Bedtime shakes; what are the best ingredients to use?

[Island Roots]

When making your protein shake right before you head to bed, what are the best ingredients to mix with the protein and milk? Oats? Fruit? Cottage cheese?

And the same goes for when you get up - what do you put in your shakes that you have with your breakfast? I just want to make sure I'm not adding into my breakfast shake what I should be having as my bedtime shake and vice versa.

 

[redspy]

A micellar casein shake is good, as is cottage cheese. Skip the fruit.

 

[KentDog]

I've always been under the impression that bedtime shakes/meals should consist of only protein and fats. So I have been drinking cottage cheese (blended w/ water) - sometimes with a scoop of protein - and then eating a tablespoon of natural peanut butter.

When I first wake up, I don't drink any shakes, I eat breakfast. But this is what my usual breakfast looks like:

- Multi-Vitamin
- 1/2 cup Oatmeal w/ 1 Tbsp Natural Peanut Butter
- 1 Egg, 5 Egg Whites

Adds up to aprox.: 435 calories, 15.5g fat / 31g carbs / 36g protein
which is: 18.8%F/37.6%C/43.6%P

A lot of what you eat/drink before bed depends on the rest of the foods you've eaten throughout the day (I usually use my bedtime meal to balance everything out a little bit better). It also depends on whether you're trying to lose weight or gain weight.

-Kent

 

[Flakko]

Casein is the best choice, cuz casein gels when it gets into the stomach. So it takes around 6-8 hrs to digest.

Flakko

 

[DimebagDarrell]

yes, most people would agree to lay off the carbs at bedtime. like redspy said, you should have casein protein because it digests slowly (proteins such as whey digest super-fast which makes them good PWO but poor at bedtime). i always enjoy some good CC before bedtime.

 

[Brolly]

but what about if you take whey and have some fats as well before bed... like walnuts or natty P/B? ... doesnt the fats slow digesttion?