SMOOTHIES

                 Best Smoothies For Weight Loss: 2 Recipes.

Smoothies are one of the easiest breakfast you can have, using both fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables. It is the best way to incorporate greens into your diet if you don't like eating them. Anyone can blend up fruits and vegetables and make it into smoothie using any preferred fruits and vegetables of their choice, including liquid such as milk, yogurt, ice coffee or even fruit juice. However when it comes to weight loss, it is better to put in ingredients that your body will benefit from and that which can help increase your metabolism and speed up your weigh loss process.
The following ingredients below all have their own benefit and it will be nice if you use them in making your smoothies if you want to loose weight. You can also have this if you're not loosing weight but if you prefer using fruit juice and want to loose weight it wouldn't be a good idea as you'll be having too much calories and sugar.

Best Smoothies Ingredients

-Fruits and vegetables in general: you can use any fruit and vegetables but mostly green vegetables as they are high in micro nutrients and low in calories. Greens such as kale, spinach, avocado, cucumber will help speed up weight loss. 

-Berries: such as blackberries, blueberries, raspberries. This berries are high in nutrient and low in sugar but yet will add sweet taste to your smoothie most especially when making green smoothie. They are also known as part of the best food that burn fat. 

-Cinnamon: Cinnamon helps control the insulin level and decrease blood sugar, as the blood sugar level needs to be maintain for weight loss to happen. It helps speed up the metabolism too; the rate at which your body uses up energy is increased which means if all energy is used up, none will be stored as fat. Therefore,be sure to add cinnamon to your smoothie,as it also helps suppresses appetite making you full for longer. It burns fat too!

-Ginger/Garlic: Garlic reduce body weight and fat and can lower the risk of heart diseases. However, it smells all over you after eating it, so try and use this for dinner or whenever you don't really have to talk to people. Ginger helps suppress appetite, so you can use this if you don't have cinnamon. Both fresh and powder will do but fresh have more nutrients.

-Honey: Use honey instead of sugar or sweetener as it does not contain sugar and is high in minerals. Although honey have higher calories than sugar but because it contains beneficial nutrients needed to dissolve fat and cholesterol, it is much better than sugar, You will gain weight eating sugar as it lacks the nutrients to helps dissolve this fat and cholesterol not majorly because of the calories. You can also add honey to warm water to drink to use as a body detox, which helps with weight loss.

-Semi,Skimmed or Whole milk : This are lower in saturated fat, which too much can lead to fat storage. However, you can still have whole milk but in small quantities as they are higher in fat but fat is't bad for us but too much is, so its all about moderation. Skimmed milk don't have enough nutrients and less fat so its not the best for a healthy weight loss journey.

-Greek yogurt: High in protein and low in saturated fat and sugar.

-Fiber: Adding fiber your smoothie will help you feel full which will stop you from eating too much or snacking too much in between meals. Fiber such as seeds and nuts which are also high in protein and healthy fat, that will help lower your cholesterol level. (Always have them in small portion as they are high in calories.) peanuts, cashew, peanut butter, almond, flax seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin, hazel and many more. Oats are also high in fiber and will help you feel full, so you can blend a bit with you smoothie or add on top. 

-Olive oil: This are good fats (HDL) which carries bad cholesterol away from your bloodstream. 1 teaspoon of olive oil in your morning smoothie is will  help with your weight loss journey.

2 Smoothies Recipes

Recipe 1
What you need:
-Blender
-Water (the viscosity depends on the amount of water you add)
-Greek yogurt 2 tbsp
-Olive oil 1tsp
-Spinach ; hand full
-Kale; hand full
-Blueberries
-Honey 1 tsp
-Cinnamon  2 tsp
-Strawberries.

Preparation: Add all of the ingredients above into the blender and blend. You can use frozen berries depending on the season or just add ice to give it a more cooling taste.

Recipes 2
What you need:
-Blender
-Water (the viscosity depends on the amount of water you add)
-Semi skimmed milk 100 ml - 200 ml
-Peanut butter or peanut (plain)
-Kale; hand full
-Spinach ; hand full
-Mango 1/4
-Oat; just a little or 2 tbsp
-Raspberries and grapes.

Preparation:  Add all of the ingredients above into the blender and blend.

Enjoy.