This morning I made my friend Jennifer's protein smoothie. Oh my goodness - I'm full! I got 3 of my servings: banana, blackberries and strawberries, and it was really good. I didn't add the raw egg yet, but tomorrow I'm adding fresh spinach. My daughter was so interested in it too - I think I'm going to start making her a modified version in the mornings.
I got an e-mail this morning about keeping up with the 10-a-day from one of my favorite colleagues from days gone by. He said "Eating 10 F&V's a day will require discipline and will pretty much keep you eating all day, and not much else, facilitating weight loss and health improvement to say the least." I think he's right! I've always had a lot of produce around our house, but this morning I realized we needed to do some serious shopping to make sure there's enough for all of us. I pretty much wiped out our berry supply this morning!
I'm also realizing that the more I'm eating fruits and veggies, the more I'm sharing them with Olivia. Her generation is on track to be the first to not outlive their parents due to the obesity epidemic. I'm finding that this "walking the walk" applies to many areas of my life.
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Abby, you are such an inspiration! I set a goal earlier this year to run a mile in 10 minutes too! The ultimate goal: run a 5k in 30 minutes. It's hard stuff, but I went from not being able to "run" a mile at all, to being able to do it in just over 11 minutes.
ReplyDeleteOne thing you might try: add wheat germ to your smoothies if you are not already. I put about 1 tbsp per serving and it adds fiber and protein and very few calories. The best part is that you'll hardly even notice it's there.
You'll have to let me know how the smoothie tastes with spinach (or raw egg), I don't know if I'm that adventurous. I usually do 1-2 frozen bananas (or berries in place of 1 banana), 1-2 tbsp of peanut butter or almond butter, 2 tbsp honey, and either water or low fat milk. I used to also add non-fat yogurt, but I don't think it really adds anything other than more calories (and with banana and yogurt it gets really thick!)