Immediately before bed I’m eating.
Cheese and crackers, sometimes with peanut butter, sometimes with a little meat, and drinking milk with it.
It’s funny off the top of my head the word escapes me.
Like Sherlock Holmes and unnecessary details, at the moment I’m not coming up with it.
“Watson what care I whether the earth revolves around the sun or the sun round the earth – it does not help me in my work!”
(The one time Watson got to go “why it’s elementary my dear Sherlock”.)
The further I get into bodybuilding the more this applies to minutia.
The slow releasing dairy protein, starts with a c.
At 16 I could tell you the exact details, at 26 I realize it doesn’t matter.
Whey is said to be fast digesting, this is slow digesting.
It’s what the protein in cheese is, and it makes up a good percentage of the protein in milk.
Before bed? I figure slow digesting is perfect.
Casein, that’s what it is!
(I looked it up.)
I can reason out what I’m instinctively craving.
The night hours are when my body is building up.
Feeding it good stuff is the thing to do.
I fall asleep easier, sleep deep, and take a shit upon waking.
The before bed meal has been working well for me.
I’m recomping, and getting stronger.
Conventional knowledge says don’t eat before bed. I find it to the best time to eat, especially when it’s the right foods.
Eat cheese and crackers before bed with a few tall glasses of milk.
Good to go.
Casein before bed.