Meet King Schratz, the Instagram Star Who Eats 3600 Calories In One Sitting

The 31-year-old claims he can shovel in thousands of calories while still remaining ripped—but is this actually possible. 

Every night, King Schratz (born Dave Schratz) sits down in front of his 62,000 Instagram followers to eat his first, and only, meal of the day. Today, it's 12 bacon-egg-cheese sandwiches and a pile of fries. Earlier in the week, it was cheeseburger sliders, or a bulging-at-the-seams fajita plate. 

He lists the nutritional content of each of his meals, adding the hashtag #IIFYM, and he says that each of the feasts runs him about 3,700 calories — yet he has a lean, muscular body, which he proudly displays in his weightlifting videos on Instagram.

Schratz has become notorious for limiting himself to exactly one gigantic meal a day. He owns a personal training business called BioFit Solutions in north Jersey, and he claims that he stays in shape by burning off the calories with his intense, 2-hour daily workouts. "It's almost like I'm having a cheat meal every night, but I'm not," he says. "If I burn 4,000 calories and I eat 3,200, then I'm going to stay lean." It's almost like a magic trick: watch as this ripped man makes all these carbs and fatty acids disappear from reality. He's like the Harry Houdini of food.

Schratz tells Men's Health he started his one-meal-a-day plan about two years ago, uploading his first banquets to his Instagram feed. As time went on, more and more people found his account, all of whom were (perhaps predictably) transfixed by his apparent ability to eat whatever he wanted, without adding a single drop of body fat.