best time for carbs while dieting.

[guage]

when I have dieted I always tried to keep good carbs during my working hours in order to burn them off by later in the day and after 5pm sticking strictly to protein and veggies absolutely no carbs at night before bed.

I ask cause I heard someone say they only eat carbs before bed while dieting.. I forget the reason but couldn't get over the concept of carbs at night..

am I missing something or is this another way of cycling carbs I haven't heard about.

[MOUNTAIN-MAN]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

When I cutt for contest prep I keep carbs in every meal but in moderation after 6 pm

[guage]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

ok.. I can see that. have you ever heard of only consuming them in the evenings after 5pm. to me it defeats the purpose if you starve your body all day then eat them when your at rest. I would think you need them for energy and activity.. especially if your in a physical job.

for me I could see starving all day for carbs while working and such then carbing up before bed with a boost of energy.. doesn't make sense to me

[Dzone]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

Do you guys sleep okay on low carb? I sometimes will have insomnia, eat carbs and fall right to sleep.

[guage]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

no insomnia I can recall.. but its been a while

[MOUNTAIN-MAN]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

Do you guys sleep okay on low carb? I sometimes will have insomnia, eat carbs and fall right to sleep.

Can't sleep for crap when I'm on low carb. My stomach starts to growl around midnight and I get up eat yogart or a mrp shake

[Dzone]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

Ya, I need to get to where I can sleep on low carb again. Eat a chiecken and snooze

[guage]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

I would eat top round before bed.. keep off the growleys

[guns01]

Re: best time for carbs while dieting.

for the longest time i was of the mindset that you didnt want anything around bed time. now, over the years i learned a little here and there about different approaches and a few variations that work pretty freaking well. first version would be obviously a carb cycle. spread them carbs out evenly throught the day and as they decrease over the cycle your body doesnt adapt and is forced to burn off fat and not being starved all the time. another would be a set rate carb setup. say your carb intake is 300. you just eat 300g of carb during the day spread out however you want. this is probably the most miserable form of carb intake i have found and it sucks because you have to manipulate elsewhere to keep loses coming. then you have another method of structuring the largest majority of your carb intake in pre intra and post workout. so say you have an allotment of 500g of carb you would take in 100 pre 75-100 intra and 1-150 post. the rest you can have spread throughout the day. the numbers on the pre intra and post are just an example and you could increase decrease how you see fit and what fits your comfort level.

the biggest message i could share as it comes to carbs is that you want no insulin response during the day other than around your training time. so if you can have carbs at the end of the day that are low gi then it shouldnt hurt anything at all as long as they fit into your numbers for the day