P90X Evening exercise

For those of us who have a 9 by 5 weekday work sked, most don't want to wake up early dawn (especially in winter) and start sweating out. I choose to exercise at night just for convenience and it works with my schedule.

When I started my P90X I usually do it prior to my dinner. It's exhausting. Fact is I eat little at lunch (that's 12NN) and by the end of the day I'm hungry and sleepy. Coffee perks me up so I drink a cup. Then I start with my P90X routine. Sometimes it happens that my attention is distracted. There's a pop up chat from your good friend, or you happen to have a redbox dvd that you have to watch and return by 9PM... my point is when you're distracted your exercise sched gets delayed. Now you don't want to exercise on a full stomach so you end up having to choose to eat later. There were incidents that I ate my dinner after 10PM. That's not very healthy.

Today, I decided to eat around 6PM. Some chinese and nothing else. Then I started my Yoga X by 9PM and felt really good. I wasn't hungry at all. Thirsty maybe but definitely not hungry.

What I realize about this is when you eat 2 hours prior to doing your exercise you perform better and you have more energy and focus during the exercise...