Lynne
Master of Arts
I have class from 7 - 8 pm. I always eat a substantial snack around 4:30 pm, like a peanut butter sandwich (about 400 calories) or some chicken and rice - something healthy and balanced.
I may not be hungry right after class, but I will surely get hungry by 10:00 or 11:00 pm and usually down about 400 more calories.
So, I'm listening to the women in the locker room. Most of them do not eat after class in order to maintain their weight/lose weight, not even a recovery shake or something like that.
I need to lose about 20 pounds. Weight loss is not always easy. You either lose it slowly like I am doing now or you submit to hunger pangs, nausea and weakness.
Do you eat after evening classes? A regular meal? A reduced-calorie meal (I consider my 400 calories a reduced calorie meal)? A recovery shake and maybe a meal later? Nothing? If you eat nothing, did you have to adapt to that/did the hunger pangs finally go away?
Do you eat to feed your muscles/replenish glycogen stores regardless of whether you're hungry or not? After all, don't we burn off somewhere between 500 and 1000 calories each class, after subtracting out BMR?
I may not be hungry right after class, but I will surely get hungry by 10:00 or 11:00 pm and usually down about 400 more calories.
So, I'm listening to the women in the locker room. Most of them do not eat after class in order to maintain their weight/lose weight, not even a recovery shake or something like that.
I need to lose about 20 pounds. Weight loss is not always easy. You either lose it slowly like I am doing now or you submit to hunger pangs, nausea and weakness.
Do you eat after evening classes? A regular meal? A reduced-calorie meal (I consider my 400 calories a reduced calorie meal)? A recovery shake and maybe a meal later? Nothing? If you eat nothing, did you have to adapt to that/did the hunger pangs finally go away?
Do you eat to feed your muscles/replenish glycogen stores regardless of whether you're hungry or not? After all, don't we burn off somewhere between 500 and 1000 calories each class, after subtracting out BMR?