The Five-minute Energy Fix That Lasts All Day

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that urge. Sugar ages us. Nothing good comes from eating sugar.</li></ul><p id="a1d3">If you don’t have a blender, go out and get one. It doesn’t have to be expensive, but it will add years to your life, health, and happiness.</p><p id="a9ba">Throw whatever veg you have in the frige into your blender. You don’t have to measure or be precise about it. I never measure. I don’t even wash the vegetables, a quick rinse many. Although, if you don’t buy organic, scrub the hell out of those suckers. You don’t want to ingest pesticides and other chemicals. If organic, rinse if you wish. I like a little dirt. I think it makes us healthier.</p><p id="1924">If you don’t like vegetables, too bad. Suck it up. You’ll be craving this sucker after you drink it for 30- days straight. In no time at all, your mouth will water as soon as you take the vegetables out of the fridge. Our palates can change. We change them by what we choose to eat. The palate change comes directly from the food we put in our mouths.</p><p id="e561">When you go without sugar for a month, a dab of honey will taste too sweet to you in a month’s time. Change your palate to crave vegetables.</p><h1 id="556e">Here is one of my smoothies I named “Prolific Writer’s Green Monster”</h1><h2 id="a06b">Smoothie Recipe</h2><ul><li>A handful of greens. I buy the prewashed bags from <a href="https://www.traderjoes.com/home">Trader Joe’s</a>. I buy Organic Power Greens or Organic Baby Kale — no need to measure. Just add a handful</li><li>Italian parsley. I don’t even cut it, just rip half a handful and throw it in the blender. Italian parsley adds a nice fresh, clean taste and covers the bitterness of the greens</li><li>One lemon. Take off rind if you want. My partner leaves it on. There is a lot of nutrition in that rind</li><li>One apple. Same. I cut around the seeds. My partner puts the whole damn thing in there</li><li>One stalk of celery. Again pleasant clean, fr

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esh taste</li><li>Half a cucumber — there is just something so darn refreshing about a cucumber, especially in summer</li><li>A good solid hunk of ginger. There is nothing more medicinal with a fantastic taste than a piece of ginger</li><li>Half a serrano pepper — If you don’t like spice, you may have to work up to this</li><li>Two cups (I don’t measure, eyeball it) fresh, cold, filtered water</li><li>A splash of cayenne — I have a high tolerance for spice. If I could eat Indian and Mexican cuisine every day of my life, I’d be one happy girl. I add a couple of dashes of cayenne and can barely taste that red dash of heaven. This is not necessary, just the way I like it.</li><li>Blend</li><li>Enjoy</li><li>Drink that sucker down, and you’ll be firing on all cylinders all day long.</li></ul><p id="4804">Check back to <a href="https://medium.com/the-write-path"><i>The Write Path</i></a> for more Smoothie Recipes to keep you writing happily all day.</p><p id="2640"><a href="https://thriving-orchid-girl.ck.page/7d40be8a6a">Join my email list here.</a></p><div id="d8e1" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-work-up-to-writing-1-000-words-a-day-and-more-with-very-little-friction-8420dcb5b1db"> <div> <div> <h2>How to Work up to Writing 1,000 Words a Day and More with Very Little Friction</h2> <div><h3>And ultimately make money from writing.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*dZmFEr98_pw2aq4cdgZObA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="da6a"><i>Jessica is a writer, an online entrepreneur, and a recovering type-A personality. She lives in Los Angeles with her extrovert daughter, two dogs, and two cats.</i></p></article></body>

Use food as medicine.

I let my nutrition slide when the pandemic first hit us. If the world was ending, I didn’t want to go out with zero body fat from never eating a carb. So I ate bread and butter and watched Netflix. My gym closed, and my attitude was fu*k it. Who cares.

But last month I was tired of feeling…tired. Exhausted and depleted. I was having trouble staying focused, and my energy dipped drastically.

I have things to do, places to go, and stories to write. I need my energy back.

A month ago, I gave up sugar and start each morning with a vegetable smoothie (which I have been doing for a good five years, but let slide). My energy returned. As have blue jeans, now that I’m able to squeeze back into them.

To increase physical energy and positive feelings, start with a veggie smoothie.

It does a couple of things that add to health and longevity.

You get your entire day’s worth of vegetables in by ten am, you don’t have to worry about it for the rest of the day.

You start the day with something substantial but not filling, just lasting.

A veggie smoothie is nutrient-dense, which means the calories you get from it are satisfying, unlike, say, calories from a doughnut or a bagel. If you start your day with one of those goodies, you’ll be starving 20 minutes later.

After a nutrient-dense smoothie, you won’t crave anything until early afternoon or dinner. When we start the day with article sugar, even in our coffee, we crave more sugar in the late morning and crash after we feed that urge. Sugar ages us. Nothing good comes from eating sugar.

If you don’t have a blender, go out and get one. It doesn’t have to be expensive, but it will add years to your life, health, and happiness.

Throw whatever veg you have in the frige into your blender. You don’t have to measure or be precise about it. I never measure. I don’t even wash the vegetables, a quick rinse many. Although, if you don’t buy organic, scrub the hell out of those suckers. You don’t want to ingest pesticides and other chemicals. If organic, rinse if you wish. I like a little dirt. I think it makes us healthier.

If you don’t like vegetables, too bad. Suck it up. You’ll be craving this sucker after you drink it for 30- days straight. In no time at all, your mouth will water as soon as you take the vegetables out of the fridge. Our palates can change. We change them by what we choose to eat. The palate change comes directly from the food we put in our mouths.

When you go without sugar for a month, a dab of honey will taste too sweet to you in a month’s time. Change your palate to crave vegetables.

Smoothie Recipe

A handful of greens. I buy the prewashed bags from Trader Joe’s. I buy Organic Power Greens or Organic Baby Kale — no need to measure. Just add a handful

Italian parsley. I don’t even cut it, just rip half a handful and throw it in the blender. Italian parsley adds a nice fresh, clean taste and covers the bitterness of the greens

One lemon. Take off rind if you want. My partner leaves it on. There is a lot of nutrition in that rind

One apple. Same. I cut around the seeds. My partner puts the whole damn thing in there

One stalk of celery. Again pleasant clean, fresh taste

Half a cucumber — there is just something so darn refreshing about a cucumber, especially in summer

A good solid hunk of ginger. There is nothing more medicinal with a fantastic taste than a piece of ginger

Half a serrano pepper — If you don’t like spice, you may have to work up to this

Two cups (I don’t measure, eyeball it) fresh, cold, filtered water

A splash of cayenne — I have a high tolerance for spice. If I could eat Indian and Mexican cuisine every day of my life, I’d be one happy girl. I add a couple of dashes of cayenne and can barely taste that red dash of heaven. This is not necessary, just the way I like it.

Blend

Enjoy

Drink that sucker down, and you’ll be firing on all cylinders all day long.

Check back to The Write Path for more Smoothie Recipes to keep you writing happily all day.

Jessica is a writer, an online entrepreneur, and a recovering type-A personality. She lives in Los Angeles with her extrovert daughter, two dogs, and two cats.