There’s no food that makes you burn calories instead of absorbing them. So all food is for gaining weight, exercise is for losing weight (or starving yourself).
Celery?
Pretty sure lettuce is one.
There are about 150 kcal in a litre of lettuce smoothie
A lettuce smoothie is not the same thing as eating lettuce. By turning it into a smoothie, you increase the calorie density and make it much easier to consume a higher quantity faster. That is likely enough to turn it into a higher calorie food.
How many calories would it take to digest a litre of lettuce smoothie?
What about ice?
Ice(frozen water, right?) is food? In which culture?
In order to avoid having to list exceptions to the above posts statement, you are now required to sprinkle a bit of sugar on every icecube you consume.
I do that every day, my friend, with a special drink I made called a Baja Blast on Ice.
That’s one part Baja Blast.
One one-fifteenth part ice.
One one-one-hundredth part brown sugar.
And one one-fiftieth part lime slice.
Not enough people seem to realize you can do things for the love of the game
I had a coworker who would ask me every single time she saw me eating a salad “Decided to eat healthy today?” And I was like “Goddamn, do you see all this ranch? I just like leafs, yo.”
Why eat fiber when there’s gum karaya? Why stop smoking when there are iron lungs??
Hold up, we can just do things just for enjoyment?
…really?But, how will our overlords benefit from this?
gaining then
I make a strawberry “icecream” like smoothie purely for enjoyment, but it’s also just 200g strawberries 100g milk and like a tbsp of honey and it is low calorie high fiber yet I still eat it when i’m not trying to lose weight
Depends on how many calories you’ve burned and how many you’ve eaten. It could be a break-even smoothie, you don’t know
Unless you ran to a farm to milk a cow, then to a different farm to pick the fruit and back home, it’s very unlikely to be close to break even.
“Today is my Null Smoothie Day!”
You don’t understand what I said then. You do not know the necessary information to make the judgement on whether this will make a person gain weight: you do not know
- the ingredients in the smoothie (could be fuckin yogurt, milk and berries for all you know, which could be like 100-200kcal)
Or
- the amount of calories that person has or will burn that day (if they are in a caloric deficit higher than the calories in the smoothie, it will not cause weight gain)
The existence of calories don’t automatically cause weight gain, excess calories cause weight gain.
Lol at the amount of calories you think are in milk yogurt and berries.
1/4 cup 2% milk: 30kcal
1/3 cup Greek yogurt: 100kcal
1/2 cup frozen mixed berries: 39kcal
Plus ice and maybe zero calorie sweetener if you want it.
Total estimated calories: 169kcal
Which is between 100 and 200kcal.
Not every smoothie has a bunch of added sugar. I’ve literally made smoothies like this before. That’s how I know. How often do you track calories, my dude?
That’s a 16 to 22 oz cup, so you’re going to add a lot of ice to water that thing down
Read my other comments, I went over this already.
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I think you’re right in this argument, but that’s a tiny smoothie. It’s barely more than a cup.
Ice has no calories and takes up a lot of space in smoothies. Again, ive made smoothies like this so many times and theyre delicious. Smoothies do not have to be huge – i understand when you’re purchasing one they tend to have more stuff in them to get the value you’re paying, but homemade smoothies tend to be about a cup or so, plus ice.
To get mathy:
All of those add up tp roughly 1.1cup without ice
1.1cup translates to 312ml
1 can of soda, beer, whatever is 355ml (diff is 43ml)
If you put ice in a glass, you can easily fill it with a can.
If you add a decent amount of ice to the smoothie, it’ll be a very reasonably sized smoothie. It may not fill a pint glass, but I do not want to drink that much smoothie lol
I mean, whole milk is 62 kcal per 100ml, plain yoghurt is 66 and berries are another 60… So for a glass of smoothie (I would assume around 20cl), it’s quite realistic for it to be maximum 150 kcal, even accounting for some sugar to sweeten it…
Or am I totally wrong with my calculation?
We’re going to be using different measurements, but the gist of it is that the glass pictured is 16 to 22oz in size. 8oz (one cup) of milk is about 150 calories. Yogurt (plain) is generally the same, unless you use low fat lite yogurt. So just filling the cup with only yogurt and milk is 300 calories. Blueberries are around 80 a cup.
So there’s just no real way you’re getting a smoothie that size under 200 calories.
I don’t use milk or yogurt. I use coconut water and frozen berries/bananas. That’s literally it. It’s easily under 200.
Wow that’s much bigger than I thought, it’s a pint of smoothie! I was assuming that all combined was what you call a cup (8oz)…
Unless you’re making someone else drink it, then it’s anyone’s guess
Impossibru!
Wait. That’s illegal.
Is that a metal straw? I wonder how hard it would be to clean one of those.
Easy. You get nice little brushes like a pipe-cleaner.
as much as I care about the environment, I’m too autistic to have a cold metal straw in my mouth
I much prefer them. For one, I feel like they feel as cold as the drink, which is highly satisfying. And for two, I find the texture of plastic kind of nasty, as well as the thought of whether I am consuming microplastic particles through the straw
Oh, right! Thanks, I was asking because I have wanted to get one.
Some straws even come with the brush!
It is a pipe-cleaner
Technically correct, the best kind of correct
The metal straws I own came with a brush that’s the right size to clean them.
I don’t know why I forgot pipe cleaners existed. My bad. I have been wanting to pick up one haha
For the love of the shakes
