Lowest calorie protein shake?

bigchez · 21 Jul 2008 at 22:43

I'm still looking to lose bf, but have started doing a lot more chin ups and dips after cardio, and I'm starting to think about getting on the weights proper again, so its protein time.

With this in mind I want a protein shake which will give me the lowest amount of calories. Back in the day I used to use one from 1getfit.com that was about 115 calories per hit with skimmed milk but can't for the life of me remember the name. This was about 6 years ago though!!

What's good at the moment?

heeeed · 21 Jul 2008 at 22:57

I would presume just an unflavoured whey shake made with water is going to be the lowest caloried shake. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to link their myprotein code and where to price match etc.

drunkenmaster · 22 Jul 2008 at 00:19

yup you can't avoid the calories from protein so as high protein and as little everything else. The best you can get is the whey isolate, has slightly less carbs/fat in, not much though, cocoa and splenda to taste(cocoa, real pure proper cocoa has very litte in calories in the quantity you'll use) and splenda is essentially no calorie sweetner and that will taste pretty good.

Semiskimmed has 5grams carbs per 100ml, not bad by any stretch but soya milk is better and lower cal. I think semiskimmed is around 50cal mark per 100ml, alpro soya light milk is around the 20mark but its next to no carbs, all protein and a couple grams omega fats which you want anyway

Soya alternative to milk drinks, shockingly disgusting, soya milk, tastes great, has a few nice bits in it, and mixes just as well as normal milk and tastes a lot better than whey + water.

so myprotein.co.uk for something bulk and unflavoured and cheap, £30 for 10lbs of concentrate, £45 for same of isolate, you can see the figures on the website, isolate isn't going to be significantly better and most likely isn't worth the extra cash.

Thats like 4.5kg of protein which will last you a good while, take any prebought branded protein which tends to be often in the £40 region for a 2.4kg tub and you can see its stupidly cheaper to buy in bulk

Morba · 22 Jul 2008 at 00:21

unflavoured in water. :]

drunkenmaster · 22 Jul 2008 at 00:23

Thing is, protein with omega fats and a few calories will actually do a lot more for you than just protein.

Morba · 22 Jul 2008 at 00:34

post workout it wont make too much difference tbh. he can make up the fats elsewhere easily enough im sure.

Ultra_Extreme · 22 Jul 2008 at 02:05

Morba said:
post workout it wont make too much difference tbh. he can make up the fats elsewhere easily enough im sure.

exactly. Whey and skim milk will be fine tho @ roughly 250- 300 kcal per 3/4L

By the pint, more like 200, in water more like 115 assuming 40g protein unflavoured

MTA99 · 22 Jul 2008 at 16:42

Morba said:
unflavoured in water. :]

Close thread! Any talk of flavouring is completely unnecessary, you want low cals, you use isolate in water and drink it down raw......like a man!

WantoN · 23 Jul 2008 at 12:40

Why fuss over having rediculously low calls after training

One time of the day a larger cal hit and an insulin spike is a good thing

Besides, you're not going to pack on kilos of lean mass if you're trying to loose weight, which renders protein a relatively frivolous comodity.

Ant :cool: