We all heard about the benefits of cottage cheese for athletes and people who lead an active lifestyle. All these stories - not a joke and not an invention, let's take a look at the composition of cottage cheese, to understand why after training, there is cottage cheese:
- cottage cheese at 50-60% consists of casein, a slow milk protein, which can energize for 5 hours;
- cottage cheese also contains useful fats and slow carbohydrates , this only increases the duration of the feeling of saturation from the cottage cheese;
- in the composition of cottage cheese: calcium, phosphorus, vitamins A, C, PP, zinc, sodium, potassium, iron;
- cottage cheese is an ideal source of methionine, an indispensable amino acid that protects against high cholesterol and obesity of the liver.
Now we determine whether it is necessary to eat cottage cheese after training, if you want to lose weight.
After training, your metabolic rate rises, the body consumes all readily available energy during classes, now it needs energy to restore the muscles. Where he will take energy - either from your fat stores, or from food that you eat right after training. Needless to say, the first option is preferable, which is why after a workout for weight loss you should not eat anything, and even cottage cheese.
After 1-2 hours
Your metabolism gradually slows down, after a successful breakdown of fats to meet energy needs. Now 1-2 hours after training, you can safely eat cottage cheese with milk, for example. This will saturate you with protein and help the growth of new muscle tissue.
Skim cheese
As for low-fat cottage cheese after training and generally its use at any other time - there are certain contradictions. Calcium, contained in curd, is needed for the synthesis of the hormone calcitriol - this hormone triggers the fat burning process. But, alas, without fat, neither calcium nor vitamins are absorbed, so that by eating fat-free cottage cheese, you are depriving yourself, its benefits.