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We've all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I'm a firm believer in this. Ever since I lost weight, one of the factors that has been a part of my regimine is breakfast. One of things I told myself was since I used to rarely eat breakfast, I can utilize that to my advantage by eating exactly what my body needs and not gorge on foods that I can easily live without.  So I tried a few things in the morning like Bran cereals, fruit, etc. I finally landed on Whey Protien shakes mixed with Soy Milk.

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Each scoop of Whey Protien Isolate is about 20-25g of protien.  I've read you really want to use Whey Protein Isolate, not concentrate.  The Isolate type has less fat and lactose per serving so in essense, it's more pure than the concentrate.  I usually add two scoops so that's somewhere between 40-50g of protein not counting the protein from the Soy Milk which is about 6g.

Heather has a great tool called "The Magic Bullet". Yes, the name is open for all kinds of jokes.

You can actually find these at Fry's too. It's great since it's small and I can drink right from the glass used to blend the two.  I used to try to just mix the Soy milk and whey together with a spoon but it was always clumpy. 

Now the ultimate is to use

• frozen (or regular) berries (strawberries, blueberries and rasberries), 
• whey protein
• a little flax seed (seed or oil), 
  
• tablespoon of vanilla,
  
• half tablespoon of peanut butter (this really is good for you in small dosage)
• maybe some oatmeal but I haven't tried that yet, I've only read that it's a great option.

Normally I don't take the time to make a berry mixed shake so it's usually just Soy Milk and Whey  but the weekends are different.  Although Heather has gotten me into Oatmeal on the weekends. Real Oatmeal with whole oats, cut up apples, cinnamon, and a dash of vanilla. Her and I like to have that Saturday mornings.

I usually drink one of these with a multivitamin mix in the morning and that's how I start my day. Interestingly, as long as I keep this regmine up, I have a LOT more energy in the day and function better along with my training routine.