Peanut butter before bed?

[e_burna]

This may seem stupid, but not when you're getting started. What's the purpose of eating pb before going to bed?

[Josh37]

If you eat it with some cottage cheese, it slows down the digestion of cottage cheese (casein protein) and feeds your muscles during the night preventing a catabolic state.

[e_burna]

catabolic state? What if you eat it plain, no cottage cheese?

[Josh37]

catabolic state= loss of muscle

I think this article might help you:

http://johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/bedtime.htm

[e_burna]

I've started eating 2.25 ounces, aka around 65 grams before bed. I'm 6'1, 210, and trying to bulk. Is that too much to eat, not enough, or sound about right?

[Josh37]

65g of what? And to your question "is that too much?", it really depends on the rest of your diet.

[e_burna]

I thought it would be clear because of the topic of this post, but I was referring to the fact that I'm eating 65g of PEANUT BUTTER. It's the smooth type, I eat it usually about an hour and a half before bed. The rest of my diet is filled w/5 meals of mostly meat and potatos/rice. Just wondered if that's too much pb before bed, just right, or not enough. I'm trying to bulk.