Try This Protein Pancake This Weekend to Fry Belly Fat

Sometimes you just love to rip into a big stack of pancakes on a Saturday or Sunday morning - but trust me, you will pay the price.  Pancakes are very high on the Glycemic Index, which means that insulin levels will surge, and those carbs will be packed onto your body as stored fat…undoing all of the good work you did during the week.  So try this substitute this weekend - I had these last weekend and drizzled them with melted natural peanut butter.  You could also use sugar free syrup or jelly and some real butter to top these tasty high-protein pancakes.  The casein in the cottage cheese and the fiber in the oats will keep you feeling satisfied, and burning fat, straight through to lunch.

• 1/2 cup low (or no) fat cottage cheese
• 1/2 cup steel cut oats
• 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites (any size egg)
• Dash of cinnamon

Blend all ingredients in a blender, divide batter into four equal pancakes and cook in a frying pan or griddle on medium-high heat.  Flip when bottom is golden brown.

Be creative - add some blueberries in after blending or on top, strawberries would work great as well!