Do you want to improve your healthy eating habits? Do you plan on losing weight? If so, you should consider incorporating smoothies into your diet? It’s one of the best ways to make your strategy more enjoyable. 

If made properly, smoothies can pack satisfying ingredients along with minerals, vitamins, fiber, and other healthy substances.  

Unfortunately, even some of the healthiest smoothie ingredients can add up to a lot of calories. Because of this, it might disrupt your weight loss goals. To make things worse, if you’re not careful, you might end up gaining weight instead.  

Today, we’re going to share with you some mistakes to avoid when making a smoothie McKinney.  

You Are Adding a Lot of Boosters 

Protein powders, chia seeds, and nut butter can all be excellent additions to your smoothie. However, just like other ingredients, you can go overboard with them.  

Keep in mind that a tablespoon of almond or peanut butter has around 100 calories. Oftentimes, protein powders start in the 100-calorie range. Also, hemp, flax, or chia seeds get you to the 100-calorie mark in 2-3 tablespoons.  

The calories can easily add up if you are not cautious with your extras. 

You Aren’t Monitoring Your Sweeteners 

Whether you’re using coconut sugar, agave, honey, maple syrup, or other types of sweeteners, too much of it is where a lot of smoothies go unhealthy.  

Other added sweeteners might come in the form of flavored yogurts and plant-based milk. Since fruit is naturally sweet, you should try if you can get by with just a tiny bit of sweetener. It’s even better if you can avoid using it entirely.  

You Are Adding a Lot of Fruits 

While fruit is a healthy ingredient in a smoothie, you can get too much of a good thing. This is particularly true when it comes to carbs and calories.  

In general, experts recommend you only stick to 1 cup of fruit per smoothie. This is around 1 serving of fruits.  

Keep in mind that incorporating several various fruits in the blender can easily add up to much more. Because of this, you need to always keep an eye on the overall amount if you are mixing fruits in your smoothie.  

You Drink Smoothie with Breakfast 

There is a huge possibility that your smoothie contains enough calories to replace your meal. This is particularly true if it contains nut butter, Greek yogurt, protein powder, and much more.  

Because of this, it might not be ideal to accompany your smoothie with a meal. If you really want to incorporate your smoothie with your morning meal, you might want to change the recipe of your smoothie to lighten your calorie load during breakfast.  

You’re Mixing Too Much Powder 

To keep things simple, too much nutritional powder isn’t good for you. You should not mix anything with your smoothie without reading the label. It is quite common to see GMOs, artificial sweeteners, and other ingredients in most nutritional powders. Because of this, make sure you properly read the label first.