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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

I've really gotten hooked on smoothies that I either drink right before or after my workout. It depends on if I am working out in the morning or over lunch. I am always changing up the recipe here and there but for the most part it looks like this:

  • 1 scoop vanilla whey
  • 3 heaping scoops of non fat plain yogurt
  • Vanilla Almond milk - enough to make a good glass worth
  • Heaping of 3 berry mix (frozen from Costco)
Today I added a banana into the mix for variety.
 
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Made my first nasty drink

One peach
Slice of mango
3 strawberries
Handful of spinach
Rocky road whey protein

I think it would have been better without the whey

I'm not a fan of whey protein. At all.

Having said that I'm strictly looking to recover. Not build mass etc, so casein as a kind of overnight thing. Doesn't jack with my gastrointestinal system. Does what I need it to do very well and doesn't taste like milky pasty crap. (Just started using almond milk with it - totally on a whim.. Pretty creamy and good electrolyte content in the almond milk... So far so good.)
 
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For people looking to lose weight or tone up, I agree. But for (generally) men that want to gain mass, I'm OK with it.

Damn. You can only pound so many chicken breasts and omelets before the smell of either make you want to vomit.

No, I get that, point is, I like casein better, I guess, even if people see differnces in the application, if slight, IMO. (And when I said, "I'm not a fan" I should clarify that "I" was my preference for me, I wasn't trying to dissuade anyone else, just pointing out there are other options)
 
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No, I get that, point is, I like casein better, I guess, even if people see differnces in the application, if slight, IMO. (And when I said, "I'm not a fan" I should clarify that "I" was my preference for me, I wasn't trying to dissuade anyone else, just pointing out there are other options)
Thanks for the note on Casein @AKAK . I was not familiar with it, but can understand, after a little research, the benefits of it. One article I read suggested utilizing both Whey and Casein in combination. One way was half and half right before or after workouts. The other way was to utilize Whey with the workout and then Casein at night before bed.
 
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Thanks for the note on Casein @AKAK . I was not familiar with it, but can understand, after a little research, the benefits of it. One article I read suggested utilizing both Whey and Casein in combination. One way was half and half right before or after workouts. The other way was to utilize Whey with the workout and then Casein at night before bed.

Depends on desired goal. Casein before bed does help you're body from engineering a total catabolic state. Immediately after your workout combined with whey is essentially the function of a gainer minus the high calories.
 
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Thanks for the note on Casein @AKAK . I was not familiar with it, but can understand, after a little research, the benefits of it. One article I read suggested utilizing both Whey and Casein in combination. One way was half and half right before or after workouts. The other way was to utilize Whey with the workout and then Casein at night before bed.

Yeah, it just fits better for me, but keep in mind that I don't really lift... in an average (good week) I swim a mile 3 times, bike 15 miles twice and run 5-6 miles once. (and I probably walk the dog a couple miles 2 or 3 times, etc and other general stay active type stuff, during school I walk my kid everyday, so like a mile and a half a morning, blah blah blah). At any rate, my plan was to use both and I found the casein to be enough, I'll probably go back to lifting a little bit in the late fall, maybe twice a week and I might fit some whey back in after that, but I'm leaning toward, gasp, food, we'll see what my schedule needs look like.

I did knock out a couple pounds of this stuff...

http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/dym/elite-xt.html

And it was ok... I went back to the Casein, this sorta tore me up too, but, I'm not sure if it was the "Nutrateric" or just the whey in it.

At any rate, my go to Casein protein is this:

http://www.musclefeast.com/Micellar-Casein.html

(Hebron, OH for you buy local types)
 
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