Introducing at least one green thickie to your day can totally transform your health. Most people don’t get enough leafy greens, and drinking a green thickie is a great way to get your greens without having to taste or chew them. As part of a healthy balanced diet you may get the following health benefits with green smoothies:
1) Weight loss. Increasing the number of fruit and vegetables you eat in a day gives you body an opportunity to shed excess fat and water weight built up from toxins stored in the body. I lost 28 pounds of my baby weight mainly by drinking a green thickie for breakfast.
2) Weight gain. If you are trying to gain weight, it is much easier to add green thickies to your existing diet and drink your extra calories that you need to put on weight.
3) More energy. If you start the day with these green smoothies you will notice a massive increase in the amount of energy you have.
4) Mental clarity: Junk food, especially processed white flour and sugar can clog our minds making our brains feel cloudy. Drinking green thickies will clear your mind and free up your creativity so you can think more easily.
5) Crave less junk: When you increase the amount of healthy foods in your diet and decrease the unhealthy foods you will naturally stop craving junk food and crave more of the same healthy food. One green thickie for breakfast may well lead to another green thickie for lunch which is no bad thing.
6) Less snacking: A green thickie normally contains the right amount of calories for one healthy meal. And because the ingredients are generally low GI, they will keep your blood sugar levels low until lunch time helping you to cut out snacking altogether.
7) Improves skin. The amount of acne may reduce when you improve your diet by drinking more green thickies. It worked for me.
8) Lessens wrinkles: The increased fluids and power of natural foods in your diet will hydrate your skin and reduce your wrinkles making you look younger.
9) Reduce the risk of serious diseases: It is well known that one way of preventing cancer and heart disease is to increase the number of fruit and vegetables in your diet and decrease the amount of animal fats consumed. The more green thickies you drink, the lower your risk.
10) Improve your immunity to colds, flu and other bugs and feel generally amazing. After having a cold or the flu all winter long, I didn’t have a single bug for 3 years after introducing green smoothies to my diet.
11) Improve your digestion, detox and get your health off to a flying start today. My IBS totally cleared up after changing my diet. A green smoothie will be guaranteed to get everything moving in the morning.
12) Reduce other health complaints: Whatever health complaint you are suffering from, diet can have a dramatic effect on the severity of your symptoms. Try one green thickie a day for the next week and notice the difference in your own health.
Read my story of my amazing health transformation with a healthier diet. I’d love to hear about the benefits of green smoothies in your life.
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Hi, I'm Katherine, thanks for stopping by. I healed myself of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and lost 56 pounds. I now have loads of energy for my baby girl and enjoy walks on the beach with my family. I am passionate about helping you improve your health and reach your ideal weight. I invented Green Thickies to provide a complete meal drink for busy people who care about their health.
Hi Just read your article and its awesome… I have been on green smoothies since yesterday and I am doing it mainly to get more energy and to have clear beautiful glowing skin. Just one question.. In how much time did you see results in your skin?. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Hi Jasmin. I’m so glad you are enjoying green smoothies. They are amazing for all aspects of your health. I used to have really bad acne before I changed my diet. I can’t remember exactly how long it was before I saw a big improvement in my skin. I think it might have actually been a few months because I went through such an intensive detox and you can actually get more spots when you’re detoxing as the toxins come out through your skin. Stick with it and I’m sure you’ll see results eventually.
Hi Thank you for your comment and yes you are right I am actually having more spots after I started it and today is Day 9 but the rest of the skin has improved and I see improvement in overall complexion hopefully within a few weeks I will see the results and my body will be toxin free. Thank you for the motivation and keep up the good work.
Hi, I’ve been making green smoothies for about a week now and I was wondering did you only drink them for breakfast and you lost weight? Or did you drink more a day. I’ve been drinking one a day as a breakfast replacement. Do you have any other weight loss tips?
Hi Gabby. I started off just drinking them for breakfast but when I replaced my lunch with them too my weight loss did speed up. My weight loss tips would be just to eat a whole foods diet as the body will know when it’s had enough. I’m bringing out a 7 day diet plan soon that will help people lose weight, so stay tuned for that!
I’ve recently started juicing and it works great with regular fruits and vegetables. Especially the ones that have alot of “juice” in them.
However I have found that when throwing leafy greens in them, alot of times half or whole the leaf gets catapulted straight into the collector bin.
I think Summerortiz makes a good case. I’ll see about getting a blender as well and combining them.
Also the idea of throwing sprouts in sounds great.
What’s with the spirulina though ? Is there any real benefit to that ?
I read that it possible contains b12. Could you elaborate a bit on that?
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Thank you for your article. I used your information to get started on green smoothies when I first got my Vitamix. I just put my personal recipe on my blog and linked your site to it. I think you have done an outstanding job of answering common questions.
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Hi, I have been using my Vitamix for 3 months and having green smoothies each day for breakfast, sometimes for dinner, a green salad each day for lunch. On the weekends, I eat regular food, but still have the smoothie for breakfast. I am GAINING weight. I work out. What’s up with that? I am very discouraged. I feel great and I can tell my skin is better, which is a big plus, but the weight!!! Can you suggest anything?