Is there a right time to eat?

adammitch79 · October 2019

Is there any benefit going to bed on an empty stomach as opposed to going to bed feeling satisfied? What variables play a roll which can indicate what is best for you?

My current situation:
GOALS:
Maintain weight
Drop body weight percent by about 1-3%

MARCOS:
2000 calories a day 40% proteins 30% fats 30% carbs

EXCERISE:
Work out HIIT 45 mins 4x weekly
moderate weightlifting 1hr x3 weekly

Can anyone advise?

MikePTY · October 2019

No. The only thing that matters is the amount of calories you eat per day. When you eat them is irrelevant. There is no benefit to going to bed hungry as long as you stay within your goals.

Danp · October 2019

Meal timing is largely irrelevant beyond personal preference.

Some people sleep better on a full stomach, some find eating too close to bedtime interrupts/disturbs their sleep. Some people are hungry during the day, others are hungry at night.

To maintain weight you need to be eating at maintenance so as long as 2000cal/d is maintenance for you then that's what you should be eating. If you want to drop body fat but maintain weight then you need to look at recomp

Macros are a personal thing, find what works best for you as there's no one right universal answer

If your HIIT sessions are going for 45mins then you're not really doing HIIT. A HIIT workout is intended to be done at a rate that can only be maintained for 15-20mins max. Any longer than that and your HI isn't HI. Not that doing longer form lower intensity interval training sessions isn't valid, it's just not HIIT.

Also HIIT and lifting both rely on rest and recovery. When is your rest and recovery?

NovusDies · October 2019

It is inconsequential to weight management. I don't do it because I would have to take medication to avoid acid reflux.

adammitch79 · October 2019

@Danp my resting heart rate is 46bpm and when I do ‘HIIT’ stays at around 145- 170bpm the whole 45 mins.

According to my Fitbit I burn around 700-800 calories a session is that still not classified as HIIT?

I rest on Wednesday and Sundays other days I usually work out twice a day

sijomial · October 2019

adammitch79 wrote: »

@Danp my resting heart rate is 46bpm and when I do ‘HIIT’ stays at around 145- 170bpm the whole 45 mins.

According to my Fitbit I burn around 700-800 calories a session is that still not classified as HIIT?

I rest on Wednesday and Sundays other days I usually work out twice a day

No it's not HIIT. What it is is hard to know as you aren't describing what you are doing.
If it's with wieghts then it's circuit training. If it's cardio then it's just interval training (not that intervals means a less effective workout depending on your goals).

BTW - for true HIIT (maximal effort very short duration bursts of cardio with periods of low intensity recovery) then HR isn't a good measure as HR lags behind effort.

BTW2 - If your Fitbit is using HR to guessimate calories then it's most likely doing a very poor job of it, interval training with the peaks and troughs of HR plus lags on the way up and elevated HR while recovering tends to make estimates wildly inaccurate.

quiksylver296 · October 2019

heybales · October 2019

adammitch79 wrote: »

@Danp my resting heart rate is 46bpm and when I do ‘HIIT’ stays at around 145- 170bpm the whole 45 mins.

According to my Fitbit I burn around 700-800 calories a session is that still not classified as HIIT?

I rest on Wednesday and Sundays other days I usually work out twice a day

An easy way to think about HIIT - could this activity be done without intervals at all, steady-state.
Running, biking, swimming, skiing, rowing, stairs, ect. Yep.

Pullups, pushups, burpies, light-weights high rep little-to-no rests between, ect. Not really.

HIIT is a fadish term now given to anything to grab people's attention because of some cardiovascular studies that showed some very specific training advantages for cardio improvement over long slow cardio if time for workouts was of concern.

The claimed HIIT workouts now aren't even hitting the methods used in the studies for that improvement.

Obviously still getting something out of it - just not what the studies showed, and perhaps not what the workout could best provide depending on goals.

Is there a right time to eat?

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