Originally Posted by
DocRawk
This is my first post on here, but I figure it's as good a topic as any. I also have significant problems with lactose. I keep a big box of lactase tabs in our kitchen and even have some stashed in my wife's purse for nights out, but it's definitely not what I would consider to be enough of a fix for daily lactose consumption. Taking lactase (usually 4-6 tabs so not underdosing) leaves me with significant amounts of gas and moderate bloating vs horrible cramping and diarrhea without it. Sometimes a bowl of ice cream or a pasta with cream sauce is worth a little gas. I just cannot convince myself that whey protein is worth daily gas and bloating.
Anyway, I've been using egg white protein for most of a year now. It's a little more expensive than whey, and it doesn't mix into shakes very well at all. It's just too gummy/gooey when it gets wet. I've had the best time with it making it into no bake protein bars. The recipe I'm currently using gives 282 kcal, 23g protein, 23 carbs w/4g fiber, and 13 grams of fat. I use the bulksupplements brand because of price and Amazon prime shipping.
I'm not currently on NLP as I'm waiting until I sell a piece of land (currently under contract) to purchase a power rack and barbells for me and my wife. Currently using some Bowflex 1090 dumbbells to best approximate the workout that I can and mostly making progress on press/benchpress but not so much on squat and DL...
That's to say that, once I'm equipped to start a legit NLP, I'm considering changing the recipe to a more aggressive mix that will yield 621 kcal, 46g protein, 41g carbs w/9g fiber, and 35g fat. I couldn't get away with eating more than 2 of these per day in addition to my regular meals without blowing up, but 4 of these per day is VERY similar to GOMAD from a pure macro perspective.
I'm happy to post recipes if anyone is interested (they're simple and pretty tasty) and would love feedback from Robert on how the numbers look for these.