Will protein bars help gain weight and build muscle?

wandatowell

There a post somewhere on here about making your own protein bars.

Tried them out. Unreal.

Dial Hard

Transform wrote:

and maybe the guy needs to just go train hard so there's an appetite there worth filling.

Pretty sure it's a chick.

ballsdeep69

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Im trying to gain weight and bulk up in the right places like hips and bust but im finding trying to eat more food a chore, I never had much of an appetite, I eat because I have to and just when im hungry and I fill up very fast so even eating 1000 calories a day is really hard, never mind the recommended 2000. I bought a few protein bars but I duno if they'll help? theyre very dear to keep buying them, are they a waste of money?

Plenty of tuna, egg whites , chicken, the bars will help. 100% whey protein start your morning with protein coffee and whole meal toasted tuna & mayonaise sambo there are plenty of cheap & easy ways

Dtp1979

ballsdeep69 wrote: »

Plenty of tuna, egg whites , chicken, the bars will help. 100% whey protein start your morning with protein coffee and whole meal toasted tuna & mayonaise sambo there are plenty of cheap & easy ways

Protein coffee??

ballsdeep69

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Protein coffee??

Yeah protein coffee, you can get it from the fitness shop behind the square in Tallaght it's not the best taste but full of protein

Zillah

ballsdeep69 wrote: »

Yeah protein coffee, you can get it from the fitness shop behind the square in Tallaght it's not the best taste but full of protein

lol ok

How much protein? I bet I'd get more protein by glancing at a bag of whey.

Alf Veedersane

Afaik, BodyFirst do a protein coffee but even if it had 20g of protein, if it tastes mank why would you do it to yourself?

ballsdeep69

Zillah wrote: »

lol ok

How much protein? I bet I'd get more protein by glancing at a bag of whey.

Not sure I think 28gram per cup

ballsdeep69

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Afaik, BodyFirst do a protein coffee but even if it had 20g of protein, if it tastes mank why would you do it to yourself?

I didn't like taste but everyone has there own taste buds

Dtp1979

I wonder if you mixed some unflavoured whey into coffee would you notice it

Zillah

ballsdeep69 wrote: »

Not sure I think 28gram per cup

...I find that hard to believe...sure a scoop of whey is 25! I can't imagine it would taste anything like coffee if that's the case.

I did some googling. This one claims to be 21g per serving. Madness. I bet it's utter mank.

Alf Veedersane

Have a proper coffee. Have a shake with whey separately. Win.

ballsdeep69

Zillah wrote: »

...I find that hard to believe...sure a scoop of whey is 25! I can't imagine it would taste anything like coffee if that's the case.

Zillah wrote: »

...I find


As I said i think it's 25 gram. I personally didn't like it I found it to hard to disolve all the lumps plus it's to be served warm not hot. But there is people who like it otherwise it wouldn't be on the shelf

ballsdeep69

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I wonder if you mixed some unflavoured whey into coffee would you notice it

I wonder if my auntie had balls would she be my uncle

ballsdeep69

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I wonder if you mixed some unflavoured whey into coffee would you notice it

I wonder if my auntie had balls would she be my uncle

Dtp1979

ballsdeep69 wrote: »

I wonder if my auntie had balls would she be my uncle

I wonder if you posted that once instead of twice would it have made any difference

Rucksnacks

Just to let you know protein bars are basically chocolate bars with added whey protein and are heavily processed - hence why some people don't like and will even get digestion problems eating them.

If you are trying to gain weight, tools already mentioned like my fitness pal are great to start with but can become time intensive after a while.

Sit down, create a weekly meal/snack plan and count up macros so you only have to do it once.

For protein, aim for 1g of high quality protein per 2kg bodyweight daily in order to get sufficient muscle recovery and slightly more if you have heavy training programme.

Blacktie.

Rucksnacks wrote: »

If you are trying to gain weight, tools already mentioned like my fitness pal are great to start with but can become time intensive after a while.

Strange I found the opposite to be true. A bit time intensive at first but once you get the hang of it it's about 5 seconds to throw the ingredients in while cooking. Especially with the copy from yesterday feature and barcode scanner.

Sit down, create a weekly meal/snack plan and count up macros so you only have to do it once.

Wouldn't be a fan of this personally. I think flexibility is important in a diet.

For protein, aim for 1g of high quality protein per 2kg bodyweight daily in order to get sufficient muscle recovery and slightly more if you have heavy training programme.

I assume you have this backwards? Otherwise you're suggesting me at 76 kg would only require 38g of protein... That would be almost impossible for me! I have trouble staying under 180 g as it is .

Rucksnacks

@Blacktie

Majority people I have spoke too found it great for setting up meal planning but just didn't follow it for every meal - so it works for some people but not for others all I am saying.

Personally, I have found meal plans useful as helps if you are tight on time - agree to keep some flexibility and I just leave Sunday as Cheat day and eat whatever I come up with that day.

Yep, sorry got my figure wrong way around - baseline is 2g of high quality protein per 1kg of bodyweight per day - this will adjust depending on your goals (leaner, maintenance or muscle gain)