Nutritionist and sport drink mix question

[Catrin]

Look into Infinit Nutrition. You can make up your own sports drink. .... They make it very easy to set up your mix and, if needed, they will discuss it with you by phone. I've used it for a couple of years and swear by it.
www.infinitnutrition.us.

I will look into this, thanks to both of you who have mentioned it!

Catrin,
Be careful with adding sports drinks to your workouts. If you are doing anything under an hour and a half- an electrolyte packet is all you need(emergen c is great). Otherwise, you will just be replacing the calories you just burned off.

I've no choice but to do this - both doctors and nutritionist has strongly advised me to do this. I have a major hypoglycemia problem and my workouts are very intensive - I burn far more calories than are in the sports drinks... I must admit I feel MUCH better since starting to adding things to my water - and I eat properly.

I mix Sustained Energy with an electrolyte powder (Power bar's endurance to be exact). 2 scoops of each per bottle is a good 1 1/2 hour worth of liquid nutrition for me. I generally start with 2 bottles of this "brew", then switch one bottle to water later on down the line. I generally don't eat a lot of food and this does great for long rides. (And I mean long. ).

Thanks for your experience - I must admit that I find Sustained Energy interesting - and IMO the blander the better - when working out intensively I find that the less flavor in my water the better. I have always been like that. What doesn't seem very sweet to me when I am not working out suddenly becomes overly sweet when sweat is pouring off of my body... I have send an email to Hammer Nutrition to find out if I can get a sample of both of their "fuels" so I can taste them before purchasing.

Infinit is interesting as well, I think that I will just call them after I do some more research and discuss my needs with them