Holiday celebrations and feasts can be a joyous event within the Holiday Season. It’s often a time we can engage with family and friends, give thanks, and enjoy delicious foods. It’s also often a time of feeling bloated. All those rich foods. All those extra servings and courses. How can you beat the Holiday bloat?

Believe it or not, there are nutrients and foods that can actually help you beat the holiday bloat. Use them, and you’ll feel better, healthier, and likely enjoy the rest of the season more!

Beat the Holiday Bloat Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups almond milk
• 1 cup spinach, loosely packed
• ½ cup cucumber, sliced (appox. ¼ medium cucumber)
• ½ cup celery, chopped (appox. 1 medium stalk)
• ½ small avocado (peeled & pitted)
• 1 scoop Keto Zone® MCT Oil Powder OR 1 tbsp. coconut oil
• 1 scoop Keto Zone® Hydrolyzed Collagen Powder
• 1 scoop Divine Health® Fermented Green Supremefood® 
• Optional: 2-3 drops liquid stevia or low-carb sweetener of choice, to taste

Instructions:

1. Into a blender, mix almond milk and spinach. Pulse to break down spinach and make room for the other ingredients.
2. Add all ingredients except stevia.
3. Blend for about 1 minute or until creamy.
4. Taste it. If you’ve used flavored MCT Oil Powder and/or Green Supremefood, it may be sweet enough. If not, add stevia (or another low-carb sweetener), to taste.

Nutrition Info: 375 Calories, 25g of Fat, 20g of Protein, 4g of Net Carbs

Why the Holiday Bloat?

Usually, when you feel bloated, the culprits are too much sugar, carbohydrates, sodium, or simply too much food.

It happens.

It’s easy to get carried away and overeat during a holiday. But, if you’re trying to stay in the Keto Zone® and eat a healthy diet, the indulgence can cause a host of issues in your body including (1):

• Increased blood sugar and insulin
• Increased fluid retention
• Inflammation
• Weight Gain

If this describes your Holiday Season condition, it’s time to get right back on track. One of the best ways to do so is with a green smoothie!

Why?

It provides both a physical and mental shift back towards healthy eating. There’s no wallowing in guilt.

There’s more. A secret weapon. Here’s what it is and why it works.

Why Our Beat The Holiday Bloat Smoothie Works

If you’ve overeaten carbohydrates or sugar don’t despair just yet. We’ve got a secret weapon in our detox smoothie: celery.

Sugar can cause damage in the body. But, celery can help you stop the damage, reverse it, and get back on track.

Beat the Bloat and Detox with Celery

While I’m not encouraging you to ever overeat sugary desserts and then detox with a smoothie, we all live in the real world and know it happens. Rather than pretend it doesn’t, let’s focus on tools to get you back on track.

First: celery.

Why celery?

Celery has a gentle diuretic effect (2) which quickly normalizes fluid retention without leaving you dehydrated.  This beats the bloat.

Next, it’s loaded with nutrients. In fact, celery is (3):

• A nutrition powerhouse. It contains calcium, copper, magnesium, iron, zinc, and potassium.  In addition, a plethora of vitamins: including vitamin A, C, E, D, B6, B12, and vitamin K as well as thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid and fiber (4).
• Rich in Vitamin C, which promotes good immune function and works as an antioxidant to reduce oxidative stress.
• A blood pressure reducer. It reduces stress hormones and relaxes arteries to make them more elastic (5).
• A cholesterol-binder. Celery increases bile production which binds cholesterol in the gut and promotes excretion out of the body (6).
• A gentle diuretic.

Cucumber, Avocado, & Greens to Beat the Holiday Bloat

The other ingredients in our Beat the Holiday Bloat Smoothie are not exactly slouches. They bolster it to the next level and provide a full-nutrition meal with healthy fats and protein.

Cucumber also promotes gentle diuresis, helping you beat the bloat from extra foods and sugars (6).

Avocado is full of vitamins and minerals along with health-promoting omega-9 fats and cholesterol-binding fiber (12) .

Spinach provides many phytochemicals, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. It’s deep green hue is an indication of health-benefiting chlorophyll (7).

Keto Zone® MCT Oil Powder is a convenient and non-greasy form of the best MCTs available. They are easy-to-digest, great for heart health, and produce ketones your brain can use as a super-fuel (8, 9).

Keto Zone® Hydrolyzed Collagen Powder promotes healthy hair, skin, nails, joints, gut function, and more. Additionally, collagen provides amino acids seldom found in modern diets (10).

Divine Health® Fermented Green Supremefood®, a blend of fermented organic vegetables and wheatgrass, provides concentrated vitamins and minerals. The fermentation process “opens up” these natural superfoods to get more nutrients out. Plus, Fermented Green Supremefood contains healthy bacteria to support digestive and whole-body health (11).

Bottom Line:

Ready to feel better this Holiday Season? Forget about bloat and fill your body full of amazing nutrition instead. Try our Beat The Holiday Bloat Smoothie today!