How do you get your protein, Donny, when drinking a smoothie? Lean muscle need protein or your body begins feeding on itself - not a good thing. Now, you could add beans, chickpeas, or lentils. but that smoothie would be just awful tasting, I would think. You also need carbs, and you can get them by adding a banana, but they have loads of sugar, which is not the kind of carbs you want if you intend on loosing weight. Bananas are listed as the worst food you can consume, but damned, the sure taste good. A ripe banana is about 105 to 120 calories, 27 grams of carbs, 14 grams of sugar, 1.3 grams of protein, and very few vitamins.

I'll stick with the maintenance South Beach Diet, which is what I have been on for more than a decade. The only reason I gained any weight is because Jim Bean produced Honey Bourbon - lots of carbs - lots of calories. But, damned good tasting!

Good luck with those smoothies, Donny,

Gary