Raw Food Smoothie

21 Monday Feb 2011

Posted by Amy Byrne-Henderson in Weight Loss

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I’ve heard quite a bit about raw food diets. My cousin Sheree swears by it, and has encouraged me to try it out. Friend LJKC enjoys raw food smoothies and wrote a great blog post about it here. So I figured I’d try it out. As always, Todd is 100% behind me, and took me to Whole Foods to get really good fruits and veggies.

I downloaded the Raw Foods app for my iPhone and took it to the grocery store. I stuck with getting ingredients for the Beginner Green Smoothies. Victoria Boutenko is the guru of the green smoothie revolution, and her website is filled with information. I looked her up at my library, and we had a couple of her books. I got some more from area libraries through inter-library loan. I figured I’d check out which ones I like the best then order them on Amazon.

The smoothie was delicious. One things I’ll change in the future will be to add ice. I used cold water, but unless you chug it, it started to get warm a little too fast. I tasted the banana the most with a hint of raspberries and spinach.

Ingredients

Spinach Raspberry Beginner Green Smoothie

One Banana
One Apple (I used my favorite – Braeburn)
1.5 Cups of Water
1 Cup Raspberries
10 oz. Spinach (We bought a bunch of spinach that only came to 8 oz)

Blend Well.

Gorgeous!

It really does taste great!

Nutritional Information

Weight a Minute, Part II

03 Thursday Feb 2011

Posted by Amy Byrne-Henderson in Exercise, Wedding, Weight Loss

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So, my goal for January was to lose 10 pounds. I was going to do this by eating right and working out. The reality for the month of January for me was that I lost one pound, and that’s it.

Things I did right: I did not eat Reese’s Pieces, I only had ice cream twice, I didn’t eat pizza, and I worked out more than I have in a long time.

Things I did wrong: I discovered Jimmy John’s (and even though I ordered the veggie sub, it was loaded with Provolone cheese), I didn’t eat Cheerios for breakfast often enough (too often I ran late in the morning and I would stop at McDonald’s for hotcakes), I didn’t exercise quite as much as I should have (even though I did exercise a lot more than usual), I didn’t drink enough water, and I drank more Diet Pepsi.

But, the great part about being an optimist is that I continue to have hope and faith in myself that I’ll make everything right. I know what I need to do to get to my goal so I can feel better about myself (and look amazing in my wedding dress – which I have yet to order)!