As I promised, a review on GNC’s 100% Whey Unflavored Protein Powder. All I can say is wow! I’ve looked into unflavored protein powders before and typically find them to be just a little too expensive to just test out. I’ve been dying to try one however because I go through phases with my protein powders and just seem to get sick of one quickly and without any advance notice. I’ll be fine for a week or two and then all of a sudden one day I’ll make a shake, take two sips, and then it’ll sit there staring at me for the rest of the day while I try to avoid making eye contact with it.
I gave this powder a try on sheer impulse. I was in GNC picking up Rob some melatonin supplements. He has trouble staying falling asleep and staying asleep so he decided to give this a try, I don’t know how I feel about it. He seems to be sleeping more soundly, because he’s snoring a lot more and for a lot longer. So that’s great for him, not so much for me. Since he started taking it, I’ve found it near impossible for me to fall asleep and then even harder to stay asleep because someone is buzz sawing trees in bed next to me! I, of course, feel bad- but told him I’d buy him some breath-right strips if he were adamant on taking the melatonin.
Oh, so back to the powder! I manage to sidetrack myself a lot, as you’ll notice if you continue reading my blog! So there I was, in GNC, and I see the big SALE sign. I’m not easily led, but I am easy to talk into things, and sales are a weakness of mine. I mosey on over to the big red sale sign to see what they’re offering at a discount and it’s an entire wall of GNC brand protein powder! I looked through; chocolate, strawberry, vanilla- boring I have a cabinet full of these flavors! I keep perusing; banana cream, yuck, latte, I have my Click thank you very much, unflavored, more strawb… wait a minute! Unflavored!! Well, at $22.99 for a 2lb container of unflavored, I had to give it a whirl! I’m so glad I did.
I took 1 scoop of the unflavored protein powder and mixed it with a small amount of water, real small- no more than 3-4 tablespoons if I were to guess. I stirred that up and it dissolved pretty fast and effortlessly. I then added it to my morning Starbucks coffee, which I had iced the night before and had already sweetened with a packet of equal. Stirred it up and topped it off with a little Hood Fat Free Nondairy Creamer. It was delicious! It tasted like my morning coffee! It didn’t taste like my morning coffee with a scoop of protein powder, it just tasted right. I can see myself becoming a fan of morning coffee with an added 21g of protein punch to it!
Aside from my protein escapades, today was pretty low key for me. Worked on some of my schoolwork, which frightens me to even think about. This semester is coming to a close so quickly and it’s my last semester as an undergrad! Yes, Lily is graduating this May! I need to really start looking into Graduate schools if I expect to go somewhere else for my Masters degree. Part of me does not want to stay at my current school because of all the incompetence that I am constantly complaining about when it comes to screwing up paperwork for me. But the other part of me wants to stay there because it’s familiar, I’m using to complaining about it, I know the campus, and I don’t have to do much in order to sign up for Grad school since I have a rockin’ GPA there. I’m going to meet with someone this coming week to talk to them about the graduate programs. It would be nice to bang out a class or two at the grad level this summer.
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I LOVE the GNC Whey Protein! I like the banana mixed with a packet of Chrystal light orange drink. It tastes like banana orange juice! I am so totally going to have to try your coffee concoction! Sounds yummy!
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