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Anyone tried Celebrate ENS multivitamin powder or Bariatric Advantage multivitamin crystals? Are there any other versions that may be good? I'm interested in these options due to my work schedule and to reduce number of pills per day. Would love your input on which may be better!! (cross post to General Discussion forum)
RNY: 1/14/16 Age: 34 Height: 5'4" SW: 280
i love the ice tea flavor. drink one per day for 24 grams of protein. some days i mix it up and add a crystal light lemonade to make a arnold palmer.
love the stuff
Bonnie RNY 2/11/15 by Dr. Takahaski
5'3" SW 230 pounds, GW per Dr. Takahaski 150 pounds, CW 132 pounds (10/1/17)
BMI 19% Bod Pod test 1/29/17 13.1 mile half marathon, 1 hour 59 mins (8/21/2017)
Well, I can't help too much. I have tried most of the flavors, but have found I don't care for fruit flavored protein. I stick to chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter, etc. Syntrax has both Nectar and Matrix brands. This is by far my favorite brand of protein though and highly recommend it. It has a thinner consistency than a lot of proteins which I love. I hate those really thick slimy shakes. Since it mixes thinner than most protein I do think it would work well in smoothie recipes. I have blended fruit into many of my shakes (chocolate cherry? Yes please!) and it worked just fine.
Hi Everyone! I'd like to know if anyone uses Syntrax Nectar protein mix and what flavors you enjoy most and also if you mix them with anything besides water? I'm interested in smoothie recipes and wonder if this is a good mix for that? Thanks for your help!
The diet works, not because you lose fat, but because the liver and your muscles release excess glycogen due to the lower carb and caloric consumption.
AS a tangent, the results of a low-carb diet on the liver are profound long-term though. My surgeon said my liver looked perfect and I had almost no visceral fat around it (the bad kind of fat) despite being over 400lbs.
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Recently I saw some post about oatmeal. Lost the link but I wanted to post the oatmeal I use.
http://www.dietdirect.com/bari-wise-health-breakfast-oatmeal s-bw209-peaches-cream.html
100cal/8carbs/15prot
Sharon 
I love pork rinds too but I just won't lose weight if I eat them... Or cheese for that matter and it won't make a bit of difference if I'm under my calories or not. I would suggest making your proteins "clean" and see if that makes any difference. There could also be something going on metabolically with you too. I would also suggest you plug in your portions and foods into myfitnesspal.com or paleotrack.com and see where you REALLY are. I know that we really try to NOT focus on calories but unfortunately if I don't I tend to overeat - I like to eat - even the good stuff I can maintain/gain on instead of lose.
Ketone strips show you that you are indeed burning fat for fuel (which is good) but if there's not calorie deficit then all you're doing is burning the fat in your food - not from your body.
I will offer up another reason...... Carbs make you want more carbs. All carbohydrates turn to sugar in your body. Take the total grams of carbs and divide by 4. That's the number of teaspoons it's converted into in your body. A bag of chips is just as much sugar as a bag of candy. A banana at 24 grams of carbs converts to 6 tsp of sugar. A cup of Rice at 50 grams is closer to 13 tsp of sugar. A normal person's body can't process more than 30 grams of carbs at one sitting- anything extra the fat storing process begins when insulin is released. To put it in perspective - a healthy person only has about 1.5 tsp of sugar circulating in their blood at any given time. No wonder we have a Diabetes and Obesity epidemic. And studies have shown that sugar is considerably more addictive than Heroin and Cocaine. It's a losing battle to "eat whatever you want within reason". (Thanks for nothing Weigh****chers)
Carbs make you/keep you fat.
thank you for the advise. I have tried the paleo diet before not for very long because its hard to work it in on a crazy schedule. It is my goal to eat that way so i should just figure out how to do it again. I notice i keep saying oh ill just have one more pop i'll quit tomorrow... or ill finish the pop i have at home and then stop... but husband got more lol... i do need to just do it. I said that was my motto for 2015 but now i need to make it a reality thanks!
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