Thank you, VeganSmart All-In-One Nutritional Shakes, for sponsoring this post, Staying Postpartum Healthy with VeganSmart All-In-One Nutritional Shakes. I was selected for this opportunity by VeganSmart All-In-One Nutritional Shakes; the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.
Being a new mom, it is pretty common to say, "I can't seem to find time for..." fill in the blank. A shower. A warm cup of coffee. The pile of laundry with spit up and poop. Breakfast. Lunch. Exercise. The list honestly goes on and on.
The days are long, but they seem to pass by without much time to do hardly anything beyond snuggling and holding your baby. Unfortunately though, things like drinking water and eating are essential, especially for breastfeeding. They are required for your body to make milk, and realistically it is super hard to ensure that these things happen during the day.
If you are like me, I tend to put everything else over myself. I'm working on this a lot this year, but things that "slow my productivity down" such as eating falls to the bottom of the list. I eat when I am hungry, but I can go off much less than is needed to keep my milk supply up. I also want to make sure that when I eat, what I eat is healthy, but that is not usually how it goes...
My day typically looked like this:
- 8:00 am: Coffee & Yogurt
- 11:00 am: LaraBar
- 1:00 pm: Start thinking about Lunch
- 2:30 pm: Wonder if I can make it to Dinner
- 3:00 pm: Wish I would have made a salad 2 hours ago
- 4:00 pm: Find myself in a drive thru grabbing something off of the dollar menu
And there is it. I have attempted to live off of a yogurt, LaraBar, and crappy dollar menu burger all throughout the day. After Dusty went back to work from paternity leave, this is what my life looked like for over a week. I still shake my head at it, but it is still really hard to not fall back into this rhythm as well. So when I was sent VeganSmart All-In- One Nutritional Shakes, I was excited to throw them into my daily routine of maternity leave.
I am not protein shake person. This is mainly because there is so much junk and lack of natural nutrients in the majority of protein shakes out there. However, VeganSmart All-In- One Nutritional Shakes offers me optimal plant-based nutrition in a variety of flavors that makes eating healthy easy and delicious! With all of the good stuff, like a prebiotics blend, and none of the bad stuff, like artificial preservatives, you’re getting much more than a protein shake with VeganSmart, I'm getting the nutrients I need to make it through my day.
The shake itself is made with 20 grams of non-GMO plant-based protein, a complete whole food complex, 22 vitamins & minerals, dietary fiber and prebiotics. The drink has a rich creamy taste that makes me feel like I am treating myself, not actually doing something good. It is also much more than a protein shake, because it’s essentially all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff: No cholesterol, zero trans fat, no egg/no dairy, soy free, gluten free, no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives, no acesulfame-k, no MSG. The whole food complex actually consists of nine different healthy, colorful fruits and vegetables to support wellness.
Honestly, it's probably the healthiest thing I'm consuming all day!!
A 15-serving container of VeganSmart All-In-One Nutritional Shake typically retails for $36.99, and it is available to purchase at Walmart, The Vitamin Shoppe, CVS, Albertsons, Meijer, Weis Markets, Walgreens, Safeway, Harris Teeter, Gelson’s Markets, Market Basket, Clark’s Nutrition & Natural Foods Market, Akin’s Natural Foods, Bristol Farms, Brookshire’s Food & Pharmacy, Big Y, Mariano’s, Vitamin Discount Center, and many other retailers. To find a store near you, visit vegansmart.com/where-to-buy.
If you are interested in trying it, VeganSmart has a great offer to share with you as well. Save $7.50 on VeganSmart with a printable coupon redeemable at your local retailer.
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