Easy Weight Loss with Protein Smoothie Recipes A large number of effective weight loss diets comprise of plans with low carbs and high protein to lose fat around your body. So how can you achieve that goal while maintaining a balanced diet? We’ve all remember the Atkins diet trend where we would see people trying to lose weight by eating nothing but beef, chees, and bacon. And we were all scratching our heads thinking, “surely this cannot be good for you”. Recently, smoothies have becomes very popular for weight loss because they are super easy to make, cheap, taste good, and are loaded with fruits, vegetables, and superfoods. And really – they are a perfect solution for many of us to easily consume our fruits and vegetables on a daily basis that we actually enjoy!
But not all smoothies are created equal. Many people use way too many fruits and/or too heavily sweeten them with things like juice or natural sweeteners like honey or maple syrup. But are these sugar-loaded smoothies capable of helping individuals to reach their weight loss health goals? Even “healthy” smoothie recipes are sometimes high in carbs and sugar content that end up being loaded in calories and could have the opposite weight loss affect to what you are intending. Although lots of fruit, juices, natural sweeteers (like honey, maple syrup, etc.) do a good job of making your smoothie taste better, they add too much sugar and negatively impacts your weight loss goals. Not to mention the negative effects if may have for diabetic patients unbalancing blood glucose levels. So the question is what type of smoothies can you have for weight loss without adding a bunch of sweeteners? The answer is low sugar, high protein smoothies rich with superfoods.