Singapore Personal Trainer | FAQ’s On Hiring A Personal Trainer In Singapore

Ask any personal trainer in Singapore on whether you should or should not consume food after 6pm and I’d bet my last dollar that there’s still quite a number of them who’d still believe in this nutrition myth.

Granted, the body doesn’t really need that much calories prior to bed time because we are in “hibernation” mode when we sleep. But… (there’s always a but huh?) to always keep our body’s metabolism stoked, we’d need to feed our bodies every 3 to 4 hours.

A simple strategy we could use is to have the biggest meal at breakfast and as the day closes in, we end with our last meal as the smallest one. And YES, you CAN consume food right before you go to sleep.

Question is what kinds of foods?

The best would have to be a combination of a protein source and a fat source.  Eg. some cottage cheese with natural peanut butter or mixed nuts.

You see, our bodies were built to handle carbs earlier in the day (or post workout when our insulin sensitivity is high and all glucose coming from the sugars will be transported to where you want them to be, muscles and not fat cells).  The rest of the day should be fats and protein. In fact if you are sedentary, (i.e. seating on your lazy rears all the time) youdo not deserve any carbs!

And at every meal, you should be getting some protein source. Protein scores high on satiety level so you could be having 200 calories worth of protei and that could fill you up pretty good.

“Oh no! But won’t I get fat eating fat?”

Well, if it’s not hydrogenated fats (fried stuffs and processed foods that comes in colorful boxes), most natural fat sources are OK. though you should try having a good 1/3 split of saturated fat, mono-unsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats respectively.

Now, I know on one hand we have the carb fearing crowd and on the other the fat fearing crowd. And I can hear you guys whispering…

“Why don’t we just eat only protein? Voila!”

Not so fast boys and gals. If you consume just protein, the amino acids from the protein will be converted into glucose (or sugar or carbs) via a process called gluconeogenesis. So, inadvertently, you are running on glucose for energy.

So why don’t we just keep it simple?

• Have your largest meal as the 1st one
• Smallest meal as the last one
• Protein at every meal
• Carbs only at breakfast and post workout
• Fats at every meal that has no carbs

Easy?  OK, now go have your dinner!