Added sweetness in daily shakes, Okay or not?

**jimbo1983** · 31-05-2010 07:49 PM

Hi everyone!

For the last few months I have been having 3 shakes per day just to keep my intake up as I don't have much time due to work/family time.

The last 3 months I have been having each shake with full fat milk, impact whey (choc nut), flax and porridge oats. This was ok and tasted great, however I decided to change on this order and went for unflavoured whey, flax, and egg yolk powder as I am trying to bulk. This tastes quite nasty so I have been flavouring it with bannana nesquik.

I was just wondering if this is ok or does this equal a cardinal sin? I know it's pretty high in sugar but I dont eat chocolate through the day or sugary snacks or sugar in tea or coffee so I was thinking this was ok. Will this have any detremental effect on the shakes or is it ok?

Thanks in advance guys

**James** · 31-05-2010 10:26 PM

As long as it fits in with your daily intake I really wouldn't worry, unless you are incredibly anal about health (which you aren't or you wouldn't even consider this

), since you are taking it with a source of fats and carbs (in the way of full fat milk) digestion of the sugars will be slowed right down. No worries.

**suj** · 31-05-2010 10:57 PM

don't....you end up becoming like comanight2

ps it is ok really, as james said

**jimbo1983** · 01-06-2010 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by James

As long as it fits in with your daily intake I really wouldn't worry, unless you are incredibly anal about health (which you aren't or you wouldn't even consider this

), since you are taking it with a source of fats and carbs (in the way of full fat milk) digestion of the sugars will be slowed right down. No worries.

Thats just what I wanted to hear! So I'll be ok then, thats great. Just out of interest mate what do you think of my current shake, you reckon its ok or do I need something else? You may need to know some more details I guess in order to answer this?

**jimbo1983** · 01-06-2010 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by suj

don't....you end up becoming like comanight2

ps it is ok really, as james said

Cheers bud at least I'm doing something right!!

**comanight2** · 01-06-2010 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by suj

don't....you end up becoming like comanight2

ps it is ok really, as james said

You mean a total beefcake?

**James** · 01-06-2010 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbo1983

Thats just what I wanted to hear! So I'll be ok then, thats great. Just out of interest mate what do you think of my current shake, you reckon its ok or do I need something else? You may need to know some more details I guess in order to answer this?

As long as you are getting your required intake of calories and nutrients each day it really doesn't matter; this is FAR more important than anything else. The only supplement I would recommend would be creatine anyhow (and a multivit and fish oil if you are lacking in a healthy, varied diet).

**jimbo1983** · 01-06-2010 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by James

As long as you are getting your required intake of calories and nutrients each day it really doesn't matter; this is FAR more important than anything else. The only supplement I would recommend would be creatine anyhow (and a multivit and fish oil if you are lacking in a healthy, varied diet).

I currently take creatine but I'm dubious about it's quality, and whether it's working or not, I should really go for some good quality mono from myprotein.