Protein woes

 Check-in for Maxine's Challenge begins tomorrow.  I need to go find a bathing suit and enlist my poor suffering daughter to take the "before" shots.  I'll post one here soon.  I'm looking forward to setting up my new nutrition and training plans.  Lockdown has meant swinging between the gym and home for workouts, I must say, I'm getting quite good at finding different exercises to replace those I would have done in the gym.  I think my most used search phrase this past week has been "home alternative exercise to...."

I've just had a really yummy protein shake!  I've been trying to be consistent with my increased protein intake these past couple of months.  I must say, it really does make a difference when trying to lose weight and gain muscle.  I try to take in 2g per kilo bodyweight, at the moment that is 156g per day.  I find meeting my protein requirements to be the most tricky thing about nutrition.  I really struggle to take in that much protein through food alone, so I supplement quite heavily with protein powder. But drinking protein shakes several times a day, every day can get pretty tiresome quickly too.   

Today, the meal plan I planned wasn't going to give me enough protein or calories, so I added a few things to my morning shake.  I put 1 scoop of Genetix lean wpi (vanilla ice cream flavour), half a scoop of Maxine's Burn protein powder (salted caramel flavour), 1 tbs peanut butter, 60ml skim milk and 200ml water in the blender and was really happy with the result!  I have IBS, so try and use WPI (Whey Protein Isolate)  as my main protein powder because it is quite low in lactose, as well as lactose-free skim milk to avoid bloating and worse... This amounts to 294cal, 6.5g carbs, 9.5g fat, 43g protein.  I highly recommend!

Well, I'm off to do arms and back now, and then strip down for my photos!