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Eating before you sleep
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sometimes I'll have 2 Muscle Milk Light RTD's with Some almonds, flax oil and fish oil
old thread! lol, it's cool though.
IMO, you always need to eat before bed. If you are bulking, use some complex carbs with casein proetin mixed with 1% milk. If you are cutting, casein protein mixed with water. I use 50 grams casein and 15 grams of whey isolate. Keep the amino levels in your blood up to prevent and catabolism.
Whey only is better than nothing, but hardly ideal.
6 ounces of a light fish (tilapia, halibut, orange roughy) also works fantastic if you don't mind having nasty farts in the morning, lol.
IMO, you always need to eat before bed. If you are bulking, use some complex carbs with casein proetin mixed with 1% milk. If you are cutting, casein protein mixed with water. I use 50 grams casein and 15 grams of whey isolate. Keep the amino levels in your blood up to prevent and catabolism.
Whey only is better than nothing, but hardly ideal.
6 ounces of a light fish (tilapia, halibut, orange roughy) also works fantastic if you don't mind having nasty farts in the morning, lol.
lol, yah..i was looking back
most of the time I'll have about 1/2 cottage cheese with some muscle milk light...plues about 3 caps flax & 5 caps Fish Oil w/ Omega 3 Concentrate
I usually eat orange roughy or chicken dor dinner at 9 with some WW pasta mixed with veggies....ill throw in an Atlantic salmon every 2 weeks
i'd take the fish oils, vitamins and stuff during the day, or in the morning.
I used to pound the cottage cheese at night before bed. not so much now. i have really limited my dairy intake and digestion for me has been better.
Before bed I do something similar to Dabuff. 50g Micellar Casein, 25g Whey Iso, 10g Psyllium Husk, and 2g fish oil. I never wake up hungry in the middle of the night when I drink this before bed.
Before bed I do something similar to Dabuff. 50g Micellar Casein, 25g Whey Iso, 10g Psyllium Husk, and 2g fish oil. I never wake up hungry in the middle of the night when I drink this before bed.
desmond
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Something like SL's formulation would be about perfect IMO for most people (although I already consume like 50-60 g of fibre per day so no Psyllium Husk for me unless I want to spend more time in the toilet).
Currently, I'm being stingy however and to comply with Omega's fat recommendations for me, I'm having scrambled eggs normally, or sometimes steak and good fats (fish oil or avocado). I know from experience that these scrambled eggs are slow digesting protein - I've eaten them for dinner a few times at 6pm on nights on the piss, only to throw some of it up at about 3am lol.
Currently, I'm being stingy however and to comply with Omega's fat recommendations for me, I'm having scrambled eggs normally, or sometimes steak and good fats (fish oil or avocado). I know from experience that these scrambled eggs are slow digesting protein - I've eaten them for dinner a few times at 6pm on nights on the piss, only to throw some of it up at about 3am lol.
There's so many variables on this and differing opinions and I think it's because we all have very different metabolisms. When we sleep we typically burn around 5-600 calories. The body is undergoing repair and maintenence at this time. So many believe we should have some complex carbs right before bed to assist in this as the body will require carbs as an energy source. Then there's the more traditional school of thought that consuming carbs will result in adding fat when those carbs are consumed before sleep as we are not expending any energy at this time.
I think a combination of both is probably the correct answer. Certainly don't consume any simple carbs and if you have room in your diet macro's for a few calories before bed then utilise them at this time. Take in a small meal with maybe 250 calories that contains some complex carbs and protein. 1-2% Cottage Cheese or the like which also contains some fats which slow absorption would be a suggestion.
Either way you have to find what works for you and it might be wildly different from the next person. Some people sleep much better when consuming carbs before bed as an example so these type of variables also need to be considered. One important thing though is to make this meal small. I see no reason going in excess of around 250 calories total.
I think a combination of both is probably the correct answer. Certainly don't consume any simple carbs and if you have room in your diet macro's for a few calories before bed then utilise them at this time. Take in a small meal with maybe 250 calories that contains some complex carbs and protein. 1-2% Cottage Cheese or the like which also contains some fats which slow absorption would be a suggestion.
Either way you have to find what works for you and it might be wildly different from the next person. Some people sleep much better when consuming carbs before bed as an example so these type of variables also need to be considered. One important thing though is to make this meal small. I see no reason going in excess of around 250 calories total.
cobracock1979
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+1 Johnson - casien protein is the way to go. Add fats such as PB/ flax oil/ flax powder to further slow digestion. This is DEFINATELY the way to go. Add carbs if you like, upto u
