Banana-Vanilla Smoothie!

Since getting back to school I've been really focusing on eating healthy and exercising more. I recently decided to run a 5K the second week of October so I'm very excited about that! In an attempt to eat healthier I also cut desserts out completely until my 5K. At first it was incredibly difficult to not eat sweets (I swear glucose is like a drug!), but I've officially gone a full week and feel great!

In an attempt to be prepared for my coming race I've also been working out quite a bit. On that note, I've always heard that after a hard workout we're supposed to eat something really high in protein so lately I've been trying to find something yummy, not too heavy (I don't know about ya'll I never feel like eating something like meat or even eggs after a workout--way too much) and that's also protein rich. Enter my banana-vanilla smoothie! I invented this little friend yesterday and I think it's great! So I thought I'd share my little invention:

1 scoop of vanilla whey protein powder 

1-1 serving container of low-fat vanilla yogurt 

About 1/3-1/4 cup of milk (depending on how watery you like the smoothie)

1 banana 

About a teaspoon of cinnamon (you can't really taste it, but cinnamon is really good for you and I just like to put something special in my smoothie to make it classy)

Pop all of that in a blender and there ya go! 

Here's a few ideas to change the smoothie up (I haven't tried some of them, but I feel like they can't be too bad!)

--If you don't have vanilla protein powder I think chocolate would work too (I mean people put chocolate on bananas all the time right?)

--Small spoonfull of orange juice concentrate.

--Freeze the bananas before to make the smoothie nice and cold.

--Of course substitute the vanilla yogurt for another type of yogurt (ie greek yogurt) and then just add some honey or vanilla