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2008-08-14 9:32 AM

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Subject: when to eat dinner?

When you train in the evening, when do you eat dinner? I've started having to do some training sessions after my husband gets home about 6-ish, which puts me eating dinner about 7:30-ish depending on the session. If I eat before the workout, I think I'll feel too full. BUT, I feel like this is too late to eat!

Just curious what other early pm worker-outers do!

 



2008-08-14 9:36 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?

After for me. By the time I workout and cook dinner, it's often 8pm when I eat, and I'm asleep by 9, 10 at the latest.

Why do you "feel like this is too late to eat"?

2008-08-14 9:42 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
On weekdays I'm always really short on time and have to train in the evening, so I have a snack at work right before I leave, spend 1.5 hours commuting, then work out, then by the time I get home I'm usually somewhat hungry but not completely ravenous.  My dinner is usually pretty light.  Sometimes it's a little of whatever my husband made if he cooked, but most of the time it's just some kind of protein and some veggies or fruit.
2008-08-14 10:36 AM
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I eat a Clif bar and have a bottle of water in the first 45 minutes of my hour commute to train, then I eat after training.  Depending on day, it can easily be after 8 before I eat.  No issues so far with that schedule.  I eat the Clif bar more for everyone else's well-being than mine.  I get a bit cranky without an even blood sugar.  Personally eating a full meal would keep me from exercising up to a full hour or more after I ate, if I felt like doing it at all. 

 

 

2008-08-14 10:44 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?

I prefer working out after work.  I usually have a late afternoon snack and head to the gym to swim/head home to ride or run.  By the time I'm done and showered it's about 8 when I eat.  I like being done and clean and enjoying my dinner and a glass of wine.

I usually go to bed around 10 or 10:30 and don't have issues with digestion or anything.  I will say I almost always eat dinner at 7 or later, with or without workout.  That's just how we roll at my house.  If I ate earlier, I would need an evening snack.  So it's really six of one.

2008-08-14 10:46 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
If I'm swimming, then I have a very small snack (couple hundred calories) at least an hour beforehand, then a real dinner afterwards.  Last night was typical:  6:15 pm - snack; 7:30 pm - masters swim; 10:00 pm - dinner.  If I'm biking or running, that usually starts earlier than 7:30, so I just get my calories via liquids during the workout and then eat dinner afterwards.  I am usually eating dinner after 8 pm, but I don't think it really matters when you eat during the day.  I know there are several schools of thought on this, but I think it's more geared toward people who are trying to lose weight and cutting back on evening eating as a strategy for that.


2008-08-14 11:07 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
I eat dinner really early (around 4:00) and then have a snack later in the evening when I am done training. I usally eat this snack right before bed (around 9 or 10 O'Clock), but sometimes if I am really hungry, I will eat this snack earlier.

The dinner is a normal sized dinner, and the snack is pretty medium sized. I normally eat 2 protien bars (I like the Slim-Fast flavors).
2008-08-14 11:07 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
It's more important that you get the calories (and not more) you need to function than the time of day you eat them. Your body burns calories all the time, even when you sleep. I normally eat between 7-8 depending on work and workout schedule, and rarely, if ever, eat before I do a workout (might take a hit of GU, but that's it).
2008-08-14 11:51 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
If I have anything longer/harder than a recovery run scheduled at night I'll eat a bigger lunch and then only a small supper after training. Small supper means: steamed veggies, a sandwich, and a glass of wine.
2008-08-14 3:05 PM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
there is not "too late" to eat.
2008-08-14 3:11 PM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?

Typically we are eating 8:30- 9PM. Bed is at 10- 10:30. But I eat a lighter dinner. Typically I try to eat a bigger lunch. But this is not always possible.

I would like to eat earlier, but I'm usually having to work late and then when you add in training, it's getting late by the time I'm done.

Weekends we usually eat in the 6-7 range.



2008-08-14 3:15 PM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?

It depends on which dinner you're talking about, early dinner, or after workout dinner. lol.  I tend to have late days due to not showing up at work til 9:30.  By the time I get to start my workout it's at least 6:30, maybe 7.  Workout usually til around 8 or 8:30, which means I don't get home til 8:30 or 9.  So that's when I eat.  In bed around 10:30 usually.  I've been trying to eat most of my calories earlier, spread out through the day, so that dinner shouldn't be a giant meal.  But sometimes I just want a giant bowl of pasta.  As long as it doesn't bother your sleep or whatnot, don't worry about it.

2008-08-14 6:17 PM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
I eat as soon as mom calls me to the table! No later! And I'm not allowed to snack before dinner...it ruins my appietite!
2008-08-14 7:03 PM
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hazmaster - 2008-08-14 2:17 PM I eat as soon as mom calls me to the table! No later! And I'm not allowed to snack before dinner...it ruins my appietite!

You are just like my hubby

2008-08-14 8:23 PM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
What's wrong with eating at 7:30?  Get a few calories before the workout, then eat dinner after. My 2c.
2008-08-15 4:21 AM
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Subject: RE: when to eat dinner?
cooutdoors - 2008-08-14 12:07 PM

It's more important that you get the calories (and not more) you need to function than the time of day you eat them. Your body burns calories all the time, even when you sleep.

x2 (or whatever we're up to). Eat whenever it works. Better to break it up into smaller quantities, but eating late shouldn't be an issue.


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