Long time no write. Yeah whatever.
Last year I ended as a champ at maintaining my weight. This year I’d like to actually lose. Obviously, what I’ve been doing isn’t working so I need to change something. After reading around for a while I’ve decided I need to cut back on carbs and bump up my protein.
I decided to try out a morning breakfast shake with a protein powder.
Normal breakfast for all of last year:
1/4 cup greek yogurt
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1 tablespoon grapenuts
1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds
Normally got hungry at 1 pm
Tue:
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/2 cup whole milk
1 scoop protein powder
1/2 banana
Got hungry at 11:00 am
Wed:
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/2 cup whole milk
2 scoop protein powder
1/2 banana
Got hungry at 11:30 am
Thur:
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/2 cup whole milk
2 scoop protein powder
1/2 banana
1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds .
Got hungry at 1 pm
This is very encouraging. Next week I think I am going to eliminate the milk and cut the yogurt back down to 1/4 cup. Also, I think I’ll try adding a tablespoon of peanut butter. The flaxseed did make it a bit gritty, but I want to try to stay with the flaxseed if I can instead of going with generic fiber powder to keep the omega-3 that the flaxseed gives. Hopefully the peanut butter will disguise the flaxseed grit.
