Organize your meals

Health and Natural Living. Eating and drinking is a very basic human needs. Food intake for athletes, active people to practice, and other physical activity is different from food intake and eating patterns of people in general. People who are active should be good at set meal times so that the needs of nutrition and metabolism remained stable.

Meal timing is useful to compensate for exercise patterns at times certain exercises. You can suppress the appetite for longer if set pattern of eating 1 hour before exercise. People who practice the morning will require a different intake of food with people who like to practice the afternoon or evening. Why is that? Consider the following explanation.

1. Morning exercise
»Before Exercise
Exercise after a night on an empty stomach makes you feel sluggish and hungry in the morning. Before doing the exercises in the morning, try eating something at night 30-60 minutes before exercise such as low-fat yogurt with ½ servings of fruits chopped in the morning so you stay fresh.

»After Exercise
Breakfast with a small portion that contains carbohydrates and protein an hour after exercise to save energy. Try eating toast stuffed with two eggs or 1 cup of cereal with low fat milk or soy milk.

2. Exercise Day
»Before Exercise
For those of you who practice fitness in the gym during the day, meet the nutrition your body with the right foods. Try eating a cup of soup that contain protein-rich chicken and beans, along with carbohydrates from brown rice or whole wheat bread. This is to keep your metabolism up and keep the body hydrated.

»After Exercise
The time is right for a heavy meal during the day. Enter the best protein and fiber in your diet such as peanut butter and banana on whole wheat bread, or chicken and beef in addition to vegetable salads.

3. Exercise After Work
»Before Exercise
You will be lazy to do the exercises in the evening with an empty stomach. Around 4 pm, eat healthy nutritious snacks such as oatmeal with a sprinkling of nuts and raisins or other dried fruit, or an apple with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter.

»After Exercise
A serving of fruit slices or a glass of fruit juice and protein shakes are very good to replace the energy for your body. Then try for dinner one hour after exercise. Studies show that athletes who eat more than one hour after exercise tended to consume more food that is bad for health impact.

Adjust your diet and your exercise time and energy to maintain metabolism.