re: Annual Squatober Thread - PR Party Complete - see you in 2026!!!

I finally woke up at 1040 this morning....dragging!
Expected to be sore like no ever, but the DOMS don't usually don't get to me until around 36-48 hours though, so I probably have that to look forward to tomorrow sometime. My energy levels are basement level right now. Good thing I got nothing else going on except doing these SQUATober sessions, or I don't think I could pull this off. You people with jobs and kids and other obligations are real HE-men in my opinion.

My plan to eat a pumpkin pie a day as a way to make sure I remain well fed and aid recovery has been slightly modified. While a pie a day sounds great and felt oh-so decadent, I have found myself too tired to want to eat that much. Through 3 days I've consumed 2.25 pumpkin pies. The first two were made with Libby's canned pumpkin pie mix, not bad, too sweet though.

I changed it up with the last two I fixed up. Now using Libby's canned pumpkin puree, but adding all the other ingredients like the milk, salt, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, etc. These are just the recipes on the back of the Libby's can.

I decided to add unflavored whey protein isolate to the mix to make a Power Protein Pumpkin Pie! I added 4 scoops, or 100g protein to the mix, which makes 2-9inch pies, so each pie has slightly more than 50g of protein total, nothing phenomenal but better than normal circumstances. The final consistency of the baked pie is a little off, may have to add more milk or adjust cook temp/time settings, but the sweetness is perfect as is the flakiness of the crust(Best Choice brand rolled pie crusts, I ain't making my own pie crusts, I'm not Betty Crocker over here). But it's a nice seasonally appropriate way to get a sweet treat after a tough training session that would normally only have a minimal amount of protein that now has a higher amount of protein in it. Better this way than it being just a huge sugar/carb bomb.

I use a lot of NOW foods brand supplements and that's the brand I use for the whey protein isolate. I settled on that one because I had the best experience with it as far as mix-ability. No matter if it was shaker bottle, blender, or stirring with a spoon, I can always get this to mix well with no clumps at all, which I hate. And unflavored means unflavored instead of "weird" flavor like some other brands I've tried in the past.