arright i have a question and i cant find this anywhere. I wake up in the middle of the night (around 3) and am completly starving. So ill stumble down the stairs and get poptarts and a giant glass of milk. Now from what i have read this will only turn into fat. But if i wake up because im hungry does that mean i need it for building muscle.
By the way Im 17 and weight 185. Im not fat and im looking to add mass but not add too much fat. So far its been working because i gained 35 pounds but ive only been getting really hungry in teh middle of the night
I do the giant spoonful of natural peanut butter myself. Had a old friend who used to compete, and he’d sit down in the middle of the night and eat an entire package of cheese slices -lol
i wake up a lot lately starving as well and i hate that because i never really ate in the middle of the night in the past. anyways, there are much better choices then poptarts, i personally have not ate poptarts since i was a freshmen in HS when i discovered they have about 400cals in them.
i do often eat PB in the middle of the night or before i go to bed, but other very good foods would be cottage cheese(thats pretty much the best night time food), turkey lunch meat, other cheese, milk, lower sugar yogurt, and things of that nature. but i know, when you wake up at night you really crave carbs, but they are not a very good choice.
ok thanks for the advice. Guess the pop tarts are out for nighttime. I gotta eat them during the day though because they are very energy compact and helps me gain weight without feeling full all the time.
I would still ditch the pop-tarts all together, and when you you would otherwise eat a pop-tart, start drinking a Metabolic Drive complete shake, or go with a couple MD bars. Much much better for attaining your goals.
[quote]theflowjob wrote:
ok thanks for the advice. Guess the pop tarts are out for nighttime. I gotta eat them during the day though because they are very energy compact and helps me gain weight without feeling full all the time.[/quote]
Drop the POP Craps and go with ezekiel bread with pure fruit topping as a pre workout meal (45-60 min before)
You get the sweet without the corn syrup and fats.
Thank God I’m not the only one! Thought I was losing my mind. Glad I found this. I too wake up, sometimes a couple times a week, and it’s always at 3am, hungry and no sense of logic in my head to eating proper.
I walk in a sleeping haze to the all night corner gas station and grab 3 krispy kreme donuts. If it wasn’t there I’d be better off.
Anyhow I started trying to reason the whys. Before Clean Eating, I never had a sweet tooth. I’d rather eat up on the salty foods, meals, chips, jerky. People would get deserts at restaurants, I’d stuff up on the real foods and pass on the sweets. Since Clean Eating, an odd sweet craving occassionally overwhelms me!?! Krispy Kremes? A couple of years ago I tried it once and scoffed at its “slimeness”. Now? No idea the reasonings for it’s cravings.
To help rectify this situation, I just ordered a box of Metabolic Drive Bars, which I will eat instead of heading to that gas station.
BTW it happened again last night, though this time I had a beek jerky stick and a protein bar (as clean as I could get it, no hfcs or trans) and I felt a lot less guilty and woke up lean feeling.
Bro, if you’re not fat, and you’re gaining mass, then keep eating. Yes, it would probably be optimal to have say 3 scoops of Metabolic Drive and a couple tbsp. of peanut butter.
But hey, at least you’re feeding yourself when you’re hungry and knowing when to eat.
That’s a nice break from the trend of skinny teenagers not eating enough for fear of gaining a bit of fat.
ok yea, I’m going to keep eating the pop tarts and milk until i get something better suitable. The Bars would probably be a good idea or even the Metabolic Drive. Yea i really dont like the kids in my school that first will ask me how to gain muscle then cringe when i say lift and eat like a beast.
Where is Barr to defend the Pop-Tart when you need him? I would save the Pop-tarts for post work out. Just slam half a tub of cottage cheese and some BCAA when you wake in the middle of the night. I keep 4 BCAA pills on my bed stand with a cup of water and I pop those if I wake up.
Since my order came in, no night ‘attacks’ so far lol. I tried one for tastes purposes and it hits the spot. It really does.
So now I have a box of these for those just incase 3ams…
As some have alluded to, your craving in the middle of the night is most likely due to some inadequacy in your dietary intake during the day. Taking into consideration your age, as well as the fact that you train…your intake requirements are probably much more than you are getting in.
Certaintly pop-tarts and milk are probably two of the worst choices you can make for eating in the middle of the night due to the blood sugar and insulin spike they respectively produce, but it’s probably better than having nothing at all. But it’s certaitnly something you want to address before it gets out of control.
As others mentioned…some kind of fatty protein rich food source would be much better if indeed you do find yourself needing to eat in the middle of the night. Meats, peanut butter, cottage cheese, another shake like Metabolic Drive would all be good places to start.
I would first try and fix what you take in during the day so you remove the need to eat in the middle of the night in the first place.
[quote]theflowjob wrote:
ok thanks for the advice. Guess the pop tarts are out for nighttime. I gotta eat them during the day though because they are very energy compact and helps me gain weight without feeling full all the time.[/quote]
[quote]DUMP_TRUCK wrote:
As some have alluded to, your craving in the middle of the night is most likely due to some inadequacy in your dietary intake during the day. Taking into consideration your age, as well as the fact that you train…your intake requirements are probably much more than you are getting in.
Certaintly pop-tarts and milk are probably two of the worst choices you can make for eating in the middle of the night due to the blood sugar and insulin spike they respectively produce, but it’s probably better than having nothing at all. But it’s certaitnly something you want to address before it gets out of control.
As others mentioned…some kind of fatty protein rich food source would be much better if indeed you do find yourself needing to eat in the middle of the night. Meats, peanut butter, cottage cheese, another shake like Metabolic Drive would all be good places to start.
I would first try and fix what you take in during the day so you remove the need to eat in the middle of the night in the first place. [/quote]
I’ve tried that. I’ve increased the caloric count as well as eating a lot of inbetweens whenever I felt hungry during the day, all clean eating. Also I went bad once for the hell of it and way over ate on an order of Indian food late in the evening after training at my club. Still woke at 3 am starving that night.
I know some days I’m not intaking as much as I should though.
Some of us get up in the middle of the night on purpose to eat. I have one cup of low-fat cottage cheese mixed with one scoop of orange flavored Metabolic Drive.
As far as pop tarts go, you can eat any damn thing you want as long as you are happy with what you see when you look in the mirror.