What time is best for carbs?

**drock41** · 07-13-2003, 09:12 PM

Right now i am 5'10 about 210lbs with 12-13 percent body fat. Goal for the next five weeks is to get my bodyfat down to about 8-10percent. I am a very active athlete, so i do feel the need to have a good serving of complex carbs with every meal. Does anyone have any advice with a meal plan as far as giving me different times, when i should increase or decrease my intake of carbohydrates.

Sample meal plan:
wakeup @7:30 cardio from 8:30-9
9am 8 eggwhites
2 packets instant oatmeal
1 piece of fruit
NOON 5oz healthy choice turkey of chicken breast on whole wheat bread
apple or orange

3pm: same as noon meal
5pm: workout
6pm: 1 muscle milk shake, orange
9pm: 8 oz of grilled chicken or fish(salmon,tuna, or flounder)
6oz baked potato,or rice, and green beans.

10:30 bedtime

**KeyMastur** · 07-13-2003, 10:28 PM

Gonna eat the same thing at noon and then 3 hours later ?? That might get a little "ugh"

The baked potato / rice near the end of the day is a lot of carbs if you saying you're trying to cut back on carbs. I would think you'd want to cut back (if not out) the carbs later in the evening meals.

**usualsuspect** · 07-13-2003, 10:35 PM

What time is best for carbs?

The most important time for carbs is in the morning, post workout and post-post workout. Low gi carbs in the am, high gi carbs PWO, and hi/low gi carbs PPWO. Since your trying to lower your bf...then try having veggies/protein and fat/protein in the other meals. Alot of good sample diets in the archives.

~US~

***BIG TEXAN*** · 07-14-2003, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by usualsuspect

What time is best for carbs?

The most important time for carbs is in the morning, post workout and post-post workout. Low gi carbs in the am, high gi carbs PWO, and hi/low gi carbs PPWO. Since your trying to lower your bf...then try having veggies/protein and fat/protein in the other meals. Alot of good sample diets in the archives.

~US~

Yeah, what he said.