So I gave up pop and slushies and found a new love! GREEN SMOOTHIES! What a green smoothie consists of is about 50% leafy greens (I use a hugeeee handful of fresh raw spinach leaves,about 40% frozen fruit like a 1/2 frozen banana and i use prepackaged frozen cut up fruit mixed ;mango,strawberries ,pineapples,peaches and the rest about three ice cubes,a little water/orange juice and wallah! Delicious! I get huge serving of fruit and veggies and I replace a meal:) it's helping me stay off of pop and other unhealthy habits because I feel like its bad for me. Drinking it cause its so satisfying hahaha! So for all of you out there needing to drop some bad habits pick up this one it's delicious an the recipes are endless! I'm two months away from my surgery and this is helping greatly with my pre op diet! If anyone has any suggestions and recipe a for smoothies they want to share please do I would love to try them!!!!

••Ashley••

smoothies like that can be tasty and get a lot of Vitamins in. Just be mindful of the amount of fruit you're putting in - even fruit sugar is bad for you if it's not in moderation, so of you're having more than a serving of fruit you may want to back off just a bit. Take it from a diabetic who has to be really careful of fruit intake or watch the blood sugar going crazy...

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Green smoothie's rock!

Just started smoothies this morning!! AMAZING. I got this really cool book with over 100 different types. YUM

No I put less fruit in than I do spinach so I'm fine:).i know right they rock! I'm already noticing a difference in my face and more energized! I hate eating in the morning I force myself Uhg but I have no problem drinking a green smoothie and making it last till lunch just worried about how much ill be able to drink once I get my sleeve done

We are smoothie drinkers at my household, and even though I haven't sleeved yet, I am already planning on adding a tasteless protien powder to mine once I sleeve. My husband is a hard core weight lifter and I add it to his. Once you sleeve this is an excellent way to fulfill the protien quota your nutritionist recommends.

Yeah I remember them saying to stay away from ice cream and slushies because you can eat more or it without getting full as quick so i wonder if i made my big smoothies wqith my protein in them if ill be able to get alot down still... if so that would be awesome! Hope I can so i can mix in veggies and my protein and not wanna puke for drinking more then a 1/2 cup worth at a time...guess we will see!