Cottage Cheese

[Sgt. Hartman]

I have a question about cottage cheese before bed as it pertains to a clean bulking diet. It seems that everyone recommends the full fat 4% cottage cheese over the 2% or skim. I understand that the fat will help slow the absorption of the protein, but casein is a slow digesting protein to begin with. I guess the question is does the slower absorption quality of the fat in the 4% make up for the fact that I would be loading up on saturated fat during a time in which I will be burning very few calories?

I'm probably over thinking this but I really want to keep fat gain to a minimum. I wish I could just find a casein powder I could tolerate the taste of.

[scotty51312]

The purpose of the dose of fat before bed is definitley slowing digestion and absorbion. We eat every 3-4 hours to keep out body's anabolic throughout the day any longer than that and we enter a catabolic state. Unless you're one of those people who wakes up like clockwork in the middle of the night to piss and mixes up a shake by the time 7 to 8 hours passes IMO you're going to be catabolic no matter what you ate the night before. Hence the reason for early morning whey shakes. Anything you can do to limit the time you're catabolic at night is worth a few more minutes on the treadmill in my book

[gbrice75]

On a diet where fat loss is the primary goal, I don't feel eating fat before bed is a must since, as Scotty said, the purpose is to slow protein absorption which has more to do with feeding/retaining muscle. Have a few fish oil caps instead.

PS - have you tried ON (Optimum Nutrition) Casein? I LOVE it!

[Sgt. Hartman]

Thanks for the quick responses - 4% it is.

BTW, what flavor ON casein do you use?

[gbrice75]

Thanks for the quick responses - 4% it is.

BTW, what flavor ON casein do you use?

I've tried all 4 that I could find - vanilla, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, and cookies and cream. I like vanilla the best, chocolate second. Cookies and cream was decent but I probably wouldn't buy it again. Chocolate PB was just ok for me, least fav.

[scotty51312]

I've had the vanilla before i use to blend it up with icecubes and a couple tbsp of natty peanutbutter. It was delicous