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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Did you lose weight with smoothies? What else were you eating throughout the day?

My weight has been creeping up over the last two years. I gained 20lbs.

While I’ve tried eating healthy to lose weight, I’ve been frustrated by feeling hungry and only losing a pound or two. The relatively quick progress of dropping 6lbs in just over a week has inspired me to stick with it. I’m committed to doing this throughout September to see if I continue to lose weight.

I’m going to focus on (lite) weight training and muscle/strength building starting this weekend. Sticking with walking this week. I basically went from very sedentary (office job) with 1k steps/day to 6-10k steps/day, and it’s helping. I’m going to build in a 30 min walk during my lunch hour (in addition to a morning and evening walk).

I basically eliminated added sugar…which was hard. But I must say I feel better.

I’m perimenopausal, and everything seems hard now ;0)

49 
5’9” 
Down to 170

My real goal is to drop a size and build muscle tone.[/quote]

I added the smoothie to increase protein intake and generally food intake during a very stressful period where I felt nauseated and often didn’t eat. I would feel hunger but the idea of food and prep was overwhelming but the smoothies were easy to make and drink. Now I just have them a couple times a week and trying to get protein i through other sources. Today I worked from home and i had a smoothie (well coffee first always) around 11; a piece of toast with avocado tomato and goat cheese around 2 and dinner at 6:30 (roast chicken, salad, spicy green beans and a scoop of ice cream).

I don’t think smoothies cause any more or less weight loss than other foods that are high protein etc but if it works for you then trying new ones can be fun. I went through several protein powders to find one that was not full or sugar or lots of artificial sweetener). I use kos which is a plant based protein (might have stevia); the chocolate is pretty good. Spouse prefers optimum nutrition brand which is also tasty. I also add some
Chia seeds for fiber and they do fill you up.[/quote]

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