I'm a health freak! I love being healthy. I am the girl who stands in the produce section or the "healthy people isle", simply staring at all the food-trying to decide which food would give me the most valuable vitamins. Not a typical hobby, I know, but you do what makes you happy, right?
Anyway, my most recent health endeavor has been protein consumption. I want to start building some more muscle so, I started researching how to do that. I found that eating a high protein diet-especially after a hard workout, helps build muscles. There is a long scientific explanation for how this happens, but in short, when you exercise you are tearing down your muscle fibers and in order to build your muscles and help them recover you have to consume lots of protein. This of course makes sense when we take into account the fact that our bodies are made up of protein.
I have also decided to try eating small amounts of food-five times a day. Doing this gives me energy all day long and keeps my metabolism going. I purchased a Whey protein powder and started drinking that after my workouts. A lot of the ideas for food and exercise that I use, I have gotten from www.bodyrock.tv. She has great workouts and recipes in abundance!
A yummy drink I tried the other night with my protein powder, was a non-alcoholic pina colada.
It consisted of:
-1 Can of coconut milk
-1 Can of pineapple (next time i'm going to add at least another half a can though-I would recommend this)
-1 Banana
- 2 scoops of vanilla protein powder (you can make it without this...i just stirred some into mine after it was finished-tasted good without it though)
- Add just a little bit of chilled green tea and some ice
- Blend and drink!
Little side note-when I say I want to build muscle, don't worry, I'm not trying to become the next Arnold Schwarzenegger! Muscle is just another step in my health journey. =)
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