There's a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them.
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Traveling around the world to eat, it's a weird life, but I love it.
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I have to eat healthy, and I recover. I run, and I lift weights.
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Maybe in America there's more of an emphasis on food than there should be. But when I look out at the audience during a competition, some people are shocked, but most people are smiling.
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The hardest is foods I am not familiar with. Gyros, I lost that one; I don't like tzatziki sauce very much. I did kimchi in Korea, which was rough: fermented cabbage and spicy.
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I go to the doctor every four months to get my blood work done to make sure everything is working right.
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I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.
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I was 21, and I was in college, and I'd eat real healthy during the week, and then on the weekends I would reward myself, and I'd just go to town on whatever my parents had in the fridge. And my little brother would be like, 'Hey.' And so it was actually him that begged me to do my first contest.
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I've learned how to gnarl the food down. It's not pretty.