Green Smoothies

I am hesitant to admit that I used to believe that eating "healthy" meant eliminating what you shouldn't be eating.
It has sound logic upon first evaluation of this concept.
Don't get me wrong, if you are just starting out (or rediscovering) a healthy lifestyle, it is smart to throw out the junk food.
So now you have a bare cupboard, good for you (or little me)!

Now what are you going to eat?

Err.

Whoop! There it is!

After nearly giving myself an anxiety attack last year about changing my diet (I won't bore you with the deets), it dawned upon me (a really slow dawn. Slow-motion-dawn. As in, a dawn that takes approximately 3 months to breach the horizon), that I was going about things backwards.

So here's what I did.

I started flooding my body with fresh fruits and vegetables.
Guess what? As your body is nourished with real food, you stop craving crap and junk and you quit buying it (of course it helps if you have thrown the Oreos out already).
One serving of vegetables with dinner? Try three.
I hear you, eating veg is t.e.d.i.o.u.s.

You burn all your calories chopping and chewing.

Enter green smoothies (no chewing. Very little chopping):

I found that this was a way that I could pack my system full of good things, it didn't break the bank and it has become a habit that I have maintained almost a year now. 1 smoothie a day, 5-6 days a week.

I have lots of different ways of doing them, and I would love to share them all, but here is one that is chock full of Green-Goodness.

I will shut up now, so you can watch and enjoy my sub-par video-making skills and amateur smoothie skills.