Feeding your skin with Smoothies!!!!
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free skin care · Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:58 pm

Victoria just announced on facebook that she is created a forum about green smoothies atwww.greensmoothieforum.com. She posed the question: Do you or do you not add oil to your green smoothies and the responses were becoming "forum-like". So she decided to go ahead and create a forum. I just joined, I am SansSouci over there as well. Very Happy

free skin care · Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:10 pm

AWESOME!!!! about the forum...

Skippie.. I would make a very generalized observation and say that based on that minimal list of foods, and unless your sandwhiches are about 500 calories... you could easily be eating below your metabolic needs (but I have no idea how much you weigh... so VERY GENERIC HERE)... Although healthy foods, so at least your body is getting nutrition... you could basically be starving your bod. Also, if that's happeneing, you could also be canebalizing your muscle... so if you start to lose weight, you often lose mass... and basically become more flabby...

Nice huh?

I would log your foods for a while. Just to see what you're actually doing. It's easy to think you're getting just the right nutrition... I recently realized I was getting NO WHERE NEAR enough protein for the types of work outs I've been doing... and DUH... no wonder I was so tired afterwards, and not getting the results I wanted...

I'm not a nutritionist by any stretch... But I do think it's worth looking into...

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:35 am

Thanks, Claudia. I'll try to do as you suggested and log my intake.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:46 am

Two thoughts about smoothies this morning.

First thought is I don't use the smoothies to replace a meal...my reason is I think the body needs the digesting of a meal to keep the metabolism running at a good rate. I don't know if the is correct but from my years of research with weight loss this makes sense. People that drink their meals may not be boosting their metabolism. So my meal maybe small but I am eating at least three meals and drinking two 30oz smoothies a day. Also I make sure the calorie intake is enough.

Second thought.....I took facial pictures today and I am very pleased at the comparison from pictures taken in July before starting smoothies. I am not sharing the photos but what I see is plumper skin, better glow, and tightening all over. SWEET Laughing

Now for the third thought...I think I'll have a GREEN SMOOTHIE

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:05 am

I tend to eat a "small meal" - for me this might be a hard-boiled egg and/or yogart before the smoothie or with it.
I would like to step up the program with the two smoothie-a-day system.

Toby, did you say previously that you make both smoothies up the night before?

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:20 am

sister sweets wrote:

I tend to eat a "small meal" - for me this might be a hard-boiled egg and/or yogart before the smoothie or with it.
I would like to step up the program with the two smoothie-a-day system.

Toby, did you say previously that you make both smoothies up the night before?

I usually do them in the morning..one right after the other...or make one for the day and then make one when I come home from work. they can last up to three days in the frig but the first 30 min. is the most nutritious.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:10 am

Thanks Toby and Sister Sweets for input on the meals. I guess I need to try eating, too. I'm wondering if that would slow down or stop the detoxing I'm still having.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:14 am

If you are worried about stopping the detox then stick to fresh and raw veggies. I just think it is important for the body to have food in it's whole form to keep metabolism function at peak performance.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:20 am

Truth is, Toby, I would love to stop detoxing. At least one day a week and sometimes two, I spend a great deal of my morning detoxing. It's very inconvenient at times. Sad

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:23 am

skippie... what are your smoothies made from??? Always the same...

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:26 am

Also Skippie are you on any medications? My mother is and the combination of smoothies and her meds sends her to the bathroom. She adds some cheese into her diet and that stops things Laughing

I dislike cheese but it works for her.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:28 am

Claudia,

I try to have a vegetable smoothie for my evening meal: tomato, greens, celery, carrots, & a V-8 - usually doesn't vary much except sometimes I'll add an avocado or cucumber instead of celery.

For my breakfast smoothie, I use fruit: a mixture of greens and two or more fruits including apple, pear, orange, peach, nectarine - always include a banana to sweeten it and always include a heaping tablespoon of whey protein.

I do add three ice cubes to all of my smoothies.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:38 am

Are you using the same greens or are you varying them. There can be a problem if you are using the same greens...like spinach all the time.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:46 am

I also think that it is better not to combine small meals with smoothies - the broken down in the blender smoothie is ready for rapid absorption by the intestinal tract, but if the cooked food is added, it will slow down the absorption, and should negate some of the benefits of the smoothie. Yogurt, on the other hand, can be used in the smoothie (if it is with lots of good bacterias and no additives like sugar, flavor, etc.).

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:51 am

In case it helps, I find the same thing as Victoria Boutenko: I get the best digestion by making a meal of the green smoothie and only using fruit and greens (no added fat, no yogurt, etc.) Both cooked food and fatty foods like yogurt will slow down digestion. However, I think everyone should do what works best for them, but in terms of experimenting around with different options, making a large green smoothie of just fruits and greens alone as a meal is a good option to try...

HTH Smile

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:08 am

Toby, yes - I use two different greens a week and rotate the two I'm using every week, so I'm not using the same two consecutively.

I am not a big eater and never have been and that's why I've been using the smoothies as meals. However, I'll try adding in some solid food and see if that makes a difference.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:24 am

I am a big eater and the smoothies make me not really want anything else...but in the back of my mind I keep thinking that drinking my meals could slow down my metabolism in the long run, and I certainly don't want that.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:47 am

Skippie... Am I to understand that your detox, is you spending a lot of time in the ladies room?

I suspect it MIGHT be the avocado, peaches and nectarines.

Might be moving things a little too fast.

However, I would take advantage of the smoothie forum and talk to them about excessive detoxing... such that it's interfering with your life...

Also... just as a side... I wonder about the v-8 juice... not sure how that's effecting you... but that is generally a LOT of sodium... would be curious what others think. Adding juice, although tasty,is not considered particularly beneficial... kind of empty calories. Granted V-8 at least has lots of vits.

free skin care · Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:26 pm

Claudia,

Yes, my detox involves the restroom. I've cut down considerably on anything with pits thanks to your poem. I'm only using one of the little cans of V-8 and it's low sodium, but it makes the smoothie taste a lot better.

Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:34 pm

Just wondering how everyone is liking their blenders (new and old). I have been using an old Hamilton Beach which has been doing ok but occasionally leaking from the bottom. I thought I had my husband talked into getting a Vitamix but just yesterday he got his Consumer Report's magazine in the mail and it had reviews on blenders. Of course it said that an Oster was just as good as the pricier ones so now he doesn't think we need the vitamix (argh, darn magazine anyhow!)! Has anyone tried the Healthmaster? I'd really like to get one with a plunger so I don't have to keep stopping and pushing stuff down with a spoon. We can afford a more expensive one, my husband is just a penny pincher!

free skin care · Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:47 pm

I like my Blendtec but to be honest the L equip 228 was just as good and it did some things better. I gave it to my best friend when I thought the Blendtec might better Rolling Eyes

The L equip 228 can be found priced from 80.00-159.00 and it has a six year warranty. Spend some time searching the net and you will be surprised at the deals you might find.

free skin care · Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:18 pm

Have had my vitamix for about 4.5 years... works like a champ...

My mom just got the healthmaster... I've used it a few times... works good. Can't speak to long term use...

Heck... get the oster... and if/when it burns out THEN get a more spendy one...

free skin care · Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:37 pm

I've been using an Oster and it actually works very well at blending smoothies. I haven't tried using things like carrots or celery though. Otherwise I use it 3 times a day for smoothies.....once for my daughter and twice for me. Does the job. HTH

free skin care · Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:28 pm

ClaudiaFE wrote:

Also... just as a side... I wonder about the v-8 juice... not sure how that's effecting you... but that is generally a LOT of sodium... would be curious what others think. Adding juice, although tasty,is not considered particularly beneficial... kind of empty calories. Granted V-8 at least has lots of vits.

I personally wouldn't use v-8 either, because its not raw, and thats the whole idea of doing a raw smoothie, so its raw, alive, has all the enzymes and so forth.

free skin care · Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:25 am

SansSouci572 wrote:

ClaudiaFE wrote:

Also... just as a side... I wonder about the v-8 juice... not sure how that's effecting you... but that is generally a LOT of sodium... would be curious what others think. Adding juice, although tasty,is not considered particularly beneficial... kind of empty calories. Granted V-8 at least has lots of vits.

I personally wouldn't use v-8 either, because its not raw, and thats the whole idea of doing a raw smoothie, so its raw, alive, has all the enzymes and so forth.

I'm only using one of the very small, low sodium cans of V-8 in with my raw vegetables and greens, so I really don't think I'm doing any harm. The more tomato and tomato-based products you can have a day, the better protection you will have from the sun because of the lycopene in the tomatos.

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