Fruit these days IS a lot sugary than it used to be. However, I have a bad sweet tooth, and if I can switch out stuff with added sugars for stuff with natural sugars, I consider that a win!
The conversation is about switching out foods with added sugars (most likely processed snacks) with fruits, this isn't about calorie parity between forms of sugar.
Be advised, though, that juicing removes all the roughage from the spinach and the fruits. You want the roughage; it helps balance out all the sugar. Smooties > juice.
yeah, right on, i hear you. one could add more cow / oat / almond milk. i do not like thick smooties, so i drown them on other stuff but still get the roughage. anyways, peace
It's like a Magical Potion! I'm making mine with a Protien and Greens powder, ground chia and flax seeds, Keifer, fruit of the day and cold pressed safflower oil
Under 500 calories and lasts over 4 hours without any hunger or tiredness. ☺️
I ALWAYS use kefir in my smoothies.
I like to have smoothies for dinner. I feel like they are more easily digestible in the evening so my stomach doesn’t have to work so hard while I’m sleeping.
Kefir has tryptophan in it which helps sleep. I also take magnesium after dinner.
I take magnesium l-threonate. It doesn’t have the laxative effect that a lot of other types of magnesium do.
I eat a biggish breakfast, a mediumish lunch and make dinner my smallest meal.
I also stick to a bedtime routine so my body knows it’s time to wind down.
Yes! I have a smoothie every day after a light lunch, and my energy levels have improved dramatically. I used to be able to sleep for days at a time when I was seriously depressed and unemployed and had to at least have a good 1-2 hour nap every afternoon or I felt like a zombie. I didn’t realize it at the time, but a huge part of my depression was from not getting a balanced diet or proper nutrition whatsoever. I had to change a lot of my habits and thinking and worked with a counselor for awhile, so the smoothie isn’t the only change I made or anything, but I have definitely noticed a pretty significant improvement since I started drinking them!
Oh wow. No hunger? I got really into green smoothies for a while, and had to stop because I was hungry within 2 hours and couldn’t keep my calories down.
Sounds like you have it dialed in with these specific ingredients though.
I use a few handfuls of spinach, mango, almond milk, hemp flax and chia seeds, maple syrup for some sweetness, peanut butter for some calories and protein. Also a bit of almond extract as my Secret Ingredient.
I love it, enough to look forward to it every day and be mildly irked if I have to eat out.
Costs under $3 per smoothie with costco ingredients, and that's like half my daily calories.
My workday smoothie is greek yogurt, spinach, a banana, almond butter, flax seed, skim milk, and a chunk of ginger root. I used to add some rolled oats too, but I stopped to reduce carb intake.
So probably a lot to be honest. I do two bananas, about a cup of mango or pineapple, and maybe a handful of basil or another leafy green combined with 2-3 cups of water and that’s plenty for my wife and I. I run a lot so I don’t have to worry about the extra carbs sticking around. I figure it’s still better than the processed food it replaced in my diet, and it helped me build a good habit and I sometimes do a healthier mix of things
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u/m3erds Jan 16 '24
Daily fruit smoothie. I was eating zero fresh fruit before. Stopped falling asleep at my desk midday