Weight Loss Shakes and Smoothies

Can shakes and smoothies help you in your weight loss goals or will they pile up the calories?

Many dieters have started drinking smoothies as a method to lose weight and improve their health. And if you do it right, smoothies can help you lose weight, but you have to drink the right kind of smoothies. If you drink the wrong kind, you can actually gain weight and be left wondering why.

A smoothie weight loss program is usually made up of a plan that has you replacing your regular meals with low calorie / high nutrition smoothies. You can either replace all your meals with smoothies or you can substitute one or two of your meals each day with smoothies.

If you do the second method, you will usually replace breakfast and lunch with a smoothie and then eat a healthy low calorie sensible dinner.

There are many different types of smoothies you can make that will help you lose weight. You can make smoothies that only contain fruit. You can drink smoothies that are a combination of fruits and vegetables. Another way you can make a smoothie is to add protein powder to your mix.

You may have seen a Vita Mix commercial or attended a live presentation at your local store where they blend up a wide variety of fruits and vegetables and give you a sample to taste. You may have been surprised at hose delicious freshly blended fruit and vegetable combinations can be.

People who drink a lot of smoothies that contain fresh fruits and vegetables are supplementing their diet in a marvelous way with loads of nutritious enzymes, vitamins and minerals that their bodies need to stay healthy and fight off disease and illness.

Smoothie drinkers often comment that they love that they are enjoying something that tastes so good while also getting the recommended daily allotments of fruits and veggies in their diet. Smoothies just make it so easy to improve your intake of nutritious low calorie healthy foods.

Smoothies are also a great on-the-go meal for our very busy lives. You can easily whip up a smoothie and take it in your car to drink on the way to work. You can also pre-make smoothies to drink for lunch. Just keep them in a cooler or in a thermos and shake them up well just before you drink them.

There is a reason why Jamba Juice has become so popular. Folks are learning just nutritious and delicious smoothies can be. And how easy they facilitate weight loss.

Be forewarned though, you can probably make a healthier smoothie at home than what you can get at a Jamba Juice or another juice shop . Quite often smoothie stores will add sugar-sweetened fruit to your smoothies which is not necessary and will just add a lot of extra calories that you do not need or want.

If you make your smoothies at home you control the ingredients and ensure that you are not getting added empty calories.

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You may think that low carb diets and low carb dieting are a fairly recent trend and that they lack any type of long term statistics or figures.

However you would be incorrect (just like I was ) when I found out that man named William Banting may be one of the first people to propose a diet that eliminated or drastically cut back on  bread, beer, sugar, pastries, and all other carbohydrates, and relied heavily on meat.

He published a small pamphlet about it in 1869 and quickly became a sensation in diet circles.

In the 20th century of course this was followed by diet fads like The Scarsdale Diet and the Atkins Diet.

The question is, if low carb diets are so great and they work so well, why are we all still struggling to lose weight?  (Approximately 64.5 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. )

And the answer is: low carb diets, like all diets,  do work well in the short term. In the long term, they fail, and can actually harm your health.

When you first go on a low carbohydrate diet, your body is forced to raid its fat stores, which makes it burn glycogen, a type of carbohydrate.  Water binds onto glycogen, and when the body starts burning glycogen, the water is released.

In the early stages of a low carb diet, you will be urinating frequently and losing a lot of water weight.

This makes it appear as if your diet is a success, and has a lot to do with the popularity of high protein low carb diets. These diets start off with a bang, that’s for sure.

And this allows people in the diet industry to continue to promote low carb diets as the only real road to weight loss success. After all, the sale of millions of dollars of low carb diet books, recipe books, frozen meals, and prepackaged foods depends on the belief that low carb is the only way to go.

But here’s the problem: it is very hard to stay on a low carbohydrate diet for any length of time, because they have a number of unpleasant side effects like bad breath,  constant cravings for sweets, low energy, irritability, and constipation.

The minute you start eating normally again, the water weight comes back on. And most people blame themselves, rather than realizing that this particular type of diet is set up in a way that is doomed to failure.

Before starting any diet you should really discuss it with your doctor

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