45 min time window after workout to eat to restore glycogen?

Should I eat within 45 min of exercise if I am trying to lose weight or does this window not apply to people trying to lose weight? I heard that this is the time to restore the glycogen fuel storages and that eating within 45 minutes is reccomended...but I am trying to lose. Tips anyone?

Too generic to answer. What kind of exercise are you doing, how frequently, at what intensity?

UD

I haven't seen that time window before - do you have a reference?

There are a lot of references to carbo-loading being effective 24-48 hours before major physical activity, and I suppose this works by building up glycogen stores so that they can be rapidly depleted.  But I haven't looked into post-activity replenishment. 

These are some links:

http://health.msn.com/fitness/articlepage.asp x?cp-documentid=100146039

http://www.liveleantoday.com/article.cfm?id=6 58

The window right after a workout is basically for you to top off your energy reserves that you have depleted during a workout. It doesn't need to be a lot, just a couple hundred calories or so to bring your energy levels back up. Eating something during this time will help you not to crash later on.

Thanks.  I like the MSN article though I disagree on their resting metabolic rate estimate. In order for it to be as high as 100 calories per hour you'd have to be massive.  At 165 lb weight mine is about 60-70 calories per hour.  The other article is an ad for dietary supplements.

It doesn't matter when you eat your calories during the day, so placing some of them right after hard exercise (ie a 500-1000 calorie burn - an 8 mile run) makes a lot of sense.  But this is only a snack's worth - maybe 150-200 calories.  You don't need to eat back the whole workout to stave off muscle depletion.