JJ Virgin explains why muffins and cupcakes trigger blood-sugar spikes and early hunger crashes. Her solution: a loaded smoothie with protein powder, nut milk, avocado, seeds, vegetables, and a little fruit to keep energy stable all morning.
I am a huge fan of loaded smoothies, and here's why. Quite often I see that people, when they break their fast— brek-fast— they have dessert. Well, put a muffin and a cupcake side by side, take the frosting off the cupcake. What do you have? Lo and behold, it's a muffin. It's loaded with sugar. So you just started the day with a big sugar hit, and that activates the second meal phenomenon, and now you're on a roller coaster all day long where you're going to be hungry even though you just ate. So please, let's not have that. So we're going to do a loaded smoothie instead, which means you're going to use I use my Reignite Wellness All-in-One Protein Powder to start, so you get a good hit of clean protein. Then you add in an unsweetened nut milk for some healthy fats. Then you're gonna throw in some fiber too, and I love avocado, some seeds, so I get both fiber and fat. And then you might throw in a little bit of non-starchy vegetables, a little bit of fruit. But again, we're doing this so we're getting a good protein, fat, and fiber hit.
