# Adam Richman Prediction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702 "2011-08-14T18:07:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/1 "2011-08-14T18:07:16Z")
Man v. Food guy, [Adam Richman](http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Man_V_Food/About_The_Show/Meet_Adam_Richman), is getting… bigger, no ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/2 "2011-08-14T18:12:06Z")
He bailed on eating himself and assigns a designated eater wherever he goes. He has maybe come to the same conclusion. He wrote on the net, that one hot eating challenge, his staff overheard the restaurant cooks deliberately making the food extra hot to make him fail. He was afraid of doing damage. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/3 "2011-08-14T18:13:28Z")
He’s so disgusting. I wanted to throw up every time my ex would watch that nonsense. He’s probably going to die of a heart attack one day. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/4 "2011-08-14T18:20:30Z")
Looking at his sweating face makes me sick… I bet he takes digestive enzyme. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/5 "2011-08-14T19:06:59Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/6 "2011-08-14T20:05:40Z")
I think he’ll get out of that business, whether voluntarily or not, and while remaining rather portly, won’t fatten to epic proportions. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/7 "2011-08-14T20:21:09Z")
He doesn’t do the food challenges anymore, and it’s not like he’s eating like that every day. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/8 "2011-08-14T20:35:18Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > He doesn’t do the food challenges anymore, and it’s not like he’s eating like that every day. What a wimp; what’s the point of the show then? I thought eating like that once a week or every other week will screw someone up - weekly stretched out stomach would surely mess you up. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/9 "2011-08-14T20:55:09Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > What a wimp; what’s the point of the show then? > > I thought eating like that once a week or every other week will screw someone up - weekly stretched out stomach would surely mess you up. The show is “Man vs. Food **Nation** ” now, he goes around the country and meets up with people who do the challenges now. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/10 "2011-08-14T21:17:48Z")
I always root for food to win. ---
**Author:** ![Raskolnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Raskolnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raskolnikov)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/11 "2011-08-14T21:25:08Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > He doesn’t do the food challenges anymore, and it’s not like he’s eating like that every day. but he’s clearly gotten bigger thru the shows duration, hence the OPs point. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/12 "2011-08-14T21:36:57Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > He doesn’t do the food challenges anymore, and it’s not like he’s eating like that every day. I’m always surprised at how many people forget this…for a lot of the food network people, not just Adam. I was watching some behind the scenes type show where they were talking to some Food Network judge and asking how she stays so small when she eats SOOOO much. She explained, as you might guess, that she only eats SOOOO much on the day they shoot and the rest of the week (and the entire off season) she eats like a normal person and exercises as well. Same goes for Adam, it’s not like he sits at home all week and thinks “Hmmm, today I’ll see if I can eat THREE boxes of cereal in 15 minutes” or “Yesterday I had an entire gallon of ice cream, might as well try for two tonight!” ---
**Author:** ![Raskolnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Raskolnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raskolnikov)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/13 "2011-08-14T21:41:13Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m always surprised at how many people forget this…for a lot of the food network people, not just Adam. I was watching some behind the scenes type show where they were talking to some Food Network judge and asking how she stays so small when she eats SOOOO much. She explained, as you might guess, that she only eats SOOOO much on the day they shoot and the rest of the week (and the entire off season) she eats like a normal person and exercises as well. > > Same goes for Adam, it’s not like he sits at home all week and thinks “Hmmm, today I’ll see if I can eat THREE boxes of cereal in 15 minutes” or “Yesterday I had an entire gallon of ice cream, might as well try for two tonight!” I guess I’ll re-post: :smack: but he’s clearly gotten bigger thru the shows duration, hence the OPs point. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/14 "2011-08-14T22:03:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Same goes for Adam, it’s not like he sits at home all week and thinks “Hmmm, today I’ll see if I can eat THREE boxes of cereal in 15 minutes” or “Yesterday I had an entire gallon of ice cream, might as well try for two tonight!” Even giving him the benefit of the doubt that he practices purging whatnot, in order for a normal healthy person with a marginally enlarged stomach to be able to consume that much food, he had to be involved in some kinda stomach stretching regimen involving food. I mean this guy is/was not a pushover in food challenges. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/15 "2011-08-14T23:04:00Z")
> [@Raskolnikov](#): > > I guess I’ll re-post: :smack: > > but he’s clearly gotten bigger thru the shows duration, hence the OPs point. Admittedly, I’ve only watched one episode. Looking around, [here’s](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/15000000/Adam-Richman-adam-richman-actor-15027477-720-539.jpg) the fattest picture I could find of him. If that’s how a 37 year old guy looks after he’s ‘gotten bigger’ after a 4 year run of Man V Food, I’d imagine, he’s got things under control and I’d put my vote in for “Will probably stay about the same” which the OP for some reason didn’t include in the poll options. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/16 "2011-08-14T23:11:33Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Admittedly, I’ve only watched one episode. Looking around, [here’s](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/15000000/Adam-Richman-adam-richman-actor-15027477-720-539.jpg) the fattest picture I could find of him. If that’s how a 37 year old guy looks after he’s ‘gotten bigger’ after a 4 year run of Man V Food, I’d imagine, he’s got things under control and I’d put my vote in for “Will probably stay about the same” which the OP for some reason didn’t include in the poll options. Yeah, I don’t watch the show regularly, but he didn’t go from skinny to huge. He went from being a big guy to being a slightly bigger guy. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/17 "2011-08-15T00:22:10Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > I always root for food to win. It will, it will. Joe ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/18 "2011-08-15T03:39:33Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > I always root for food to win. It’s a sort winning the war type of thing. They may not win every battle, but in the end we know what will be the cause of Fattie — er Adam’s death. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-richman-prediction/592702/19 "2011-08-15T03:50:11Z")
Wait, he’s not doing the [challenge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=585146) anymore??? Damn! BTW, love his show, but the challenge was always such a waste.