question?

[Daimozz]

i generally have only had 4 meals a day.......but i am going to try for 6 but when i timed it for 3 hours i found i was eating right before bed? i get up about 7-8 am and goto bed about 12amish if i waited 3 hours between meals i'd end up eating at 11 pm? is 3 hours too long?

[pastorgbc]

i generally have only had 4 meals a day.......but i am going to try for 6 but when i timed it for 3 hours i found i was eating right before bed? i get up about 7-8 am and goto bed about 12amish if i waited 3 hours between meals i'd end up eating at 11 pm? is 3 hours too long?

First, I do not see any problem eating your last meal at 11 if you go to bed at midnight. I would try and make sure that it is not a very large meal, low in fat and carbs, but high in protein. A scoop of protein powder in 8 oz of skim milk, for instance is not a bad choice.

If this is a problem for you, you can follow the same parameters as above, but have it at 10 PM. As long as the meal that precedes it is not too high in cals, you should be okay.

Ray

[user464444132bbg]

Daimozz, what time is your first meal?

You should eat 3 hours before you go to bed, that should be your last meal.

My meals fall as follows:

M1: 5:30 a.m.
M2: 7:30 a.m.
M3: 10 a.m.
M4: Noon
M5: 2:30 p.m.
M6: 5 p.m.
M7: 8 p.m.

Works well for me. Can you do something similar?

[Daimozz]

Daimozz, what time is your first meal?

You should eat 3 hours before you go to bed, that should be your last meal.

My meals fall as follows:

M1: 5:30 a.m.
M2: 7:30 a.m.
M3: 10 a.m.
M4: Noon
M5: 2:30 p.m.
M6: 5 p.m.
M7: 8 p.m.

Works well for me. Can you do something similar?

yeap i can thanx fitness freak

[SumthinOrNuthin]

Well just to be contradictory, I'm with the Pastor. I often eat within an hour of going to bed. I suppose I don't do it on purpose as such, its just a matter of available eating time, but its never caused me a problem that I'm aware of

Regardless of when my last meal is, I'm always starving when I get up in the morning

[MacGyverDel]

I've been trying to bulk and attempting to get in as many as 8 meals a day....very hard. But what I do like to do is just before bed I have a cup of fat-free cottage cheese. Also if I get up in the middle of the night I try to have a quick meal which could be the cottage cheese.

I also will try a bowl of bran cereal with milk for a change from the CC.

[Ramon66]

even when cutting I eat right before bed and first thing when I wake.
if you are trying to build muscle I know opeople who wake up at 3am just to add a meal then go back to sleep. remember your body is in fasting mode when asleep. its best to have some sort of slow digesting protien before bed to keep the body working and building muscle and burnning fat.

[Original Poster]

Many times my last meal is 1/2 hour (or so) before going to bed.

As long as I am not on a low fat diet (like on a contest prep diet), I'll have a meal of protein and fat. Cottage cheese IMO is an excellent choice. Contains slower digesting protein and some fat to get your through the night so I don't wake up in a totally fasted state.

Eating 3 hours before bed IMO would only allow most of us to only get 5 meals in tops. My last cut I was eating 6-7 meals a day.

[Daimozz]

alright all thanx for the great advice....

[OneO]

6-7 meals a day , with the last one being 2 scoops of muscle milk 30 mins before bed . works well for me