Protein shakes = meal????

[psychedout]

You can have whey protein shakes closer than 3 hours apart, say 1.5-2 hours. Right before bedtime I would prefer real food like a can of tuna so it'll stay with me all night.

Good call on the tuna. Iv'e also heard that adding a table spoon of flax seed oil slows down the digestion process.

 

[MrLoofer]

What about the shake just before your workout? Isn't it important to be comsuming protein at that time?

 

[dzuljas]

i take down protein shakes all the time, probably as much as the number of times satchboogie has changed his avatar

 

[drveejay11]

You can have whey protein shakes closer than 3 hours apart, say 1.5-2 hours.

Yup yup!

 

[satchboogie]

this thread is making me wanna down an eas myoplex.. vanilla.

 

[StRoNg_WoN]

I also like a cup of cottage cheese or something before bed...

then set yer alarm for 3:00 pound a shake, and go back to bed...

 

[MrDurden]

Fat-free cottage cheese is my before-bed mainstay. I skip the shake during sleep and eat a bomber load when I first get up.

I get hungry very soon after shakes, so now I add flax or peanut butter + uncooked oats to try to slow down the absorption/digestion.

 

[johnny_testosterone]

Bro's are right, real food is definitely more desirable at night. That way it'll stay with you. I don't know about you, but I'm hungry a half hour after a shake, so they really don't do shit for me besides give me my protein. Your body can acutally break down muscle while you sleep if you don't have enough calories. Not all protein shakes can be considerd a meal replacement. Look at the calorie, carb, vitamin content as well. If you're talking straight protein shakes, most likely it doesn't have many of these items that make up a real meal. Check out a MRP.

 

[silver_shadow]

i think the best option for the night is not to rely on shakes, meals, MRPs etc but to actually wake up in the middle of the night and down a shake or whatever. that is what i hear BBs used to do a long time ago. without doing that the body would actually go around 8hrs without any protein intake- u'd never do that during the day so y do that in the night.

 

[MrRTTB]

only thing I do not look at as a meal would be insects/bugs flying into my mouth when I'm running or doing my morningcardio.