Are mass gainers bad and should a 141 lbs (63kg) 20 Yr old 5 ft 8 male be using one?
Some boomer came up to me in the gym and gave me unsolicited advice on food and he told me to stop using mass gainers (I have used pic related since I started lifting 3 months ago) because of their high sugar content and they will make me fat. He told me to switch to casein or even simple whey
I'm only 141 lbs (63kg) at 5 ft 8 at 20 years old
I feel like I'm too light to not be using mass gainers.. Am I wrong?
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Just eat more food.
He's correct, just eat more food
OK thanks but should I continue using mass gainers or not? It is definitely helpful in fulfilling my macros
>should I continue using mass gainers or not?
yes but only per rectum
Helpful as ever, Jow Forums
Don’t use this garbage. Read the ingredients. Full of sugar and shit carbs. Just ear good nutritious food and don’t fall for meme powders.
Serious Mass by ON
1,250 Calories
50g Protein
250g Carbs
giving ON gainer as example cause it's better than MyProtein caloric wise.
Home made Mass gainer
1460kcal
CHO:250g F:26g P:52g
Oats 250g
Milk 1.5% 500ml
Banana 3large (~354g)
add some peanut butter if you want.
add some water to it so to make it less dense. you need a blender for this.
you can do all sorts of calculations. a homemade mass gainer is less expensive
plus if you add whey too it it's even more protein.
If you want mass gainer, get a stick of butter, a bag of flour, a bag of sugar, some eggs, mix it all together and eat
wala, mass gainer
and if you cook it you can call it cake
Don't waste your time and money with fat gainers. They're full of sugar and other crap.
As others itt have said, stop taking that garbage. Finish your bag if you will but don't buy anymore of it. I'm sorry to break to you but you need to eat more, there isn't any other way and you can't replace that by taking that processed stuff, on the long run it will fuck your body. You can risk it as many others have but don't be surprised if you're gonna fuck up your liver/tyroid etc.
Regarding eating, just try to eat more often. Don't let 2 hours lass without snacking on something and be sure to always eat three meals a day (not including snacks). Start your morning by making a huge milkshake with fruits, oats, peanutbutter, seeds and whatever you have lying around, behold your mass gainer.
>hurr durr I don't know how to cook a meal with loose macros and 50g of protein
Fuck what they say OP, took mass gainer for 2 years when I was a newb and had great results. Getting into a lifting routine can be tough enough by itself, add in the fact that you probably need to double your caloric intake and things get even more complicated. Take that mass gainer but also eat. The one your taking now is probably good, Serious Mass and Carnivore are also decent choices. Be working on your chef skills though. Ground beef and chicken, frozen veggies and sweet potatoes.
Appreciate the advice lads
Elaborate on it ruining my body such as liver and thyroid please, what are the consequences?
8 scoops of mutant mass
Lanklet here. Fuck buying 'Mass gainers'. Make your own
Milk
Whey protein
Oats
Peanut Butter
Olive Oil
Eggs (optional)
I get a 1000 calorie shake every post-workout or before bed and it works out a fraction of the cost of buying overpriced gainers full of sugar and other crap.
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Same height and weight as me when i was your age. Eat breakfast, drink your mass gainer shake. Eat lunch. Lift. Eat dinner. Eat a sandwich from subway, drink a mass gainer shake and go to sleep. Eat a double quarter pounder from mcdonalds every other day. I was in the army and doing 3 a days and I stayed lean and still put on mass eating like that.
Keep using them. You probably don't get enough calories without them
"mass gainer" is basically just protein powder with extra sugar added to up the calories.
IIFYM. (Hint: unless you're a perma bulking power lifter, it probably doesn't.)
Wow all that fast food and you're not a fat fuck?
It's trash. I bought it once and it made me fart literally every 10-15 minutes.
Does whey protein on its own or casein make you fart a lot
If you eat half a pound of it per day maybe. It’s really msotly protein farts that you can also get from other foods, unless you have an intolerance for lactose or some shit
Anyone giving out advice without being asked have no clue about shit.
Dunno what these cucks are complaining about. You can get 30 servings for $40 and that shit brought me from 155 to 215 in two years, and I'm still pretty lean. This thread is probably full of manlets that eat less than 4000 calories a day
Just eat food GODDAMNIT
Blended oats are way better than mass gainer. Simple sugars are addicting and cravings to eat bad will come if you don't cut sugar