SO hungry after Working Out!

They do say you should eat something high in protein within a half an hour after a hard work out. .

Myth.

But then when I eat, I will eat away all my burned Calories!!
Any Advice!?!

you do realize you're SUPPOSED to eat the burned calories, right?

you already have a deficit built into your goal.
you exercise, you increase that deficit to a potentially unhealthy level, so you eat the calories you just burned to get back to the original deficit you had (presumably 2 pounds per week since that is what everyone chooses...)

exercise isn't to lose weight, it's to get fit and strong....
the calorie counting is to lose the weight....
don't sabotage yourself by starving yourself unknowingly...
if you are hungry after a workout it's because you worked hard and need to fuel your body.
eat.

This.

After I workout, which is usually in the morning, I take in my duffel bag tuna fish. I eat it plain, for me, about 1/3 of a can. This helps curb the appetite but is also high in protein and helps muscle building. They do say you should eat something high in protein within a half an hour after a hard work out. By the time I get to work, I will usually have a protein shake or bar. I prefer making my protein shake with strawberries and bananas & peanut butter, sometimes with spinach added in. Because the shakes are filling to me, I have to remind myself sometimes to eat lunch.

Play around with ingredients for protein shakes, you might find a flavor you like.

They do say you should eat something high in protein within a half an hour after a hard work out.

This could be a "myth", but the "myth" is working for me.

I think everyone is different and you have to do what works for you. For now, this works for me, in a few months, it could change.

Time Frame
Consume the protein shake as soon as possible -- ideally, not more than 15 to 30 minutes -- after your workout to allow your body to digest and absorb the nutrients, protein and carbohydrates so they can be delivered to the muscles and tissues that need to be repaired following the workout. After you consume the protein shake, the nutrients reach your muscles in about 30 minutes.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/399844-post-workout-protein-shakes-for-women/#ixzz2FsPGnijb

Alan: The post-exercise “anabolic window” is a highly misused & abused concept. Preworkout nutrition all but cancels the urgency, unless you’re an endurance athlete with multiple glycogen-depleting events in a single day. Getting down to brass tacks, a relatively recent study (Power et al. 2009) showed that a 45g dose of whey protein isolate takes appx. 50 minutes to cause blood AA levels to peak. Resulting insulin levels, which peaked at 40 minutes after ingestion, remained at elevations known to max out the inhibition of muscle protein breakdown (15-30 mU/L) for 120 minutes after ingestion. This dose takes 3 hours for insulin & AA levels to return to baseline from the point of ingestion. The inclusion of carbs to this dose would cause AA & insulin levels to peak higher & stay elevated above baseline even longer.

So much for the anabolic peephole & the urgency to down AAs during your weight training workout; they are already seeping into circulation (& will continue to do so after your training bout is done). Even in the event that a preworkout meal is skipped, the anabolic effect of the postworkout meal is increased as a supercompensatory response (Deldicque et al, 2010). Moving on, another recent study (Staples et al, 2010) found that a substantial dose of carbohydrate (50g maltodextrin) added to 25g whey protein was unable to further increase post-exercise net muscle protein balance compared to the protein dose without carbs. Again, this is not to say that adding carbs at this point is counterproductive, but it certainly doesn’t support the idea that you must get your lightning-fast post-exercise carb orgy for optimal results.

Something that people don’t realize is that there’s no “magic anabolic window” that’s open for a short period of time near the workout & then rapidly disappears. As a result of a single training bout, the receptivity of muscle to protein dosing can persist for at least 24 hours (Burd et al, 2011).