{"id":108257,"date":"2025-05-17T05:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108257\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:51:37","slug":"inside-mad-diet-of-worlds-strongest-man-competitor-with-12000-food-bill-monster-mash-meal-and-never-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108257\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside mad diet of World&#8217;s Strongest Man competitor with \u00a312,000 food bill, &#8216;Monster Mash&#8217; meal and NEVER drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRONGMAN Mitchell Hooper claims that he NEVER drinks water as part of the crazy diet that costs him over \u00a312,000 every year.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper, 29, was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.ie\/sport\/11163007\/mitchell-hooper-who-worlds-strongest-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World&#8217;s Strongest Man in 2023<\/a> and finished second in last year&#8217;s competition &#8211; and his bonkers diet helps him remain one of the best strongman competitors in the sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Strongman holding an Arnold Strongman Classic trophy.\" height=\"960\" width=\"768\" data-credit=\"Instagram @mitchellhooper\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/www-instagram-com-mitchellhooper-hl-989261075.jpg\" data-caption=\"Strongman Mitchell Hooper spends a fortune on food to keep his World's Strongest Man physique\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/www-instagram-com-mitchellhooper-hl-989261075.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Strongman Mitchell Hooper spends a fortune on food to keep his World&#8217;s Strongest Man physiqueCredit: Instagram @mitchellhooper<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitchell Hooper competing in the World's Strongest Man competition, lifting a 275 lbs weight.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"World's Strongest Man\/Joe Martinez\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitchell-hooper-worlds-strongest-man-790843310.jpg\" data-caption=\"Hooper easts almost three times the daily recommended calories\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitchell-hooper-worlds-strongest-man-790843310.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Hooper easts almost three times the daily recommended caloriesCredit: World&#8217;s Strongest Man\/Joe Martinez<\/p>\n<p>Candian Hooper, nicknamed &#8216;The Moose&#8217;, eats almost <strong>THREE <\/strong>times the daily recommended calories for an adult male in the UK on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>And his diet is made up of his special &#8220;Monster Mash&#8221; meals and &#8220;Creamsicle&#8221; drinks to drive up his protein intake and get him in the best shape possible for competition by eating over<strong> 6,200 CALORIES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On an average day Hooper consumes around 440g of protein, which is <strong>EIGHT <\/strong>times more than the recommended protein intake for a male in the UK, according to the British Heart Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast is either six eggs, a protein shake, avocado and banana or a giant bowl of Reese&#8217;s Puffs cereal with protein shake poured over the top instead of milk, with protein balls and raisin bread.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE ON STRONGEST MAN<\/p>\n<p>However, whatever breakfast he chooses it will always be accompanied by his drink of choice &#8211; the &#8216;Creamsicle&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>His own invention, the Creamsicle is a full glass of orange juice mixed with 3\/4 of a cup of Greek yoghurt to boost his protein intake.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oC8zoMbZHLs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his YouTube channel<\/a>, where he boasts 428,000 subscribers, Hooper said: &#8220;It&#8217;s as much plain Greek yoghurt as I can get diluted into the orange juice. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I aim to eat one tub of Greek yoghurt every day. It&#8217;s really good for your gut health, really good macronutrients and it gets your protein in&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greek yogurt being added to a jar of yellow liquid.\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"YouTube\/Mitchell Hooper\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/www-youtube-com-watch-v-989279262.jpg\" data-caption=\"Hooper mixes yoghurt and orange juice together to make his 'Creamsicle' drink\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/www-youtube-com-watch-v-989279262.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Hooper mixes yoghurt and orange juice together to make his &#8216;Creamsicle&#8217; drinkCredit: YouTube\/Mitchell Hooper<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A large man sits at a table drinking from a cup.\" height=\"561\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Youtube\/mitchell hooper\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Capture-3.png\" data-caption=\"Hooper sinks a Creamsicle drink with his breakfast and his lunch\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Capture-3.png\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Hooper sinks a Creamsicle drink with his breakfast and his lunchCredit: Youtube\/mitchell hooper<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitchell Hooper pulling a bus in the World's Strongest Man competition.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"World's Strongest Man\/Joe Martinez\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitchell-hooper-worlds-strongest-man-790843293.jpg\" data-caption=\"The extra protein helps him to build muscle for competition\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitchell-hooper-worlds-strongest-man-790843293.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>The extra protein helps him to build muscle for competitionCredit: World&#8217;s Strongest Man\/Joe Martinez<\/p>\n<p>Most people would move on to lunch after their breakfast, but Hooper moves onto his <strong>FIRST <\/strong>lunch of two.<\/p>\n<p>That would normally be his &#8220;Monster Mash&#8221;, a mix of ground beef, white rice and beef broth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article__quote\">\n<p>The less you can chew the less full you&#8217;re going to feel<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Hooper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wesley Derwinsky shows his strength with the moving medley at the Magnus Classic <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the easiest task to keep down beef and rice every single day, so Hooper adds broth to help things go down a little better.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: &#8220;The Monster Mash is really good with the beef broth because it just makes the food a little bit moist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The less you can chew the less full you&#8217;re going to feel. There&#8217;s processes in the body that means that chewing can make you feel full.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, the faster you eat the less full you&#8217;ll feel and this helps get the food down relatively quickly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper chows down on an astonishing amount of meat during his weekly intake, eating one steak and 450g of ground beef every day.<\/p>\n<p>Which means the reigning Arnold Strongman Classic champion is stomaching a whopping 3.2kg of ground beef and seven steaks every single week.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of a year, that equates to roughly <strong>AN ENTIRE COW&#8217;S<\/strong> worth of beef, with Hooper admitting that even he gets sick of ground beef from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Both lunches will of course be accompanied by a Creamsicle drink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rice and meat dish in a plastic container, next to a glass of orange juice.\" height=\"574\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Youtube\/mitchell hooper\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Capture-1-8.png\" data-caption=\"Hooper eats ground beef, white rice and beef broth for lunch - twice\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Capture-1-8.png\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Hooper eats ground beef, white rice and beef broth for lunch &#8211; twiceCredit: Youtube\/mitchell hooper<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitchell Hooper competing in the World's Strongest Man competition.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"World's Strongest Man\/Joe Martinez\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitchell-hooper-worlds-strongest-man-790843306.jpg\" data-caption=\"He eats the equivalent of an adult cow per year in beef\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitchell-hooper-worlds-strongest-man-790843306.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>He eats the equivalent of an adult cow per year in beefCredit: World&#8217;s Strongest Man\/Joe Martinez<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day Hooper snacks on rice cakes to make sure he&#8217;s taking in low-fat high-carb food, explaining that finding that balance is &#8220;one of the hardest things&#8221; for him to do.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner will depend on what&#8217;s being made at home by Hooper and wife Ashley, but generally pasta, chicken and tomato sauce will bring his meals for the day to an end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article__quote\">\n<p>I don&#8217;t drink water, ever.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Hooper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unbelievably, Hooper revealed that alongside all those foods, he <strong>NEVER <\/strong>drinks water.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t drink water, ever. Diet Coke, milk and orange juice &#8211; that&#8217;s it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper also makes sure he necks a protein shake every day too.<\/p>\n<p>While he also has a weakness for ice cream , and admitted he will often eat <strong>TWO TUBS<\/strong> in one night.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper said: &#8220;Four tubs won\u2019t last a whole week, but I pretend I\u2019m not going to eat ice cream every day, and then I usually eat two tubs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible cost<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario-born Strongman admitted that cookie dough is another one of his vices.<\/p>\n<p>But explained that keeping weight on is only going to benefit him when it comes to competition.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I need to maintain my energy and fat stores because, in the end, being heavier helps you move more weight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crazy amount of food would bring Hooper&#8217;s average weekly shop &#8211; just for himself &#8211; to around \u00a3230.<\/p>\n<p>Which means he spends about \u00a312,000 on food every single year &#8211; almost a third of the average UK salary.<\/p>\n<p>Even he admitted that being a strongman isn&#8217;t particularly profitable when you talk into account the cash splashed on simply maintaining the right physique.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Strongman isn&#8217;t the most profitable thing in the world, so if you want to become a strongman maybe think twice about the cost that it&#8217;s going to be to feed you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Mitchell Hooper's Strongman Diet, detailing meals and macros.\" height=\"960\" width=\"516\" class=\"alignnone size-thesun-article-image wp-image-15216316\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KH_23_04_GRAPHIC_MITCHELL_HOOPER_DIET.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KH_23_04_GRAPHIC_MITCHELL_HOOPER_DIET.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Man enjoying Halo Top ice cream.\" height=\"348\" width=\"301\" data-credit=\"Instagram @mitchellhooper\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/www-instagram-com-mitchellhooper-hl-989261080.jpg\" data-caption=\"Hooper has a weakness for ice cream\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/www-instagram-com-mitchellhooper-hl-989261080.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Hooper has a weakness for ice creamCredit: Instagram @mitchellhooper<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Man with full shopping cart in grocery store.\" height=\"627\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Youtube\/mitchell hooper\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Capture-2-1.png\" data-caption=\"The strongman superstar spends around \u00a312,000 per year on food alone\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Capture-2-1.png\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>The strongman superstar spends around \u00a312,000 per year on food aloneCredit: Youtube\/mitchell hooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRONGMAN Mitchell Hooper claims that he NEVER drinks water as part of the crazy diet that costs him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[4759,443,444,105,4434,28363,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-108257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-bodybuilding","9":"tag-diet-nutrition-and-weight-loss","10":"tag-fitness-and-exercise","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-nutrition","13":"tag-strongman","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114521616367623477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}