heavy meal

A heavy meal might be the last thing you want on a hot day – but the athletes recommended against deviating from your usual diet.

Rumsey agrees that eating a heavy meal immediately before climbing into bed might exacerbate acid reflux or make it harder to fall asleep.

To me, it is entirely rational and civilized to end a heavy meal, especially on a hot day, by sipping a drink designed to cool you down and encourage your digestive system to get on with it.

"A pitcher of sweet iced tea and a plate of fried green tomatoes turned out to be a delightfully tasty and light summer supper on nights when it was so hot you didn't feel like having a heavy meal," she wrote nostalgically, before divulging not one, not two but three unique preparations for the dish.

“Not the best,” he admitted after the game, presumably referring to his decision to eat a heavy meal, not to the quality of the food.