Tweetwhen 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.

Tweetfor 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