Protein cocktail at home

Protein cocktails initially were exclusively a sports nutrition and assumed not a decrease in body weight, but its increase due to muscle growth. However, in connection with the fact that losing weight has always been in much greater demand, resourceful producers have guessed that if one or several meals are replaced with such a cocktail, you can achieve weight reduction. Now many seek to get a similar effect by consuming home-made protein cocktails.

Protein cocktail for muscle growth and weight loss

Protein cocktails for muscles will not increase your muscles by themselves, but they will help to do this with the help of training. In the process of loading with the use of additional weight, muscle tissue is destroyed, and as the protein actively participates in the process of restoration and growth of muscle tissue, the reception of cocktails helps to develop musculature in the shortest possible time. It is believed that you should drink a protein shake after training, in this case, the maximum effect is achieved. If you do not exercise, the expressed effect may not follow.

The effect of weight loss in nutrition with protein cocktails is achieved by reducing the total caloric content of the diet and reducing the percentage of carbohydrates that give fast energy. This is more of an auxiliary, rather than a full-fledged assistant in losing weight.

Any food substitute is usually not well tolerated and does not give a sense of satiety. However, if you use protein shakes in parallel with the usual diet without sports, you will soon gain weight, and, not at the expense of muscles.

Protein cocktails: recipes

There are several ways to make a protein cocktail. This can be done both with the use of purchased protein, and from improvised products. So, let's look at the recipes that make a delicious protein cocktail at home:

1. A simple protein cocktail at home . Mix in a blender a pack of fat-free cottage cheese, 1-1.5 cups of milk and add a filler for taste - it can be berries, cinnamon or vanillin.
2. Protein-vitamin cocktail . Mix in the blender 5 egg whites, half a glass of orange juice and the same amount - pineapple.
3. Homemade chocolate protein cocktail . Mix 5 egg whites, 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup, milk and a spoonful of chocolate-nut paste ("Nutella" type) in the blender.
4. Delicious protein cocktail . Mix in a blender a pack of low-fat cottage cheese, two glasses of milk 1.5% and a banana. You will receive two or three servings of cocktail.
5. Protein cocktail on nuts . Mix in a blender banana, 1.5 cups of milk and a handful of chopped nuts.
6. Protein and juice cocktail . Mix 0.5 cup low-fat milk, as much the same pineapple juice and half a cup of cottage cheese.
7. Shock protein cocktail . Mix a cup of egg whites, milk and 0.5 cup chopped nuts (best to take almonds or hazelnuts).

All the proposed recipes for cocktails you can equally well use for weight loss, and for muscle mass. For weight loss, you need to replace such a cocktail 1-2 meals a day, and for a set of muscle mass combine exercise with training. In any case, do not expect that this mixture will have the effect of both protein-based protein cocktails: after all, natural products do not allow to isolate the protein and give it to us along with fats and carbohydrates.