Do you take anything more unusual than your standard (cheap) multivitamin? Love them? Hate them? Don't care Any interesting/odd/good/bad experiences? Followed/following any sort of diets that consist of shakes/bars/etc.? Anything else you can think of?
Using these seem to be pretty common for people who use the gym for anything other than normal cardio. I think some of us had a similar conversation in an MSN convo once.
As for me... almost all of the above. Recently I went on a 5-day shake diet that I thought I would never go on.* It's supposed to be a sort of cleansing diet that also gets your body used to having low glycemic (slow digesting, usually high fiber) diet. The diet itself and hell associated with not eating "real" food aside... the stuff didn't taste bad. Except for their strawberry ver. of the shake has and probably always will taste like Pepto-bismol.
It did seem to make somewhat of a difference afterward. Cravings for a lot of things dropped and my appetite went down. Not too traumatizing. Ended up learning how much of a gift good food really is.
I used to take cheap Kirkland vitamins from Costco and somehow managed to make them last month. Whether or not they actually help (some people like the all-natural thing) I wouldn't know. When I did the shake diet, however, the company that made them provided me with some of their own vitamins to take. If you trust their word (not going to say that they're right), they absorb very well unlike most vitamins.
One of the more visible side effects and prob TMI is that your urine turns a sort of bright yellow at first when your body has an adequate or maybe excess amount of one or various types of Vitamin B. Never saw that before...
*Already aware that a balanced diet is the best thing ever and that all foods have their place in moderation, but will probably get to hear it again.
Originally Posted by Andromeda
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