Protein Oatmeal Recipe for Fitness

Vegan protein oatmeal recipe below!

I’ve been back to weight lifting for the last year or so, after over a year mainly out of the gym during the pandemic.

Trying to see if I can get to doing things like unassisted body weight pull ups for the first time in my life!

It’s psychologically more challenging than I thought to have faith if I eat more I can build muscle. I never really have built muscle — I was a competitive swimmer and water polo player in school but strength is a whole new thing.

When I’ve tried to put on muscle in the past I’ve always been worried about eating more and so it never really worked.

I’ve done tons of work on my fear of food and weight gain and the lifelong belief that less food is always better but it’s still weird to purposefully eat more (versus trying to restrict or binge eat junk, which were my 2 main modes most of my life).

So many of my meals these days are more focused on protein and are more hearty.

Here’s a recipe I’ve been loving:

1 cup oats

1/4 cup vegan protein powder

1.5 cups unsweetened almond milk (adjust as needed, I like mine less gloopy so I add more milk)

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp chia seeds

Stevia to sweeten

Cook briefly depending on directions on oat package (different kinds of oats need differing cooking times).

Top with:

1 tsp almond butter

1 TBS cacao nibs

Cut fruit (I used peaches here but you can use berries or apples too)

Jam (mine is raspberry jam)

Thanks to my fave fitspo ladies teaching their followers not to be afraid of food and to eat more to build muscle, including Whitney Simmons, Krissy Cela and Natacha Oceane.