Eat before or after?

I've been weightlifting about 1/2 hour after lunch these days. But I read an article that said if you lift too soon after eating you'll just burn calories, you won't tone or build muscle. This isn't too big a problem as I do have some pounds to lose, but I would also like to tone up.

When does everyone else lift? Is anyone lifting after eating and still seeing stronger muscles?

Thanks Wayne, that's what I wanted to hear. I'll choose more intelligent reading material next time.

See that you do.

8-)

What I do is ignore all this timing and protein quality stuff and simply eat the damn food and lift the damn weights.

That's partly right, your body will always choose to burn carbs before fat...typically, one would have more carbs available for use right after a meal. One's body will turn to stored energy and lean tissues after it's supply of carbs has been depleted. This has nothing to do with building muscle though. The simple answer is that we build muscle by breaking it down and letting it heal with rest and eating protein.

Hear, here.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis

Seconded.

-Scott Johnson 'In other words, you couldn't be such a prudish, squeamish eater if it weren't for some slope-headed, hirsute, semi-sapient ancestor of ours relishing the hot, stringy, bloody flesh of a freshly-caught and mangled bonobo sliding down his throat, reaching back into the steaming carcass in hopes of grabbing a piece of raw liver or other savory nugget, cracking open the bones to get at the marrow, and splitting the skull to slurp out the rich, fatty brain. I hope you get the picture.' -Bughunter in alt.tasteless