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I've been thinking about this since I first saw the post - you and I are built comparably, though I'm a bit taller and a bit heavier (6'3" and 190lbs). What I think I'd do is make sure that I exercised and ate a ton in the weeks approaching the event, to keep my metabolism as high as possible and keep my stomach used to digesting a lot of food quickly. Then I'd probably eat breakfast the day of the event, and nothing else until the dinner, like someone else here suggested. One last thing I'd do is make sure I cut it all up before I started eating anything, though that's not very interesting for the spectators, and they might accuse you of copping out a bit. But I figure it'd let me eat it all in less time from my first bite. As it is, I might think about trying this if I'm ever in Amarillo, Texas, but I'd have to prepare pretty extensively.

I don't exercise much, but I have at various times in my life so am not adverse to it. Would it help that much? I suppose I could jog a few miles every morning and evening leading up to it.