Eating before bed and fat burning

Reasonable eating is a number one factor in weight loss or gain. Eating the right thing can give you a great power over weight, while eating trash or just something wrong right now can cause a great disappointment of fat gaining

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If you want to lose some weight, that eating before bed should be excluded from your eating habits. If you got fueled before going to bed, than at night your blood will be full of insulin, that is involved in fat production processes. Growth hormone, distinguished by its ability not only to accelerate the growth of the organism, but also to participate in the process of burning fat, won’t work, on the contrary, as it might have dunring the night time, when it releases naturally.

But don’t mix up the slight feeling of hunger and starvation. You may eat couple of hours before goin to bed, but your food must be light. Eating 3 or 4 hours before bedtime you will give your body enough time to burn calories and empty gastrointestinal tract from the food But if you will eat a good big sandwich just before falling asleep, guess what happen? Yes, you’ll get up at morning with a stomach still full of this sandwich, because night is the time when metabolism slows down and you body rests. So at morning it is 99% that you’ll skip breakfast because you’re not hungry. But skipping your breakfast catches you in the trap of late eating that is bad for any kind of diet based on metabolism processes. As you see, eating before bed can seriously affect your eating habits all in all.

So what should you remember in order to arrange your eating habits before bed properly?

1. You may eat 3 hours before going to bed.
2. You can avoid feeling of hunger if get a good habit to eat often, but in small portions. That will prevent insulin level from spiking and won’t make you feel so called ‘hormonal hunger’, caused by insulin.
3. You may include at your latest meal lean proteins and some fibrous carbohydrates, but fat and simple carbs (pasta, bread, potatoes, etc) are not allowed if you want to stay slender.
4. Sometimes your hunger is a desperate need in carbohydrates. It’s hard to resist it, so eat them, but choose the high-fiber kind, such as cereal or vegetables. You may also eat some cheese, especially if you’re training a lot.

As you see, the rules are not so strict and painful for not to follow. Try and see how you life will change for the better!

Milk: Two Glasses a Day Tones Muscles, Keeps the Fat Away in Women, Study Shows

Women who drink two large glasses of milk a day after their weight-lifting routine gained more muscle and lost more fat compared to women who drank sugar-based energy drinks, a McMaster study has found.

The study appears in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise.

"Resistance training is not a typical choice of exercise for women," says Stu Phillips, professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University. "But the health benefits of resistance training are enormous: It boosts strength, bone, muscular and metabolic health in a way that other types of exercise cannot."

A previous study conducted by Phillips' lab showed that milk increased muscle mass and fat loss in men. This new study, says Phillips was more challenging because women not only steer clear of resistance training they also tend to steer away from dairy products based on the incorrect belief that dairy foods are fattening.

"We expected the gains in muscle mass to be greater, but the size of the fat loss surprised us," says Phillips. "We're still not sure what causes this but we're investigating that now. It could be the combination of calcium, high-quality protein, and vitamin D may be the key, and. conveniently, all of these nutrients are in milk.

Over a 12-week period, the study monitored young women who did not use resistance-training exercise. Every day, two hours before exercising, the women were required not to eat or drink anything except water. Immediately after their exercise routine, one group consumed 500ml of fat free white milk; the other group consumed a similar-looking but sugar-based energy drink. The same drinks were consumed by each group one hour after exercising.

The training consisted of three types of exercise: pushing (e.g. bench press, chest fly), pulling (e.g. seated lateral pull down, abdominal exercises without weights), and leg exercises (e.g. leg press, seated two-leg hamstring curl). Training was monitored daily one on one by personal trainers to ensure proper technique.

"The women who drank milk gained barely any weight because what they gained in lean muscle they balanced out with a loss in fat" said Phillips. "Our data show that simple things like regular weightlifting exercise and milk consumption work to substantially improve women's body composition and health." Phillips' lab is now following this study up with a large clinical weight loss trial in women.

Funding for the study was provided by McMaster University,