Healthy Weight Loss Smoothie Recipes

Tamara Christy | Diet Reviews
8 Jan 2012

Weight Loss Smoothie Recipes

Weight loss smoothie recipes are wonderfully refreshing and make great snacks. In fact, when mixing in enough wholesome ingredients they can even serve as a meal.

For the workout conscious individual, a berry protein weight loss smoothie recipe can be a great meal a few hours before heading to the gym. Weight loss smoothie recipes are so blissfully great because of the diversity of ingredients.

Weight loss smoothie recipes are only limited to one’s imagination. Allergic to berries?- no problem! Blend in a banana or a kiwi or both instead. Try this great tasting banana protein weight loss smoothie recipes, it only takes a few inexpensive ingredients and it’s healthy, quick and simple to make:

In Blender:

2 bananas (frozen or fresh)

1/2 cup Milk (a favorite is Stoneyfield Brand Organic Low-Fat Milk -or- Silk Brand Vanilla Almond Milk)

2 teaspoons of Honey

Pinch of Cinnamon (powder or stick)

2 scoops Vi-Shake Mix (smoothie base)

1 cup of Ice (if using frozen bananas- then can omit the ice)

…..Pour and notice how your taste-buds do a happy dance!

For those that are allergic to milk, using Almond, Soy, Rice or Coconut milk are great choices, too. If fresh fruit is out of season in your area, peruse the frozen section and the canned isle at your grocery store and you will find many types of frozen fruits to create incredible weight loss smoothie recipes. In fact, using frozen fruit instead of ice will give a smoothie a more substantial feeling in your mouth.

For those that love strawberries, use the same weight loss smoothie recipe as listed above and simply add 1 Cup of strawberries. One cup of strawberries only lends 43 calories. A little history about this naturally sweet and delightful berry is that it has grown wild in Europe and North America for centuries. It was actually first cultivated in the late thirteenth century. Centuries ago in Rome it was valued for it’s therapeutic healing properties. This wonderful berry provides provides folic acid, vitamin C and potassium- great for teeth and healthy bones. Vitamin K, B complex-vitamins and magnesium, copper and calcium Minerals. All berries -strawberries included are good sources of the compound phenol. One noted phenol compound in strawberries is anthocyanin which is known for it’s antioxidant properties.

More Great Choices for Amazing Weight Loss Smoothie Recipes

If you are running short on ideas as to what to include when creating weight loss smoothie recipes, here is a list of suggested fruits that you could consider: papaya, pineapples, mangoes, oranges, raspberries, honeydew, cantaloupe, carrots, apples, seedless watermelon, cherries, tangerines, blueberries, apricots, grapes, peaches, grapefruit, pears, blackberries, acai, and apricots. While this list is not exhaustive it will give you some ideas of what to include to make the perfect weight loss smoothie recipes.

Not adding white refined sugar is highly recommended for weight loss smoothie recipes and this will allow you to enjoy the natural sweetness and healthy nutrients that the fruit alone can provide.

For protein and weight loss- the perfect “meal replacement” and is bar-none in nutritional value and has a “sweet cream” flavor and blends perfectly in any smoothie, here’s my secret weight loss smoothie recipe ingredient and I include it in all weight loss smoothie recipes that I create.

Veggies Make Delicious Weight Loss Smoothie Recipes

Mother always said to eat your veggies. Well, drinking them counts, too! How about blending up weight loss smoothie recipes that include some of your favorite vegetables and don’t forget the tofu and wheat grass.

1/2 peeled cucumber, 1/4 cup of spinach, 1/4 cup parsley, 1 & 1/4 cups of tomato juice or 2 large tomatoes, 1/2 peeled celery stalk, 1/2 cup ice, blend well.

Whatever the combination for weight loss smoothie recipes, being mindful of eliminating the white refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup because both are highly processed and using healthy sweetening alternatives such as honey, date “sugar” (created by pulverizing dates and provides fiber) or brown rice syrup powder are highly recommended when creating a weight loss smoothie recipe. Hopefully these healthy weight loss smoothie recipes helped make your diet easier!