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Bodybuilding requires a lot of energy from your body and causes stress to your muscles. Therefore, you need to eat well to get enough proteins and nutrition for muscle growth and repair.
Unfortunately, it is not always possible to prepare perfect low-fat meals that will help you achieve your goals. A singular whey protein shake is never enough because whey powders usually only contain whey protein isolates as the primary ingredient. Your body needs other nutrients like vitamins, fiber and carbohydrates to function well.
So what do you do when you find that you don't have enough time for a proper low fat meal? You can always turn to meal replacement shakes.
A quick reminder here - it is NEVER the intention of meal replacement shakes to replace your proper meals. Consume a meal replacement shake ONLY when you really don't have time to prepare a proper meal and you don't want to skip a meal. Never consume more than 2 meal replacement shakes in a single meal - i.e. don't replace more than 2 meals a day with these shakes.
A quality meal replacement shakes usually contain more calories than a conventional shake but less calories than ordinary meals. A conventional protein shake usually contain around 100 - 130 calories per shake. A meal replacement shake contains about 300 calories. Most meals contain more than 300 calories. A low fat healthy meal contains around 450 to 500 calories. A small meal rarely exceeds 500 calories. A super unhealthy meal, like a fast food meal, can exceed a thousand calories. For this reason, you have to be extra careful what you eat if you really want to build muscle and burn fat.
Here are some highly recommended meal replacement shakes.
1) UltraMet Champion Nutrition
Calories: 250 Contains 28 grams protein, 20 grams carb, 2 grams fat.
2) Met-Rx Meal Replacement
Calories: 280 Contains 42 grams protein, 24 grams carb, 2 grams fat.
3) EAS Myoplex Lite Meal Replacement
Calories: 180 Contains 25 grams protein, 20 grams fat, 1.5 grams fat.
4) Champion Ultra Met Meal Replacement
Calories: 190 Contains 29 grams protein, 17 grams carb, 1 gram fat.
Notice that all meal replacement shakes contain very low amount of fat. None exceed 2 grams of fat. The amount of carbs in the shakes vary - ranging from 17 grams to 24 grams per serving. Protein also vary quite a lot, ranging from 25 grams to 42 grams of protein in a single serving.
The calories in each serving will serve as a guide as to which brand of meal replacement shake would be most suitable for your goals. For example, some people just want to lose weight, so they drink meal replacement shakes that contain less carbs, and therefore less calories. Some meal replacement shakes are known as low carbohydrate meal replacement shakes and they contain a lot less carb - as low as 5 grams carbs per serving!
