Part of my training entails eating better. I have much to say about this and will do so throughout the year. As a start, my wife started me hacking down a morning health drink she has named the "Green Smoothie". I have resisted for over a year but have broke down based on advice I recently received from a podcast named "Endurance Planet" on which a guest speaker named Ben Greenfield (an expert in sports nutrition) recommended. Every morning my wife puts about 2.5 cups of green grapes, 4 cups of spinach, 1 or 2 leaves of kale, 1 orange, 1 banana, 1 cup pineapple, and ice in a Vita-mix blender and emulsifies it into the greenest concoction anyone can come up with. My wife convinced my boys into partaking of it daily by naming it the "Incredible Hulk Shake". Since my boys were big time Hulk fans they drank this stuff down like it was Kool Aid. This worked until my two oldest boys discovered that the green color was coming from some kind of plant. Last year my oldest son Brady made the observation one morning: "Mom I know you put grass in this." Well he was not far off. My second son's (James) love affair with the "Hulk Shake" has now started to wane as well; this morning he said: "Mom, do we have to drink this every morning" with displeasure weaved in his works. Since I just started drinking the mixture, I just plug my nose and suck it down as fast as possible. In reality it does not taste that bad. It is actually fairly sweet and I eat a spinach salad at least 4 times a week, which I really enjoy. I just have this mental thing going on with mixing everything into a liquid and drinking it. Now the only ones who do not complain or have to hack it down are my wife, because she is just plain healthy, and my youngest son (Jackson), who is to young to know better (give him a year and he will put the "green" and "grass" together as well) [see pictures].
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