Re: Re: Phosphagen question

March 1, 2006

It's not ideal to consume that much sugar if your goal is fat loss.

Phosphagen HP is fine for maintenance, muscle gain, or endurance

sports, but most women trying to lose body fat will use Betagen or

plain creatine (EAS calls it Phosphagen without the HP on the end)

because neither of them have any sugar at all.

If you are trying to lose fat and you want to finish the container of

Phosphagen HP, you can cut the serving size in half (70 cals, 17g

sugar, 2.6g creatine) and count it as all or part of the carb portion

in your post-workout meal. Maybe put it in a protein shake with some

berries or something.

It's not awful or anything, even if you decide to keep taking a full

serving. It's just not ideal because those are calories that could be

coming from satisfying food instead of a sugary drink mix. The sugar

is in there because back in days of yore, they belived that a great

big sugar-induced insulin spike was the best way to improve creatine

uptake and get the stuff into your muscle cells quickly. So, it either

came in a sugary drink mix, or the instructions would tell you to take

it with something like grape juice. Over the years, the " sugar rush "

delivery system has fallen out of favor. Most people have found that

creatine works great plain or that there are better, lower carb

formulations.

On 2/28/06, rebekkerr2003 <rebekkerr2003@...> wrote:

> Forgot to add that it also has 33g of sugar, too.

>

> >

> > Hey guys,

> >

> > This is the first time I've used this. Should I be concerned or

> count

> > the calories in this? It's 140 cals.

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