Getting control over what you eat and drink is the whole idea behind dieting isn't it? Many times a diet is the first time you actually get control over your diet rather than letting food control you. And that is a great feeling. So one of the best weapons that you can use in this war on fat to help you get and keep control is making your own diet shakes. These delicious drinks are a great way to get the vitamins and nutritional value of food that you need in a tasty way.



Diet shakes are not new to the diet process and the big money diet programs make millions selling diet shakes in cans to people who don't think they can make them at home. But canned diet shakes are not the best possible way to include this great diet method into your program for two reasons. The first reason is that if you can learn to make your own shakes from fresh fruits and vegetables, you know you are getting all good food and no preservatives or sugars and additives at all. The second reason is that anything mass produced like pre-packaged diet shakes is not going to be as good for you as home made foods and they will have unhealthy ingredients mixed in with the healthy ones.

The only real "equipment" you need to make your own diet shakes is a blender, which you probably already have. With a good blender ready to go, you just have to decide what to use as the base of your shake and then what to add to it for good taste and to get your food value from the shake. For your base, the three choices most people start from is to make a dairy shake, a fruit based shake or a vegetable based shake.

It's pretty obvious that low fat milk is the core of any dairy based shake. Now, right off the bat, if you cannot digest dairy products, this base is eliminated from your choices. Don't try to make it work with soy or a dairy replacement because a daily based diet shake should always start with a reliable 2% milk product. But the good news is that because so many things taste great with milk, there are a huge amount of things that you can add to a dairy shake to give it a great new taste every day.

For a shake that is full of core vitamins and is so rich and healthy it can actually be lunch or dinner, you can't beat a good vegetable diet shake. The commercial brand V8 gives us the pattern for a good vegetable shake recipe. If you like V8 you can start with a tomato base and then add in other vegetable blends and spices to make some really exciting shakes for your diet meal time. One thing to watch out for is to avoid any vegetable juice that might be hard for you to digest because many vegetables get a little hard on the digestive track in juice form.

Fruit based diet shakes are a cool way to get that sweet tooth satisfied and never fall off of your diet. For best diet results, start with raw fruit and liquefy it in the blender so you don't lose any of the nutrition. A fruit diet smoothie is a wonderful way to start the day or a nice evening snack that is healthy as well as very tasty.

These various starting places give you the start of a great shake that you can enhance and make better. Let your imagination get involved and don't hold back because adding variety is the key to staying on your diet and lose some real weight. For example, peanut butter not only adds lots of taste, it contributes valuable protein to a diet drink. A great tasting diet shake is also a great way to mix in any powdered food supplements or vitamins that go right down with the drink so you never knew you were consuming what is good for you.

It's fun to make diet shakes and adding something you enjoy to your diet can make it whole lot easier to get through a tough diet. It's also fun to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. So by using fresh foods in your shakes, you not only are saving money but getting the most food value from the drink. You can just focus on how great the shake tastes and let all that good stuff in it help your body lose the pounds. And a side benefit is the healthy ingredients will help your body fight off colds and flues and other diseases as well. So from one great tasting drink, you stay healthy, have more energy and you are having more fun and losing weight so pretty soon you look great too.