I normally drink water and fill up on something light like grapefruit or spinach chips.
Spinach chips (1 serving):
4 cups of fresh spinach
1 tsbp of olive oil
Splenda
Salt
Mix spinach with olive oil. Spread leaves over baking sheets so that they don't overlap. Bake for 15 minutes at 250F and sprinkle with splenda and salt.
I don't know what most people do, but these days I rarely need a post-workout snack. I'm just not hungry, so I don't eat until my next meal whenever that is.
However, when I am hungry after workouts, I usually just grab something like a Greek Yogurt, or a Boiled Egg.
In the past, I used to workout after work so I was very hungry on my drive home. I used to just eat a Luna Bar to tide me over for an hour until I could make dinner.
I drink a couple glasses of water after my run, and maybe an hour or two later, before bed, I drink a glass of 1% milk. I am not usually hungry after running in the evening. I go about an hour and a half after dinner, to put it in context.
If I am actually hungry, which is rare, I eat about 20 flavored almonds. Sea salt & vinegar are my new favorite.
thanks everyone for the comments. i am not normally hungry afterward. i just know that if you do strength training you should have some sort of protein afterward.
i see hard boiled eggs and yogurt in coming my fridge in the near future.
I usually don't get hungry until about an hour, hour and a half after a workout and when I do get hungry I'm like *really* hungry, so I try to schedule my meals around them.
I do my exercise in the morning, so I naturally eat breakfast after. Usually egg whites, a protein, and whatever veggies I can throw in (maybe spinach or mushrooms in the eggs).
I tend to arrange my lifting days a little differently so I have filling but lower point meals to give me a little more wiggle room. I do the protein smoothie personally, it's 3 pp for a scoop of it which is 24g protein (I get optimum nutrition vanilla ice cream flavor), then I usually blend it with 8 oz of unsweetened vanilla almond milk (1 pp) and random other things. There may be better pp values for different brands of whey powder, but I really do like the taste of this one, which is more than I can say for some other powders I'd tried before.
But if I didn't go the protein smoothie route, one of the best values of pp/protein is going to be lean meats, such as grilled chicken breast, etc. Like oscar mayer does a carving board rotisserie seasoned chicken breast for 1 pp/12 g protein (it's 3 pp for two servings iirc). You could eat it on wasa crisp n light which is 3 generous sized crackers for 1 pp, or do a romaine lettuce wrap, maybe add some cheese. One light laughing cow wedge in a romaine lettuce leaf wrap with 1 serving of the carving board chicken breast would be 2 pp for 14g protein - same for 1 serving of the chicken breast on the wasa crackers (with no cheese). It would be the same for many deli turkey breasts - slightly less protein but still good and low in points (probably 1 pp one serving, 3 pp two servings for roughly 10g protein a serving).
I do sometimes snack on hard boiled eggs and light string cheese and stuff for more protein at other parts of the day. It's 2 pp for 6g protein for an egg, and 1 pp for 6g protein for a light string cheese (3 pp for two I believe).
After a workout you need protein to repair the muscles you used. You could have string cheese, protein shake (only 2 points for Jillian Michaels), deli meat, yogurt, milk, etc.
Before your workout you need carbs to give you energy.
what do you eat after workout?
