How To Make A Great Diet Shake

It's important to know how to make diet shakes on your own, because over the counter shakes have many things that you may not want in them such as high sugar or carbohydrate content. Making sure that you have a good blender is paramount in any properly prepared shake. Being able to make your own diet shakes can do several things for you:

It allows you the ability to maintain the quality of the ingredients you use as well as content, calories and the like.

Your own diet shakes are also very cost effective as most diet drinks are very pricey.
What is great about it is that it is so easy to do. With great ease, you can make great tasting, healthy-for-you diet shakes that you will love.

What Makes A Great Shake?

Depending on your needs, you have to consider what the basis of a good diet shake is.
1. Dairy-Based:
If you are going for a dairy-based shake then you would avoid whole milk. If you do not want the fat content, you would steer away from soy. Your best bet for a great calcium rich shake would be 2% milk as a base.
2. Vegetable-Based:
If vegetable base is your goal then choose something you can stomach. Tomato juice, though great tasting, is very high in sodium so beware. Carrot juice makes a great base for any vegetable shake.
3. Fruit-Based:
Fruit is a great source of many nutrients but boxed fruit has a lot of sugar in it, which defeats the purpose of a diet drink. If you wish to use fruit juice as a base to your diet drink then consider juicing the fruit yourself. You will find it tastes much fresher and you get none of the added sugar or preservatives.
4. Alternative:
Eggs are another alternative base to your diet shake. They add a lot of calcium and protein but consuming them raw can be hazardous. Water and protein powder makes an excellent base by giving you exactly what you need. Water works but adds nothing to your shake nutritionally.

Basic Diet Tips

Dieting requires a lot of commitment, dedication and patience. Doctors generally recommend not losing weight too rapidly as it can cause your nutrition levels to fluctuate at such a rate to cause harm to your system. The following tips are a great basis to begin dieting.

Consume your food slowly. Do not rush when you eat. It takes roughly 20 minutes for the message that you are full to go from your stomach to your brain. This, of course, means that you can easily overeat.

We all snack. When you need a little something between meals, eat fruit or vegetables instead.

Using frozen vegetables is as good as fresh (and usually cheaper).
Exercise at least three times a day, 30 minutes each time to drop weight.

Recipes
These recipes are very flavorful and rich in nutrients. They are all easy to make too, just throw the ingredients into a blender and process until smooth. You can change the consistency of any shake by adding ice to make it thicker or liquid to thin it out.
1. Fruit Smoothie
1 apple, cored and diced

1 banana, peeled and sliced

1-2 oranges, peeled, deseeded and sectioned

handful of strawberries or blueberries
2. Chocolate-Banana Shake
1 cup 2% milk

2 tbsp cocoa

1 packet splenda

1 tsp vanilla

1 banana, sliced

8 ice cubes
3. Simply Strawberry
1 cup 2% milk

Handful of Strawberries

1 tsp. vanilla
4. Caribbean Delight
1 cup pineapple

1 banana

Splash coconut juice

Orange juice, fresh