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Originally Posted by moltar  I just wrote a long post about this, but while I was writing it my session expired and I was logged out. So I lost everyting. I don't feel like re-writing it (took me 25 minutes)[...] |
I can relate - losing what you've been working on sucks. In fact, your issue inspired me to share what I do to prevent losing what I've been working on. The post ended up being a little long, so I made it into a thread of it's own. If you're interested, you can find it here:
How to prevent losing a post you've typed out and other typed data
Anyway, feel free to get back on topic.
Let me start off:
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Originally Posted by moltar Here is an example day of my life. Sometimes I write everything down just to keep track of what and how I eat. Every meal is separated by an empty line.
Protein (CHOCOLATE Rice Protein)
Protein Shake |
You said that you were vegan, so I'm curious as to what you use to make your protein shakes in terms of the specific product you use, what you mix it with (ie. rice milk, soy milk, water, etc.), and anything else you add to it. I assume when you say "chocolate rice protein" you are also referring to a shake of some sort, but I can't be sure.
I used to drink (non-vegan) whey protein shakes with (cows) milk quite often, but after I found out
how whey is actually made (it’s even illegal to dump into sewers), I soon put a stop to that.
Since then I've also stopped drinking cows milk (I’m basically vegan at the moment) and tried protein shakes made with soy protein powder and soy milk, but found the taste of the soy protein powder to be pretty average (ok,
VERY average bordering on pretty bad... at least compared to other protein powder I've tried).
I'm aware that protein powder shakes aren't the most nutritious things in the world and it's much better to meet your protein requirements from food in your diet, but from experimentation I found I recover faster from weight training workouts if I've had a post workout protein shake.
While you can blend food with high protein content and have that in a shake instead of a protein powder supplement, that option isn’t ideal as it’s pretty hard to match the protein content of supplements (at least, from my experience – if you’ve found otherwise I’d love to hear about it).
Some may argue that you don’t need much protein in the first place, but when you’re doing a pretty hardcore isolation weight training split (I train for both strength and
hypotrophy, so I guess you could call it “bodybuilding” rather then just “weight training”), you’ll generally find otherwise (again, this is from my experience; your mileage my vary).