limit protein at dinner?

[rocketman]

i am well aware of the recommendations to eat high protein breakfasts and lunches, limiting carbs, to ensure maximum energy potential throughout the day.

conversely, should one then limit protein intake at dinner and increase carbohydrates to promote sleepiness for bed time?

[scorpio1980]

I tend to do the exact opposite. I think one should limit carbs close to ones bedtime, because insulin shuts down GH production. I eat dinner at around 2am so of course if you eat earlier it probably won't apply to you the same as it does me.

[agnostic]

Originally Posted by rocketman

i am well aware of the recommendations to eat high protein breakfasts and lunches, limiting carbs, to ensure maximum energy potential throughout the day.

conversely, should one then limit protein intake at dinner and increase carbohydrates to promote sleepiness for bed time?

I don't think so. Eating a high-carbohydrate dinner will inhibit your production of growth hormone while you sleep. If you want to limit protein for whatever reason, I guess, you'd better do it at lunch, which - after breakfast and dinner have been cancelled out, is the only meal left.

[rocketman]

Originally Posted by agnostic

I don't think so. Eating a high-carbohydrate dinner will inhibit your production of growth hormone while you sleep. If you want to limit protein for whatever reason, I guess, you'd better do it at lunch, which - after breakfast and dinner have been cancelled out, is the only meal left.

i don't want to limit protein at all. but i try to limit carbs as much as possible because they make me sleepy during the day. so if not breakfast, lunch, or dinner, should one limit carbs altogether?

[agnostic]

Originally Posted by rocketman

i don't want to limit protein at all. but i try to limit carbs as much as possible because they make me sleepy during the day. so if not breakfast, lunch, or dinner, should one limit carbs altogether?

The short answer is yes. You may want to read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes for the long sciency answer.

[aggie]

i am no expert, but i tend to do most carbs early in day (good ones)

on most days, unless i am going out to dinner on weekend, tend to taper the amount of food i eat, as well as the carbs as the day progresses and lightly and most protein in my evening meal.

i have often heard that no carbs after 8 pm or something was an unwritten rule.

[Dimond]

The best thing to do is limit hard-to-digest foods at night-meat, dairy, all flour products, most fats, etc.

[ginkgo]

Any talk about eating carbs, fats or protein is nonsense and obscene. It is just like talking about which people are better-- black people, white people or Asian people. Associate with good people. Eat healthy foods to be healthy.

It is like asking if you should associate with white people in the morning or in the evening.

[agnostic]

Originally Posted by agnostic

The short answer is yes. You may want to read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes for the long sciency answer.

Here's an excerpt from the book.

The different effects of different macronutrients have been studied for about 150 years and the low-carb diet is the oldest diet there is. It also used to be common knowledge before the scientifically unfounded fat-phobia hit the population.