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Anonymous
Hey /fit/, how long should I wait between eating and working out?

In the mornings, I usually skip breakfast so I don't feel any sort of weight in my stomach when I go work out, but that leaves my stomach grumbling until I can eat; around 5:30pm.

This morning, I thought I had woken up in time for me to eat, and then have time for it to settle (30 minutes), but after spending 15 minutes on a treadmill I had to go sit down, and for the rest of the day my stomach was churning and complaining.

All I had was some fruit loops. (I know, if anything I should've had Cheerios or Special K with fruit or something; natural sugars.)
>> Anonymous
You have to wait about 2 hours.
>> Anonymous
>I usually skip breakfast so I don't feel any sort of weight in my stomach when I go work out

If you don't eat before you workout, you're wasting your time. You'll end up an anorexic skinny fuck weakling very quickly.

>All I had was some fruit loops.

Wrong again. Can you buy wheat biscuits where you live? I eat about 6-8 of them before I work out (with whole milk), and it keeps me going 'till lunchtime.

EAT MOAR^10
>> Anonymous
>>424562If you don't eat before you workout, you're wasting your time.

Tell that to the freaking Army. You eat before you workout with them, and they want to see it on the ground. Wake up, workout, eat, go on with your day.

And it's not about eating less or eating more, it's about eating right.

I think doing it like OP is WILL make you crash in a hurry. Body will be going off its reserves (may be good if fat), but eating so late, you'd be tempted to stuff yourself with starches, which pretty much defeats the propose of working out cause those starches sit there and slowly break up while you sleep and go to your reserves, instead of actively going to you.

Don't eat Starchy foods after 4pm!
>> Anonymous
>Tell that to the freaking Army. You eat before you workout with them, and they want to see it on the ground. Wake up, workout, eat, go on with your day.

But meals are calorific, which makes up for it.
>> Anonymous
>>424574
The armed forces trains you to be able to perform under extreme stress. They don't train for optimal performance.
>> Anonymous
>>424583
Very few people can find and maintain the balance between meals and calorie intake.

>>424586
Tometo, Tomahto.
>> Anonymous
>>424588
There is a HUGE difference between how the armed forces train and how athletes train.
>> Anonymous
>>424590
Yes, and?

I'm just saying one man's performance under extreme stress is another man's optimal performance.
>> Anonymous
>>424598
My point is that unless you're training to do shit while being shot at you'd be stupid to not eat before training in the morning.
>> Anonymous
>>424599you'd be stupid to not eat before training in the morning

Oh ho! Really?

I do not agree.

I say you wake up, and ten minutes or so later you're working out, and after a good 30-60 minutes you go eat and continue on with your day, maybe getting a quick run or something in around 5 or 6pm.

Rolling out of bed into the cold air is a fantastic wake up. I'm talking about by itself, not the shock of the cold.
>> Anonymous
>>424603
You need food for glycogen, and to reduce the elevated levels of cortisol that occur when you wake up.
>> Anonymous
why don't you experiment and see what works for you
>> Anonymous
>>424605
No idea what those are, and don't care.

I can easily ace my PF test, have a good life style & philosophy, and don't feel the need to call people idiots when feel they're being one.

So I'm good. You?
>> Anonymous
>>424607
But that would make sense!
>> Anonymous
>>424613
I didn't call you an idiot. I just think that what you are doing is stupid. There's a difference.
>> Anonymous
>>424629you'd be stupid to not eat before training in the morning

>you'd be stupid

>you'd

>you

I don't really care, but watch the modifiers.
>> Anonymous
wait about this long

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