What to eat before spinning?

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Alisha2012

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Hi all,

I'm spinning 3 times a week and controling my diet as I want to lose some weight (about 3 kg), but I find difficult not to be hungry. I eat my lunch around 1:00, and then my spinning class is at 18:30, I become quite hungry around 18:00, but sometimes I've tried eating around 17:00-17:30 and then I've felt very unconfortable during the class. I'm not really hungry at 16:00, don't really like eating if i'm not hungry...

Is there any food that's easier/quicker to digest that I can eat about 1 hour before the class?

Thanks!
 
One trick to try if you really don't want to eat is to drink plenty of water, starting at around 17:00 until 18:00. This will help your spinning session too by ensuring you are well hydrated, even though some will obviously have left the system by then.
Carb based food with reasonable fibre content will fill your stomach for a while but be out of there in time for class, proteins and fats take hours. This would be a small amount of ideally vegetable or starchy fruit, not the sugary types like apples which will be gone in moments. My favourite are carrots, pure personal choice.
Another option is to cut lunch in two parts, not necessarily equal, so you have some at 13:00 and more later, meaning you are less hungry by 18:30. I am a big fan of continuous eating rather than larger meals and find this works well for me.
 
Thanks, that's very helpful.. I tried eating some chicken snaks the other day and the class was very unconfortable! ( I had them about 1 hour before), I didn't know protein takes so much longer to digest.. I'm trying to cut off carbs so my snacks now tend to be protein, but will consider fruit or carrots. Would a banana be ok..?
 
Banana is good for pre-workout, balance of carbs unrivalled in the natural world, simple trough to complex perfect for keeping you going.

Excessive volume can change the below but normal rule of thumb on leaving the stomach is:
Simple carbs sugar, almost immediate, should be minimal in the diet.
Complex carbs half hour.
Protein 2 hours.
Fat 4 hours.

There are many low carb diets out there and millions swear by them. I am totally the opposite and my diet is high in complex carbs with the rest being fairly well balanced based on food pyramid.
Carbs are the main part of your diet the body looks for to judge metabolism so reducing them can make your metabolism slower. Obviously activity etc. are other factors, it is not dietary alone, it does however mean you have to counter dietary deficiency with increased activity to stop you becoming lethargic and burning less energy.
I tend to direct people to the food pyramd and advise following this for balance. Increase or decrease should ideally be in balance, but this simple approach can be complex in today's world of ready made food.
Low carb should always be relatively short term anyway, ideally to drop initial weight then revert back to full balance at reduced level to keep it down. The body has ways of getting what it wants and if you starve it of something it needs it will make you give in eventually and when people do they tend to do it to excess.

Good to see you are using a combination of activity and diet, the best way to acheive fat loss and improve tone in one go.
 
Thanks, I don't intend to stop eating carbs, I don't agree with the high/only protein diets either, just trying to eat a bit less, specially in the evening.

Even with the combination of diet/excercise, losing these 3 kg is proving very difficult! (lost 2 already, but going slowly...)
 
Thing to consider that most know but few really get a grasp on.
Muscle is 3/4 water and therefore very heavy compared to fat. Easy to say, not so easy to keep in mind.
There are of course the body fat scales which seem like the ideal way to keep this in mind. To a large extent they are, because you can see your weight go down a little and percentage body fat go down more, meaning you are getting what you need. However people tend to use these daily and can get despondent if the scale show a 0.1% increase.
Fat loss is slow 1kg a week is highest optimum for prolonged healthy loss. Doing this can be difficult but consider that 1kg of fat is 7,700 calories so burning that much more energy than you are using is not going to be easy.
Sudden drops and increases in weight without change in diet and activity will be water and this discourages many.

The most accurate but hardest to use form of monitoring when it comes to aesthetics is the mirror. If you feel you are going the right way, it's working if not it isn't. Use this with caution however as mood tends to affect how we see ourselves.
 
Basically before exercise we should go for a low calories fat burning snacks which helps to keep our metabolism function perfect and helps to burn calories more easily.
 
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