I`d have to take the psyllium capsules by the handful!
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On the creatine, *DO NOT "LOAD" IT!!!* Doing that can *seriously* disrupt your, uhm...innards...and even when it works OK it just speeds up the process that would`ve happened eventually anyhow. Just take ~5g/day and don`t expect anything for the first few weeks. People try loading, spend a day in the bathroom hoping to die, and then say "that [crap] isn`t for me". You might even ramp up the dosage gradually rather than taking 5g right off the bat.
Did you get straight Creatine Monohydrate or one of the, uhm...drink mixes/etc. (now they have chews/etc. too but I`ve never done those)? These days I take Optimum Nutrition`s Creatine mixed with some Welch`s grape drink (just to make it palatable). The "works best in the presence of sugar" argument requires a ton of sugar (~75g IIRC) to do the presumed Insulin Response that apparently makes it work even better, but I did *NOT* get better results back when I was using those high-sugar Creatine drink mixes (but they sure were tastier).
I`ll be curious how it works for you. I gained ~7lbs. of lean weight (yeah, much of it was undoubtedly water but that`s fine with me) in record time and my performance was significantly boosted both in RT and Cardio. Eh, I`m a posterchild for Creatine, a real Responder by any measure.
Again, I strongly urge you to never take more than 5g of it per day. And remember that it absorbs pretty far downstream in your digestive system, so it`s not like you can "boost a workout by taking pre-workout Creatine" or help your recovery by taking it right after exercise, just doesn`t work that way.
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