Meal Timing and Those After Dinner Cravings

We suggest eating four meals a day [excluding your workout meals such as a protein shake] around 3-4 hours apart e.g. 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 7pm. Although the timing of your meals is important, fitting four meals into your schedule is the first priority. Meals need to have a balance of macronutrients. Turning macronutrients into a meal with appropriate serving sizes can be difficult. 'Precision Nutrition' are an awesome company who have loads of great information to help you create balanced meals. Here is a great downloadable infographic to help you create simple, balanced and nutritional meals. AFTER DINNER What you consume before bed can be extremely important. To reduce body fat percentage, you must expend more energy than you consume to create an energy deficit. Eating traditional fat and carbohydrate dense dessert foods at night will greatly increase the likelihood you exceed daily energy allowances and reduce any possible beneficial effects of our daily night time natural Growth Hormone (GH) spike. We suggest factoring post dinner snacks into your nutrition plan three nights a week. Consuming protein and good fat at this time can aid muscle protein synthesis and control blood sugar overnight a great way to do this is through a smoothie. Check out this guide to creating the perfect super smoothie.