Fats at night-time

[nicksmith3]

Non Competition Season Weight gain eating:

On non workout days: Oats and Eggs for Breakfast, Skim Milk Powder as a Meal Replacement for morning tea, Tuna and either Brown Rice, Kumara or Oats for lunch, 2nd MRP Shake mid afternoon, Whey and oats for late afternoon meal. Meat(Steak/Chicken plus Brown Rice/Kumara and heaps of veges for dinner and Whey plus nuts for supper.

On workout days: Banana plus whey(pre workout), Milk Powder plus dextrose or other simple sugar post workout, Tuna and oats 1 hour later, MRP, Tuna Lunch, Oats and Whey late afternoon, Same dinner and supper.

If I feel like a sleep in on the weekends i'll get up and throw back a whey shake with a Banana then have an egg/oat breakfast later.

These foods form the basis of my eating and are all pretty affordable(eggs, Tuna and whatever lean meat is on special at Mad Butchers).

Im curious, why are you taking your fats in at night time? whey and nuts for supper.. When optimally your daily fats should be consumed before 4pm. After that time, your body is more inclined to store fats consumed, rather than use them for muscle building purposes.

[Pseudonym]

This is something I wanted to follow up in more detail, so rather than sidetrack the original conversation, I split the question into its own dedicated topic.

Nick, what makes you say we're more likely to store fats consumed later in the day? I understood the theory as it applied to carbs (because they're a direct fuel source which is not needed at night). But fats too?

[aaa]

im also interested, so you only eat protein after 4pm

[kiwi28]

Im curious, why are you taking your fats in at night time? whey and nuts for supper.. When optimally your daily fats should be consumed before 4pm. After that time, your body is more inclined to store fats consumed, rather than use them for muscle building purposes.

Fats only before 4pm?? We burn the highest proportion of fats when at rest e.g. sleeping (though this really is tiny as you get loads of energy/calories per gram of fat)

What is the 4pm reasoning? Is it to do with when you train or combinations with other foods...

[Justanerd]

The fats in the nuts could slow the digestion of whey, meaning less catabolism during sleep.