Pre-workout Meals

From BMOS Dolores:

It is very important that you eat prior to working out for 2 basic reasons: 1) Your body needs the food to supply energy for your workout. You are at greater risk of injuring yourself and having to quit early due to lack of energy. 2) If you do not eat prior to working out, your body will burn muscle to sustain you during your workout. You want to build and tone muscle, not burn muscle. Additionally, if you choose to workout when you first wake up -- eating when you first wake up, wakes up your metabolism and gets it functioning efficiently throughout the day. You do not remove any food from your pre-workout meal. You will find an explanation of how to adjust your pre-workout meal for your body type in My Custom Eating Plan in your Makeover Notebook, generally around page 12. Please make sure you are adding the appropriate fruit/carb to your pre-workout meal. If your instructions are to increase your fruit and carb to 1 cup, you would add the appropriate fruit/carb to total that amount to your pre-existing meal. So, if you would normally eat 2 ounces protein, 1/2 cup carb, your pre-workout meal would be 2 ounces protein, 1 cup carb, 1 cup fruit. If you find the addition of both the fruit and carb to be too much, it is okay to add just one, or you can experiment with using 1/2 cup carb, and 1/2 cup fruit. You do not need to add any food to your lunch or dinner meals unless you feel you need the additional carb for energy. Please refrain from eating Rapid Results meals before and after your workout. Also, if you are working out after dinner, please eat your PM Snack. If you are working out twice in one day (i.e. cardio in morning and bands in the afternoon) you may need to adjust both pre-workout meals accordingly. This does not pertain to all members, you will have to see how your body reacts. See the special note below: ***SPECIAL NOTE: If you are going to eat a pre-workout meal for breakfast, then do your cardio or sculpting, then decide to do the other workout AFTER your AM Snack, I would not recommend that you adjust your meal as a pre-workout meal. That will simply be too much food in your system. Naturally, you will have to see how your body reacts to this advice. There are a lot of variables, including your weight, level of fitness and whether or not you are hypoglycemic. You will be the best judge by how you feel. Write down what you are doing, how your progress is going, and how you feel..those are your best indicators.