I ate like Donald Trump for a day... I've been bed-ridden ever since

I'm penning this from my pitch-black chamber with a packet of Tylenol and a jug of h2o by my bedside arsenic I conflict a pulsating migraine.

I don't person the flu and I'm not hungover — I'm recovering from a time of trying to eat and portion similar Donald Trump.

I really person a newfound respect for the president-elect, who consumes aggregate McDonald's burgers, Milky Way candy bars, Doritos chips, milkshakes and up to a twelve Diet Cokes per day.

How, astatine 78, helium managed to past 2 assassination attempts, circuit the state doing hours-long rallies and triumph an election portion consuming this cocktail of hyperpalatable mush is beyond maine — I haven't adjacent been capable to marque it into enactment and I'm much than fractional his age.

Trump's notorious fare has been backmost successful the quality precocious for a fewer reasons. Ironically, he has nominated accelerated nutrient crusader Robert F Kennedy Jnr to beryllium his wellness secretary.

And Trump's longtime person and UFC brag Dana White — who joined him connected aggregate run stops this twelvemonth — said precocious helium was stunned by Trump's fare and refusal to portion water.

'It's six hours. So, I'll inquire him, 'You privation a water?'' White said, adding Trump said 'no'. 'And past idiosyncratic volition bring him implicit a coke. And he'll portion coke. I've ne'er seen him portion water. Ever,' White said.

Having enactment myself done respective grueling fare and workout routines successful the sanction of journalism, I decided to effort Trump's fare and get wrong successful the caput of America's 47th president.

I debated trying it for a week but past chickened retired and settled connected 1 day, figuring 'How atrocious could a azygous time be?' 

But lad was I wrong...

According to aggregate sources, Trump isn't a large meal eater and alternatively opts for a large luncheon oregon a mid-morning snack to support him going.

But I americium a bare idiosyncratic successful the greeting truthful I needed to eat. 

While Trump's chips of prime are Nacho Cheese Doritos, I couldn't carnivore to walk my full time with cheesy enactment truthful I opted for a sharing container of the Cool Ranch spirit (I did accidental I'm bare successful the morning!)

I besides chugged 2 Diet Cokes — I figured if I needed to get 12 of these atrocious boys successful maine past I amended commencement early. 

My belly was afloat (not successful a bully satiated way) erstwhile I finished these astatine 10am. But by 11am, my assemblage had rapidly worked its mode done the 40-plus chemicals and ingredients successful the chips and soda.

I got into a combat implicit thing with my spouse arsenic we walked done Manhattan and I threw a tantrum that they described arsenic the ‘worst I person ever seen.'

What's unusual is that adjacent though the Doritos container had 2,250 calories (almost arsenic overmuch arsenic the CDC recommends men devour successful an full day), erstwhile the fullness wore off, my hunger pangs were highly intense, which I blamed connected the chips being wholly void of nutrients and fiber, which instrumentality longer to interruption down successful the assemblage and marque you consciousness fuller longer.

This substance of feeling blameworthy astir what I was doing to my assemblage and being truthful bare rapidly made maine irritable.

For lunch, I had a well-done steak with ketchup, which is Trump's favourite midday meal, according to the politician's erstwhile butler astatine Mar-a-Lago.

Given however grumpy and nutrient-deprived I was already, I decided to propulsion successful immoderate crockery leaves for wellness and intelligence wellness purposes. 

I ate the full happening greedily, giddy to yet person immoderate existent nutrient - but the ultra-sweetness of the ketchup and the meatiness of the steak made the repast alternatively sickly.

I washed the full happening down with yet different Diet Coke.

Afterwards, feeling afloat and energized, I took a 30-minute locomotion astir the artifact to effort and calm my strategy a bit. 

My spouse chose not to travel maine this clip around, which helium assured maine had perfectly nary transportation to that morning's events.

Three much Diet Cokes aboriginal — I was successful a contention to marque that 12 people — I had consumed 276 milligrams (mg) of caffeine now, oregon astir 3 cups of coffee.

I was feeling somewhat anxious astatine this constituent from the caffeine (I usually portion decaf due to the fact that I hatred the jitters java gives me).

For meal astatine 6:30pm, it was 2 Big Macs and 2 filet-o-fish. 

Some of Trump's adjacent allies assertion helium lone has 1 of each, but successful the publication 'Let Trump Be Trump' his aides accidental erstwhile The Don is bare helium doubles up.

That suited me, I was beauteous bare and looking guardant to a due meal.

Trump supposedly has this repast with a tiny cocoa milkshake, but I opted for a Fanta alternatively to effort and deed the extremity of 12 sodas.

Trump's emotion for McDonald's and accelerated nutrient is seemingly rooted successful the information he's a celebrated germaphobe.

He told a CNN municipality hallway successful 2016: 'I similar cleanliness, and I deliberation you’re amended disconnected going determination than possibly someplace that you person nary thought wherever the nutrient is coming from. It’s a definite standard.'

I person to accidental the 2 Filet-o-Fish, which I had ne'er had before, were really rather nice. I mightiness bid them again.

But the Big Macs did not hold with me. Every wound was a struggle, my tummy was making antithetic noises and I began gagging with each mouthful arsenic I tried to shove it successful my rima and get it implicit with quickly.

I gulped down the remainder of the Fanta and past sat down to ticker 2 episodes of The Great British Baking Show with 1 much tin of Diet Coke.

This took maine to 7 cans, oregon 322mg of caffeine (the Fanta Orange was caffeine-free), which is conscionable shy of the FDA bounds of 400mg per day. 

This is erstwhile I tapped out, I wanted to beryllium capable to sleep!

I would usually prevarication down connected the sofa astatine this clip but lying down was an intolerable task that sparked terrible acerb reflux.

I sat upright, staring consecutive astatine the television.

By 10pm I got into furniture and read the DailyMail.com website with my wide-open caffeine-powered eyes. I past listened to my favourite podcast and scrolled X. 

But I was inactive wide awake. I tried a 30-minute meditation, but inactive couldn't sleep. 

The timepiece struck 1am,  2am, and past 3am earlier I dozed disconnected into what my fittingness tracker recorded arsenic my worst nighttime of slumber ever.

WHOOP considers thing beneath 70 percent to beryllium a mediocre sleep, and thing implicit 85 percent to beryllium optimal. I usually languish conscionable implicit 60 percent.

I scored conscionable 27 percent past night.

This would explicate Trump's late-night tweeting rages, I thought.

To enactment existent to Dana White's comments, I avoided h2o each day. 

This, combined with the 6,800mg of sodium I consumed (three-times the recommended regular limit) mightiness explicate wherefore I couldn't get immoderate shut-eye.

Consuming a repast precocious successful sodium astatine dinnertime tin lend to slumber disturbances, partially owed to accrued humor unit and fluid retention.

Overall, I consumed a small implicit 5,000 calories and 253grams of fat, 3 times the recommended level of 78grams.

I besides consumed 108grams of sweetener overall, which is triple the FDA proposal of up to 36 grams per time for men.

Many radical would travel distant from this and look down connected Trump for his fare choices, but I've gone the other way.

To beryllium capable to devour this each time and relation astatine the highest level, helium truly is simply a unit of nature.