Appetite Control post workout

If you're aiming for an aesthetic look for your body, you have to severely curtail and measure calorie intake.

Probably the worst times for disciplining yourself not to eat is right after the workout.  Your body is craving glycogen and to a smaller extent, protein.

How do you satisfy that hunger?

Eat. Simple.


But what if you don't want to eat because you're trying to maintain a lean body?

The solution is simple.  Take the fish oil multivitamin cocktail of pills that I recommended in my previous posts.


So right after you workout, eat approximately 100 grams of fast absorbing sucrose in the form of candies so you can mainline glycogen to your liver and replenish its glycogen stores.

About an hour later, you'll feel hungry again.  Now take the fish oil multivitamin cocktail:  four 1000 mg fish oil pills and one multivitamin.

If you feel hungry again after this concentrate on eating salads without any carbohydrate or protein and a maybe a hint of salad dressing to satisfy any cravings for fats.

If you follow my advice for drinking a protein shake during a workout, then you shouldn't need to eat any protein until the next day because the protein in the shake should more than compensate for your protein needs for building muscle.  Although the next day you're definitely going to have to consume red meat and chicken and keeping consuming them for the next 48 hours to build and repair muscle fibers.


After 48 hours post workout, your body is probably in a positive nitrogen balance because of all the protein you have been eating, so slack off on the protein and consume more carbohydrates, fiber and fats and supplement as need to stave off hunger with the fish oil multivitamin cocktail as a meal replacement.

When you choose to skip a meal and replace with fish oil is up to you.

Skipping dinner is probably easiest because all you have to do is sleep afterwards.

Forgoing lunch is probably the hardest because you have to fast and survive on the 80 calories supplied via the fish oil pills for a solid twelve hours between breakfast and dinner.  I usually take an afternoon nap when I opt for this method because of the enervation I endure while I'm fasting.