“People love watching me eat food for some reason,' says Tommy Winkler.
Tommy Winkler in Paris in the summer of 2021 about to bite into a croissant.When Tommy Winkler first blew up on TikTok for his"What I eat in a day" videos, he was eating half a pack of rice cakes a day. He'd take a large bite, look into the camera and nod.The Chicago native now has 8.8 million followers on the platform and his “What I eat in a day" videos have evolved into daily food challenges.
"This one was just fun," Winkler says."I can get creative. I can re-create some of the scenes with it. And that's the parts that people don't realize. People think I just take a bite of food and nod my head when really, I'm trying to also replicate stuff like that."For breakfast, he made pancakes. While he could have just eaten one pancake with butter on it, Winkler says he has to go all in.
When Winker wakes up — usually around 6 a.m. — the first thing he does is work out. From there, he finds breakfast. If a restaurant's breakfast menu closes at a certain time, Winkler will rush over to get his meal. And, if his day is busy with behind-the-scenes meetings with his team, he'll grab lunch at the same time and save it for later.
Winkler dropped out of college after his second year to pursue being a full-time content creator. His parents, Deb and Jon, are supportive of his aspirations. Winkler says his family helps make sure he's making smart decisions — especially when it comes to the amount of money he spends on food.His mom says he's had to learn a lot in order to manage his business from negotiating contracts to keeping track of his finances.
"The day before, he asked my mom, 'Do you mind tomorrow if I eat what you eat for the day?' And she was like, 'Oh my gosh.' She was like, 'I got to get ready for tomorrow,'" Pappas tells TODAY."So, then we kind of planned it out the day before and then he just said like whatever you get I'll order two of."
"I would go to the next state. I would get to a restaurant and get to another restaurant to like to find you know the state's most iconic foods," he says."Some were very difficult to find. But then it's like, I'm going down the whole East Coast. I find myself eating so many like lobster rolls, oysters and crab."
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