What do you do for the diet if your workout is first thing in the morning.

[f1nallyfr33]

I have been spending a lot time reading about diet and the correct timing of carbs, protein, and fats. All of these diets assume that the workout will be in the afternoon. What about if its first thing in the morning. For example I wake up at 4am. Gym by 5. we all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And that post workout might even be more important. What if breakfast is directly after the workout. How would you then spread the macros out. Please know that I am not trying to get someone to build me a diet. I will do all of my own homework. I just need to know how to spread it out. For informational purposes I am 226 lbs now. I am guessing around 15-17% BF. My Gym time is intense (especially now). And as a mechanic I walk about a total of 8-10 miles a day. (figured this out with a step counter 3 days in a row). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[tarmyg]

You will need to eat and adjust it to what feels good. This timing issue is nonsense unless it is, for you specifically, helpful. You will find guys on here who only start to eat after 2PM but still do there workout in the morning. Food timing is mostly a mind game, well, at our level anyhow so if you are about you compete in Sochi you have my apologies.

If you feel that breakfast is super important it is, mostly, because you have trained your body to eat at that time, nothing more, nothing less.

Here is the timing I have trained my body to be hungry at:

Breakfast: 08.00
Snack: 10.00
Lunch: 13.00
Snack: 16.00
Dinner: 18.30
Snack: 21.00

Hope that helps!

Thanks
~T

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[skaz915]

When I was going to the gym at 530 am I'd get up at 430 have a cup of oj or acai juice 2 pieces of wheat bread and 3 eggs then off to the gym and eat a big meal after then off to work. It seemed to work for me. Only downside us I was going to bed at 8 pm

[f1nallyfr33]

Thanks to both above. I eat a small small meal before the gym. Just enough to get my body going. Then I come back and eat huge after. No other meal through the day is as large. I just wanted to make sure I am not robbing my self of some potential gains by not timing it right. I was hoping that was the answer.

[Bio-Active]

I go to the gym at 4 am. It just means you have to get up earlier to eat. I get up at 3 am during the week and eat 10 egg whites one yolk 1 cup of oatmeal and a glass of oj every morning 1 hr before I train

[OdinsOtherSon]

I go to the gym at 4 am. It just means you have to get up earlier to eat. I get up at 3 am during the week and eat 10 egg whites one yolk 1 cup of oatmeal and a glass of oj every morning 1 hr before I train

Wow bro...my hat's off to ya!

[f1nallyfr33]

I go to the gym at 4 am. It just means you have to get up earlier to eat. I get up at 3 am during the week and eat 10 egg whites one yolk 1 cup of oatmeal and a glass of oj every morning 1 hr before I train

I love gettin up early and going to the gym. No crowd. No waiting for weights. No other time of the day could I go as hard as I do in the am but eating that much prior to the gym. Holy crap. I can imagine the fuel though. I'll have to try it.

[leewil1]

Easy, take 90 grams of Dextrose and 46 grams of protein in water. Drink it before, during and after workout. 544 calories.

[ickythump]

When I cut I workout with bcaa's only, I feel it helps a lot, read some good information of fasted training last year, when I bulk it's usually light protein and fast carbs, no fats tho, I get all the fats I need later and I usually burp them up during the workout which sux...if not a shake then I'll have egg whites and a banana....I'm up at 430, gym at 5, by time I'm changed and warmed up it's almost been an hr since I'll have eaten

[GirlyGymRat]

I go to the gym at 4 am. It just means you have to get up earlier to eat. I get up at 3 am during the week and eat 10 egg whites one yolk 1 cup of oatmeal and a glass of oj every morning 1 hr before I train

Wow. That's dedication! The take away is you don't lift in fasted state.