I see that many of you are struggling with the protein shake thing... check this out!

This is what I look forward to every day if you can believe it. I love my protein shake so I thought this might helps some of you. Iced Mocha/Khalua Frappacinno Ingredients: 8 oz of milk (I use light soy milk) 1 decaf Folgers coffee tea bag (yes they make these and for some reason it tastes the best) 3/4 scoop of choc protein powder 1 small dab of sugar free khalua davinci syrup optional squirt of light whipping cream (Rhedi whip makes one that is fat free, 5 cals, and 1 sugar per serving). ***I get all the ingredients at walmart How I do it: I use the magic bullet, you can also use a blender. I pour my milk, protein powder and small dab of syrup together. I then put that aside. I then take 3 oz of water and boil it in the microwave and then add my folgers decaf tea bag to this. I use a spoon to really smoo**** and get all the coffee flavor out of it for a minute. Then I add some ice cubes to cool this mixture off. Makes about 6 oz of fluid. Then I add this to my mixture and then blend it real well. I pour this over ice, add a squirt of whip and wala!!! It is soooooooooooooo yummy!!!

MAN!! That seems like too much work for me lol,may have my wife make it for me hehehe,sounds good tho may have to try it out,Thanks TONY

If I could get past the whole, "I hate coffee" thing, it does sound good, Melissa. Luckily, I don't have a problem with the protein shakes, as my surgeon has told us to get the hell off them and on solid food. LOL

That sounds good, but I can not use any form of artifical sweetner. I have always had a problem with them giving me migraines and since surgery it is even worse. Heather, I would love to hear more about how you get your protien from solid foods, please.

Well, at my 3 month recheck, the PA said it was time to kick the shakes and powders, unless absolutely needed. So, my protein intake was upped to 11-12oz of protein, divided among my meals & snacks for the day (so 77g of protein minimum). My day currently looks like: B: 3-4 oz of protein, 2 oz of fruit (21-24g protein) S: 1 oz protein (if I'm hungry by then) (6-8g) L: 4 oz of protein, 2 oz of fruit or veggie (24g protein) S: Usually yogurt or my 8 oz of milk (6-8g protein) D: 4 oz protein (24g protein) So, even without the morning snack, I'm at 77g of protein for the day. Add in the morning snack it's 84-85g. I can muddle fudge the calculations as well, if I don't want my snacks. If I'm feeling crappy (like when I was sick for a week), I can add 1/2 to 1 scoop of vanilla Body Fortress Whey protein from Walmart to my yogurt (or chocolate to my milk for chocolate milk) and that's between 11-23g of protein added to my day (if I don't feel up to eating the 3-4oz of protein at each of my meals). I haven't really touched the powder since I was a little under 3 1/2 months. All my protein comes from food now.

Thank you so much for the info. I also looked at your profile and saw what you had listed for some meals. I am mainly getting my protien from food also, I am so happy to find someone else doing so too.

I did mine today with vanilla protein powder and SF carmel davinci syrup. it tastes like something from starbucks. YYUUUMMMMMMYYYYYY!!! Thanx so much for the idea. Corinn