If you are trying to lose weight or even just trying to eat a healthy diet, cravings for junk foods and sugar cravings can really sabotage your efforts. So what can you do to satisfy that sudden urge for rich, fatty, sweet stuff, that you just MUST HAVE NOW??!! One of the ways that works best for me are green smoothies. What are green smoothies? Green smoothies are simply fruit smoothies - such as banana, peach, strawberry, apple, berries, etc. - with the addition on greens, kale, romaine lettuce, spinach, celery tops, and other. I am going to write more on the subject of green smoothies, but for now just read the following tips [...]
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Why is fasting to lose weight not the optimal way to shed pounds for most people? Well, during the fast, your body has to use the energy stores to get the fuel it needs to keep going, which results in weight loss. But the results may not be as fast or as dramatic as one may expect, because our bodies have been genetically programmed to minimize the effects of fasting. So when we eat less food, our metabolism slows down to conserve energy [...]
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