Which Protein powder?

They do it all the time :( the amount of times I've ordered as they say "LAST CHANCE!", then next day have a better deal on. You'll be waiting forever if you're waiting for a better deal though
 
I have used myprotein stuff in the past but tbh I dont bother anymore not touched my bag in months

A friend whos a pt once told me (and he probably stole it from somewhere) when your a kid your always told drink plenty of milk eat your veggies and meats and youl get big, strong and youl be able to see in the dark. They never said drink protein shakes.

Stick with the basics plenty of veggies, juicy fatty meats and drink loads of full fat milk. Its what I'm now sticking to, keep it basic it doesnt matter if your 3 or 30 growing big and strong is the same, although I cant say the same about seeing in the dark, like santa and the tooth fairy I think they were pulling a fast one with that
 
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I'm only going to be using my protein powder in the morning, as a post workout snack to get more protein in me. I don't have time to cook an omelette for breakfast everyday, and I can only eat so much later on in the day. Having tuna at lunch, and chicken/turkey for dinner. If I eat too much I'll feel insanely full. It's just to get enough protein in my diet (and I calculated the whole thing using IIFYM. If IIFYM is bad, please say!)

Trusty said:
I'm gonna email them, it's not about the money really, its the principle.
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I don't blame you to be honest. I don't mind them doing it even a week later. But doing it a day after seems cheeky.
 
stuie said:
I have used myprotein stuff in the past but tbh I dont bother anymore not touched my bag in months

A friend whos a pt once told me (and he probably stole it from somewhere) when your a kid your always told drink plenty of milk eat your veggies and meats and youl get big, strong and youl be able to see in the dark. They never said drink protein shakes.

Stick with the basics plenty of veggies, juicy fatty meats and drink loads of full fat milk. Its what I'm now sticking to, keep it basic it doesnt matter if your 3 or 30 growing big and strong is the same, although I cant say the same about seeing in the dark, like santa and the tooth fairy I think they were pulling a fast one with that
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Yea, i've really cut down on the amount of supplements i use, i used to always buy different stuff and do combinations, can't be arsed now, i've stream lined everything. I only use slow digest protein at night and normal protein/oats for my mid morning shake, a decent multi vit and that's it. I don't bother with PWO shakes, i just eat dinner half an hour later.
 
madindehead said:
I'm only going to be using my protein powder in the morning, as a post workout snack to get more protein in me. I don't have time to cook an omelette for breakfast everyday, and I can only eat so much later on in the day. Having tuna at lunch, and chicken/turkey for dinner. If I eat too much I'll feel insanely full. It's just to get enough protein in my diet (and I calculated the whole thing using IIFYM. If IIFYM is bad, please say!)



I don't blame you to be honest. I don't mind them doing it even a week later. But doing it a day after seems cheeky.
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Please excuse my ignorance - IIFYM?
 
If It Fits Your Macros.

A style of eating which means once you've gotten your protein and fibre in then you allow yourself to make up your carb and fat intake from "unclean" foods.
 

Cliffs:

An acronym made up by someone ages ago to describe how no particular food or food group is off-limits in your way of eating/diet as long as it works within the confines of your calories/macronutrients.

IIFYM is typically a lazy way of describing Flexible Dieting, which as the name suggests eating a diet of wholesome/nutricious food but making some allowance for pretty much anything (since no foods are good/bad in isolation, you have to look at the diet as a whole) and is based usually on a pyramid of importance (starting from the base which is biggest); calories, macronutrients, micronutrients and fibre, meal timing and frequency and supplements, which all exist within a ringfence of adherence since the diet has to be one you can adhere to in the first place... which is why it's meant to be flexible as you're more likely to be successful than with an extreme or overly restrictive diet.
 
Basically in the diet spectrum at one extreme end you'd have ULTRA CLEAN EATING where all you eat is chicken, brocolli and wholegrain rice and at the other you'd have the extreme end of IIFYM where people would be aiming to hit their target macros using whatever they liked (which is more difficult than it sounds, since 'junk' food typically has macros which make it impossible to hit the kind of % of cals from protein/carb/fat 99% of people would want). Obviously neither end is particularly great.
 
Somnambulist said:
Basically in the diet spectrum at one extreme end you'd have ULTRA CLEAN EATING where all you eat is chicken, brocolli and wholegrain rice and at the other you'd have the extreme end of IIFYM where people would be aiming to hit their target macros using whatever they liked (which is more difficult than it sounds, since 'junk' food typically has macros which make it impossible to hit the kind of % of cals from protein/carb/fat 99% of people would want). Obviously neither end is particularly great.
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Why is the former not great? Certainly from a food enjoyment point of view it's terrible, but for a lot of people, especially in fitness, food is just fuel and a way of hitting your goals and not something where they feel they have to find a way to fit pizza in to their macros. I'd say nutritionally, someone eating an "ultra clean" diet of lean meat, wholegrain rice/sweet potato and lots of veggies will be far better off health wise than someone who is trying to fit junk into their diet

I heard a great description of IIFYM once, and it was that it was designed with only how you look on the outside in mind, and not how you look on the inside. And I feel that's so true, getting shredded or not the long term effects on health of eating bad food most days can't be great
 
Steedie said:
Why is the former not great? Certainly from a food enjoyment point of view it's terrible, but for a lot of people, especially in fitness, food is just fuel and a way of hitting your goals and not something where they feel they have to find a way to fit pizza in to their macros. I'd say nutritionally, someone eating an "ultra clean" diet of lean meat, wholegrain rice/sweet potato and lots of veggies will be far better off health wise than someone who is trying to fit junk into their diet

I heard a great description of IIFYM once, and it was that it was designed with only how you look on the outside in mind, and not how you look on the inside. And I feel that's so true, getting shredded or not the long term effects on health of eating bad food most days can't be great
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With IIFYM, if the macros are set up correctly, you'll be eating clean foods 90% of the time anyway, a very small amount of food will actually be junk food, it's the flexability of being able to fit a couple slices of pizza into the diet that people like. The reason people think that IIFYM is all about being able to eat junk food is that people on this diet only talk/post about there junk foods, they'll not mention the rice, chicken and veg they've been eating the rest of the day, to allow them to eat that pizza.

In that respect it's much easier to maintain a consistant diet over a greater period of time. Sticking to eating the typical chicken, rice and veg, or similar for weeks on end isn't sustainable. With that in mind you could argue it's actually a healthier approach to dieting/food intake.
 
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Steedie said:
Why isn't it sustainable? If people eat for a purpose as opposed to pleasure then why would they need to stray from that?
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Because only a very, very small amount of people are happy to do this. The vast majority of people like to enjoy there life, this includes enjoying there foods.

Flexible dieting allow people to achieve there goals and enjoy a small amount of enjoyable food, it's not a licence to eat junk food all day like some people see it. It also helps people stick to the diet long term, as they don't actually ever miss the foods they love to eat.
 
It saved me doing it :p

Though to be fair I'm less critical of it than him, but then again I like my naughty foods (burgers being my weakness) once or twice a month.

My issue is eating too much, I just enjoy food and it is pure self control that stops me eating everything in sight.
 
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