QuoteTrouble is with blending it's usually centrifugal and high speed, so the heat from the friction destroys around 50% of the good stuff.

Maybe with a regular blender. We bought a Vitamix after it was evangelised on Th3 Core, and despite looking like something from Soviet Russia, it's pretty special. It'll make a fair approximation of ice cream because it blends so efficiently that the job is done before the heat builds up to melt the ice.

Nice info, looks very good, five times the price of my juicre but looks good !

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vitamix-Aspire-Planitum-Black-Food-Mixer-blender-5-year-warranty-brand-new-/161335626166?pt=UK_HGKitchen_SmallApp_RL&hash=item25905a49b6

OK, I love my Vitamix and prefer veggie smoothies to juicing for all the reasons mentioned, but a couple of reality checks.

1. If you let it run, the Vitamix will heat hot enough to make hot soup. It takes a long time and is less efficient than putting the puree in a pot, but eventually it will get steaming hot.

2. A blended food is not as nutritious as the same food in its whole form. You have broken the fiber way down (though still nothing like juicing where you've left much of the good stuff on the compost heap and created a sugary concoction stripped of any fiber). I do smoothies because I'm a lazy SOB, but if I weren't, I'd eat the veggies whole as God and Alice Waters and intended. I see smoothies as better than not getting veggies and quite often that is my alternative because, as mentioned, I'm a lazy SOB. The Vitamix bumped up y veggie consumption, though, no doubt about that.

3. Seriously, small amount of heat does not get rid of "half the good stuff". Heat kills some nutrients and unlocks others that you wouldn't get at without the breakdown heat does. Yes, if everything is cooked to death, you'll be destroying the same nutrients over and over and that would be bad. But if you're a lazy SOB like me and your options are a) eating something fundamentally healthy that's been whirred up, broken down and heated up a little or b) pulling out a block of cheese and cutting off a giant slice, the Vitamix is undeniably your friend.

Week 5 (week 3 for me):

2/5, but both one mile swims, so pretty happy with that.

Week 5 - 4/4

Quoteboth one mile swims, so pretty happy with that.

awesome

3/5 last week.

Started testing a nootropic stack (smart drugs) and it's messing with sleep a bit. Will get it sorted.

Week 5 - 2/4

>nootropic

Interesting.  I've always thought of this as overcklocking a CPU -- you get more performance, but are pushing against the design limits.

hard week... made a long, slow, tired run in the rain yesterday to make my goal

16 miles running, one "weight" session (rock lifting) and one indoor climbing session... of which zero miles of running would have happened with the Commit

>Interesting.  I've always thought of this as overcklocking a CPU -- you get more performance, but are pushing against the design limits.

Lots of different things are nootropics. What I'm doing is based on caffeine and theanine, and the go-go part isn't any worse than coffee. The theanine gives mental boosts to focus, energy, drive and memory and has some other positive effects/properties. Little to no side effects. The stuff works!

Thanks for the information.  Could you let us know how it goes?  Its a pretty interesting topic.

Sure, I'll create a new thread.

Week 6 - 4/4

Week 6 (week 4 for me):

0/5. This week's unlikely to be any better.