THE 24-HOUR EATING CHALLENGE

I've been thinking a lot lately about the "next step" in eating challenges.

Among existing challenges, there's "How many X's can you eat in Y amount of time?" Sometimes Y equals one minute. Sometimes it's 12 minutes. Other times it can be 30 minutes or an hour. Then there's "How fast can you eat X amount of Z's." In this case X can be three or four items (hot dogs, for instance). Or it can 60 items (in the case of nuggets). It can also be one item (pizzas or giant burgers).

But what's the next step? What hasn't been done before? For me, I think it's something similar to the first equation, only in this instance, Y equals 24 hours. That's right, how many (fill in food items here) can you eat in ONE DAY. From midnight to midnight. Start eating.

It's an interesting concept and one that raises all sorts of questions. For instance:

• Do you try to sleep during your "eating day" or would sleeping slow down the digestive process?
• Would a few cat naps be needed to ward off potentially appetite-suppressing exhaustion?
• After all that constant eating, would a few cat naps be unavoidable?
• How often would you eat?
• Would you gorge at "mealtimes?" In this case, midnight, 6am, noon, 6pm and again right before midnight at the end?
• Or would you eat small meals every two or three hours?
• Or would you just sit down with all six Star Wars movies and eat CONSTANTLY?
• If you did eat at certain times throughout the day, what would you do between meals? Nothing? Go for a walk? Drink a special concoction to speed digestion?

These are all valid questions and ones that would surely impact the outcome of this day-long binge fest. I have a few opinions on many of them, but I'm interested to hear from others. Up next: Which food do I eat?