Breakfast too big

**will56** · 17-09-2008 10:10 AM

I usually have a cup of porridge 4 eggs cheese and about 500ml of milk.
However on WO days I am eating this at 5am and then training at 6:30am.
I was just wondering if this is too much food to be eating this early and so close to working out ?

**Ripped Barbarian** · 17-09-2008 10:21 AM

You should be alright as far as being able to work out goes but that breakfast does not look ideal for workout energy and strength

Try different things and see what works best for you.

Try - low carb breakfasts, high carb breakfasts, try a fasted workout....big breakfasts and small breakfasts.

**radicalry00** · 17-09-2008 11:27 AM

I agree with the above.

That breakfast should be fine if you're working out 90 mins later but give different things a go and see what works best as RC said.

**Amritos** · 17-09-2008 02:14 PM

Looks like a pretty good brekky to me! But again, experimentation, therefore trial and error, is key.

**ATZ** · 17-09-2008 02:43 PM

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Eat breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince, and Dinner like a Pauper.

Sage advice if ever I heard it...

**Amritos** · 17-09-2008 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ATZ

Sage advice if ever I heard it...

Hmmm... My PWO evening dinner is generally insanely king-like. King Henry-like.

**will56** · 17-09-2008 04:05 PM

Ripped Caveman: What would you suggest for workout energy and strength at that hour of the morning ?

**Amritos** · 17-09-2008 04:15 PM

Will, anything will do at that time of the morning, you just have to experiment and try different forms of energy to see which gives you the most energy when you train at that time. Some people like having a big bowl of oats, some like nothing, some like a piece of fruit, some like a fast acting carb. Just got to try and see which form of nutrition suits you best. For example, if I ever train in the morning or do CV work in the morning, I have a shake of oats and milk protein before hand as I find that whole foods don't agree with me that early on in the morning and with heavy Cv work, I might just be hitting the puke bucket.

**Ripped Barbarian** · 17-09-2008 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by will56

Ripped Caveman: What would you suggest for workout energy and strength at that hour of the morning ?

You want something:
-That is not too high in carbs, especially high GI carbs.
-That digests fairly quickly
-That provides plenty of calories to start your day off.

Eggs are hard to beat for breaky, so an omlette is good.
A great morning food, if you can find a way to incorporate it is coconut cream/milk.
For a week or two i was using thick coconut milk, whey powder and a little milk as a quick digesting high energy breakfast, it made up about a pint.

The only reason i stopped was because i ran out of coconut milk.

Generally low(er) carb breakfasts are your best bet because the body is overly sensetive to carbs in the morning (as you havn't eaten for 8 hours or whatever), so anything more than a small amount and your blood sugar will be unstable soon after eating, causing disruption to cortisol patterns for the rest of the day.

My morning carbs usually consist of a few large strawberries with my low carb breakfast.

Your breakfast contains half a litre of milk, which will be disruptive this time of the morning, the proteins will be too slow digesting for wanting to train soon after and the highly insulinogenic properties of half a litre of milk will de-stabilise you for training (and the rest of the day) as mentioned above.