Best smoothie ever!

Ambitious but rubbish - now also with recipes!

Hi, I'm Emmy and I'm overweight. Fact. Weight, food and my body has been an issue for as long as I can remember, and both the intake of food and my actual weight has been as fluctuating and unstable as my mental health. I lost a fair bit of weight when my mum died, only to gain 30-40kgs in the next few years. Surprise, surprise, that's what happens when you have no regard at all for what you stuff your face with. Which I didn't. My all time low had to be when I tipped about.. 95. And yes, that's kilos. Keeping in mind that I'm about the same height as a tall hobbit (156cm), that just doesn't add up. Knowing in the far corners of the back of my mind that I was heading there again, I went to a doctor, who was kind enough to refer me to a weight clinic, where I'll be a patient for 2 years.

There's no hocus pocus to loosing weight, I know that, I've done it before, I've even done it the right way, by eating less, but more often, cutting out sugar and by exercising, instead of starving myself which many seem to think is the answer. And I am a comfort eater, I'm aware of that; I eat when I'm bored, when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I celebrate something... All right, so if I know all of this, what am I waiting for? Motivation, basically. Hopefully the clinic will help with that.

My point for writing this post wasn't really to tell you all of this, but to talk about my breakfast. My sister started making smoothies a while ago, and got me hooked. Being a picky eater I'm not big on salads and vegetables (unless it comes out of a wok), but I'm all for fruits. Hence I went out and bought a blender, and quite a few pounds of frozen berries and pinapple. Word of advice - pineapples are damn tough when frozen, don't try it in the blender. The wonderful thing with smoothies is that you can stuff whatever you feel like in them.

- Pineapple
- Mixed berries (raspberry, boysenberry, blueberry and a type of ribess (currant)
- Passion fruit juice
- Fresh orange juice
- Yoghurt/some sort of dairy product/soy milk/wheat milk/whatever I have in the fridge.

Measurements? That's for wusses - I use the scientific method of "a handful of this and a dash of that". Best way is to mix the solid stuff first with a bit of juice, and then add liquids later until you have the consistency you like. I'm more of a "mush"-person, and tend to eat my smoothie with a spoon, which probably is all wrong. Oh, and it tastes good with müsli.