protein shakes???

Easy to get, inexpensive, tastes good with water OR milk: EAS Soy Protein powder - either chocolate or vanilla - both are just as tasty. Keep in mind the calorie count is a little higher than say ON or Muscle Tech but that's why it tastes yummy. :-)

Optimum Nutrition - Extreme Milk Chocolate - tastes watery with just water but does not have that nasty after taste. Not my fave, but do-able. Just use less water to make it thicker. Cookie N Cream - blech!

Muscle Tech Phase 8 - Milk Chocolate. Very tasty with just water. Got home from an extra long cardio workout and made a shake with two scoops - very creamy indeed. Just ordered Buy One Get One Free through Body Builder.com. Came out to about $15 for a 5 pound tub!!

I use Access exercise shakes and bars. They have chocolate taste. I love it. It has fat burning ingredients. Great for work out.

The required daily allowance for a female adult is 45g of protein. This is calculated from the Carbohydrate of 230g. A ratio of 1 third. Not the MFP calculations, which makes no sense at all.
Protein, is not just found in meat, and most people will meet their daily requirement through a well balanced diet. Excess protein in the body is fat. The bodybuilder, is able to convert protein into muscle, mainly because muscle mass, uses more energy, and can burn calories i.e. protein, long after a work out. The downside to bodybuilding, is when they decide to retire. This is when muscle turns back into fat, and can be a hell of a job to shift, without doing bodybuilding, again.

I've read this 4 times....still doesn't make sense to me.

That is because you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Even if you can navigate the rocky shoals of the extraneous commas, the factual information is incorrect. Muscle does not turn into anything. It may get broken down by the body when it is no longer needed (not lifting). And someone may then gain fat if they have less muscle and are eating what was necessary to maintain the higher muscle mass. But nothing is "transmogrified."

And this is a perfect illustration of why you need to keep strength training your whole life. You don't "retire" and expect the muscle to magically stay put. Use it or lose it, baby. :laugh:

I use Bodylogix's Natural Whey in Vanilla Bean. Tastes actually quite good just with water and to be honest... it smells just like animal crackers!

I am on the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge and love their protein shakes! It really is the shake mix that taste like cake mix and it's not chalky. You can mix it with milk, juice, water....whatever your taste buds like! I mix mine with water and crystal light sometimes when I am watching my calorie counts but most times I make a higher calorie shake with milk, yogurt, frozen fruit, etc as a meal replacement.

Promasil http://www.rivalus.net/products/promasil
or 7.2 http://www.sevenpoint2.com/products.html

I don't very often rely on protien shakes, but if i DO, then it is a product called "Harmonized Protien"and only the vanilla...it is geared toward a woman's needs - it doesn't have muscle building additives or soy and i feel that it mixes fairly well with water and one of thoes bottles with the wire blender ball...do you have one of thoes? I couldn't live without it.

I use the Harmonized Protein as well and really like it. High in protein, low in all the other stuff you don't want (Carbs, sugar and additives)

You need to at least do it in a blender or good mixer if you can then take it with you for later so you can give it a good shake. I think just trying to do it by hand will make them all a little less potable.

Add some fruit if you want, but the vanilla one is really good.

Excess protein in the body is fat. The bodybuilder, is able to convert protein into muscle, mainly because muscle mass, uses more energy, and can burn calories i.e. protein, long after a work out. The downside to bodybuilding, is when they decide to retire. This is when muscle turns back into fat, and can be a hell of a job to shift, without doing bodybuilding, again.

I encourage the author of this entry to do some fact checking. First of all, excess food of any type is fat.

Second, muscle does not turn to fat. Muscle may get flabby and out of shape but there is no osmosis that happens. Muscle is muscle - whether toned or not. Fat is fat is fat. Two different types of molecules.

I'm also a particularly big fan of how all women have the exact same daily requirement, regardless of height, weight, or regular activity. Apparently the 45g is assigned by the uterus?

Oh, and here I've been basing my protein levels on my ovaries.... THAT"S what I'm doing wrong!

Gold standard whey extreme milk chocolate blended with unsweetened vanilla almond milk and 2-3 ice cubes. Yum. I dont like it just in a shaker cup so I use the magic bullet.