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Nicole’s Green Monster:<\/strong><\/p>\n I work out a lot. BUT, I’m also trying to lose weight. I was training for a 200km bike ride for charity (in the mountains, no less) and I was always tired. I THOUGHT I ate enough fruits and veggies, but maybe not enough variation.<\/p>\n So – I gave in. With all the hype about these green monsters…I thought, well, if everyone is doing it…then maybe I should too… Here is what I make every morning:<\/p>\n 1 cup of almond milk (other milk of choice could be used) And whizzz away! Occassionally I have to add a few splashes of water. And the first few weeks I had to remember this trick – DON’T LOOK DOWN! Just drink it and enjoy the taste – forget about the color!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicole’s Green Monster: I work out a lot. BUT, I’m also trying to lose weight. I was training for a 200km bike ride for charity (in the mountains, no less) and I was always tired. I THOUGHT I ate enough fruits and veggies, but maybe not enough variation. So – I gave in. With all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSo I did. And by the end of the week I felt better, my stomach was acting a lot better, and I had more energy. I’m not sure HOW its possible…but, its the truth!<\/p>\n
\n1\/2 cup of frozen strawberries
\n1\/2 frozen banana
\n2-3 cups of organic, baby spinach<\/p>\n