Thread: no carbs in the evening

Pretty standard I would think. I know a lot of people who do this. I don't completely cut out carbs at night but I do like to get the majority of them in the AM.

consuming carbs before bed will blunt GH release. I do like most, and consume carbs early in the day, maybe one last time about 5 hours before bed.

Sunday thru Thursday I avoid carbs at night.

Is beer a carb?

Intermittent fasting guru from lean gains has studies saying most of your calories should be consumed late at night.. I would like some more input on this topic

Originally Posted by heavyiron

Is beer a carb?

About 12g per can.

if Built was here
Carbs becoming fattening during the evening is a myth, eat your carbs when you want but keep in mind that:
"Foods that promote storage are less satiating than foods that are burned easily. Since insulin is a storage hormone, you might find it helpful to eat in such a way as to keep insulin down." (this is quoted from Built's blog)
I eat all my carbs before bedtime.

yeah i stop carbs usually the last meal or once in a while i just stop after my lunch,except my post workout shake. would this prevent me from gettin any more size or would the carbs that fueled my workout be enough?

Originally Posted by heavyiron

Is beer a carb?

Not if its lite beer,lol

Not drinking beer at night is crazy talk...

Originally Posted by heavyiron

Not drinking beer at night is crazy talk...

I've experimented with high protein intake, low protein intake,
varying the time of carb/protein intake, and some mixed mode
combinations. So far my results have shown that for reducing
body fat neither is super important, with the most critcal components
being:

* adherence to appropriate calorie intake
* cardio after weight lifting when glycogen levels are reduced

Eating more at night makes sense as a lot of repair is done sleeping.

well, the thing is that from waht I understand, GH is only half the equation. you need GH AND insulin, BOTH to make IGF and it is the IGF which we are after in the end....

If you workout late, you can carb up around the workout. You can also, if you want to, take whey instead of casein before bedtime. that goes against waht most of us are told BUT the reason is you want to constantly prime your body's responses..

Your body has to flat line on the aminos in between meals. This helps reprime it and keep it anabolic more than keeping your body in constant supply of aminos above base levels.... You also want to spike insulin....

So carbs late at night is fine. some bodybuilders will drink casein hydrosylate or some other fast acting protein thruout the day and at their nightly meal, they eat as much as they want AND they lose weight. OF course, a clean diet.....

this concept of pushing amino acid levels back to baseline several times a day is similar to when you do a fast for the body. It reprimes it!

It's 1225 am on Wednesday and I just downed a pb and j and a glass of milk. Before that I had a 100 calorie Pet Brown Mule and one recess cup. I should lose about two pounds this week. Down one since Sunday. I think Prince or someone in the stickies post a month or two ago about research suggesting that carbs at night kept leptin levels up, thus keeping you more anabolic. I don't sweat this stuff unless getting ready for a show. Otherwise to me, carbs means water.

Originally Posted by Merkaba

It's 1225 am on Wednesday and I just downed a pb and j and a glass of milk. Before that I had a 100 calorie Pet Brown Mule and one recess cup. I should lose about two pounds this week. Down one since Sunday. I think Prince or someone in the stickies post a month or two ago about research suggesting that carbs at night kept leptin levels up, thus keeping you more anabolic. I don't sweat this stuff unless getting ready for a show. Otherwise to me, carbs means water.

Well I wouldnt think of pb &j and reeses cups as good carbs since the jelly is all simple sugars adn the reeses cup the same BUT I think I get your point, you dont have to eat a clean diet and it aint goin to bother you much other than before a show.

I usually just get carbs in the form of veggies for my evening meal but make sure I get healthy fats otherwise I'm starving and would just pig out later on

It's okay to eat carbs whenever you want....

Originally Posted by heavyiron

Is beer a carb?

No it's a food group but can be replaced by anadrol.

Originally Posted by juggernaut

It's okay to eat carbs whenever you want....

You just made a lot of broscientists cry with that post.