What are your thoughts on late night meals?

[JoNeS]

In Tom Venuto's E-book he says that meals shouldn't be consumed 2-3 hours before bed, if you want to lose body fat. I've been taking a protein shake immediately before bed for awhile now. Being under the impression that, the protein will help my muscles repair/grow/recover.

Tom's reasoning is, your metabolism greatly slows down when you sleep, thus you are more likely to store food as body fat.

So I'm in a predicament here. Kill the food before bed. Or stick with the protein shake.

*side note, I'm taking just a whey protein shake, but am thinking about switching it over to a mixed shake blend, so I get more of a time released protein action during rest

 

[cwc73]

flax+whey or Casein+whey.

Keep the mixed protien; Fuck Tom.

 

[ZKaudio]

i've dieted down from 11 to about 7% now, and one of my 7 meals/day is eaten about 30 mins before sleep

 

[NorgePrecision]

I couldn't sleep without a meal 30 min. before bed time. It's usually flax and fat free cottage cheese. 2 hours before that meal is egg whites and tuna.

 

[rtlatham]

the worst is going to bed with hunger pains, i do that sometimes and feel like crap when i wake up.