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Chocolate Banana Frosty Protein Shake

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My life is now complete! After years of having the same post workout combo (protein power mixed with water and a 1/2 of a banana), I decided it was time to mix it up a bit. After what looked like a science experiment gone horribly wrong, I came up with this delicious goodness. I found the original recipe online and made some tweaks to make it my own.

1 scoop MRM All Natural Chocolate Malt Whey Isolate

1 c. Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk

1/2 Frozen Banana

1/4 Alcohol Free Vanilla Extract

5-6 ice cubes

Blend in your handy dandy Ninja blender and enjoy!

This shake is a perfect post workout replenisher as is, but if you would like to make it more of a meal, make these modifications to make it more filling.

Add: 1 T nut butter

Add: 2 T uncooked oats

Use: 1 frozen banana

But if you would like to jazz up this shake a bit, pick and choose what you you would like to add and make your own version.

1/2 c milk of your choice and 1/2 c cold coffee

1-2 T cocoa

1-2 T chia seeds

1 c spinach

1/4 c cottage cheese or plain greek yogurt

Fitness Goals: The Mental Side

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This article was recently posted on Health Your Way

OVERCOME

So much attention is focused on the physical side of goal setting, but what about the mental and emotional aspect of striving to reach a goal that’s important to you? Train and prepare your mind, as well as your body. Only then will your experience be complete…and more enjoyable!

Every day is a new day, a new week and a new chance to start working towards your goals. So, what are goals exactly? Goals are something that are within your reach that you WANT. It may take WORK to reach them, but the WANT will carry you to them.

 Enjoy the journey.

Sometimes we get stuck in the “work” part of the goal. It’s too hard, it’s too far away, it will take too long, and we forget about why we wanted to reach the goal in the first place. The fire that burned inside of us, the excitement, the JOY. Your goal is obviously something that you want and is going to be awesome when you reach it, so why not enjoy the journey until you get there?

 Focus on the positive.

You are working towards something positive, so if you stay positive and focus on how great the changes are, you will keep moving forward. If you get stuck in the negative or keep looking for the negative, you will have an awful time.

 Your experience is your choice.

You may struggle or have bad days, but look at those as lessons learned. You found a way that doesn’t keep you on track, so don’t go down that path again. See, negative into a positive. You are the one who is on this journey – you control how you experience it. You can make the best of it or you can make the worst of it.