and more than 1.3 billion views as a whole. His younger brother Morgan worked with him as a cameraman, so it was a kind of family business that not only took him money, but his family too. He is probably the best known competitive eater in the world because of the success of the YouTube channel carrying it.