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2002/01/06, 08:58 PM
So, everyone (well maybe not everyone exactly) on here has been saying that you shouldn't eat breakfast before you work out, and that you should eat for 1 hour after you work out, if you are wanting to lose fat as quickly as possible. Here is my schedule.
I will eat my last snack around 9 pm, then go to bed. I get up around 6:30 to 7:00 in the morning, and get my son ready for school. He goes to school between 7:45 and 8:00. I then come back home to get my daughter around so we can go to the gym. The childcare at the gym opens at 9. I drop her off and start my work out. I finish at 10:00, and we go home. An hour later, and 11:00 in the morning, I can finally eat my breakfast. I have now been 14 hours without food. That really sounds like a bit much to me. And, no, I can't go to the gym before getting my kids up, because my husband works nights and usually doesn't get home until 6:45 or so.
Any thoughts?
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2002/01/06, 09:00 PM
Oops
"...and that you should eat for 1 hour after you work out..."
boy that would be one big meal! That should read "you shouldn't eat until 1 hour"
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2002/01/07, 12:57 AM
Not eating anything is one of the biggest mistakes people can make when trying to lose weight. The other is eating nothing but protein. The following is something on a related topic that I wrote for a training manual:
"Listen to your mom: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Eat it. Your body just went ten hours since your last meal without any food, and even though your metabolism slows down when you sleep, it still requires fuel to keep you alive. In addition, when you wake, your metabolism cranks way up in order to get you going. You need carbs for immediate and long-term energy, plus protein to back you muscles up and prevent catabolism...
How should you eat when it comes to your routine? Depending on your workout schedule, it’ll go something like this: have the highest complex carb meal furthest from workout schedule. In other words, if you work out in the afternoon or evening, breakfast would be the meal with the highest carb to protein ratio. As the day progresses, slowly switch the proportion of carbs and proteins so they will be reversed by the time you go to bed, that is, the highest protein to carb ratio.
Make sure you get enough protein with simple and complex carbs about an hour before you start training. This way, you will have the energy to train and spare the protein that is needed to assist in muscle repairs.
The only exception to the carb:protein ratio is immediately following your work out. Within one hour of completing your weightlifting routine, consume a meal with 2:1 carb to protein ratio. Study after study shows that this ratio is the best: the carbs are used for replenishing glycogen stores in the liver which allows the protein is to do what it’s supposed to do, and that is to repair the damaged muscle tissue. If not enough carbs are consumed at this point, the body will start using the protein to replace the glycogen by converting it to fuel, which of course robs the muscle and prevents it from being repaired sufficiently or effectively..."
Hope this helps..........Michael
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2002/01/07, 02:59 AM
Why not do as I do, Alorle, take a protein shake when you wake up. I cannot work out with full stomach, but I still make sure of giving something to my body.
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2002/01/07, 11:01 AM
Or how about instant Oatmeal or cereal? They're both fast and easy, and gives you the nutrition you need to start your day.
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2002/01/07, 11:09 PM
Agree with all above. And it's eat WITHIN an hour not WAIT
an hour. You want something but not too much. When I am in your type of situation I have 1/3 cup rolled oatmeal (not instant)with a couple TBLS of protein powder.
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