Does everyone do protein shakes?

I don't do protein shakes. Occasionally a protein bar, but that is really just a backup, in case I'm out and can't get anything better when I need it.

Depends on your goals.

I am losing fat, lowering body fat, and keeping my lean muscle, and adding on muscle to look tighter, and boost my daily resting metabolism level.

To do this, you need enough protein.

General recommendations are roughly about 1 gram per pound of lean body mass. For me thats about 100 grams of protein a day.

This helps you keep the muscle you have. repair it more efficiently, and can assist with muscle building. (though depending on your makeup, goals, etc. you could need even more protein)

At a calorie deficit, to lose weight, I do not have enough food calories available to eat all the chicken, beef etc I need to get that much protein a day. So I supplement with one to two protein shakes a day, along with my foods and meals, to give me the protein I need.

When I take in more protein, I find I lose fat faster, body fat levels drop more consistently, my inches loss, and body size change are more dramatic, and quicker - and I have less muscle soreness, and still make great improvement in my exercise gains.

My goal is not just to "lose weight" as I do not want to lose my lean muscle mass, and I also want to look tight, gain strength. So for me, extra protein is needed.

Same as engineman. I use as a way to boost my protein for the day and as a post workout recovery shake. Not all have high calories though and some are actually yummy.

I'd like to start on protein shakes since I'll be weight training 3 days a week. Does anyone know of some protein powder that is on the lower end, calorie-wise?

You can control how many calories they have by how much of the ingredients you use.

in the morning I have 130 calories with just protein powder, and almond milk.


After a hard workout 300-500 calories with two scoops of powder, yogurt, fruit, milk, peanut butter ....

I drink my protein shake as a meal replacement for lunch. I shake it up with soy milk with a total calories of 260. Not bad for lunch and it fills me up until dinner. I drink Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey protein. I think its yummy. It's just like drinking a strawberry or vanilla milkshake.

I use them, take one scoop before my workout at 100 calories, and one after for another 100, go to bodybuilding.com and go to protein products and you can see all brands and amount of calories in each serving! Hope this helps!

I drink the special K ones...if you drink em slower (i.e taking the same time a meal would) you end up feeling pretty full surprisingly! Plus they are usually chocolate flavored so I get a sweet tooth fix lol

I'd like to start on protein shakes since I'll be weight training 3 days a week. Does anyone know of some protein powder that is on the lower end, calorie-wise?

The super whey protein shots available at walmart are 110 calories for 26G of protein. That is 100% of calories coming from protein, but they don't taste very good. At least you can down them in one gulp.

If you want to introduce protein shakes without sacrificing too many calories, try Promasil...90 calories, 20g protein, 1g fat, and 0 carbs. Got it at GNC, but I am sure it can be bought online.