Eating Before Bed
 

Eating before bed can be both good and bad. To minimize fat gains and muscle losses during your sleep, the main idea is to avoid all carbs, and consume a high amount of slow-digesting protein (The Three Types of Protein) and a moderate amount of healthy fats.
Slow Digesting Protein
Slow digesting protein is crucial before bed. If you were to eat anything, let it be cottage cheese. Cottage cheese (low fat/fat free) is one of the best sources of casein protein available. However, for some people, cottage cheese isn’t easy to eat. That’s why there’s casein protein powder. The casein protein takes about 7+ hours to digest. So, if you have 40-50g of casein protein before bed, you’ll be good all night, keeping a good storage of protein so your muscles don’t starve.
Healthy Fats
Healthy fats like flax seed oil, fish oil, or more commonly (and my favorite) all natural peanut butter, are supplemental for protein digestion. The healthy fats in the peanut butter and flax seed aid in protein digestion. Have 2 spoonfuls of flax seed oil, or 2 heaping spoons of all natural peanut butter before bed to ensure that your protein shake lasts, and you don’t get hungry in the middle of the night.
No Carbohydrates.
Fat free cottage cheese, all natural peanut butter, casein protein powder, and flax seed oil all have very little carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are to be avoided before bed, because they will hit you with an insulin spike, leading to a lower Growth Hormone production.
So what should you be eating before bed?
Your best choices are
2-3 Spoonfuls All Natural Peanut Butter
2 Tablespoons Flax Seed oil
30-50g Casein Protein Shake (make sure it’s low carb)
1 Cup+ Cottage Cheese (low fat/fat free)

Good read!! If you have a whole foods around you, you should try their fresh ground honey roasted peanut butter. It's heavenly!

A nice written article about who good and bad is a food intake before bed.The Slow Digesting Protein has been described in a good way."No carbohydrate" term is important.People like to eat less cab food as it good for health.

Good read bro, what casein protein powders could you recommend us which are low carbs?

Reflex Nutrition Micellar Casein 3.5 grams of carbs per serving!
It's a great product!

I use Boditronics Midnight Express and ON 100% Casein Protein Powder which has less carbs but does not taste as nice! I did try Dymatize Elite 12 hour which is nice and low carb but gave me bad wind!! very bad may i add lol

Both good and bad, I would say more bad unless, u really really had trouble bulking.


But good points my dude.

Its simply to stop muscle breakdown while you sleep!

I use Optimum Nutrition Casein. As for eating before bed....it might be good for some people but for me the acid reflux kicks in and then my sleep will be fucked for up to 3 days. It can be brutal for me.