Tim Lincecum’s Metabolism Works Hard

As you may have heard, read or intuited all by yourself, Tim Lincecum is, somewhat famously, particularly svelte as professional athletes go. But it’s certainly not for a lack of trying to join the Great American Conga Line of Morbid Obesity:

He dines regularly at In-N-Out burgers, the popular fast-food burger joints on the West Coast.

His traditional fare?

Three Double-Doubles. Two fries. A chocolate-strawberry shake. Ketchup please, but hold the lettuce and tomatoes.

“I’m not a big vegetable guy,” he says.

Let’s see, three burgers at 590 calories. Two fries at 395 calories. A shake at 590 calories.

The grand total: 3,150 calories.

“I’ve gone away from eating more cheeseburgers,” Lincecum says, “and just adding patties.”

I suppose overzealous drive-thru orders are as much a part of the dedicated herbist’s lifestyle as Steely Dan on vinyl and laughing at hiking trails. So none of this is especially surprising. Something also tells me that, unlike a certain Mr. Maybin, Lincecum could cut a swath through Panda Express and manage not to spend the rest of the day yoked to the throne.