Another installment in the multiple sclerosis ‘get fit’ plan updates
Ahhh, spring is here. A time when your internal core body temperature thermometer competes with your indoor thermometer and your outdoor thermometer all at once. A time when you don’t know whether you want to put on a second pair of wool socks or jump into the nearest swimming pool. A time when you can’t decide if you want your h20 and your caffeine hot or iced.
Whatever the weather and MS are throwing at your hot/cold sensitivities, you can count on one thing; ice cream weather is on its way!
But if you have a ‘get fit’ plan like me, you may want to avoid ice cream. You can try to do this with smoothies, but it won’t work. Still, they are a healthy alternative and better for you than hot fudge.
I have learned a lot about healthy eating in the last year, (no Mounds bars still do not count as fruit,) but I can always use a refresher course. So as I dust off my Healthmaster Elite, I thought I would re-visit an old blog about some of the things I learned when I was just starting out….
So the Banana Peanut Smoothie was actually pretty good. It wasn’t as incredibly super delicious as say, a Cookie Dough Nor’easter (the Cape Cod version of a DQ Blizzard), but it was ok. Strangely, the recipe said it made four servings when it actually made ten. Why is that?
I think people who put together recipes and serving sizes have no idea that they are doing. It’s like when you open a container of something really good and the label says the container contains eight servings when it barely contains three, maybe four. Somebody is doing something wrong.
So while I did like the Banana Peanut Smoothie, it was a little too banana-ie/peanut-ie for me and I moved on to the next recipe I was bravely going to check out. But first, I noticed something really cool.
Before I tell you what that was, allow me to say that I truly appreciate Montel William’s Healthmaster Elite way more than the Ancient Warrior blender thingy I had tried before. The Healthmaster comes in cool colors, is easier to use and much easier to clean. There is no removing of the blades in the Healthmaster so it is likely I will keep all of my fingers while using it.
As I gathered the ingredients for my next smoothie, the Strawberry Banana Peanut Smoothie (I chose this one as I still had some of the ingredients hanging around and those bananas were just crying out to be used again), I really looked at my Healthmaster.
I noticed how much it resembled a robot. Then I grabbed this cool tool that comes with the Healthmaster Elite (and was badly needed and DID NOT come with the Ancient Warrior) called the Tamper. I don’t know why it is called the Tamper as it is really a smoothie maker’s lightsaber, used to duel the indredients of a smoothie into an actual smoothie.
Since I was really impressed with this tool, I couldn’t help noticing that the Healthmaster Elite kind of looked like one of R2-D2’s cousins. I don’t know why everything in that day’s smoothie making experiment was making me think of Star Wars. Perhaps it was because the last time I didn’t have to worry about my weight was when I saw the original Star Wars in 1977. Oh Obi-Wan, I could use your wisdom on my ‘get fit’ plan. Yes, I am fortunate to have Montel’s recipes but Obi-Wan could send in the Force.
The lightsaber fascination lead to actual exercise as I dashed around my living room fighting off imaginary Stormtroopers. Then it lead to even more exercise as I moved around the room again cleaning Strawberry Banana Peanut Smoothie off the walls. Perhaps next time I will play pretend Star Wars BEFORE actually using the lightsaber to make the smoothie.
Admit it- you want to do this. You are making the lightsaber sound right now.
The point is, as silly as it might have been, I had fun and enjoyed my Star Wars smoothie maker more than ever. As for the Strawberry Banana Peanut Smoothie, it was really good. I know because the recipe said it made eight servings and I only came up with five and a half, the half being on my walls.
So my ‘get fit’ friends, take it from me. If it works for you as you are trying to get healthy, do it. If childhood memories cause you to fly around your house like an idiot, at least you are moving.
If you, like me, have a plan I can only say to you, “may the force be with you!’
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HAHAHA !!!!!
How many times do you wave your arm and make the lightsaber sound as you were reading this?
That sounds like tasty fun! Okay, not the part about removing smoothie off the walls and floor and curtains and wherever else, but the recipe itself, about which I absolutely agree with you regarding servings and/or serving sizes, about which the ‘authors’ or ‘originators’ don’t know squat! Oh, incidentally, a tamper is meant to tamp down or press down things in the container, so that extra space be filled up and possibly distracting the originator of the recipe as to serving size…
Thank you so much Gale! It was fun and I strongly suggest it to others. Just make sure to play pretend Star Wars BEFORE making the smoothie!!!
You lost me when you said “ice cream weather is on it’s way.”
What?
EVERY season is right for ice cream!
Now you go back and correct yourself, geez.
You are absolutely right My Odd Sock friend- I stand corrected! I must have been having an MS moment!