I'm too restricted to eat food in the morning. I also can't do protein shakes because sugar and artificial sweeteners make me binge on sweets. Any suggestions for a morning drink with protein?

I would suggest you consider buying Protein shakes sweetened with Stevia if you want the convenience of just pouring a scoop of protein in your mixer with Water or milk. You can do a google or yahoo search for Protein Drink stevia Stevia is a plant leaf extract with no known side effects and it is not processed by the body like sucralose (Splenda). Amazon.com has quite a few flavors and sizes available in their protein drink with stevia. I hope these help. I'm sure someone here who had experienced this can suggest a more natural recipe perhaps with the unflavored protein powders.

http://www.naturalhealthmarket.com/whey.htm

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This was an Amazon.com search for "Vitalabs Ultra whey 24" which are protein powders sweetened with Stevia

http://www.energyfirst.com/

Their Pro Energy is sweetened with Stevia

I know what you mean about the weight loss shakes making you binge on sweets. But I found one at my local vitamin store that doesn't effect me this way. It's called Designer Whey Protein, in choc, vanilla. It's a powder, one scoop in a blender, I add ice, milk, banana or frozen strawberries. It takes care of my hunger till lunch and in the afternoon if I have a sweet tooth it satisfies me.

Thanks to you both! That;'s exactly the info I needed.

some lap band Drs say no powdered drinks, but mine doesn't, luckily....

I'm especially tickled about the stevia. I like it and use it.

Something in me says I need to get away from everything sweet, but this will be my interim stage.....