Protein Shakes and Weight Reduction Tablets

[Original Poster]

Hi all,

I am about 3 weeks into my (very highly motivated) weight loss/bulk up regime consisting of the following -

Diet -

Lunch - Either a ham baguette or pasta and some kind of sauce (dolmio etc)

Dinner - Typically chicken or tuna salad or chicken with mash potato and peas

Drink - Almost exclusively water with the occasional bottle of diet coke

Snacks - very rarely eat snacks but if I do it'll be grapes

Exercise -

4 times in the gym, 2 days of cardio for a decent amount of time and 2 days of upper body work, mainly back, shoulders, bicep, tricep and pecks


The results have been pretty impressive so far.

I am a shade under 6 foot and weighed 105 kilos at the start (3 weeks ago) and am now down to 100 kilos.


I know a problem i have is breakfast, I can't/won't eat in the mornings despite knowing it will help me. Would introducing protein shakes help here? I could happily drink something like this on my way to work.

Would introducing any other pills for weight loss also help?

I am not wanting them as a substitute however no harm in speeding up weight loss if I can?

Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated!

Edited by Original Poster on Sunday 29th July 15:42

[Original Poster]

Thanks.

There is absolutely no way I will be able to eat in the mornings though so It really is fluids or nothing.

[Original Poster]

Thanks, will check it out!

Any other recommendations? Read a lot of positive opinions of the My Protein stuff on here actually.

[Original Poster]

Animal said:

When are you training - mornings or evenings?

Training after work, about 6pm.

Think I'm going to go for the Impact Whey from MyProtein to speed my metabolism up in the morning and have one after the gym session.

I'm doing more and more weight work so speeding up recovery times can only be a good thing!

[Original Poster]

Thanks, I don't really struggle with weekends to be honest although I will allow for the occasional bad bit of food to pass me

Not doing any leg work at the moment, they're by far the strongest part of me at the moment so getting everything else in line with the legs first then will introduce some leg work!

[Original Poster]

Tyrewrecker said:

Original Poster said:

Thanks, I don't really struggle with weekends to be honest although I will allow for the occasional bad bit of food to pass me

Not doing any leg work at the moment, they're by far the strongest part of me at the moment so getting everything else in line with the legs first then will introduce some leg work!

Through what I have read and a friend who did mens health final and my current trainer thinks it is mad to leave them out regardless due to the size of muscle. Whatever works. I just need to sort out my weekend boozing and junk...

That's interesting, I have a PT session on Wednesday so I'll run it past him!

[Original Poster]

Tyrewrecker said:

Original Poster said:

That's interesting, I have a PT session on Wednesday so I'll run it past him!

I think the 5 x 5 does legs every session too when I did it as it is the largest muscle and so the most metabolism gains are there for the taking (by increasing the size)

Sounds good, maybe I will introduce it then!

[Original Poster]

Tyrewrecker said:

Original Poster said:

Sounds good, maybe I will introduce it then!

Worth a bash. Good luck with your quest. I am 1.5stone down this month and thats with drinking most weekends...

Many thanks and you're clearly getting good results as well!

It's all SO worth it when you start seeing improvements.

I remember when I couldn't do 2 minutes on the cross trainer!

[Original Poster]

Yeah it's all worth it!

I do still drink but strictly once a week, however I tend to go wild when I do but you can't let it control you life all the time IMO.