Hi I'm 5,10 ECTOMorph weigting 150lb.
Clearly my goal is to gain weight and I have used Gainer since I began lifting and it has helped me alot (slowly but has), but I keep getting told that gainers are garbage full of filler and to use protein shake by itself; When using common sence from the calories facts i can tell pure whey prot is low in fats and carbs which makes it kind of less usefull for me on gaining weight, has no carbs and no fat which is something I really need in my diet,specially when skinny and aiming to gain weight; people say I should just add my own oats and maybe some scoops of fish oil to make it more calorie rich, but the issue with this is that I already do this to my gainers since almost the beggining.
I would split my gainer shake in 3 meals each composed of about 35g prot+ one cup oat+2 scoops fish oil+ 1 ounce of turkey meat on eahc of them them; the gainer by itself has its own carbs and fat so + what i added make it even richer in nutrietns of all type and still I would barely build 2-5lb a month; so imagine if I used a whey prot instead with oats and fish oil it would be hundreds of calories less than when i used gainer and increasing the dose of oats to compensate would be simply crazy, just imagine yourself eating 2 CUPS!of oat with each of the 3 shakes, 1 cup is already really dense imagine consuming double to compensate the fact pure whey has almost no carb, how could this logically make me gain more than a gainer?!?
Also I predict people will say to eat real food, and my answer to that before someone bother saying this will be, I eat 3 other meals beside the suplemental 3 shakes which = 6 meals a day; and to show its not a bunch of junk food ill post them:
**Macros:calories/fat/carb/prot
MEAL1
1 cup rice/ aprox 3-4 oz chicken/beef/fish/turkey +Brocolli or salad
455cal/10g/53g/35g
MEAL 2
1 cup rice/ aprox 3-4 oz chicken/beef/fish/turkey + brocolli or salad
455cal/10g/53g/35g
MEAL 3
3 whole medium eggs
3 oz chicken
335cal/16g/1g/42g
MEAL 4,5,6
[SHAKE+1 CUP oat+2 scoop fish oil+ 1 ounce turkey (On each)
the nutritional fact on this would vary if i use gainer or whey prot and would be:
If gainer=1087/36/148/60
if whey prot=687/33/44/58
Based on this fact i want to know if it is better to use whey even tought It will clearly reduce alot my calories (by 400 calories!) and Im aiming to gain or using it is alright, and if the answer is that I should use whey prot then why? and how could something with less calories would make me gain? beside whatever suggestion you all feel i should fix or so is all welcome.Thanks.
The gainer shake names is G-mass incase someone wants to check its ingredient and calorie facts.
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