Berry Spinach Vanilla Protein Shake

I’m finally back into the swing of things!  Yes, it took some time, but I am finally starting to get back into my old routines again.  Yesterday for breakfast I made one of my protein shakes.  This time instead of strawberries, I used frozen mixed berries.  It definitely tasted different than usual – not bad, just different.  Want to make this too?  Here’s what you need. 

Berry Spinach Vanilla Protein Shake

[Ingredients]

1 cup frozen mixed berries (mine had blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries)
large handful of spinach
handful of ice cubes
one scoop of vanilla protein powder – same kind used here
1 cup Original Almond Milk
1/4 teaspoon xantham gum
a splash of orange juice

[Instructions]

Place ingredients into blender
Blend
Serve

Nothing that complicated.  I have the same core ingredients in all of my shakes, but from time to time I will switch it up and 90% of the time the outcome is tasty.  Because this time I didn’t have any bananas on hand, the shake was a bit more icy than I’d like.  Don’t worry I stocked up on bananas for the rest of this week!

Jamie Eason’s Live Fit – Day 1

I told you yesterday that I’d be finally starting the Live Fit Trainer again.  Half of you probably thought, “No, she’s not.  She keeps putting it off.  She’ll never actually try it again.”  Well, my friends.  I did it. 

**EDIT: clearly I don’t know what year it is…

After getting home from work, I had two pieces of bread for some needed carbs, and headed to the gym.  Goodness, it was crowded!  Both treadmills and both bikes were taken, so I started with 15 minute warm-up on the elliptical.  My gym has a hybrid of a stair stepper and an elliptical.  The machine was definitely more difficult than a normal elliptical.  I stayed on it for 15 minutes at resistance #6. 

You can see the weight training exercises above.  The only thing I didn’t do was the narrow pushup exercise.  My arms were absolutely burning after everything else.  I definitely have more leg strength than arm strength! 

I didn’t take my binder with me, and I’m glad I didn’t.  There was way too many people in the gym and I didn’t want to misplace my binder or worry about moving it around the gym with me.  Instead, I wrote all the exercises I needed to do in Notes on my iPhone, and filled in the weights as I went along.  When I got home, I added everything to the workout sheet.

So far so good.  I’m looking forward to keeping up with this routine and seeing how my body changes with the weight training.

Talk to Me

• What’s your favorite ingredients to add to your shakes or smoothies?
• Do you have more leg strength or arm strength?
• Do you use a community gym at your housing complex, a gym at home, or a larger gym like a LA Fitness?