dinner time!

[int3l]

ok quick question. i usually have dinner around 6pm-ish. then get to bed at around 11-12pm-ish then wake up at 5-6am ish when i go for my walk before breakfast. (btw does some martial arts crap count as intense cardio? ... enough to burn muscle instead of fat?)

thing is, i find myself really hungry 2-3 hours after dinner...should i just wait it out till breakky? is that good for my metabolism or digestion or whatever? or eat something?

p.s it might jsut be cause i have nothing there to begin with but how come it seems like you lose muscles near night time? like you go to the gym pump it, feel great come home, have a shower then come sleepy time and you're hungry it seems like you have nothing. thus i started getting the fear that instead of fat the state of hunger my body was in caused it to eat the muscles. this isn't true....right?

 

[Throttle]

how many meals per day are you currently eating? (should be 5-6, every 3 hours or so)

regarding your p.s., your fears are unfounded IF you are getting proper nutrition after lifting. the pump you feel right after a workout is unrelated to both size and strength of your muscles, but is simply the result of filling your muscles with blood. you should be getting nutrition right after lifting, 1-2 hours after lifting, and again at bedtime, though if you are trying to burn bodyfat you need to be choosy about what you eat right before bedtime.

 

[int3l]

yeah im trying to reduce body fat. so im taking walks before breakfast. fruit and stuff before bed? i do a total body workout monday, wednesday, friday. 30 min walk 6 days a week...(if i can manage to wake up) before breakfast. some bball games on sunday. i eat 3 meals a day though...

 

[Quagmire911]

Read this:

http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?t=114618&highlight=fat+loss+gaining+muscle

Good luck.