Do you make smoothies?

[Acklander]

We have a heavy duty bar blender that we use for making smoothies. I'll do an occasional fruit one on weekends(banana, apple, frozen berries & mango, yogurt). Usually I do Dr. Oz's green smoothie during the week though (spinach, cukes, celery, apple, ginger, lemon & lime juice). DH is diabetic and he'll drink off the green one, but no more than a few sips off the fruit one because of all the natural sugar in it.

 

[quasar4legs]

We often make smoothies for brekkie.

Usually we have a little bit of soy drink, frozen berries, half a frozen banana, flax seeds and a handful of spinach. It took a little while to get used to the spinach so you can just start of with a little bit and add more as you get used to the taste.

Smoothies are YUM but it might be worthwhile seeing a dietitician (sp?) to help you plan your menus over the week.

 

[PRmamiDEdos]

Brekkie?

 

[Phedre]

I make green smoothies in my Blend-tech blender (similar to a Vita-mix). Before I got my high powered blender, green smoothies were a pain to get the greens blended up enough. I make one most mornings, and then sometimes another one in the afternoon as a pick me up snack.

Right now I do 4 cups packed spinach, half a frozen banana, a handful of frozen berries and a splash of lemon juice, then fill the blender with water over all of it and blend on the whole juice setting. It makes about 40 ounces. When I first started with the greens, I could only handle a few leaves of spinach in with a ton of fruit. You get used to the 'green' flavor of it and now it just tastes like water to me with all that spinach.

For your blood sugar, I would be worried about using a lot of fruit as other posters have mentioned but if you could get in several cups of spinach/kale/ect, I think that would really help heal your health Good luck!

 

[PaulaSB12]

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins...7169/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305376881&sr=8-1

Dr. Richard Bernstein probably knows more about managing diabetes than anyone who has ever lived. He has had Type 1 diabetes since age 12. He is now in his late 60's, still works full-time plus, exercises hours every day, and has more energy than most people of any age, with or without diabetes.

At age 35, his body was falling apart due to the ravages of blood sugar. He had signs of kidney disease and eye disease and nerve pain in his legs.

Then he discovered how to normalize his blood sugars through the program in this book. Most of his complications eventually disappeared, and he has had no new complications since. His theory (shared by most diabetes experts) is that the complications are due to high blood sugars. But his solution (keeping your blood sugars in the normal range 24 hours a day) is rejected by most doctors, who believe it is too difficult for most people.

The three keys to his program are: A very-low carbohydrate diet - This is the most important part and will probably be helpful even without the other parts. Bernstein prescribes NO sugars, grains, fruits, milk, or starchy vegetables (fast-acting carbs.) He does recommend relatively small amounts of green vegetables and other slow-acting carbs, because of their vitamins and other nutrients. This is not an Atkins-style, no-carb diet.

Frequent blood sugar monitoring to develop your "blood glucose profile." You need to learn exactly how different foods affect your sugars, and how sugars change overnight and with exercise. By checking his blood sugars after each food he ate, Bernstein discovered how carbs raised his blood sugar faster than his injected insulin could catch up. He has you check your blood sugar many times a day.

Frequent dosing with fast-acting insulin or (for Type 2s) an insulin-sensitizing pill, to cover your meals, along with a low dose of long-acting insulin to get you through the night and early morning hours. He recommends insulin even for Type 2's who make some of their own, because he believes the injected insulin will take the pressure off the pancreas and allow it to heal.

If this sounds like a difficult program, you haven't heard half of it yet. He also recommends extremely vigorous, anaerobic exercise. He prefers prolonged weight or resistance training to the point of pain, because building muscle mass helps soak up blood sugar and lessens insulin resistance.

Buy this book and have a good read one of my relatives was type one diabetic and it made the last few years of his life better (he was 87 when he died)

 

[mhsjax]

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins...7169/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305376881&sr=8-1

Dr. Richard Bernstein probably knows more about managing diabetes than anyone who has ever lived. He has had Type 1 diabetes since age 12. He is now in his late 60's, still works full-time plus, exercises hours every day, and has more energy than most people of any age, with or without diabetes.

At age 35, his body was falling apart due to the ravages of blood sugar. He had signs of kidney disease and eye disease and nerve pain in his legs.

Then he discovered how to normalize his blood sugars through the program in this book. Most of his complications eventually disappeared, and he has had no new complications since. His theory (shared by most diabetes experts) is that the complications are due to high blood sugars. But his solution (keeping your blood sugars in the normal range 24 hours a day) is rejected by most doctors, who believe it is too difficult for most people.

The three keys to his program are: A very-low carbohydrate diet - This is the most important part and will probably be helpful even without the other parts. Bernstein prescribes NO sugars, grains, fruits, milk, or starchy vegetables (fast-acting carbs.) He does recommend relatively small amounts of green vegetables and other slow-acting carbs, because of their vitamins and other nutrients. This is not an Atkins-style, no-carb diet.

Frequent blood sugar monitoring to develop your "blood glucose profile." You need to learn exactly how different foods affect your sugars, and how sugars change overnight and with exercise. By checking his blood sugars after each food he ate, Bernstein discovered how carbs raised his blood sugar faster than his injected insulin could catch up. He has you check your blood sugar many times a day.

Frequent dosing with fast-acting insulin or (for Type 2s) an insulin-sensitizing pill, to cover your meals, along with a low dose of long-acting insulin to get you through the night and early morning hours. He recommends insulin even for Type 2's who make some of their own, because he believes the injected insulin will take the pressure off the pancreas and allow it to heal.

If this sounds like a difficult program, you haven't heard half of it yet. He also recommends extremely vigorous, anaerobic exercise. He prefers prolonged weight or resistance training to the point of pain, because building muscle mass helps soak up blood sugar and lessens insulin resistance.

Buy this book and have a good read one of my relatives was type one diabetic and it made the last few years of his life better (he was 87 when he died)

Sounds like good advice. But I do have to correct you, in that this does sound exactly like Adkins. Adkins was never a no carb diet. This is a common mistake.

I am also not advocating Adkins for a diabetic, I just get so tired of people putting out wrong info about Adkins.

OP, I would never do a smoothie, that just sound like something that would not be good for you. Now I could be biased, I think I am the only person in the world that can't stand those things.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

Brekkie?

LOL