Health people - inside please - Looking for some good eats
 

Looking for a great healthy shake to start my day with. Fruits, nuts, cow blood... whatever works. Just want it to fill me up and give me some energy.

What works for you?

hit a jamba juice place, there is one on Ventura I believe, or there used to be...

they have great smoothies with all sorts of healthy stuff you can add.

And they also have plenty of things that aren't good for you. They aren't a health place... they simply have a few things that are healthy for you. A lot of people get tricked by that easily.

Make your own. It will be cheaper than a Jamba Juice and you can control the ingredients.

Try a mix of a scoop or 2 of a high quality protein powder, low or nonfat milk, yogurt and whatever kind of fresh or frozen fruit you like. If you don't mind the texture you can also try adding other stuff like coconut, peanut butter or oatmeal to make the shakes more filling.

I personally feel strongly that a solid food breakfast is the best thing for you in the morning, not a shake. All the commercially available shakes and "healthy" drinks are total crap. And even if you make a healthy shake for yourself at home, you may as well make yourself a real breakfast. It will fuel you properly for your day and help control your appetite all day and help keep you from eating late at night.

The pressure of the solid food on your stomach walls is a major factor in satiation and controlling hunger and the lack of it with drinking shakes is a major flaw in a shake-heavy diet in my opinion. I usually eat half a chicken breast or tuna and a piece of sprouted grain toast and a banana or orange for my breakfast with some hot tea. And I will drink a whey protein shake after my workouts when I need it the most. Sometimes I will have a casein shake at night also. But I still prefer to eat three or four solid food meals throughout each day for sure and breakfast is the most important one.

RE > Just want it to fill me up and give me some energy.

Arizona lemon tea (tall can) and a snickers

Nothing wrong with a nice smoothie sometimes though, just not to replace a meal every day. Here are my favorites:


Banana Blueberry Smoothie- Blend one scoop of vanilla whey protein powder in 1 1/4 cup of fat free milk and add 1/2 of a cut up frozen banana and a half a handfull of frozen blueberries with a 1/4 cup of crushed ice. Blend 15- 20 seconds

Banana Strawberry Smoothie- Blend one scoop of vanilla whey protein in 1 1/4 cup of fat free milk and add 1/2 of a cut up frozen banana and two medium frozen strwberries with a 1/4 cup of crushed ice. Blend 15- 20 seconds

Thanks all.

Jim, I can't even think about eating chicken for breakfast. OMG. I'm one of those "breakfast" people no matter what time I wake up. Fruits, waffles, eggs and stuff like that. Thanks for the smoothies though. :-)

grind up some raw oats in a food processor (like 30-40g depending on your weight)... add a good protein powder to it... maybe a little peanut butter and mix with water or skim milk

always have a good serving of fibrous carbohydrates like oats in the morning (this is your fuel!)... avoid spiking your insulin with extremely sugary smoothies (fruit has sugar so be moderate) or junk breakfast carbs/sugars which will probably give you a nice crash shortly after consuming it

have a bowl of oatmeal (the real one, not that shit in packets), some splenda, a few berries or rasins for extra flavor

eat a few eggs (2-3 whites 1 whole) and dice up some tomato / avocado as a topping.. or use some salsa (almost no calories)

Mix One serving of Vanilla protein isolate (~40-50 grams of protein) in 1 cup of skim milk and a little water. Add ice, banana, cinnamon and one cup of uncooked oatmeal. Blend together until smooth and about the consistancy of a milk shake. If you want to add some more calories, you can add some honey to the mixture too.

What's most important with insulin is glycemic index of foods. Fruits that end with "berry" tend to have low glycemic indexes and turn to sugar slowly in the blood. :2 cents:

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some people tend to add sugar to their smoothies... gotta watch that

oatmeal, you need a complex carb in the morning to provide you energy during the day. Anything that is blended / pulverized / fruit oriented will juice your blood sugar / make you crash and send you heading to Coffeebean to recharge you, and the cycle will be endless until you have diabetes :) hehe

eat the fruit rather than drinking it and you will feel more full

Are you doing the shake because its quick and easy? Cause a healthy breakfast might be a better choice...plus you will feel fuller, longer.

well, use logic. I do. :1orglaugh

they also have nutritional info available I'm sure, if you ask...

my favorite healthy breakfast is kiwi fruit, if I had to pick one.

i just ate a handful/mouthful of blackberry right off the vine growing razy in my backyard, for the past few weeks can just wake up, go outside and pick fresh organic berry and eat a handful.

tons of anti-oxidants and no pesticides!

i love berries, and eat fruit and berry daily.

Monitoring the GI index intake of my food has been really important to my weight loss because once I got my insulin under control I no longer felt shaky hungry during the day when I tried to cut calories and then I lost weight.

That is another reason to eat the fruit rather than drink the juice. The longer it takes for your body to break it down the better it is for you. The juice is already broken down so your body doesn't have to do much with it.

one banana, a small bowl of oatmeal smothered with cinnamon, a teaspoon of wheat germ and pieces of berry, a cup of hot tea and five glasses of lukewarm mineral water.

Sarah, have you tried taking off carbs and sugars from your diet for a period of time? Does it really work in weight reduction?

Tomato juice or V8 works for me. Pineapple juice for a 'merienda' drink (in between meals or with snacks) is good, too.

A healthy DWB? I feel cheated :( ...

I eat carbs but I try to make the vast majority of those slow burning (ie low GI) carbs. I have lost 90lbs doing that along with counting my calories. I eat within my calorie count but make sure that most of what I eat in that count is low gi. When I do that I am never hungry between meals. As soon as I break with that I am a munchie machine. I have been doing this for about 2 1/2 years now. Carbs aren't the problem...you need carbs..just the right carbs.

Oh and on the thread topic...my usual breakfast is a bowl of puffed wheat cereal with skim milk and a banana chopped up in it plus a bit of extra fruit on the side. This morning that was a fruit salad with kiwi, melon and red grapes but often it is berries.