Jay you know what i never drink protein shakes and to be honest a lot of drinks are high in suger and calories. I drink coffee with no suger, milk i drink and lots of water.
My problem is that I like to eat well. I don't consume and sugar substitutes. I don't ever use margarine, always butter. If I add anything to my coffee, it will be either heavy cream or at least half and half. Another issue I have is controlling the quantity of what I eat. While I rarely get hungry, I also rarely feel full. The result is that I tend to eat too much.
What protein drinks provide me is meal replacement. The drinks I bought at Costco today, which have 30 grams of protein derived from Whey and soy, only have 170 calories. There is no breakfast or lunch I could eat with so few calories. I am not drinking protein drinks in addition to meals.
Dinner is more difficult for me to gain control over. Both my wife and I love to cook. She made dinner tonight. She fixed boneless and skinless chicken breasts with a Lingonberry sauce, snap peas in butter, Stovetop stuffing, pear halves with cream cheese balls in the pit area and French dressing to top. All yummy stuff. I ate all of my chicken breast, a large helping of snap peas, a small helping of the stuffing and two pear halves with the cream cheese, but not the French dressing. I had one glass of red wine with dinner.
This is what my wife decided to fix after I told her I was going to cut back my food intake to help me lose some excess fat. For desert I am drinking a cup of green tea with nothing in it. I will have one more protein drink late tonight. Normally, I drink a Grande Chai Latte from Starbucks sometime during the day. I am going to switch to café Americano, which is basically espresso with nothing but water in it.
Because my back is still a little out of whack, I am moving slower than usual today. My guess is I didn't burn many calories.
Like you, I am a big water drinker. I don't bother with the bottled stuff. Our refrigerator provides filtered water, which is chilled. I avoid ice because I tend to chew it. As a result, I managed to crack both my lower wisdom teeth, which now sport gold crowns. I don't mind having gold teeth were no one can see them. I'd hate to crack a front tooth and end up with a gold crown with a diamond in the middle....it just isn't me! LOL.
