When is the best time to eat? Before or after working out? Why?!
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Pre-workout
About 45 to 60 minutes before your workout, eat a small, easily digested meal composed of complex carbs. This can even be a liquid complex carb shake (Myoplex sport). It will help control your blood glucose during your workout and help give you the energy to get through it.
During Workout
Unless you are running hard for extending periods of time, gatorade is completely unnecessary and can actually hamper your workouts. Stick with water, about 6-8 ounces every 30 minutes.
Post-Workout
Within 10 minutes of finishing your workout, you should again be having some form of complex carb or carb shake. Don't miss this window to replenish glycogen stores.
After 1 hour
Lean meat or fish with light veggie and more water.
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After, because you lose most of your appetite and will not overeat.
I remember reading that if you exercise before eating, you burn more of something.fat, perhaps. I saw it on the website of NBC's The Biggest Loser, as one of the strategies of either Bob or Jillian.
Personally, I usually exercise at night, and find I need to eat a little something before exercising.
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http://www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser/
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