Anyone here make smoothies? (no homo?)
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Anyone here make smoothies? (no homo?)
I've recently gone on a diet again, since I have put back on about 40 pounds from what I lost two years ago. Smoothies have always been a good, healthy meal replacement that I have enjoyed. However I always stick to one recipe because it is so good, and have the vitamins and other things that I want and need. Not that there is a science to a smoothie "recipe" and you can simply throw in fruit and other things and get something tasty. Just need some new ideas. The one I always make is:
1/2 cup blueberries
3/4 cup pineapple
2 bananas
1 cup vanilla low fat yogurt
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup orange juice
~4 tbsp honey
10 ice cubes
Any powder supplement can be added of course.
That is enough for about two large glass fulls, or two meals. One tall glass in the morning and I am good to go until a late, light lunch, then the other for dinner, maybe with another light meal, if I feel like it. But usually I'm good with just one "real" meal a day, for lunch.
1/2 cup blueberries
3/4 cup pineapple
2 bananas
1 cup vanilla low fat yogurt
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup orange juice
~4 tbsp honey
10 ice cubes
Any powder supplement can be added of course.
That is enough for about two large glass fulls, or two meals. One tall glass in the morning and I am good to go until a late, light lunch, then the other for dinner, maybe with another light meal, if I feel like it. But usually I'm good with just one "real" meal a day, for lunch.
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Very good idea. I think I'll try that. Probably makes the texture a bit gritty and dry, but still it sounds good.
^Ginger is one of my least favorite flavors in the world. Raw ginger makes me want to throw up and ginger flavored cookies are barely tolerable. Mango is however good in smoothies.
^Ginger is one of my least favorite flavors in the world. Raw ginger makes me want to throw up and ginger flavored cookies are barely tolerable. Mango is however good in smoothies.
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***** of sheep ---- out your anus and rhoids. A long time ago a freind broke his jaw so we got him a burrito, tossed it in a blender, added some milk and he had a burrito smoothie. It was pretty aweful but he was so happy. It did not work so well with pizza.
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I've recently gone on a diet again, since I have put back on about 40 pounds from what I lost two years ago. Smoothies have always been a good, healthy meal replacement that I have enjoyed. However I always stick to one recipe because it is so good, and have the vitamins and other things that I want and need. Not that there is a science to a smoothie "recipe" and you can simply throw in fruit and other things and get something tasty. Just need some new ideas. The one I always make is:
1/2 cup blueberries
3/4 cup pineapple
2 bananas
1 cup vanilla low fat yogurt
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup orange juice
~4 tbsp honey
10 ice cubes
Any powder supplement can be added of course.
That is enough for about two large glass fulls, or two meals. One tall glass in the morning and I am good to go until a late, light lunch, then the other for dinner, maybe with another light meal, if I feel like it. But usually I'm good with just one "real" meal a day, for lunch.
1/2 cup blueberries
3/4 cup pineapple
2 bananas
1 cup vanilla low fat yogurt
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup orange juice
~4 tbsp honey
10 ice cubes
Any powder supplement can be added of course.
That is enough for about two large glass fulls, or two meals. One tall glass in the morning and I am good to go until a late, light lunch, then the other for dinner, maybe with another light meal, if I feel like it. But usually I'm good with just one "real" meal a day, for lunch.
???? WTF
Seriously?
This is what you drink to make yourself fat right?
Just skip the do-goodie act and just eat a tub of Breyers.
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suffice it to say that you can not get a medium rare burger to fit through the gaps between your teeth. we tried. she essentially clogged all those gaps and had meat smoothie running down her face. tell me this isn't hilarious?
anyway
smoothies... are such a huge bomb of sugars that you may want to make smaller ones and eat a protein bar with it. even fruit sugars can still screw with your body's insulin levels.
alternatively you could replace the orange juice with acai and dump in a couple heaps of unflavored whey/casein protein powder and a serving or two of flax seed.
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No. I don't want the excess fiber, I don't want a leaky gut, I don't want the inflammation, I don't want the empty calories.
If you're going to add something, add chia seeds.
Heh, I had jaw surgery in college and had my jaw wired shut for several weeks. When they finally lowered the tension on the bands and I could just barely open a gap between my teeth, I decided that my biggest craving was fish and chips. So I had my parents get me some fish and chips and run it through a Happy Baby food grinder and I jammed bits of it between my teeth.
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There are other concepts as well, but there absolutely is a way to make a more optimal meal replacement shake.
That is enough for about two large glass fulls, or two meals. One tall glass in the morning and I am good to go until a late, light lunch, then the other for dinner, maybe with another light meal, if I feel like it. But usually I'm good with just one "real" meal a day, for lunch.
But regardless of the optimal strategy (grazing versus gorging), if you're replacing two of your meals with that shake, and eating a big lunch, you're really not doing yourself any favors. You might be losing weight, but that's only because you're limiting your overall caloric equation to be in the red. You could probably be losing the weight faster, and feeling/sleeping/performing better overall, with a better nutritional strategy.
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It seemed to work well for me last time. Drinking one as a meal throughout the day, I lost about 60lb in 8 months, with no extra exercise, and I always had plenty of energy. I know it's not a scientifically good meal replacement, but it DOES replace a meal, and works fine for me. It has to be better for you than some of the alternatives I would probably find myself eating in a hurry.
Since mine is so terrible, and there are better options, by all means link me to some of them, please.
Since mine is so terrible, and there are better options, by all means link me to some of them, please.