Hi Mark,

Cheers for your reply - I eat quite well during the day - fruits, pasta, water, vegetables, etc.

On the day of a fight I usually take pasta with me and bananas etc, but its things like isotonic drinks - Are these good for you and when should you drink them...just before or an hour or two before? I have been told a Mars bar can be good - is it?

Bananas - they are meant to be a quick source of energy but how quick? So again when should you eat them. I know everyones body varies but when you eat a couple of bananas there isnt a point when I suddenly feel I have energy... Its just there - so I cant say I have learned the best time to eat them - what time would you reccommend.

I might be wrong but I feel that when you eat at the right time, you never feel you have loads of energy but when you come to train or fight you find out then by how long your energy reserves last. I have days when I have come to train, and I am buzzing full of energy and can't pin-point what I have done right and other days where I feel I want to stop as I feel drained and need sugar to carry one.

If you take a headache tablet, you feel when it kicks in as your head eases off for example but with food you dont really - I just dont seem to learn and havent had enough fights to have learned what worked and when.

Is there foods you reccommend that are good quality and ball park times they should be eaten or drunk.

Hope the above makes sense