This is "another" post about smoothies. If you're interested in incorporating smoothies into your regular diet, I suggest you give this a read. I cover all the reasons why drinking smoothies everyday is 'good' 4 you.
I originally posted it on one of my other blogs www.EcoChic4Women.blogspot.ca which I've suspended until September. I won't have the time to give to it over the summer but it's an important blog 4 me. It's 4 women and I talk about wellness lifestyle issues that matter to women. Hope you join me at EcoChic4Women in September when I resume it again.
So that this post doesn't get lost in the mix, here it is again... Enjoy!
Smoothies are a great way to lose weight & clean out the inside of your body. Cleansing is a way to purge what you’ve built up over time inside your body. Cleansing cleans out your liver & other organs permitting them to once again resume normal functioning. Result is better health for you. Much more energy. You look healthier & younger too.
Smoothies are similar to juicing except you mix in the pulp with a smoothie. Juicing you discard the pulp. Both ways have medicinal benefits. I'll be posting some of my favourite smoothie recipes shortly.
Here are some more tips about smoothies:
Customize recipes & portion sizes according to how much you need to drink in order to feel full. The recipe portions should serve 2 people. Add water to achieve your preferred consistency. You may like your drink more liquidy, then add more water. You may like it thicker which means less water.
If you want your smoothie to be cold, add some ice cubes but be sure your blender can handle the cubes.
Smoothies have fruit, vegetables & water. All 3 are essential in a well balanced diet. Smoothies taste great. They’re mobile as you can drink them while on the go. They’re inexpensive to make. They’re filling & best of all, you’re eating what’s good for you. The benefits will be obvious to you in just a few short weeks.
Combine smoothies with regular meals or have them as your main eating source. The trick is you should never be starving or dizzy whatever you diet plan. If you do, you are not taking in enough calories or you are not well and require a therapeutic diet plan. I’ll be discussing therapeutic diet plans at another time.
While you can use many vegetables & fruits, these are our favourite recipes. The greens & vegetables used are typically spinach, kale, celery & lettuce. The fruits used most often are pears, apples & avocado. The additional ingredients to add flavour & increase medicinal benefit are ginger, spirulina, lucuma, flaxseeds & hemp protein powder.
You’ll see by the recipes, they’re incredibly simple to make. If a recipe calls for an ingredient you don’t like or are unfamiliar with, leave it out or change it for another. If the taste is to your liking, go with it. When I say replace the ingredient, I am, of course, saying replace with something healthy.
Smoothies are good for anyone at any age. They’re great to drink before a workout or restore energy afterwards. Smoothies alkaline your body. Most often your body is overly acidic when it’s run down & when you’ve been eating poorly. To balance out your system again, you’ll always want to eat foods that alkaline your body.
If you drink smoothies regularly, you’ll want to supplement them with a protein. Some recipes have called for hemp protein powder. Add this powder to other recipes if you need the added protein. If you wish to change the protein powder to something other than hemp, your local health food store should have several other choices for you.
Best to make smoothies just minutes before you drink them. However, if you don’t have the time, you can prepare in advance. Just store in the fridge. However, you should drink the smoothie within the day you’ve prepared it.
Remember smoothies are part of a cleansing of the body, a detox, a purge. If you integrate smoothies into your everyday lifestyle, make sure you complement them with a balanced diet.
As part of detox, you may feel physical & emotional changes. To stave off extreme detox changes like nausea, dizziness, slow down your detox. Do so by adding solid foods to your daily eating intake. If for example, you drink 2 smoothies each day combined with a solid food meal for dinner AND you feel hungry, dizzy, even nauseous, you’re over detoxing. When I say over detoxing, I'm saying that your body is circulating into your bloodstream and flushing out unwanted substances like unnecessary fats, mucus, toxins. Your body is circulating and disposing of these substances at too rapid a rate. Cut down the amount of detoxing you’re doing by having only 1 smoothie a day until you can build up to having 2 a day.
If, however, you’ve tried slowly integrating detox into your eating regimen and no matter what, you’re still feeling weak, hungry, nauseous, stop the detox. Your body is telling you that it needs attention in some way. You may have an ailment that needs addressing. See your doctor if nothing is working.
However, if you’re able to introduce having smoothies throughout your day and can for several days to a few weeks, you will enjoy many physical and emotional benefits. They include clearer eyes, more radiant skin, stronger hair & nails, flatter stomach, decreased cellulite, improved digestion, weight loss, fewer cravings for junk food, increased energy, a more youthful body and face, healthier body tissue & cells, more nutrients feeding your body, more positive thoughts & greater sense of calm.
Smoothies give you increased energy because you are very deliberately introducing fresh greens into your body. They are filled with chlorophyll allowing your body to clean it’s blood & organs more easily. Greens also help tremendously in one’s digestion as they are filled with live enzymes, minerals & they enhance the production of hydrochloric acid in your stomach. All of these are critical for good digestion.
Some recipes are from the book “The Green Smoothie Miracle” Erica Palmcrantz Aziz, 2012
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