Green Smoothie

Green Smoothies are one of the best weight loss options. Check out some of my recipes below. I have found that when I started drinking a green smoothie every morning, my weight loss accelerated and I felt even better. Today my green smoothies also include a variety of superfoods, but plain fruit and spinach are the best green smoothies to get started with.

The “green” in green smoothies come from the green veggies that you add to the smoothies. My go-to green is spinach – it doesn’t change the taste of the smoothie and gives you a great burst of energy in the AM!

You can either browse the recipes below or jump right to a green smoothie recipe using this handy-dandy list:

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Grapefruit Ginger Green Smoothie

Grapefruit Ginger Green Smoothie
Grapefruits were on a huge sale at the market I shopped at this morning so I decided to make this week’s green smoothie for the newsletter a grapefruit green smoothie. The grapefruit I purchased was huge and was only 80 cents! I remember my mom eating grapefruit when I was a young kid but I [...]
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Green Smoothie Blenders

Green Smoothie Holiday Guide
If you are a regular LTF reader, you know I love my green smoothies and especially my weight loss green smoothie. There are tons of holiday gift guides out there and rather than create another, I thought I’d share a variety of ideas for the green smoothie lover, either yourself or a colleague/friend/loved one. Happy [...]
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Green Smoothie Reader Q&A
I received the email below from one of our awesome readers yesterday. I thought it was worth sharing my answers since I receive similar questions each week. If you have questions about green smoothies or need some motivation, shoot me an email at allen-at-letstalkfitness.com. I can either give you some advice or point you to [...]
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Awesome Matcha Green Tea Smoothie

Matcha Superfood Green Smoothie
For my smoothie this week in the Smoothie a Day newsletter, I decided to create a green smoothie using matcha. Angie from Raw Mama Nature has posted a number of smoothie photos on Instagram using matcha so I just had to give it a try! Matcha is a Japanese green tea powder. Nuts.com explains, “Many [...]
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Grape Green Smoothie

Grape Green Smoothie
My birthday was last week and for most of my life, I would have a big fast food meal and a lot of cake. Now that I have adopted this new healthy lifestyle, I needed something to replace the chicken nuggets, fries and cake. I walked around the Whole Foods fruit section and it appears [...]
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