This troper, lately. She's actually eating while typing this.

My parents always think I'm fat because I can eat loads without gaining weight (although I'm not exactly skinny, I'm a reasonable weight) I can easily eat an 18 ounce burger (meat alone) then have dessert, and on to of that eat an extra days worth of calories on the weekend. I find it difficult to lose weight either though.

This troper has 2 versions of this: she is constantly hungry, and, if possible, can eat a full meal every other hour or so. A "snack" is a whole banana (known to be quickly filling) globbed with peanut butter and chocolate chips, a whole glass of milk or two, and a bowl of cereal. Adding up a day's worth of meals for her and you have enough to feed a family of 3. Either that, or a few big meals each day. It's not unusual for this troper to pack down multiple stuffed plates of food, with room for desert, then get snacks an hour later. Oh, and she's 5"3', 115 lbs, and doesn't really work out. She actually does "think" it all off, due to not sleeping much.

This troper's best friend has compared him to Pac-Man. "You can eat a room full of food and stay the same. I'm more like Mario. If I eat a single mushroom, I double in size."

True to some extent for this troper - he usually ignores breakfast lunch and any other early meals and has some serious issues with eating in public, but tends to consume ridiculous amounts of junk food and has an all-around "What is this 'health' thing you speak of?" attitude, but remains rather thin and relatively healthy. Infact, he is eating his third pack of crisps in the last hour or so, and looking forward to the fourth.

''"Thin and healthy"?'' I hate you.

You remind me of my sister's ex. He was...rather infamous for that. Let's put it like this: He ate half the friggin' salad bar at Cici's Pizza. and then a whole pizza. It became a running joke for us whenever we went to a buffet that we hoped they had a salad bar...

Are we related or something,this troper is the same! Her friends describe her as an anorexic looking *** with a black hole for a stomach that makes Nabisco cheer with every hourly snack purchase. But when it comes to big meals consisting of anything but steak or Japanese food,she can only eat a few bites. Except for bread,she loves her some bread! By the way,only 113lbs,guess that's why everyone hates her!

In this troper's case, it isn't so much that he eats a lot during meals so much as he eats at a continuous rate while conscious yet his body weight is mostly muscle.

True for a family this troper knows. They will jokingly mock his family for eating too little while they finish off what appears to be a cow and a half of barbecue per sitting. The son is the most blatant example, as he has not an ounce of fat on his body and yet can finish off two pizzas in 15 minutes and still be hungry.

This troper knew a girl in highschool who absolutely loved eating. She regularly consumed large quantities of food, and talked about how she was always hungry and how she that wished she could eat constantly. Apparently she once ruined her sister's birthday party by eating all the cake, icecream and chips before the guests even arrived. Despite this she was quite thin (and really cute, too). She did exercise a lot, which might explain why she didn't seem to gain any weight (although not why she had such an enormous appetite in the first place).

Actually, the exercise explains the appetite too. The energy (to exercise) has to come from somewhere.

I Don't think she exercised quite enough for that to be the only explanation, but seeing how she was generally a very energetic person, you're probably onto something.

This troper doesn't understand why people envy thin {{big eater}}s so much, especially since most of them have enormous food bills and inflate like balloons when their metabolism slows as they age. Yes, I know a lot of people hate fat and wish they could eat more without gaining weight, but is it really THAT bad? What's wrong with a bit of pudge if it means your eating habits will be more sustainable and less likely to kill you before your 60s?

(Bonus complaint: This troper also knows thin people who eat three times as much as his fat friends, but still have the audacity to tell fat people to "put the fork down and stop wasting food" or some similar bullshit. Not cool.)

This troper doesn't typically eat large meals (although she does have an affinity for large bowls of salad), just slightly-larger-than-average, but instead constantly snacks on junk food. Give me a bag of Doritos - and I mean the ''big'' bags - and it'll disappear. Despite both this and the fact that the only significant regular exercise I get is playing DDR, I'm quite thin. I should be roughly spherical if you take the amount and extremely variable nutritional content of stuff I eat and divide it by the fact that all I ever do is laze around and sometimes play RockBand (DDR got shelved when that came along, but at least drumming on Hard/Expert is exercise), but I'm pretty much dead average. Not skinny as a rail, but nowhere near overweight either. Of course, I balance this out with the fact that I'll just not eat/not eat anything substantial if there's nothing in the house that I want, or if I'm too absorbed in what I'm doing to want to stop for the time it would take to get something out of the fridge, stick it on a plate/dump it in a bowl, and microwave it.

Oh, hello, you must be me. Because I'm sure no one else is EXACTLY like that right? Oh wait...I don't remember editing this page before.

Also, I have a tendency to overindulge at buffets; I'll try to both get lots of the stuff I particularly like and get one of everything (well, everything I actually want to eat, at least) and end up with an overflowing plate. And still eat it all. Sometimes going back for seconds.

Ohai. Someone else. I don't eat much at meals, but I snack like whoa. Keep chocolate away from me if you want it to remain intact. And despite my constant junk-food junking, I'm one of the only skinny people in my {{Nakama}}...

This troper used to be a subversion of this. I used to gorge myself at meals (and often between them) and looked a lot lighter than I actually was. In reality, my weight had gotten to a rather dangerous level, and I was ordered by my doctor to keep a food diary, cut down on sugar, salt, and grease, and exercise.

I seem to have a ridiculously high metabolism; I eat one hell of a lot of stuff and still am classed with my BMI as 'Dangerously Underweight'. ''And'' I'm not a sporty-person. Much like the ''SpeedRacer'' movie, this is both bemusing and awesome.

This troper has been known to have a Sonic Brown Bag Special for breakfast and still requires 28/32 pants.

This troper too. Eating constantly and only 99 lbs at last count. Granted, I am short and take regular ballet classes, so it's probably not entirely a super-metabolism thing.

''99''? Is that healthy?

Depends on how short the original troper is.

This troper's friend has a younger brother who had gastric surgery at a very young age. Long story short, it left him with a ridiculously fast metabolism so he eats a lot but is still thin.

This troper has a friend for whom about 40% of her diet is enormous quantities of potato chips and french fries. She is 5'4" and has repeatedly been ''accused of anorexia''.

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This troper's father is a HUGE eater as well as weighing almost 220 pounds/110 kgs. He has tried often to lose weight, only to gain it back soon. Doesn't help that he's a great cook *and* proud to borderline arrogance of his skills, cooking mostly large and very rich meals when he gets in the kitchen.

This troper has been known to go grocery shopping in the afternoon and be at a loss when breakfast time rolls around the next day. And it's not because he forgets to get anything one can have for breakfast.

This troper isn't like this normally, but he does enjoy long bicycle tours... as in, hundreds or thousands of miles long. He did the math once during an especially long (trans-North America) ride and figured he was eating ''ten thousand'' calories per day on average, frequently including things like three or four separate breakfasts at a diner and entire large pizzas for dinner. At the end of the ride, he'd ''lost'' 25 pounds.

This troper can eat steadily, all day, pigging out on candy and junk food...and currently maintains a weight of 145 pounds, extremely skinny on his 6'1" frame.

''I hate you.''

135 pounds with a 5'11" frame, and the same deal for me. Hell, I once ate a huge Thanksgiving dinner, at least twice what I normally eat... and I ''lost a pound.''

this troper is 5'8'' and weights 110 pounds...once she spend a entire week eating nothing but pancakes with maple syrup and icecream while her parents were away...not a pound gained.

I generally seem to fit some of the previous stories - I pig out on junk food and never seem to gain weight despite having a lifestyle which would be more akin to a sloth than a human being - but one incident is clear in my mind: I believe it was a geography trip to central Spain to do coursework on the flow of a river, and we were served calamari one night. Nobody else wanted to eat it ("ew, squid!") but I was in luck: I love calamari, and our hosts did particularly excellent calamari. I shrugged, finished off my plate and offered to eat anyone else's if they didn't want it. These were long tables seating about fourteen people per table, and I was on one end. I finished off the plates of the entire table and then asked for seconds. The cooking staff loved me, the others in the class were gobsmacked.

Oh, calamari! This troper loves calamari. Once, during school, this troper said that calamari was her favorite food. Everyone looked at her like she was totally insane. But this troper's brother is the big eater. He just eats. And eats. And eats. Yet he's 5'8'' and like 120 pounds.

This troper wouldn't call it her ''favourite'' food -- I'm more of an occasional seafood eater than someone who'd want it all the time -- but would happily eat calamari given the opportunity. She's also tried octopus, but didn't like it as much. (This was in a resort with a highly diverse buffet.) Her nonchalance about both grossed out her mother and sister, the latter of whom is a full-blown PickyEater.

This troper is the butt of these jokes in her house, even though our lodger is known to eat entire boxes of (say 6 or 8) ice creams in one go, and has an incredibly sweet tooth, yet he never gets bigger.

This Troper will kill a man for calamari. He friggin' loves it.

This troper, while not really the type to decimate a buffet, has gained his gut from his constant Pepsi intake, which has come to the point that the sugar and caffeine doesn't seem to affect him anymore. Trying to get him to stop drinking the stuff (and his parents ''have''' tried many times) would be like trying to pry the beer can out of Misato Katsuragi's hands first thing in the morning.

This troper is an odd combination of BigEater and PickyEater... Loves cheese. Loves bacon. Is 5'6" and pushing 190 lbs, unsurprisingly, but has muscle to go with his fat.

This troper is a similar case, selective in what he eats, but tends to go for seconds, thirds, and even beyond. Manages to be 180 lbs. at 5'11" and wishes he knew how.

This troper is also like this. Likes very little foods, but can eat the few foods he DOES like by the ton.

This troper has a friend who, seemingly, never leaves his house unless he has school. He eats a ''ton'', mostly junk food. Despite both of these, he's strong and fast. I half-loathe him for it.

I'm endlessly met with "HOW DO YOU STAY SO THIN?" after people have watched me sit there and eat tons of chocolate while staying happily slender. It's great.

This troper eats between 4500 and 5800 calories per day, and maintains a consistent weight of 158 lbs.

Me. A classmate. Both around 12. Pretty thin. Ate 17.5 & 18 hotdogs, respectively (also had avocado and tomato, btw). Discuss.

On a more conventional way, my hunger schedule goes more or less like this: breakfast at 6, 2nd breakfast/snack at 11, lunch at 1, 2nd lunch/big snack at 5, dinner at 9, mini-dinner/snack at 12. He has been at 143 +-2 for the past 3 years. (5'11")

See the entry below. More immediately, look for a major growth spurt, soon.

Being a BigEater wasn't too hard as a teenager. All the extra energy was going into ''growing''. Once I stopped growing taller, well, that's when big eating started to become a problem...

Oh, and my wife has a similar, yet different problem. Former high school and college athlete, meet life post-college, with no excercise whatsoever...

This troper, while picky as to ''what'' she eats, will eat a ''lot'' of what she likes. It stems from a dislike of seeing food go to waste.

You know what I love about this article? The fact that no one seems aware that the more often you eat smaller meals or snacks the higher your metabolism is. People that eat smaller meals more often maintain a lower weight. YAY, Science. I'm pushing 220 at 5'10" but I powerlift and suck at taking my own advice so I have a bit more mass than a lot of folks. People still think I'm about 180, though.

Curiously, this troper appears to neatly subvert SCIENCE. Even though you're apparently supposed to put on weight when in university/college, this troper has lost weight while away from home and gained it while back for holidays. His secret? Eating two meals a day tops, and they aren't small meals.

And one thing I've noticed? When I AM at 180, I look sick. Those height/weight charts are the death of society as we know it.

Isn't every teenage boy like this? At sixteen I could wolf down two Big Mac & Co's and still be hungry - at twentysix and 15 kg heavier I feel sick at the thought.

This trope seems to fit perfectly with many people of the "ectomorph" body type. This Troper and his best friend fit into this category, except that this Troper deliberately avoids bland foods, like beef, in favour of exotic foods. Otherwise, many small meals + no exercise + high metabolism = one 120lbs/5'10" Troper with one ''resentful'' sister. Most teenage boys are like this, and usually keep the body type as they age.

This troper and 90% of her friends are BigEater(s). Food: ''Bringing {{Nakama}} Together!''

On a good day, This Troper can probably out-eat a large percentage of the population. I am fat, though. Of course, my brother is about half my weight, and probably the only person in Cincinnati that can out-eat me without really trying...

This troper is tall, skinny, and can take in absurd amounts of calories in a day without gaining weight. This troper is also capable of wandering around in a leather trenchcoat in the heat of summer with no issues, and cycling 50 miles in a day, before heading out to a nightclub. Part screwy metabolism, part that he hardly ever stops moving, and loses heat like crazy.

An exception to this troper's amazing ability to eat a lot is american cuisine. This troper recently visited America, and ended up having to virtually fast for a day due to a lack of being able to eat any more.

I will eat a lot, often having snacks that are more like meals, or having meals that are more like two meals, and even having breakfast at mightnight so that when I wake up after sleeping, I wouldn't have to have a brunch. I currently weigh about 120 pounds. I also smother food in toppings and condiments.

This Troper literally ''refuses'' to save any food for later unless he's in a somewhat fancy restaurant, or has already been in pain from his meal at least 3 times. He justifies this by noting that a good belch is enough to give one a lot more room.

Seconded.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say ''BURRRRRRRRP!''

''BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!''. This troper also does so.

*Belches*

This troper is always getting called out for eating crazy amounts of food and still being 120 pounds at 5'6''. Thing is, he gets a crazy amount of excercise and actually eats very little on most days. His friend, on the other hand, is downright skeletal and eats more than anyone else this troper knows.

This troper gets almost the same amount as her FATHER at dinner, is constantly eating junk food, and her only relatively healthy meal is dinner, which is, as said before, almost as big as her father's. She is still slender.

This troper comes from a family of Stealth Big Eaters. We *love*food--our travel destinations are usually planned around places that have good places to eat, my incredibly busy parents cook a full borderline-gourmet dinner every single night, hell, my writer/director father even writes newspaper and magazine articles on food for s**ts and giggles. The kicker? We're all in ridiculously good shape, very healthy, and we all hate actual exercise. I'm 23, 5'8 and weigh 110 lbs. I share clothes with my fifty-something mother, and we both eat at least 4 meals a day. My 19 year old brother and my 60 year old father have *identical* builds.

@/{{SpiriTsunami}} has you all beat, although the one right above me comes close. I'm 5'10", 108 lbs., and ''male''. And a huge eater, and lazy as hell. Personal single-sitting eating records: 6 slices of pizza; 10 tacos. I'm going to surpass both of these eventually, too. Especially the tacos. I've also eaten an entire box of Hot & Spicy Cheez-Its in one sitting. Big eater + no exercise = a weight in pounds that's barely 150% of my height in inches? Yeah, no clue how that works...

This Troper is 5'9" and 140 pounds. Of course, I tend to skip breakfast and lunch, so I fill up at dinner. Plus I take judo and aerobics.

I am 5'7" and 119.5 pounds. I subvert the trope by not eating that often (sometimes eating only one meal a day, without filling up on dinner) but I haven't gained any weight in 2 years.

I'm 5"6 and 110 lbs, and female. Everyone assumes I don't eat, but the truth is I'm CONSTANTLY eating. Especially snack foods like sunflower seeds. At meals I'll eat until I'm very full.

I eat all day long (chocolate or fruit only. I despise crisps.) and never put on weight. I can also eat my entire meal. I'm 13 years old and weigh less than 6 stone. No wonder people are jealous.

6 stone?

One Stone is about 14 pounds. In that case, six stone is 84 pounds. At age 13, that's not terribly unusual, unless the individual is fairly tall.

No, I'm ''tiny''.

This 5 ft 5 1/2, 98 pound troper, much to the chagrin of her sister and her friends, who have watched her eat twice as much food as they do in one sitting and repeatedly wondered aloud where the heck she puts it. She's 20 and she hasn't got an inkling.

Personal eating record: 17.5 hot dogs with tomato, ketchup and mayo (they'd ran out of avocado after the first 6 or so) over the span of... dunno. An hour? At the age of 12. He's 5'11" now (19 yrs old) and has stayed at ~142 lbs for the past few years. An ex-classmate of his ate 18 hot dogs while being thinner and shorter. It's my justification to not eating slow, I can pack far too much when eating slowly.

At one point This Troper's parents boarded a guy so that he could finish his Senior year of high school without changing schools for the last quarter. Yeah...he had some family problems. He was about 6'2" and maybe 150 lbs, tops. #QUOTE#'''Mom:''' JK, what are you doing? Dinner's in less than 1 hour. #QUOTE#'''JK:''' Just getting a snack. #QUOTE#'''Mom:''' ''FOUR'' sandwiches?!?!? (full-fledged, no-holds-barred, stacked-so-high-you-can't-fit-'em-in-your-mouth sandwiches) #QUOTE#'''JK:''' Yeah, I'll be hungry later. #QUOTE# And he ''Still'' ate more than any two of us combined.

This troper can suck down three triple Steakburgers, or four doubles, in a sitting. He's somewhat overweight, but only due to liquid calories -- during times when he avoids soda and alcohol, he never seems to gain weight.

This Troper stands at 5'6" and a grand total of 112 lbs (113 if I've eaten a snack recently). Daily activites are reads books, plays [=WoW=] and TVTropes. She's also prone to eating half a medium Ceaser's pizzas when hungry.I can't scarf down mass quantities as easily in one go but, I can chow down all day to get the same amount eaten.

This troper has a friend who once ate three large pizzas ''by himself'' in under 10 minutes. He then scouted the room afterwards, devouring people's leftovers. He's 5'10" and 140 pounds at most, the jerk. Neatly subverted by the troper, however, who eats like a mulcher going through grass clippings, but gains weight at an alarming rate.

This page makes this troper (who, at best, can often only change the -sort- of mass he carries around, i.e. fat->muscle) sad.

This troper has always been a pretty BigEater (not to the extent of some of these examples, but he's always the only one in his family that eats the most at buffets and inevitably finishes their leftovers at restaurants AND his own entree...and still eats entire desserts by himself), but the only times he ever seriously gained weight was in high school (180+ pounds) due to eating ''five'' full sized meals a day (breakfast, lunch, afternoon "snack", dinner, and late night "snack") and fast food three times a week and during his last year in college thanks to the [=McDonald's=] on the way to the campus (+5 pounds). Cutting out the "snacks" and reducing fast food intake to once a week resulted in the loss of 30-40 pounds; weight he has since been able to avoid getting back, despite still being able to eat about five or six loaded plates of food at any buffet (of which only one will consist of salad; salad loaded with cheese, croutons, and dressing at that). Incidentally, the "one hour after eating Chinese food and you're hungry again no matter how much you ate" has some basis in reality; this Chinese troper can attest to that.

This troper hates you all. I can't really afford to eat much unless I want to spend half of the day exercising (and I normally exercise a fair amount). Meanwhile, a friend of mine eats lots, and is basically hungry again within half an hour after eating a large lunch, and basically eats chocolate and candy a whole lot, and never shows it. Granted, he gets a fair amount of exercise as well. But the main offender is another friend, who is basically skin and bones, and can easily eat more than either I or the other friend, and he never shows it. If there's a large cake around for a birthday party, he'll eat half of it, I'll eat maybe a fifth, and the other friend will eat the rest. Who ends up showing it the most? Me.

This troper may be of average size but he's been likened to John Belushi because of his appetite. He'll eat anything, and he means that. In his ''Animal House'' fanfic he made his character a Werebelushi who is a cross between this and a Beserker apprioately nicknamed Growler (or sometimes Monstrosity).

This troper normally isn't a BigEater, but every once in a while I'll get the appetite of a ravenous wolf. Twice so if the food is seafood; I once out ate five people collectively (three diff. kind of fish, four oysters, bake potato, and four and a half large plates of shrimp). To top it off, I'm barely over 100 lbs.

This troper used to be a huge eater. At some point within the past 6 months, this dwindled to not eating much (most likely due to an attack of depression). Considering that before, when she was a huge eater, she weighed around 70 lbs. and was about 5'4", and is now 5'9 1/2" and weighs 105 (on a good day), this has her mother worried, probably with reason. Despite not liking healthy meals, she still tucks in a rather amazing amount of junk food when she can get her hands on it.

This troper (female) is 5"11 and 134 odd lbs. Along with her dad and two younger brothers she LOVES to eat. But we are all really tall and slim, much to the annoyance of my mother, of the shorter curvier variety.

This troper was on her college's lightweight womens rowing team. Our final and most important race was the only one that actually weighed the rowers. The entire drive down from Washington to Sacramento and the day before the race her teammates starved themselves in order to make the 130 pound weight limit. Those that still had weight to lose, sweated the weight out. This troper spent the trip down and the day before eating snacks and ended up weighing less then everyone else and being about equal with the coxswain. After the weigh in she was the only one not starving at the carbo load dinner.

This troper is constantly snacking on whatever she can find around the kitchen, and the most exercise she gets is sitting in the computer and RapidFireTyping. She isn't thin at all, though... not fat, either, at ~110 lbs and 5'4". Unless someone makes any unfortunae comments about weight issues, then she'll refrain from snacking on anything but fruit and go down to ~95 lbs.

Both this troper and his mom can eat a ton of food and not gain an ounce.

This troper hates the majority of the people above him. Eating big or not, the weight doesn't change, no matter how much he exercises. Consequently, he remains heavyset. Not only a BigEater, but also a fast one, he hasn't eaten burgers the size of his head, used to work at a Dairy Queen where he held the "most food eaten record" and still does, and regularly has people weirded out by how fast he can eat. And yes, he ''chews'' his food, before you ask.

If you're wondering,B.M.I. of 34 (grossly obese). Body fat: 22% (mildly overweight).

This troper met a third year college student who had Prader-Willi at her first Peer Leadership meeting. (To her surprise, he distracted himself from the urge to eat by playing video games... specifically, ''[=~Pokémon~=]''. Who says video games aren't addictive?) One of her teachers warned that those affected can smell the ''ingredients'' in food within range.

This troper is a BigEater when it comes to fish.

This troper's father works with a man named Pete. Once, this troper was helping out on some construction work they (and a few others) were doing. At the lunch break, Pete got ''six'' roast beef sandwiches at Arby's. And he finished them all before any of the rest of us had finished ''one.'' Plus curly fries. I was later told that Pete was always supposed to place his order last for just this reason, but had somehow gotten to the front of the line. (Pete is average height, average build, and he apparently eats like that at every meal.)

If this Troper gained weight in proportion to what and how much she eats, she should weigh well over 300 pounds. She weighs about 140. She's 5' 6-7", relatively flat compared to other girls her age (almost 18), has an average stomach, and nicely-defined hips. And she rarely exercises (if she did, she'd probably be a stick). Her friends are mostly "I can starve myself and still gain weight" types, and often roll their eyes at her when she goes up for her second or third helping. She knows exactly where all the weight she should have goes, however... and as a result, is very good at using a toilet plunger.

This troper has always been a big eater, throughout high school I would spend every last penny of pocket money on food. University years were terrible, as the food bill to just cover a day's eating could rival what my family would spend for a week. I can pack quite a considerable amount away in one sitting, but even when completely full, you can bet it'll only be half an hour before I'm craving something else. Even after eating 3 breakfasts by 10am, I'll still be searching for something else to snack on before lunch time at 1pm, where I'll grab double servings, snack some more till dinner at 5pm, then snack some more, grab me some supper at 8pm, and a snack before bed... Then wake up absolutely ravenous. Even though I'm a little pudgy in build, if I were to reflect the amount I ate on an average type metabolism, I'd look like that world's fattest man they keep putting on TV. I dread the day I'll finally have to move out on my own, because that food bill would be astronomical. I'm also a very picky eater, in that I hate vegetables, but the things I DO eat, I eat in vast quantities.

This troper is not only a big eater, but also a ''fast'' eater. "Did you not get your burger?" -swallows my mouthful of fries- "Uh, yeah. I ate it already." ''"What?!?"'' I've actually had people time me eating. Eat big or eat small, I stay the same 210 lbs.

Another fast eater here. This troper naturally inhales whatever he's eating. It disturbs his mother and a former boyfriend to no end.

Are we all like, clones or something? This Troper often eats whole fast-food meals under 2 minutes.

This troper is a combination of this, ForgetsToEat (usually because I'm distracted by the internet) and PickyEater. For some weird reason, there has to be meat or junk food in her meals, otherwise she isn't satiated. Ironically enough, despite all the things she eats, she only gains 2 pounds a year and is considered underweight. This troper's dad believes it's a combination of high (''very'' high) metabolism and stress. Her stepfather once said to her, "When you're eating breakfast, you're thinking of lunch; when eating lunch, you're considering dinner. When eating dinner, you're wondering where's dessert." And don't get me started on those midnight snacks! Seriously, once I stayed up for an extra hour just to eat a cup of noodles.

This troper eats a ridiculously unbalanced diet filled with junk food in large amounts during lunch and supper only while avoiding breakfast and does no regular physical exercise whatsoever and yet somehow still manages to be physical fit enough to at least keep up with all but the strongest athletes people during gym classes or sporting events.

This troper is eating a bowl of ice cream right now... and is considered the biggest eater in a family full of Big Eaters, as well as the thinnest.

When this troper was a kid he could eat at least four plate fulls of food when eating at buffets, one night my sister kept going back for more food just so I could eat it until I eventually got full and I never seemed to gain a single pound, now I can't eat nearly as much as I used to and I'm just a bit overweight.

This Troper has a huge stomach. He eats more than anyone else he knows, and yet you can still see all his ribs without him having to breathe in. His largest single meal was a enormous steak he had in New York. As a Brit, he and his family found everything enormous, but this steak was as big as the plate. He ate EVERY. SINGLE. BITE.

Ask any Mormon who's ever had the missionaries over, and they'll tell you that every last one of them (the male ones at least) fit this trope. When This Troper was serving his own mission, he once had a fellow missionary tell him that he eats more than any other missionary he knew. This Troper was and still is skinny as a rail.

I can vouch for this, having hosted them myself (I do enjoy having them around, don't misunderstand!). Young men in that age group (19-25, for the most part) are basically stomachs with feet, as far as I can tell. One of the current pair in my ward is allergic to cats, and we have a large longhair, so we've taken them to buffet places a few times. This works well for all parties. (Incidentally, there are a lot of jokes about them also having LethalChef tendencies. My brother-in-law reports he was quite popular with fellow missionaries he shared living quarters with, because he's a good cook (which he is)).

On one occasion during lunchtime at school, one of this troper' friends commented on something: he kept getting large lunches, and he was really skinny, whereas I'd bring small lunches (a sandwich and a sliced apple), and I had a major weight advantage over him. Of course, the fact that I ate a lot of snacks outside of school and would sometimes finish other peoples' lunches when asked to may have had something to do with it...

This troper can eat a relatively large meal. My father once took my brother and I to CiCi's Pizza for the first time. I was about four. I ate ten pieces of pizza. I can also eat an entire plate of fried rice. By myself. My ex-girlfriend is one of these, being able to eat a mountain of food and still stay skinny. Whenever remarks on this they apparently ask if she's anorexic to the point where if we talk about how much she eats she shouts "I am NOT anorexic!"

This troper's personal record is 13 plates of pasta... in one meal. And in another, the equivalent to nine or ten plates of mussels (translated to a foot tall pyramid of shells. And one of the high points of my eating career was in the cafeteria, having finished everybody elses plates, plus seconds, so I was carrying a dozen plates, as many bowls, on three trays. Didn't get me a standing ovation, but the stunned silence and submissive looks were worth as much as.

This troper's family has something of a reputation for this. We don't really think much of it, but every so often we get a reminder that our eating habits aren't entirely normal. Examples include whenever my sister's friends are over for dinner and they get a bit overwhelmed (one of them actually has to have a nap to recover. We thought they might be narcoleptic but no, they're just too full), and assorted anactotes, the best one being the time my dad ordered the special at a Chinese restaraunt, which turned out to be a bit of everything on the menu. My dad managed to eat the lot,much to the amazement of the staff. We also tend to view buffets as a challenge. To be fair, we don't pig out all the time, normal meals are fairly standard in terms of portion size, but if we put our minds to it we can put away an impressive amount. This usually occurs at family get togethers due to a combination of most of us being good cooks and having a tendency to overestimate things so we end up with enough food to feed a small army, and, of course, it'd be a shame to let it go to waste.

This troper, his brother, and his father are all big eaters and have healthier builds than they deserve (father and brother are both stocky while this troper is tall and lean...ok, lanky). Strangely enough, his mother is on the curvy side despite having always been the pickiest eater in the bunch. But then again, full figures are common in her family while dad's side is more lean (in most cases). Guess this troper lucked out in the gene game.

This troper probably counts. I'm exactly like one of the examples on the main page, in that I doesn't eat much more food than normal, but I eat it so fast it's a miracle I don't vomit everything back up. I've become used to finishing my meal before everyone else is half done.

*raises hand*

This troper is normally a "little and often" eater (except when she ForgetsToEat) but can put away startling quantities of sweet foods when she cares to. She also tends to eat extremely fast unless distracted.

This Troper is a huge eater and it's probably due to some genetic issue. I was a giant child who was often mistaken for being several years older than I actually was. By age 12 I was eating as much as the school limit, plus all friends' leftovers, but school wrestling was allowing me to expend a lot of energy. Turns out being a huge child was my best break; I didn't really have much of any growth spurt to speak of but still requires massive meals, and will easily win "eat this and it's free" challenges unless there's a time limit and more than seven pounds of food involved. When Triple Whoppers are ordered in a pair because one alone leaves you still hungry, you have to be really careful to not gain like no tomorrow.

In fact, adding this entry made him remember that he skipped lunch, and he's deciding between an Extra Large or "Colossal" pizza for dinner. Thanks, TV Tropes. :b

This Troper eats a lot. Not in single meals, just small meals ever 2 hours. 3 hours or more without food hurts like a ***. 5 hours, I'm either reluctant to move any part of myself unless it's towards food, or I'm getting around mostly by force of will, but constantly complaining about the AGONY. Speaking of which, it's been 2 and a half hours. Better get some food before it progresses to stage 2.

Holy mother of pearl, ARE YOU MY PARALLEL UNIVERSE SELF? =D

Judging by the frequency, I'd say he's a hobbit with an Internet connection.

@/{{Serperoth}} eats fairly ample portions of food, usually with dessert, with the only ways to burn calories being 'mouse', 'keyboard' and 'school'. He even sits out PE. He is 165cm or so and weighs 50(!!!) kilograms. "F--- your metabolism" has been heard. A friend of his is known to the local souvlaki place. He has eaten a 3-pita giant one with six sauces. It weighed 1,2 KILOS. And it was larger than the average head. Said friend is a bloody beanpole. But he exercises.

Amperschwa eats foodins a lot. 5'10", 14 years old, 200 pounds, maintained. I haven't gained weight in a year and a half and I regularly eat somewhere along the lines of five pounds per meal. Why, today's dinner contained 1lb of pork, 1lb of Filipino potatoes (don't know what they're called), and 3lb of rice. And as filler foods to pass the time every day? Soda and chips!

Put this troper in a Del Taco and he'll eat the food faster than they can make it. This troper is 5'11 and weighs about 175 pounds.

This troper is skinny as a rail, but due to a fast metabolisim has been known to eat ridiculous amounts of food and not gain any weight. Cue me eating a big meal and saying "I'm full." Fifteen minutes later, "Damn it, I'm still hungry" and raiding the fridge.

This troper, despite being a male high-schooler, isn't much of a big eater, but I encountered one today. I was at a Mongolian grill, where you make your way down a buffet and put all of the food you want in a bowl, then hand the bowl and a card with some cooking information on it to a chef so he can grill it. My bowl was exactly full, with the top of the food even with the edge of the bowl, and I had one cup of sauce to mix in, which was about half-full. The thin, beautiful teenage girl in front of me had her bowl completely filled with a stack of food on top of that over twice as tall as the bowl itself and two full cups of sauce for flavor. All of the people in line behind her were staring at her, and even the chef looked a little surprised. Fully cooked to her instructions, the pile of food was nearly a third the size of her torso. I ate about half of my bowl. She finished hers, which was three times bigger than mine. After that, she got back in line for another course because it was "all-you-can-eat bottomless buffet" day. That's right, after that huge helping she still wanted seconds. In case you missed that math, she ate about twelve times what I did. Her stomach didn't even have a bulge when she finished, and mine did, and I'm a lot bigger than she was.

This 5'9" (176,1 cm), 120 lbs (54 kg or so)-troper's greatest eating achievement to date? Out-eating a 6'2" 220 lbs young man in his twenties when she was only 17. This troper ate more beef, hamburgers and fries than he did, and that was BEFORE she got up and got herself a huge piece of cake, and that's the regular thing this troper eats. Granted, she felt very bloated afterwards... For about half an hour. A burp later, she was right as rain and actually feeling a little peckish. Then again, this troper has been blessed with the magical metabolism that means weight never really piles up and she is free to eat whatever she pleases, but she is also a PickyEater. If it's amazing food, a LOT is eaten. If it's sub-par, then meh, it can be eaten but seconds will not be taken.

This troper is glad to know he's not alone. Standing at 6'3" and weighing about 165 lbs, this troper is rarely ever full. He simply eats until his stomach is no longer growling. He currently eats four large meals a day plus snacks. His appetite and metabolism has become something of standing joke between him and his friends. He has learned not to mention it in front of women lest he receive a death-inducing glare.

This troper is 5'8" and 130 pounds. She is constantly eating, and has a stash of random food in her closet. My friends get shocked when they see me eat meals at sleepovers and junk. "6...FREAKIN'...DONUTS". They usually think I don't eat alot because I don't eat the school food, I guess I'm just hungry at weird times.

Six Donuts is easy, you just eat three and then eat three more.

This troper is built to hold up weight, be it muscle or fat. This means I either become fat or buff up really fast, no matter what I eat. That said, I generally eat pretty fast, ie three burritos in the time it takes most people to finish half, a 12 oz steak in under a minute, Flan in two bites, a tub of ice cream in one sitting. Makes for fun eating competitions based on giving others pretty big handicaps, such as taking on an Indian friend in a spicy food eating competition, I won, but ended up standing in the bathroom and retching for a minute or two.

This Troper here. 5'3 and 118 pounds at last checking. Amazes pretty much everyone with devouring two sandwiches, then checking the 'lost and found' box (not a lot of kids in school like fruit, so they leave it in at this table dubbed the Lost and Found Box. You're free to take stuff from there at any time), ''then'' taking a good deal of that, and finishing off three slices of cafeteria pizza. While still being kinda hungry And I'm physically unable to run or do stuff due to problems so...no exercise there, probably a "what the fuck" metabolism.

@/{{Neep}} has been charitably described by friends as a "lanky motherfucker" (6'4" and ~170 lbs) and is both continuously hungry and able to put away a goodly amount of food in one sitting, leading to always being the last one eating ("You guys are done already?").

This Troper gained the affectionate family nickname of "The Vacuum" at a very young age. I'm sure the imagination can figure out why.

At 5'1" and 86 lbs, I'm always hungry all over again within an hour of eating myself full. In high school, I earned the title of my class' Big Eater, because I always packed ''gigantic'' lunches which I would '''always''' finish by the end of the lunch period. I also '''LOVE''' bread and pasta. My mom is always like "With all that pasta and bread you eat I'm amazed that you AREN'T gaining any weight". I actually used to weigh 97 lbs but I fell quite ill in 2006 and lost 11 pounds because of it. Aaaaaand I'm a ''girl''.

This troper is a BigEater, yet only 115 lbs on a good day. After a camping trip, he and his buddies went to a buffet... he ate five plates of food, and was hungry within an hour later. He's also spent entire commutes in conversation about food, one notable time, all the possible ways to cook potatoes, much like the shrimp scene in ForrestGump. And then on a class camping trip, one of the other food groups dubbed him the "Human Food Disposal" for their leftovers.

More recently, this troper was on a class trip which provided the catering... he had two big plates of the main course of chicken and vegetables, and then four pieces of cheese cake afterwards... and he could have kept eating had he not been forced to go to the biology lecture after dinner.

This Troper can eat a maximum of THREE AND A HALF CUPS OF RICE if given a chance... and still retain a skinny physique.

This one makes sense if you consider that I could probably be considered a living skeleton (well, I am very boney). My average lunch is a packet of crisps, a sandwich (which I don't always eat), a mini roll and a packet of wine gums. My average dinner is potatoes, meat, vegetables (usually carrots and beans) and often led by a salad. For breakfast? Four wheatabix and a cup of tea. And I don't snack (except the occational apple). Now, while on the way to France for a skiing trip, I ate three apples, about fifteen packets of crisps and two sandwiches. On the way back, I ate almost a whole packet of large ginger biscuits, two apples and a packet of crisps, a plate of chips and half a cheeseburger for lunch and, for dinner, a piece of chicken, brocolli (hope I've spelt that right), carrots and beans. With a glass of water and drinking about a litre of it while in the car. And I am a picky eater, due to a potentially fatal peanut allergy! Even typing this, I still wonder how I remain so thin. Seriously, I am not making this up.

This troper's brother, who is 6'7" and weighs about 150 lbs and he eats at least 5 times a day with two to three of them being big meals. He actually wishes he would put on some weight because he looks like a twig.

A lot of extremely tall people are like this, presumably because there's more person to feed.

This troper has a friend who could bring $200 with her on a shopping outing and spend it all on food. Within an hour. Having already eaten lunch before going out.

This troper once ate at least a dozen donuts before lunch and then ate a full plate of spaghetti afterwards.

My best friend's niece has a strange problem that acts like a freakishly fast metabolism, meaning that the tiny 4'7 twelve year old girl had to learn to stretch her stomach like competitive eaters do just so she can fit enough food in her to stay healthy. She can eat more than anyone else I know and just barely manages to stay at the weight her doctor recommends for her. Every night when she gets home from school she'll just eat and eat until bedtime resulting in a Balloon Belly that makes her unable to stand up easily and needs to be carried to bed. This medical problem could possibly be an explanation for some of the other skeletons that eat like whales on this page.

This troper's tall and skinny younger brother has become this as he's swung into his 20's (and yes, admitting that makes this troper feel rather antiquated). This still manages to bemuse her, as she remembers when her little brother was the PickyEater to end all picky eaters, and only had maybe two or three foods he'd eat without a major hissy-fit.

This troper, and how. As long as it's vegan and not peas, I'll eat it. Unlike most people here, though, it shows on me, not that I'm complaining.

This troper used to play it straight with pizza in his teen years. One family sized pepperoni with double layers of cheeze? Yum yum! All mine!

Same with his younger brother.

This troper's friend is like this, in a way. He can easily put away two servings and go on that, but has been trying to gain weight for the past year, as he is ridiculously underweight at 96 lbs. He has taken to about three servings of food per meal and butter as a side dish. He gained twelve pounds in a year and still isn't satisfied.

This troper's cousin once went to a sushi bar and ate what he calculated as a few hundred dollars worth of the stuff calculated here means "it was one of those all-you-can-eat places where you pay a flat rate".

This troper pities the people who have been accused of being sticks despite fast metabolism or other reasons. This Troper is also willing to allow you to kill them via roleplay for the low low price of the YIM client!

I, too, have a ridiculous metabolism. Some days I the thought of food makes me ill, and on days like today(06/25/10) I can't go more than about 45 min without snacking. Hell, I'll get dizzy because of it! And having related insomnia REALLY makes this suck.

This troper definitely qualifies as a big eater, but unlike most of the examples above, is not very skinny. Well, I'm eating a brownie sundae from Bruster's right now.

This troper is a thin big eater. I can eat a whole tub of ice cream and whole packets of cookies, and still somehow not gain much weight. My parents and brothers jokingly tell me I seem to have fast metabolism. And in my freshman year of college, I essentially lived off cheeseburgers, but somehow avoided the "freshman fifteen".

Last night, this troper went to an all-you-can eat Japanese restaurant, where she promptly ate 30+ pieces of sushi, 2 bowls of udon soup, salad, chicken tempura, chicken terriyaki, age tofu, edemame, spring rolls, this potato cake thing, and ice cream. And lots of water.

This troper's personal record was an entire pizza, fries, bread, three giant cups of coffee, a salad, and two pieces of chocolate cake. And I could be compared to a sloth. Although usually I'm just always eating, not eating a ton at meals. At 5' 2.5" and 94 lbs, I'm also apparently dangerously underweight, despite eating roughly what I weigh most days. Part fast metabolism, part I lose body heat like crazy.

I had a college friend who had the super metabolism going. She'd eat ginormus quantities of food, like multiple plates packed high, at every meal and never gain a pound. Actually, to not be hungry, she had to eat that much. Depending on your budget, this could be a kind of BlessedWithSuck. Though it sure was a sight to behold whenever you got to see her in action.

This troper has a healthy appetite, but usually doesn't eat big. Though some days it seems like I can't stop eating- one time for lunch I had two roast beef sandwiches, an apple, a banana, two waffles with peanut butter, a handful of chips, two dozen jumbo shrimp with cocktail sauce, a large salad, and half a cheeseburger (we had a lot of leftovers from yesterday).

I've been told this sort of thing in one way or another for most of my life. I'm 2 and female, but I don't take any "offense" to the fact that I can pack it away better than most of my adult (and even some of my ''guy'') friends. I joke that I have a hollow leg for storing it all. Recently because of a prolonged sickness, I've actually found I ''need'' to maintain this Big Eating behavior for the benefit of my health, otherwise I suffer severe problems with my motor/brain functions, memory, and basic operational skills.

I can assume that "2" was supposed to have some other number on either end?

This troper ate at a truck stop when he was about 10 that served a quarter stack. The quarter stack, in this case, was two 1/2 thick pancakes that overhung the oval plate, half a plate of eggs (on top of the pancakes), while the other half was covered with bacon and sausage. He ate it all, and wants to go back for a full stack.

He's also eaten, on several occasions, a burger roughly the size of his head. And the fries. And the 32oz rootbeer float. In 5 minutes (except the float. Didn't want the ice cream headache).

This troper, at only 93-ish lbs. at sixteen years old (I keep thinking that's probably underweight by my doctor hasn't said anything about it being unhealthy) snacks constantly on junk food, to the point of getting up to get a snack every five minutes out of habit when there's nothing good in the house to munch on. She's been known to eat entire massive chicken sandwiches and such at restaurants, she can finish an entire egg and bacon cheeseburger (which is already a massive burger before you put the eggs and bacon on) on her own, and when there's pizza around, she can often eat three or four slices in a single sitting.

Zig Zagged by this Troper. His snacks and dessert are big, but he seems to get full rather easily from dinner (or an especially filling breakfast/lunch.) However, he is a rather ''fast'' eater, so that could be part of it. Or maybe his snacks aren't that filling.

I think I'm an extreme example of this trope. There are some foods that I burn off faster than I can eat them, leaving me hungrier when I'm done eating than I was before I started. These are usually pastas and soups that don't have a whole lot in them.

I typically pack a lunch consisting of a sammich(Which usually has two slices of some kind of cheese, two of some kind of meat, and three or four of lettuce.), a ridiculously large muffin(Well, according to my friends. The muffins seem normal sized to me.), a bag of crisps, a whole banana, and a bottle of water. I come out of all this still wanting more. But wait-there's more! I typically order enourmous meals whenever going to restaurants and manage to wolf it all down before anybody else has even finished half their food. Did I mention that I'm also almost never hungry and typically eat for the sake of eating?...And ''no'', I'm not obese or overweight.

I'm only a big eater during cross-country season. The annoying thing is I'm a little on the heavy side, and the major reason I do cross-country is to lose a little weight. The huge amount of food I eat kind of counteracts that.

This troper's brother. Oh, God. He doesn't eat sandwiches, he eats LOAVES OF BREAD. We once went to a restaurant that served Kumpir (enormous filled potatoes). This troper is quite a big eater herself, and can only finish one of them, plus maybe a small dessert. My brother ate two, a falafel afterwards and then asked for dessert. This is not an exception, but typical. Due to a good metabolism and working out a lot, he is not fat, only a few pounds overweight.

This troper is 6'3 and weights 165 pounds, but last Thanksgiving I ate a whole turkey by myself, plus a big bowl of salad, seven pork ribs and 25 oz. of ice cream. Two days later, without any exercise, I weighed myself and I've lost 3 pounds.

I hate you! I'm 6'3 too, I eat less and I weight... 326 pounds.

This troper is definitely one. She usually doesn't have time to eat breakfast, but she piles up her lunch tray in school and then goes to the snack bar. She eats large second and sometimes third helpings of dinner. At buffets (especially Chinese buffets), she eats 3 to 4 large plates of food, then has a plate of fruit/cakes/whatever is in the dessert section, and then goes for an ice cream. She's even worse on holidays, especially ones involving candy or food. Today is Easter and she's been eating sweets all day, in addition to normal meals. She's not overweight, but is on the larger side of the BMI.

Heck, most of her immediate family are big eaters.

Me, at least when I'm... provoked. Justified, though; I'm over 2m tall and over 125 kg. - Rottenvenetic

As I told someone above, I'm a junk food junkie. I snack a lot, which is why it appears that I don't eat much during meals; the tank's already partially full. Keep all things chocolate away from me unless you want it to disappear. During the summer I hardly eat regular meals; I'll have something for breakfast and snack the rest of the day whenever I'm hungry, having something else around eight or nine at night. Despite all this, I manage to be 5'4" (or probably 5'5" by now) and 103 lbs.

My whole family are big eaters. We have bigger portions than anyone else I know - including restaurants - for our meals; the only other time I saw meal portions so big was when I went to Canada with my brother, father and step-mother. It changes though. On some days I'll barely eat a thing and get full really quickly, on others I can eat and eat and eat and ''never'' feel full. I wouldn't say I'm skinny but I am slim, and I've gained/lost weight before but my figure doesn't look any different, so I don't know where it all goes. I exercise a little everyday and do a lot of walking around at college, though, in an attempt to tone up more.

Not ordinarily much of a Big Eater, but I have been known to ''inhale'' whole batches of pork buns.

This troper was known as "The Human Garbage Disposal" back in middle/early high school, mostly because 1) I would eat ''anything'', and 2) My CatchPhrase was "Are you gonna finish that?". Though I did start getting a gut when I was 17. Thankfully, I got rid of it by cutting down on junk food and riding my bike ''everywhere''. Oddly enough, not only did I lose my gut, I became ''underweight''. (Though, if I have to choose between being slightly underweight ((6ft 1 in, currently 148lbs)) and [[strike:people]] assholes asking me "When's the baby due?" ((Keep in mind I'm '''male''', goddammit)), I'll take being slightly underweight anyday.)

This fat troper's eating habits are sporadic and hard to keep track of. He might go a whole week eating only three sandwiches(and wanting to vomit at the sight of other food), but the next day he might eat enough to feed a small army and still be hungry when all the food is gone. It doesn't help that he has bizarre cravings(hell, he just finished eating a big sloppy bowl of Apple Jacks and peanut butter mixed together) and is extremely picky about what he eats. He's seen countless doctors about it, and most of them are stumped. The only one who even tried to explain something was this woman who said that troper's stomach and taste buds didn't develop in the womb, and that they developed differently than most as he got older. That combined with some childhood trauma involving being force-fed ravioli because apparently "that's what three-year-olds are ''supposed'' to like!" caused the troper to be very particular about what goes into his mouth and what doesn't. It might also be interesting to note that troper used to be very skinny as a child, to the point where his mother worried about him dying of malnutrition. Luckily, a ham-fisted application of Paxil from an inept school board when the troper was ''seven'' ensured that not only would he gain a shit-ton of weight, he'd have a very hard time working up the will to take that weight off as well. Yay for the American educational system!

This troper used to be this. Eating around 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day, and maintaining a svelte 120 lbs on a 5'6" frame. After said troper got sick, she can only take in about 1,500 a day before getting nauseaus (a big reason this troper is heavy into the medical marijuana movement. She looks forward to the munchies more than she does getting high). Now she weighs 135. Her younger sister is a big eater, devouring several candy bars, a family-size bag of chips, 5-6 cans of citrus soda, 2 pots of coffee with half a container of creamer, in addition to the three squares this troper or her mother prepares. Keep in mind, this is within one day. She's a lithe 145 lbs on a 5'11" frame.