Wow! The discovery of added protein shakes!

Jul 31, 2009

Ok, so not all of us understand the NEED for protein shakes.  I'm one.  OOpsy!

So this week after about 1 month of NO weight loss (though I have to admit the carbs crept back into my life to some extent) I was reading on the forum repeatedly how many people (Lori Black THANK YOU, as well as others) were finding that they had increased energy and for those who needed to lose more weight yet, increased weight loss by adding one or two shakes a day to their meals.  Sooooooooo.....

Last Friday when I was buying groceries I picked up a HUGE container of Body Fortress protein powder at Wal mart (like $13.97 I think, so reasonably cheap!) and told myself I would try for a month and add one to two shakes a day to my diet and experiment to see what would happen.  

Now, this is kind of hard for me as I am now working a bit (YES!  WOOT I HAVE A JOB  out of the house!)  A bit more on that later...I like to sleep in (get up around 9-9:30) so I don't usually have a morning snack, so adding a shake then isn't feesible, I do have protein coffee (using coffee and BSN Lean Desserts either vanilla bean or fresh cinnamon roll which make my coffee taste JUST like an expensive cappucino).  I eat lunch about 2 hours later.  Sooo I am adding at some point in the afternoon my chocolate shake.  A lot of people mix the protein powder with water, but I can't do it...ICK!  I mix two scoops of the powder with a teaspoon of chocolate syrup and 6 oz of whole milk and about a cup of ice.  Then magic bullet here I come.  Whip that sucker good and that Ice pulverized makes it just like a yummy chocolate SHAKE.  :)  YUMMY!    AND I add 52 g of protein to my day!  Just between my afternoon shake and the morning coffee I get in 72 g of protein a day....then I EAT food for the rest!  

One of my goals for myself is to get off of disability...I'm working at it.  Due to insurance issues I am not pushing myself too hard right now, though the first of the year I plan on finding a job and getting off of it!  Right now I have picked up a job for temporary purposes...I am paying it forward in the process!  I am helping an older lady get to her doctor's appointments and grocery shopping and such right now, BUT she is in the process of getting her DS.  She has just finished all of her testing and as soon as Dr. A has all her records she is on her way to the SWITCH of a lifetime!  

I have to say that I am STILL thrilled with the DS and the choices I have made.  LIfe is LIFE now and being lived...instead of tolerated and just coasting through.  

My grandson has moved back to his home 5 hours away, and our walks are gone.  My 19 year old daughter got a little Yorkie this summer, Crash is his name.  We go for the walks now, but she is moving out in a couple of weeks and he is going with her so another of my walking buddies will be gone.  I will still work at taking those walks, I did buy an ipod shuffle so I have something to occupy my thoughts and walks.  I will continue to drink those protein shakes as I lost 5 pounds in the last 4 days due to the shakes and walking....WOOT! 

Life is just plain good....and this weekend is our local county fair....I have a promise from my hubby that he will take me....AND I will FIT on the rides so this is out for FUN!    For the first time in the 23 1/2 yrs that we have been married I will be able to WALK as much as I want, and ENJOY the fair...I'm soooo excited!  

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