Board Thread:The Flash episode discussions/@comment-75.148.114.97-20150401203819/@comment-71.95.196.218-20150605173848

Some possibilities:

a)He actually DOES eat mountains of food and simply knows he has to hide this so his cover isn't blown and so he does make sure nobody has discovered his binge-eating. b)As someone from the future, he has access to a formula for some food that is ridiculously high in calories thus preventing the enormous volume of regular food he'd need to eat from giving him away. Dr. Snow already created something similar for Barry's alcohol problem so why not something like that for food?* c)Barry only needs all that food because he uses his powers all the time. Wells/Thawne doesn't.  He conserves them so it's entirely possibly that he doesn't need to eat like Barry does most of the time. d)Any combination of the above 3.


 * I realize this may not be entirely germane as it comes from the Marvel Universe but Ezekiel Stane(son of Obidiah Stane/Iron Monger) developed some artificial powers to fight Iron Man with and in order to keep his powers functioning he needed to ingest a ridiculously high caloric count on a regular basis. To this end he made himself some super-fortified food paste in a tube the size of a tube of toothpaste yet this small amount contained 20,000 calories.  It is not unreasonable to expect Thawne to have been able to synthesize something similar to solve this issue his powers would cause.