Advice please about protein brands.

Hi all. I was searching for proteins today. I purchased two bottles of sf torani vanilla syrup.tub of body fortress fruit punch to start taking now. Biotin arrived today buy one get one free at puritans pride. My question is..whats ur take on eas ready made protein with 40 grams per bottle was called mytoplex I think,special k drinks and ensure? I welcome all feedback with open arms. Oh yeah,thr sf pudding mix..are we to buy the instant add water only kind? Thanks in advance.

I was looking at the Body Fortress on my shelf and saw that, with my early pre-op eyes, it says Whey Isolate but that's the 2nd ingredient... the first says Whey Protein BLEND.  So, other than pricewise, it probably wasn't the absolute best idea for me to purchase.  But, I've mixed it around with other brands too so I think I can safely go ahead and use it up. 

The Syntrax Nectars are my lifesavers.  23 grams of Whey Isolate per scoop.  Optional to mix with water and get in water&protein in same serving.  Helped me tremendously since there was only so much room in my pouch and hours in the day.

S/F instant pudding that you add milk to, no****er...   You can use the pudding powder to flavor Fage 0% unflavored Greek yogurt too.  You can also add a scoop of vanilla (or whatever) protein to Greek yogurt and you'll almost double your protein gram intake.

I don't know about the ready to drink ones.  I don't use them.  I'd rather take an individual packet of nectar to add to a bottle of water when I'm out and about.

Hope that helps a little.

EAS ready to drinks are pretty good. The Body Fortress vanilla flavor had a strong protein taste to me. I like Syntrax Nectar chocolate truffle and strawberry mousse. For protein coffee, I like IDS MultiPro vanilla-cinnamon.

--gina

EAS, huh?  Might give that a shot sometime...

I put a heaping scoop of Syntrax Capucchino and a heaping scoop of Click Vanilla or Mocha with a couple of TBsp. Torani syrup either Almond Roca, Hazelnut, or English Toffee.  The Click powder addition makes it very filling to me.  Plus, when using milk with the coffee, you are talking about 50 gms. of protein in that one morning drink!

What is it again that happens if we take in too much protein??  Mad cow disease or something??  No prob... I'm halfway there. 

lol  If we take in 120 grams of protein in shakes we maintain our weight loss.

Does that mean, any less protein - we lose?  Or, more than that, we gain?

So Gina, I should already know this if I were to read Menus & Miles regularly I bet, but, would you mind telling me what a regular days intake for you entails?

I think any less and you start to get cravings and hunger, then you add more carbs and you gain. I've never seen a post-op gain on protein shakes...not one. 

Weekdays only. Weekends are free days more or less.

Breakfast is 2 protein coffees (60g) over a 2 hour period
1st snack at work is Fage yogurt w/blueberries and another protein coffee (30g) 
Lunch is usually a quick protein shake w/omega 3-6-9 added to it (30g)
Dinner is usually a meat that I don't bother adding the protein grams, so I dunno how many.

I also snack / graze during the workday on baby carrots w/dip and a small popcorn after lunch, and of course I'm drinking diet cranberry juice and taking calcium all morning and iron in the mid to late afternoons.
  

Thank you Gina!  That looks about like what I had pictured and what I'm trying to get up to.

Question though... when do you have room to drink H2O girl?  LOL

Very helpful ruthie. I did see someone rlse saying the mectars were good. Will get some samples online. Pudding with milk,got it. I am building my sf and protein cabinet. I must say, I am cheesing buying my products. Making my vitamin run after I see the nutritionist aug 3. I start my liquid diet for 3 weeks. When I get my computer up amd running..I plan to update my page.

I love the S/F berry flavored applesauce by the way.  And, it mixes up SO nice with Fage!