Erin: It sounds to me like your body is telling you it doesn’t want them, for some reason. If it were me, I might switch to green vegetable juices for a while, with maybe a separate fruit smoothie later.

Or, if you’re systematic, you can probably figure out what the issue is. Here are some things to think about:

Are you rotating your greens? How often? If your body has enough of a food, it can send subtle clues (taste change, nausea, etc.) Several ‘gurus’ talk about the possibility of buildup of alkaloids from using the same green too much.

If you always use the same fruit, maybe change that up as well. Or, have you recently added a new type of fruit? We had a bag of frozen tropical fruit and it wasn’t agreeing with my wife in smoothies. The only fruit in there we aren’t used to is papaya, so I started picking those out and she had no more issues.

Are you using any vegetables other than greens? If so, try simplifying. Victoria Boutenko also says to avoid cabbage, because it is starchy and doesn’ t combine well with fruit. I’m not sure believe that, since she uses kale, and isn’t that also starchy? Plus, I’m not strict about food combining, but it’s worth looking at if you’re having trouble.

Are you chewing or swishing each swallow in your mouth to mix it with saliva?

Have you recently started adding fat to them? About 3 days after I started adding whole flax or using almond milk instead of water, I found that I would only want about 2 1/2 cups instead of 4.

When do you have your smoothie? Try having it in the morning, have only water beforehand (at least 30 mins before), and make sure you are actually hungry before you drink the smoothie.

What do you all think about raw milk? We drink raw organic milk and make homeade yogurt from. I don’t do kefir really just cause there is only so much you can do..although we are all for it. We grind out own wheat and I cook and bake from scratch so seriously, the time gets limited! I figure yogurt is good too. I know it is heated where as kefir is raw.

The properties in pasteurized vs raw mil are SOOOO unbelievable different. http://www.realmilk.com has great information and highly recommend people read works by Dr. Weston Price. Nutrition and Physical degeneration is extremely interesting.

Just wondering since i Know so many are vegetarians/vegans on this site. we are not but we are limiting are meat intake and we only eat organic/grass fed, pastured animals.

I was so excited about drinking green smoothies. However, my body wasn’t. I was drinking a 32 oz green smoothie daily and added 1 tbsp of Omega 3 oil to it. I noticed that I became constipated from drinking the smoothies. I also noticed that while drinking the smoothie, I would get a scratchy feeling in the back of my throat and I did my best to blend the greens smoothly. I want to go back to drinking them. Does anyone have any suggestions to relieve the constipation and scratchy throat side effects?