food for the night

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Hi all,

I have one question about what to eat at night before and after work out:
When I come from work I drink one protein shake and then go to work out and then when I come back I drink one more. And I sleep like this.
Is that good enough for me to lose some fat and not lose any muscles ? I want to lose the layer of fat that I have on my belly especially.
(I am 5'10" and 145 lbs)

Thanks for ur answers...
 
truthfully, losing fat will be based more on the whole day rather than just one meal.

if thats the best you can do now, with your postworkout meal also being your bedtime meal, try for some casein protein (powder, milk, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc) with maybe some fruit or something to that effect.

if possible, try to have your shake when you finish or near the end of your workout and then have a bedtime meal about 45 minutes later. if you burn more calories than you eat over the course of the whole day, calories before bed will not hinder fat loss.
 
The thing is that I don't have bedtime meal...
I just replace this meal by a shake...
So I was wondering if it was good enough or bad ?

Since my real meals remains lunch and breakfast I figure that for the day the energy I take is low enough to make me lose fat. I mean adding one or two shake shouldn't bring a huge amount ?

Am I wrong ?
 
shakes have NO fat and near to NO calories anyway, but i wouldn't drink a shake before work out because muscles are made when resting not when working out, so drink after the work out, when your body needs it most
 
no problem at all. they are mainly to help with getting in calories if enough cant be gotten from solid food.

actually, the truth is that the preworkout meal maybe in fact more important than the post workout meal. reason being is that the pre workout meal fuels the workout and this is what you're absorbing after the workout is complete. so all this talk about post workout nutrition and insulin spikes and getting nutrients in right away isnt exactly correct. that is not the purpose of the post workout meal.

ideally, a solid food meal 45-90 minutes before lifting would be best but if that is not possible, liquid calories 15-30 minutes before lifting is fine.
 
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