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Lizette!

CONGRATS! for using your tool the right way!

CONGRATS for knowing what you needed to quit as behaviors!

CONGRATS for 100 pounds loss!

Julie

Thaks for all the congrats, I really appreciate it and they will also encourage me to continue!

One question for you Suzanne,  have you noticed with your rapid weight loss that you have lost a lot of muscle tone? 

I am noticing that I am losing a lot of muscle and I am trying to rebuild it back again through strength training, but I am finding that I just love to do so much cardio and this is not helping my muscle toning…..any suggestions on what I should do to regain this lost muscle.

I was also thinking that I know protein helps with building the muscle but I am finding that I just can't get enough protein intake to justify the muscle building.  Was sitting here wondering if it would be ok and beneficial to have another protein shake in the mid eveing before bedtime?  I do have a shake every morning and I am thinking that this is one of the most beneficial ways of getting a certain volume of my daily protein as I fill it with so much stuff like protein powder, hemp seed, plain yogurt and a nutty smoothie mix I got from the health food store.  so if I were to do another one of these in the evening that might also help me to get the extra protein I am lacking…any thoughts?

Lizzette

Lisette,

you are on the right track, to avoid losing muscles tone: PROTEIN!!!!

To regain muscle is hard, you will need PROTEIN so another shake is a good idea, and you will need to exercise these muscles…

A person needs 1 gram of P per kilograms, a normal weight is 60 and therefore it means 60 grmas of protein/day.

Heavier we need more, because of the malabsorption we need more, so… at least 60 grams of P per day. More is better!

Good luck and how many grams of P do you have per day?

Julie

Julie one more question i am wondering if having a protein shake around 9:30 or 10:00 in the evening would this be too late to have something so close to bedtime?  I just find that I don't get finished supper until around 6:30 or 7:00 and then I don't have anything for at least 3 hrs later in order to get my 6 small meals in a day

Lizzette

Hey Paint 4U ,

I would go for another shake in the evening. It is better than trying to put more protein in the same shake. Momjan is right we should not overload the system!

There is Bullet protein that do exists and it is 45 g of protein that you put in water or juice very easy to dilute.

There is a place where it can be buy, personnally, I really try to eat, I make sure that it is tasty, and I manage with 3 meals+ 2 sancks a day, I found it very hard to do 6 meals/day. So I switched, to 5 and the dietitician was very good with it.

http://www.bariatricchoice.com/

So I don't use shakes, and I eat eggs, fish and chicken (tonight I had mussels :-)  ).

What I like is using a high protein cookbook, or an after weight-loss surgery cookbook, the recipes have a low calories count and are rich in protein.

Good luck !