Something special for you today: 10 key tips for healthier, slimmer diet based on what you regularly drink – real “DrinkMeHealthy”!

This’ll be right up your street if you are a green smoothie lover or juicing fan, or anyone wanting more fruit & vegetables in their diet.

You’ll find here the 10 key tips followed by a video by John Kohler (discount juicer.com). so you can either read, or watch, or both!

Check out the tips below and let me know what you think.

Question: “Hey, what’s the best drink for weight loss?”

Answer: The best drink for weight loss is the drink that’s going to

• feed

• nourish

• & hydrate your body

So forget all the canned, bottled juices and sodas.

Instead – juice your own fruit and vegetables to make the best weight-loss smoothie or juice drinks ever!

How should we do that? Read on to find out.

1. You’ll need a Juicer

On a recent episode of Dr Oz, a guest – Dr Joel Fuhrman – recommended eating a plant-strong diet – ie a diet that is very rich in fresh fruit and fresh vegetables.

A juicer allows you to do this – to literally concentrate and drink more fruits and vegetables than you’d probably be able to eat.

According to John ...

“the juicer is one of the ways that helped me to lose over 25 pounds. I was never really overweight but yes I was kind of getting up there, I’m now fit, trim and actually quite healthy – due to the juicer and all the fruits and vegetables I eat.”

2. Objection: But what if you don’t like how fruits and vegetables taste!

Well guess what? When you own your own juicer you get to make your own recipes – so you can add more things like fruits that’s going to make your juice taste really sweet and will actually hide some of the flavours of some of the greens or other vegetables that you may not like so much.

So rather than teach you how to make a specific recipe for weight loss, it’s much more useful for me to teach you guys how to eat a variety (literally juice a variety) of fruits and vegetables.

3. So what is the Anatomy of Making Your Own Fresh Juice?

It first starts with the recipe.

Just like baking cookies – you know every cookie always has flour, butter, eggs, maybe some sugar, and then some other things to make it special:

• add chocolate chips to make chocolate chip cookies

• add peanut butter to make the peanut butter cookies or

• add macadamia nuts to make them macadamia nut cookies,

... but they all start with the standard base recipe.

Just the same, every juice should start with a standard base recipe.

4. Question: What are some of the vegetables that should be in your standard base juicing recipe?

• Something like celery is nice and water-rich. it’s very high in electrolytes and really good for you.

• Cucumbers are also a water-rich fruit (although they are considered a vegetable)

• Carrots are high in beta-carotene. Most carrots that you may be aware of are orange, but they also come in different colors such as purple, red and yellow. Try a variety of colors, especially heirloom carrots which are not quite as sweet but have a very nice flavour.

• Apples also make a really good base juice. It’ll make your juice a little bit sweeter (if you’re not keen on your greens.)

• Another item good for your juice base could be zucchini – this will add some nice liquid to the mix.

Once you’ve got your base down you want to add the extras & add-ons

• the leafy greens – some collard greens, or of course you can use kale.

5. Aside: Leafy Greens?

The leafy green vegetables are the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet. But what does “nutrient-dense” mean? They contain the most nutrition per calorie of any food on earth.

Whereas you know something from McDonald’s, some potato chips or other junk food, are really calorie-dense, and guess what? Calories make you put on weight folks! Also, they are very nutrient-poor.

According to John,

If you eat a diet that is rich in nutrients, like the fruit and vegetable diet (especially when juicing them), you get all the nutrients you need, and your body will start shedding the pounds. That’s what happened to me, and I have no problem maintaining my weight – eating those wonderful foods found in nature.

6. Avoid Processed Foods

As foods are processed they gain density in calories i.e. high in calories and low in nutrients.

The closer you get to eating natural foods, you get more nutrients and less calories. So the leafy greens are really good to add.

7. Add Herbs

Besides leafy greens you’ve got some herbs. For example, cilantro and parsley. These are very nutritious. Some people claim that cilantro can actually help to detoxify the body of heavy metals.

Chard

Swiss chard is definitely recommended to add. It will add a nice salty flavor to your juice (if you miss the salt).

Broccoli

Mustn’t forget some broccoli!

There have been studies that show things like broccoli or sprouts have elements that can help avoid cancer. But also it’s a really good vegetable to juice.

You can also buy broccoli and cauliflower from a local farmers market, along with some collard greens.

Note 1: for those kind of ingredients you should only add in a few leaves to your juice. Otherwise they can really overpower the flavor of your juice – and some have really have strong flavours that you may not like.

Note 2: Most foods that are processed have added salt in them because salt is actually a really good preservative, and makes food taste good.

But guess what? That’s another thing, in my opinion, that also adds pounds to your waist line because it causes excess water weight.

Note 3: Water – another reason why juicing is so beneficial is because the water is all liquid! Our bodies are 70-75% water and when we drink or eat things that contain so much water, it hydrates us. When we are properly hydrated, the body can flush out all the excess water weight, and the mineral salts it doesn’t need.

8. What Proportions in the Mix?

Start out with about 75% of your glass as the base. Then the remaining 25% or so of some of the leafy greens to make it taste really good.

9. Juicing Equipment Suggested:

Equip 110.5 juice extractor – centrifugal ejection style juicer
– hi speed, quick and easy to use
– excels at juicing hard vegetables and hard firm roots
– less than $100?? PLUS 10-year warranty

10. Daily Cycle to Get Started:

Here’s the daily cycle John suggests:

• Juicing for breakfast (replaces your normal breakfast)

• Have normal lunch

• Afternoon juice snack

• Regular dinner

Want to watch John Kohler’s video then click “The Best Drink to Lose Weight Ever Discovered”

Note: this post is about Juicing Fruit & Vegetables

If you are interested in smoothies, you'll find hundreds on our website.

You will also need different tools, eg a high speed blender rather than a juicer.

Sample Smoothie recipe based on these tips.

Weightloss Smoothie as part of your Healthy Diet Regime

Serves 1 as a meal-replacement smoothie

Ingredients:

. 1/2 English Cucumber

. 2 cups Kale

. 1 Apple

. 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt

. 1/4 cup Oats

. 1 cup Water

Approximately 339 cals

Based on a video by John Kohler (discount juicer.com)

Photos: DrinkMeHealthy.com

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