Carbs after night training?

FaridPERU

Hello guys i need your help!
if i train arround 6 pm and finish 8pm can i eat 6 oz of sweet potato?
My training day is something life: weights and then 30 minutes of intervals in eliptical machine.

goal: lose fat

Hornsby

Yes. Meal timing is negligible.

uconnwinsnc1

As long as you are in your calorie limit go for it. Eat dat potato.

FaridPERU

Thanks dear friends!

uconnwinsnc1

I love carbs after working out. Makes me feel good and I feel like I recover better! Enjoy it!

FaridPERU

uconnwinsnc1 wrote: »

I love carbs after working out. Makes me feel good and I feel like I recover better! Enjoy it!

But if you eat carbs after an intense workout do you still burn fat?

ninerbuff

Fat is the preferred fuel of the body at rest. One burns more fat sleeping 8 hours, than doing even 1.5 hours of cardio.

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FaridPERU

thanks my friend!

TimothyFish

Eating carbs doesn't keep you from burning fat.

TimothyFish

ninerbuff wrote: »

Fat is the preferred fuel of the body at rest. One burns more fat sleeping 8 hours, than doing even 1.5 hours of cardio.

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While that may be true for a person doing low intensity cardio, I don't see what that has to do with the question that was asked. Yes, our bodies are constantly burning calories and over a period of eight hours, it is a significant number. But the question was whether eating carbs would inhibit weight loss. Presumably, this would be because the body is using the carbs rather than going to the fat stores. As long as a person doesn't eat too many calories, the body isn't going to get enough from the carbs and will be forced to burn fat.

Snow3y

Eating at a caloric deficit results in weight loss, eating different macro nutrients at whatever times will not influence your end result of weight loss.

Snow3y

TimothyFish wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

Fat is the preferred fuel of the body at rest. One burns more fat sleeping 8 hours, than doing even 1.5 hours of cardio.

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While that may be true for a person doing low intensity cardio, I don't see what that has to do with the question that was asked. Yes, our bodies are constantly burning calories and over a period of eight hours, it is a significant number. But the question was whether eating carbs would inhibit weight loss. Presumably, this would be because the body is using the carbs rather than going to the fat stores. As long as a person doesn't eat too many calories, the body isn't going to get enough from the carbs and will be forced to burn fat.

Did you not just read what he posted? The body uses fats as its first source.

FaridPERU

yeah thats right

J72FIT

FaridPERU wrote: »

Hello guys i need your help!
if i train arround 6 pm and finish 8pm can i eat 6 oz of sweet potato?
My training day is something life: weights and then 30 minutes of intervals in eliptical machine.

goal: lose fat

You can eat the sweet potato even if you do not train that evening... stay in a deficit and you will lose fat.

ndj1979

you have the secret to losing fat and building muscle at the same time, but you don't know about meal timing..????????? OK...

LolBroScience

I eat all the carbs, all the time.

TimothyFish

TyronnePanaino wrote: »

TimothyFish wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

Fat is the preferred fuel of the body at rest. One burns more fat sleeping 8 hours, than doing even 1.5 hours of cardio.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

While that may be true for a person doing low intensity cardio, I don't see what that has to do with the question that was asked. Yes, our bodies are constantly burning calories and over a period of eight hours, it is a significant number. But the question was whether eating carbs would inhibit weight loss. Presumably, this would be because the body is using the carbs rather than going to the fat stores. As long as a person doesn't eat too many calories, the body isn't going to get enough from the carbs and will be forced to burn fat.

Did you not just read what he posted? The body uses fats as its first source.

That makes no sense at all. The body doesn't have a "first source." The body uses whatever is in the bloodstream. Part of that comes from the digestive system and part of it comes from the fat cells. And because there is a delay in getting from the digestive system to where nutrients are needed, the body may be simultaneously pulling from the digestive system and the fat cells, but later it will store it back in the fat cells because the bloodstream has more in it than the body needs. Even if the body does tend to use more fat at night, it doesn't matter over the course of a day, since the nutrients in digestive system are going to replace the fat that was lost during the night.

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FaridPERU

ndj1979 wrote: »

you have the secret to losing fat and building muscle at the same time, but you don't know about meal timing..????????? OK...

i only ask a question