Hello Everyone,

I actually joined the forum a while back, when my friend Scott Ward got me onto it, but haven't really taken up the diet since then. I figured that to really measure the benefits of this diet, I needed to get my diet healthy to begin with. I've since cut out fast food and drinking, and have been eating my veggies and taking my vitamins every day.

I am a boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, so my diet wasnt' the unhealthiest to begin with. I am now ready to fully jump into this diet, and see if it is worthwhile for me. My first question would be whether I'm allowed to continue to drink my whey protein shakes. I buy the Gold Standard Natural brand, so there aren't really any addatives to it.

I understand that whey is a dairy byproduct, which already puts it into the bad colum, but I have to eat at least a gram of protein for every pound I weigh, every day. Shakes are the only way I can realistically get that ammount of protein in every day.

Are there any current or former fighters or athletes out there that can give me any good tips? I'm 6'1", 195lbs, and don't have much body fat on me.

It's good to get back on the forum. Hope you all have a good day.

-Lubomyr

That would be the obvious solution, but I don't see myself being financially able to do that.