For the last six months or so, a busy schedule of long days at the shop and the stresses (not all bad stresses!) of managing a business have been running me a little ragged. Pair that with a diet that mainly consisted of convenient fast food and more diet coke and sweet tea than a girl should drink in a lifetime, and I was starting to fizzle out fast. I’ve always eaten pretty clean and healthy, so my body was completely revolting against this new junk overload. I wasn’t sleeping well at night, and I spent every second of time off I could vegging on the couch or sleeping in my room with the curtains drawn. I knew something had to give…
Then about a month ago, I somehow stumbled across Angela’s blog, Oh She Glows. Specifically, this post. And the following weekend as I drug myself through the grocery store like a zombie, I remembered that post about Angela’s story that sounded so much like my own, and her road back to a healthy lifestyle through her “green monsters.” I swear I bought one of everything in the produce section that day, and my smoothie obsession began.
I’ve been whipping up all kinds of crazy concoctions in my blender ever since {most of which Chad won’t even try, and he will eat anything} and drinking at least two green monsters a day. I started feeling so much better, I decided to take it one step further and overhaul the rest of my diet — nothing radical or drastic, just stepping away from the familiar drive-thru paper bags, eating lots of kale and sweet potatoes, skipping the soda and empty carbs, and upping the amount of protein I take in every day. Believe me when I say, I’ve never felt better. My energy is back tenfold, and there are definitely some beauty benefits that go along with eating well.
If you’re not ready to take the plunge into drinking spinach and kale, start with this easy recipe that tastes more like a milkshake than a healthy breakfast! Toss it all in the blender and blend away until it’s smooth. Easy peasy.
1 frozen peeled banana
about 1/2 cup fat free Greek yogurt
1 cup almond milk (I prefer the unsweetened)
1 tbsp ground flax
a dash of cinnamon
1 packet Carnation Instant Breakfast in Classic French Vanilla No Sugar Added
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What do you think?