I am thinking about adding protein shakes to my diet. I am stuck on a major plateau and I need to do something. Some people say extra protein is the key....What do you guys think? I am several months post-op and would be adding the shake in at breakfast time as a meal replacement. Do you think this will help break my plateau? All opinions welcome......:help:

do you track what you eat ? are you sure your eating ENOUGH ?

Ideally you want to get your nutriontion , Protein from food.

I had a problem of not loosing too long ago and it was because i was not eating enough . I was having a problem getting in even 900 cals a day let alone 1000-1200 i needed for working out.

You might want to track your calorie intake and make sure your eating ENOUGH.

I added a Boost in the morning just until I got my intake up .

HTH ?

Mindy

PS I use sparkpeople.com to track my food

I am thinking about adding protein shakes to my diet. I am stuck on a major plateau and I need to do something. Some people say extra protein is the key....What do you guys think? I am several months post-op and would be adding the shake in at breakfast time as a meal replacement. Do you think this will help break my plateau? All opinions welcome......:help:

Hey, PM me with your address and I'll send you some samples of the protein drinks that I have.

Hi! I do a protein drink every morning for my breakfast. I love mine. I use a choc. whey protein powder from GNC. It taste good and i look forward to it. Donna

Thanks for the responses. I will begin tracking and go ahead and sub the protein drink for bfast.

I love Protein drinks. I mix mine with Water, 120 calories, 23gm protein, 2gms carbs. If you add milk it causes the blood sugar spikes so if you can do it with water it's all the better.

I just bought some PB2, powdered Peanut Butter and it's GREAT! It adds 27 calories and 2gms protein and 2gms carbs. Wonderful stuff. Oh, it also adds a bit of Fiber.

Add a couple of rounded teaspoons of Benefiber (can't taste it, I SWEAR) and that will help keep you full longer.

I use:

Matrix 5.0 chocolate

nectar Chocolate

Nectar vanilla

Whey Gourmet Choco/PB

Whey Gourmet Dreamy Chocolate (haven't tried it yet)

And as of today I have a gazillion samples. My last Netrition order was over $75 so they sent me a ton of samples of everything.

People sometimes get a little worked up when the protein shake topic comes up. Some folks swear that it helps bust a plateau if you up your protein.I am willing to try.Hey, I look at it like this. If someone such as Wasa uses shakes and has such great success,they have to have some merit.

I love my protein shakes because they give me 30 grams of protein with 1 cup of skim milk.

You know that Body Fortress brand from Walmart is pretty good! Low in everything except protein. I like to mix the vanilla with light vanilla soy milk or the chocolate with the chocolate soy milk...YUMMMMM!

I have a question regarding protein shakes...I will be banded on October 24th and we all know how important it is to get your protein.....once I am able to start like mushy foods introducing solids can I have a protein shake for brkfast in place of a meal....or when can I start the protein shakes.

You can have protein shakes on the liquid stage. I would highly recommend a protein shake from the beginning after surgery.

It depends on WHICH liquid phase you are on. Clear liquids require something like Isopuke. But full liquids you can have any protein shake you wish.

I just got my samples of unjury (unflavored, van, choco, and chicken soup) Its great! I am looking forward to them. I have tried others but they dont compair. Unjury has no after taste, and you cn mix the unflav in just about anyting.:hungry:

Where do you get unjury? I just bought Vanilla flavored soy protein shake mix from Vitacost for $6.99. I didn't want to spend alot before I tried to see if I like it or not...then will go from there.

I dont personally think replacing solid calories with liquid ones is sound bandster practice, nor do I think Protein is the key to busting a plateau.

But we can all only go by our own experience, I've done fine without gazillions of grams of protein a day but if it works for others, its worth a try.

I'd be more inclined to do more exercise myself. I always find that if I add a daily walk to my daily run and my strength training, it got me moving again.

www. unjury.com

You can also get a Protein sampler from Bariatric Eating - Protein, Vitamins, Gastric Bypass & Lap Band Info, Post-op recipes, and Help. Some of it is low-quality stuff, though, like the New whey Bullet and the canned drinks. Some of the samples are pretty good, though. One of the better rules to follow when choosing protein is 1) no Calcium caseinate, and 2) no collagenic protein. Both are extremely low quality Proteins.

Anyway, Matrix chocolate is a good protein, as is Whey Gourmet's Chocolate Peanut Butter.