Tired Of Your Same Old Protein Shake?

What we eat accounts for more than 50% of our success in obtaining and maintaining an attractive physique. Besides cutting back on fats and simple carbohydrates, we need to load up on high quality protein if we wish to build strong, toned muscles. Besides getting protein from our food, most of us often supplement our diet with protein powders due to the convenience it offers, and sometimes - great taste!

However, if you're like me, and sometimes get bored of your ordinary protein shake - I find it refreshing to sometimes chuck the protein powder into a blender and come up with a protein shake that actually tastes and feels like chocolate milkshake.

Here's something to try that's ideal as a mid-day 'snack'. For this example, I'm using chocolate flavoured protein powder:

1. Add a double serving of your protein powder and mix it with a lesser amount of milk in a shaker first (this is so you dont get a sticky mess in your blender)

2. Pour the thick concoction into your blender.

3. Add in about 5 - 8 cubes of ice.

4. Add 1 tbsp peanut butter.

5. BLEND!

6. Pour into glass (you'll need a large one!)

7. With your arm around your pet dog, kick up your legs, relax, and sip away... Absolutely amazing!

Or pet cat I guess... but the effect isnt the same if you have hamsters or pet fish though

Now because you're adding ice and other ingredients, the flavour of your protein shake could be a little 'watered down'. So if your pimped-up protein shake did not taste as good as it's supposed to, or you messed up something while preparing it.

Protein Shakes For Weight Loss

Protein shakes are an excellent eating plan for weight loss. This gives you flexibility in your daily eating routine with protein shakes for two meals a day and one reasonable meal with normal food. Herbalife offers high quality soy protein shake mix and whey shake mix.

With these 3 meals you can change each day which meal you will have regular food, and which 2 meals you will have your shake as the meal replacement. This is both a healthy way to lose weight and great for most of our schedules where we find each day can be different depending on what works best with our family schedules.

For most people who use protein shakes for meal replacements having a shake for breakfast is their daily routine. And then they are flexible for lunch and dinner for which will be a meal of regular food, and which meal will be their 2nd protein shake.

Once you get in the habit of using protein shakes you will really appreciate the flexibility and nutrition value of protein shake meal replacements.

Using a variety of fruits will give you flexibility on your recipes for your protein shakes. And you give variety to your shakes with using different fruit juices including orange juice, apple juice, mango juice. Also good are soy milk or rice milk. Using extracts can give more variety to your shakes. Fruit will add more nutrition and more enjoyment of your protein shakes.

Using frozen fruit is an ideal way to be able to keep nutritious fruit on hand without the fruit spoiling. And unless you have fresh fruit direct from the fruit or berry vines where you live, the frozen fruit is very handy and keeps its nutritional value in the frozen for good while.

And the bonus of frozen fruit is that it is both handy to store and the frozen fruit acts as your natural ice cubes that give your shake a little more body, which most people enjoy.