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When asking the question “Which is the best protein powder shake?” we first need to ask our self: what is our goal when supplementing with protein powder, do we want to:
A: Gain weight
B: Lose weight
C: Maintain weight
Best protein powder shake for gaining weight
When looking to gain weight or make ourself a shake with lots of calories we want to focus on or at least include ingredients with lot’s of calories like
- Peanut butter
- coconut milk
- coconut oil
- Dates
- Milk
- Honey
- Bananas
- Oats
From here it’s just mix and match, add one scoop of your favorite protein powder and add your favorite ingredients from the list above, add at least 1 spoon of peanut butter (that will be the bulk of our calories) and enjoy a delicious shake.
Best protein powder shake for losing weight
When looking to lose weight – we will focus on ingredients with less calories such as:
- Skim fat
- Cold water
- Water melon
- fruits – mainly berries
- Yogurt
- Soy milk
Add one scoop of your favorite protein powder to the ingredients above. I would recommend using water mainly water for the fluids part and just a touch of milk/yogurt/soy milk for taste. When it comes to fruit it would be better to focus on low calories fruit like berries or melons.
Best protein powder shake for maintaining weight
If you are not looking to lose or gain weight and just happy with your current weight you can use any of the the following ingredients:
- Peanut butter
- coconut milk
- coconut oil
- Dates
- Milk
- Honey
- Bananas
- Oats
- Skim fat
- yogurt
- soy milk
- water
- all fruits
as you can see we listed all the ingredients from the previous lists and you can mix and mate your favorite flavors with one scoop of your favorite protein powder.
Key here is use to moderation! especially when dealing with high calories ingredients like peanut butter and dates.