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Fellow gym guy here. Try Designer Whey Protein. I like strawberry. It's one of, if not THE easiest mixing/easiest to drink protein powders out there.

If you're drinking it post workout, which you should be, you should add in a simple carb such as dextrose (a type of sugar). After a workout, carbs are as equally important as protein, and whey as the protein source and dextrose as the carb source are the best choices you can make post workout.

And creatine... creatine doesn't make you "cut." It's not magic, either. It works for most people, but not all (usually people with high natural creatine levels in there body don't get much response from it). It will cause some water retention (which is why people get "bigger" when they use it, as water is retained in the muscle making it appear larger).

The main purpose of creatine supplementation is to increase the amount of creatine available to your muscles. Creatine is your muscle's first source of energy, so if you have more creatine, your muscles have more energy. This means if you could normally do 5 reps with a certain weight, maybe now you'll do 10.

Over time, this in turn leads to increased strength, which leads to increased muscle. The weight/size gained in the first few weeks however is nothing but water retention, not muscle.