Protein shakes: flavor burnout?

[sema-saved-me]

Cottage cheese and greek yogurt are lifesavers here. Both are high protein, soft and easy to eat when appetite is suppressed, and small portions all day work fine instead of forcing a large meal. A 200g pot of yogurt gives about 20g protein in two minutes. Shakes fill you up for few calories, so you end up full but underfed. Swap some for real food: rolled-up deli meat and cheese, tuna with mayo, even canned beans spiked with hot sauce. Eating only 780 calories on your third day of Ozempic, with lifting on top, can't last. You need fuel to recover and put on muscle, and the suppression fades and things level out. Right now it's the honeymoon phase, hunger is simply off. Don't force normal eating by willpower, but get the calories in any way you can manage.

 

[Dexter]

Some protein yogurt drinks give 20g of protein, and I am obsessed with them. They are likely my sole route to my daily protein target, since skipping meals by accident is a real thing.

 

[luthier]

I cant get near my protein goal without supplements. I use a vegetarian powder since I cant do dairy, while whey plus dairy like yogurt and cottage cheese is the norm. Three meals each holding 30g of meat isnt possible for me, vegetables and carbs are a must for me too. Pea protein it is, painful as that may be.

 

[melon_tirzgang]

Mind clarifying what that term actually means, are we talking the clear protein powder options? Shakes just don't agree with me and I've tried several of the clear ones hoping they'd be a workable swap. Wasn't a fan of any of them honestly, so if there's something else out there I haven't tried, genuinely want to hear about it.

 

[cocoa-month6]

Strange how much effort protein takes these days. My staples are Barebells bars, shakes and high protein yogurt, and without those foods it would be really hard. Even shakes turn my stomach lately, fairlife included

 

[Jamie2003]

fat free greek yogurt with a bit of honey is my usual pick. mixed a protein shake with plain water the other day, first time trying that, and it was awful, switching to skim milk next round for sure.

 

[fuzzy_coasting]

same here honestly. on weekdays i dont eat my one real meal till 6 or 7pm, having food sitting heavy in me while im at my desk just wrecks my focus. my go tos are a clear whey protein in raspberry lemonade, around 100 cal and 20g protein per scoop, since i couldnt handle my old fairlife shakes anymore after starting sema. also doing a vanilla cream protein milkshake, about 150 cal and 32g protein per can, tried chocolate which was fine and strawberry which was way too sweet, vanilla cream wins for me. whey in the morning, mix the milkshake into coffee later in the day, gets me to about 52g protein before the rest of the day even starts, and without the shakes id never hit my 100g daily goal.