First off I love how people who don’t know the whole situation and understand it like to give their opinion on things.

When on any diet where you are trying to lose weight your daily protein intake is important because it helps maintain a healthy metabolic rate. When you decrease the amount of calories you eat in order to lose weight, your body switches and burns more of the protein from muscle cells in order to maintain a balance in your body’s energy needs. An adequate intake of protein, along with sufficient calories, limits the breakdown of lean muscle for energy provision. After reviewing some of the research out there, the National Academy of Sciences reported that the only known danger from high-protein diets is for individuals with kidney disease. They recommend that 10 percent to 40 percent of daily calories come from protein. They point out that increased protein could be helpful in treating obesity. There is also accumulating evidence that extra protein may help prevent osteoporosis.

Israel is consuming about 2000-2300 calories per day. For adequate fat burning our dietitian recommends his diet be made up of about 40% protein. This means you should be consuming about 200-230 grams of protein per day. For the 3 meals and 3 protein snacks (about 1400 calories) he is consuming on average 140 grams of protein (or about 30% of his total calories from protein). While, yes, the protein shakes are adding in more protein they are also adding in more calories. Drinking the calories is a lot easier then adding in 600 more calories that you physically have to eat. You can see that by eating just the 3 meals and 3 protein snacks he is short on protein intake which is why our dietitian recommended the additional protein shakes. Yes, if you consume too much protein without increasing your calories you could be putting stress on your kidneys but Israel is increasing calories and protein (let’s not forget the fruit being added in which increases the carbs too). It is also true that eating more protein is not going to bulk up your muscles but that’s not our goal with the protein. The goal is to prevent the body from breaking down muscle to use for energy and also to replace torn muscles which happens when you workout.

Adding in the 2 extra shakes per day will not lead to obesity (as we see both Israel and I are losing weight). If we didn’t add in those shakes we would still have to get the extra calories from somewhere and if we just consume carbohydrates our blood sugar spikes and if we just consume a fat your blood lipids rise.

If you were consuming 50% or more of your calories from protein I would say it would be in excess however the amount we are consuming is not in excess nor is it harmful (unless we were to have kidney disease).

We appreciate your comment, and we hope this doesn’t end your relationship with Fat Man Unleashed in the future. We respect you for giving your opinion, actually we love your input, and commend you for your studies in nursing/nutrition. But with all do respect, this reply was given to us by one of our top dietitians Christina Shatlock MS/RD.

Reaction to medicine
dry mouth
and constipation

Try the symptom checker and add in any other symptoms you might have

http://symptoms.webmd.com/symptomchecker

You might want to get it checked it by your doctor. Let us know how it goes for you!

But feeling bitter taste, Unami taste, the latter you taste from certain amino acids (glutamate, aspartate and related compounds) both tastes are caused by raised Ca2+ in you mouth. That’s what causing the weired taste.

What you can do is try to find a mouth wash with chemicals that would join the Ca2+ removing the tongue buds of registering the “taste”.
Try buying some with sulphuric solution that should do it.

But I think that what you experience is the taste of creatine, creatine tastes very bitter, I personally have to rinse my mouth 3-4 times before I get rid of the damn taste after consuming it, small particles always stuck between the teeth, under the tongue and on it, making you still feel the damn taste.

But the mouth wash with sulphur makes it a lot faster to clean that shit out.