Can Protein Shakes Benefit Your Weight Loss?

How To Use Protein Shakes

Protein shakes carry many benefits for weight loss. However, what should you take into consideration when having protein shakes within your diet?

Should I use protein shakes as a meal replacement to help with weight loss?

Protein shakes can bring many benefits as an addition to your diet but shouldn’t be used to replace it. Using protein shakes as a meal replacement will lead to a non-sustainable and non-progressive weight loss. Along with having too much protein within your diet, supplementing your daily food intake for shakes will lead to weight gain and health issues, even if your using meal replacement shakes.

Replacing your diet with shakes will lead to a lack of nutrition and vitamins within your daily diet. If your using meal replacement shakes rather than protein shakes, these will also lead to similar issues. Meal replacement shakes carry around half the calorie and nutrition intake you should be having with each meal. Although you may notice quick weight loss results, it wouldn’t be a long term solution to loosing weight. Having a liquid diet and then switching back to a balanced diet will lead to immediate weight gain, and further causing heal issues and a unstable metabolism.

Using protein shakes to boost your weight loss is a much suitable, sustainable option. Still maintaining a balanced diet while using protein shakes to support your exercise, and boost your protein intake.

How should I use protein shakes?

So, if you should use protein shakes to supplement your diet rather than replace your diet, how should you do that? Protein can be found in lots of different foods, but there are reasons people decide to take protein shakes. To bulk up and boost exercise performance, if your struggling to reach your recommended income of protein or if your trying to lose weight, protein shakes can be great for these reasons! If your trying to boost strength and increase exercise performance, protein shakes are proven to help build muscle and increase performance.

So how much protein should you consume? The recommended amount of protein you should have in your everyday diet should be 0.8g per kg that you weigh. Keeping to this amount is important in regards to your health, and taking this into consideration when consuming protein shakes is key.

The FitFarms weight loss retreat recently ran a workshop at our Derbyshire site near Birmingham on the importance of protein in your diet.

Losing the benefits from protein shakes by consuming too much protein could lead to a number of health issues and weight gain. Keeping in mind the risks, protein shakes can boost your muscle growth, metabolism, preserve mass and benefit your weight loss.