As relevant to when you awake in the morning when, how long after, do you get your first nutrition?
I once made sure to throw something down ASAP.
Now I just don’t.
Mi know this site and understand the risk I take saying this here:
I’ve been eating ONLY when I get the first hunger sensation of the day, and the entire days nutrition has no structure rhyme or reason.
I’ve also been out of the gym with a shoulder injury for eight weeks.
Looks like when I get all healed up it’s time to inject a ton of discipline back into lifting and nutrition
Right now I’m handling things at our home. We just did the entire first floor’s Flooring material.
I’m taking out a wall to restore an original loft bedroom.
I am up by 0600 daily and have been to a Mass by 930. I have coffee with half & half before Mass time then sometime by 5p I’ll eat something sensible.
You might think that’s taking weight off but no.
Less energy expended = fewer calories burned, so the cut is needed IMO
SURE there’s some stuff I COULD be doing at the gym but right now I’m choosing to exercise my badass skills for my wife’s decorating. I effin love what she does and will continue .
Anyway the question was how long do you wait to eat after walking in the morning?
I sleep late, about 8 or 9. First thing is take a shower, because if I don’t do that right away, I never will. Have a cup of milk before, then after have breakfast.
Depends on where I am in my training phases. I’ll have some where I eat first thing upon waking, others where I wake, train and then eat. I have a Metabolic Drive shake with a raw egg in the middle of the night irrespective.
I tried a bout of intermittent fasting, waiting until midday for my first meal. It wasn’t for me.
The Metabolic Drive shake is something I’ll sometimes have for the first meal but even then it’s an hour after I wake up at max. Here I’ll just mention my energy levels are sky high right now and when my eyes open in the morning my ass gets out of bed. I once did the stay in bed all day thing, did it too much, got really fat. Ugh
250-350cals when I wake up 1-2hrs before my workout. Post-workout then it depends on my goals. If cutting I’ll just have a tiny 100cals of carbs or a glass of semi-skimmed milk, and then not have my first “meal” until 2-4pmish depending on how distracted I am. If bulking then I’m eating probably every 2-3 hours.
During the week I usually wait until mid-morning 9-10 a.m. If I’m cutting weight, I’ll wait until noon. I’m usually hungry first thing, but I just kind of endure it. On the weekends I’ll sometimes have breakfast (eggs and meat) a couple hours after I wake. During the week I leave for work between 5 and 5:30, and I’m too lazy to get up and make breakfast earlier than that.
Most days I’m almost straight out the door after I wake up for work, not really that hungry in the morning so I eat around 12 usually and also because I’m rushing uff
If it’s a day I’m not working / training days, I usually wake up around 8, take my supps, and carb up alot with some fats and wait another hour or two before I hit the gym
Personally I never saw any difference in my size and strength eating massive meals and waiting 4-5 hours for my next big meal vs small meals spread throughout the day every 2 hours, and never really saw a difference if I ate first thing in the morning or skipped some meals as well, that’s just what works for me
Up at 7:15 and eating at 7:30. I have three eggs, one slice Ezekiel bread, and two pieces of bacon every morning. I eat again at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 5pm, and then a small carb free snack meal at 7pm.
I eat immediately at waking no matter what time it is - usually 5am. Usually it’s a Finibar and a Core Protein milk.
Easy to “prep” while I’m still half asleep and can eat it while sitting on the throne if necessary. Being hungry and needing to take a dump all at the same time is a weird feeling.
I usually have mine after training and biking home, so around 8:15 - 8:30. I will often have Surge as a pre/intra-workout depending on the specific workout and how hungry I am. So…
6 am: coffee
7 am: surge (sometimes, not always)
8:15: Breakfast
12ish: Lunch
4ish: Protein shake
6ish: Dinner
Sometimes Greek yogurt or fruit as a late evening snack
I neglected to state I am not currently training with weights. I’m trying to get a shoulder issue healed up and if I do anything I can’t stop myself from doing things I shouldn’t. Crazy I know.
When training with motivation I’ve done best with six evenly spaced meals, but if trying to bulk add one larger one for a total of seven.
Nutrition is something I miss as far as my training or not. When I train I stay on a schedule lots better and that translates into other good things, like having meals prepped days ahead of time, deleting the whole “What’s for dinner” q&a session.