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Protein powder honestly reviewed

Started 11 September 2024 · 16 replies · 211 hearts · read 3k times

AshwinBengaluru, IN · 11 September 2024
1.9 years ago

A question rather than an update: Protein powder honestly reviewed

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one, but the logistics of this are defeating me considerably more than the medicine is.

My household has adjusted to about half of this and the other half is causing small daily friction that I have not known how to raise.

Sorry for the length. The logistics take longer to describe than they do to do.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#1

I keep a note of what actually worked during the difficult fortnights, because from inside a good month I forget entirely.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

Facilitator note: everything discussed here is a matter for you and your household. We are here for the ideas, not the decisions.

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MorayElgin, UK
#3

Replying to Ashwin rather than to anybody above, because I want to answer what was actually asked.

What I found is that the powders I had dismissed turned out to be the thing that made this manageable during the hard months.

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CloverTotnes, UK
#4

My family eat the same things I do and nothing about the household changed, which was more achievable than I had expected.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#5

Gently disagreeing with Ren, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience of appointments improved once I stopped apologising for how I eat and simply stated it as a constraint to work within.

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NemoneLewes, UK
#6

Nothing here is medical advice and on supplements in particular it is worth a proper conversation rather than a thread.

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IvesPenzance, UK
#7

Somebody in this circle wrote out their week for me when I asked and it saved me about three months of working it out badly.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#8

What helped was one very boring reliable breakfast that I have eaten roughly six hundred times and still do not mind.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#9

Ives — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

What worked for me was spreading it across the day rather than trying to get it all into one meal, which was never going to happen.

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MableBolton, UK
#10

Pulses, tofu and a decent unflavoured powder are the whole of my system, and it took me a year to arrive at something that simple.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#11

Piet has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

I had to stop treating this as a nutritional puzzle and start treating it as a shopping problem, and it became much easier.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#12

Somebody here suggested keeping a very short list on the fridge, and mine has been there for eighteen months and I still use it.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#13

My experience is that this is entirely workable and needs a bit more planning, and the planning is a one-off cost rather than a daily one.

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MorayElgin, UK
#14

Torrin said something I want to sit with for a second.

What helped was two things I actually enjoy rather than five things I felt I should eat. The should list never survived a difficult week.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#15

Speaking as a facilitator: the person who asked wanted company for a difficult week rather than a plan, and the thread has given both, in that order.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#16

Reading and nodding. Nothing to add, and I wanted you to know somebody had read it.

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