Eating after a evening workout

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  • gabriella112
    gabriella112 Posts: 1
    The whole idea of not eating before a certain time in the evening is literally because your body won't have as much time to burn off those calories as it would of done at breakfast and lunch. But this doesn't apply to you because when you exercise within the time frame of when you stopped working out to an hour after your workout you burn calories when you eat, a lot quicker than you usually would. So your ok to eat any time after your workout whether it's 5pm 9pm or even 11pm, just eat within an hour after working out, I wouldn't suggest a really heavy meal because that might give you energy and leave you lying awake in bed all night, but even if you do eat a big meal it's not like it's going to put a strain on your digestive system or anything and counterfeit your workout. Like someone else mentioned a calorie is a calorie it doesn't matter what time of the day you eat it. If you eat a 50 cal apple at lunch it's still going to be 50 cals at night! The only thing to stay away from is refined carbs and sugar because they will just get turned straight into fat, but that will happen no matter what time of the day or night it is. So no your perfectly fine to eat when you like after your workout just stick to healthy choices.
  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
    The whole idea of not eating before a certain time in the evening is literally because your body won't have as much time to burn off those calories as it would of done at breakfast and lunch. But this doesn't apply to you because when you exercise within the time frame of when you stopped working out to an hour after your workout you burn calories when you eat, a lot quicker than you usually would. So your ok to eat any time after your workout whether it's 5pm 9pm or even 11pm, just eat within an hour after working out, I wouldn't suggest a really heavy meal because that might give you energy and leave you lying awake in bed all night, but even if you do eat a big meal it's not like it's going to put a strain on your digestive system or anything and counterfeit your workout. Like someone else mentioned a calorie is a calorie it doesn't matter what time of the day you eat it. If you eat a 50 cal apple at lunch it's still going to be 50 cals at night! The only thing to stay away from is refined carbs and sugar because they will just get turned straight into fat, but that will happen no matter what time of the day or night it is. So no your perfectly fine to eat when you like after your workout just stick to healthy choices.

    lolno at "refined carbs storing as fat"

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