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If you put a banana in a blender, you
still have a banana. But what a minute ago looked like a substantive snack,
now looks like a tiny shot. So you might be tempted to add another banana and
maybe even some raspberries, a few grapes, that leftover papaya from two days
ago and a kiwi, just to fill your glass.
Juices bypass the body's hunger
detectors. Smoothies seem to sit someplace in the middle—more filling than a
juice, but easier to consume than plain fruit. If you sat down and drank the
smoothie we just described, you've just slurped back 5 or 6 servings of fruit
in one sitting.
Should you count it as zero? Its your choice—how
exact do you want to be?. You can count it as zero using the Simple Recipe
Math described on page 42 of the GSB. But if you are drinking a lot of
smoothies and you aren't seeing the results you were expecting at the scale,
we recommend you put those fruits into the Recipe Builder on eTools and start
counting and tracking the PointsPlus values.
When you juice any fruits (ie removing the pulp and
feeding through a juicer) no matter if you do it at home, in the car or on
the beach, you no longer have fruit; you have juice and you must count the
PPVs. Same is true if you dehydrate the fruits, because you have removed the
fiber/water that made fruit such a nice low-energy density treat.
What if you bake the fruit? Boil it? Microwave it? As long as you don't add
any ingredients with PointsPlus values, you still have a zero-PPV treat.
Count it as zero.
As with everything on this program, LET YOUR WEIGHT LOSS BE YOUR GUIDE.
(Think of Obi Wan Kenobi "Use the Force Luke")
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