Protein shakes are not for women?

I have a protein shake every single day. Nothing has gone awry for me. :huh:

I have a protein shake after every workout...I have yet to grow a penis. Soooo...you're good.

i've heard this before. idiots! I start my day with some form of protein. I, too, find it difficult to get the amount of protein I need from my diet so I supplement with shakes. They are also necessary after a workout!! Gotta repair those muscles!

They are not necessary after a workout.

So after my workout I stopped for a protein shake, and the attendant says "You like these protein shakes huh? Well can I tell you something? Women are not supposed to drink protein shakes." She was trying to convince me not to buy it. She started going on about not supplementing protein, blah blah blah. I think she was trying to say it makes females bulky without saying it that way. Not only was she condescending but creepy all at the same time. Have any of y'all heard this "fact"? Can you maybe explain her rationale?

I would have laughed at her and if she persisted in her rant would have thanked her for my time, put back any other items I might have been thinking to buy while letting her know I was leaving. Then I would have asked to speak to her manager so that I could inform them why I am no longer going to be buying anything from their store and to let them know that their employee is discouraging people from buying their products.

I was told by a nutritionist that while I am losing weight that this would help to hold on to lean muscle.

OdesAngel wrote: »

No. Because we aren't her. It could be she was trying to sell you on something more expensive or she is misinformed.

This. In the beginning of my gurney, I had a chick at GNC try to talk me out of buying protein shakes cause it would make me get swole. :laugh:
She then tried to sell me a more expensive meal replacement shake called Total Lean for women who wanted to get skinny. Which was an awesome assumption, considering I didn't ask for her opinion, nor did she ask me what my goal was. All I had asked her at the time was "Where da protein shakes at?"

This happened to me! I actually bought it though. Surprisingly it's working well though lol. I guess I go lucky

The funny thing is, almost all information on women and protein is BS anyway. There are literally almost no studies on women and protein intake. What we typically have is studies done entirely on men and then extrapolated for women. Except the few studies we DO have on women suggest that this is not going to get us valid results. Women and men actually may process our foods differently.

For example, there was a study showing that extra protein helped build muscle. When, after many years, many female athletes said they hadn't noticed any help, the researcher of the original study finally went back and did the study again, this time with women instead of men.

Turns out, women get no improvement for muscle gain when increasing protein, none at all. (and I have been trying to find my old links for the study, but failing so far, sorry to say.). He did the same thing for one of his other studies, the one that found that carb loading is beneficial before an athletic event. Again, totally different results for women. Women end up having either no effect, or an actual negative effect, from carb loading.

The researcher was surprised enough he outright said that he wouldn't assume ANY of his studies applied to women, based on these two completely sex-dependent results.

So when ANYONE tells you that women need X amount of protein, or can't have X amount of protein - ask them the name of the study that proves it. Because it likely doesn't exist.

Someone apparently doesn't want to keep her job.