The Green Nasty

Here's a pre-blended photo of the ingredients

Today marks DAY 1 of my new diet. I don't know if I'd call it just a diet as much as my quest to lose 30 pounds. There are a number of different things I'll need to do to get there. 

The main thing I'm doing is up-ing my vegetable intake by drinking something that I like to call The Green Nasty.

The first thing I did was I went through and analyzed which vegetables would give me the most benefit nutritionally. I then calculated how many of them I would need to eat everyday, and made a plan to blend them into a smoothie. But just looking at the ingredients, I knew this smoothie would be NASTY!!

Here's "The Green Nasty" (thanks to my
amazing-3-horse-powered-blendtec!)

So, two options - add things to make it tasty, or add water to water it down and just chug it. Since I'm not going for taste as much as for nutrition, and since I need water anyway, option number two it is.

The result - it is definitely nasty. It's at least better once it is watered down, but still, there's a burning aftertaste from a couple of the ingredients.

So, we'll see how long I last with this, but it is a start!!

Stick around and follow my journey to see just what it takes, and how long it takes, for me to lose 30 pounds.