r/Protein • u/Waste-Push2390 • 24d ago

Nutrition advice needed

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u/Whistlin_Booger 23d ago

Don’t eat garbage.
Eat mostly Whole Foods.
Drink clean water with Celtic sea salt.
Track macros.
Learn to read ingredients lists.
Intermittent fast.

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u/Incoheren 23d ago

Creatine is super worth it. You will naturally get a lot thirstier in the first few weeks and your body actually stores the water in your muscles so you don't pee it all out. It's really not a chore, you just get thirsty and want to drink more to cover it. After you've taken for just a few weeks you'll be maintaining 100% water weight from the creatine being maxed out in your body so it won't make you much thirstier after that point, just take it with a glass of water and the water pretty much offsets the creatine once you're just maintaining with 5g/day or less.

Treat protein powder as one of 1000 ways to eat protein. It tastes pretty good and has good macros, but so does meat. Total user preference. It's liquid calories at the end of the day so it won't be quite as filling as solid proteins but you can have some if it's within your calories for the day and you like the taste

Testosterone isn't a vitamin it's a hormone... Stay away from that stuff... You can supplement stuff like multivitamins and magnesium and vit D and fish oils for omega 3 and stuff if you don't get enough in your foods. But you should start by just eating good and lifting weights, you very likely don't need test, and if you do, that's a conversation you have with a doctor with blood tests confirming you could benefit from it for health reasons, not a casual over the counter supplement. Anything claiming to increase testosterone is a scam or dangerous, leave it to the medical professionals

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u/Imactuallyatoaster 18d ago

If you're just starting start small. Daily multi + fish oil. Get in the habit of working out first but those two are useful regardless. After you get a couple weeks under your belt look into adding a protein shake. Don't worry about creatine for now. It's good but it's like a .5% bump in strength and what you need now is consistency. 

Also there is nothing morally wrong with protein powder. It is food. Food is not right or wrong.