Food before workout?

My wife and I are just getting started with the Power 90 DVDs. We're two weeks in. We exercise late, around 10-10:30pm. For a while, I wasn't eating anything after dinner, and I was just gassed by the workouts. Well, ok, we are just starting, so I expected to be a little tired, but the workouts were tough.

For the last two nights, I've had a Shakeology (greenberry, with some blackberries, raspberries and blueberries thrown in) about an hour before we exercise. I don't think it's a coincidence that I pretty much had two of my best workouts in the last two nights. I just felt more like I was "ready" to exercise, like I had enough energy to get through the program.

I'm sure having a protein drink of any kind would have helped as well, but this is working for me so I'm sticking with it. Some of the articles I read said to lose weight, exercise while fasting. I guess I'm just not someone that can do that. I'd rather feel good about working out. At least, that has been my experience.

Mmm. Peanut and banana sandwich is a favorite pre-workout breakfast of mine, along with 16 oz water and 8 oz unsweetened almond milk.

Nothing, not even water. I wake up at 4:45 am and am on the ellipticle or weights (depending on the day) before 5 am. Just enough time to pee, put my HRM on and shoes.

After my workout there's a shower then a protein shake and 2 glasses of water.

I don't eat before I work out in the morning on the weekdays (I have a hard enough time waking up early enough at 5:15 to get to the gym, I'm not going to wake up an hour earlier just to try to eat something). However, on the weekends if I make it out to the gym, it's not until a little later, and I usually like to have a little something before I go. A banana or granola bar seem to do the trick for me.

This^^. I wake up at 4:45am to be at the gym by 5am, at work by 8am. No thanks, I would rather workout then eat and not end up having cramps and that sick feeling And i'm damn sure not waking up at 3:45!