The New Year marks the new beginning of me, or at least the skinnier version of me. I imagine many women experience the same desire after all the holiday cooking and eating while stuck at home during school break and bad weather.

Splendid Spoon and Pressed Juicery are two places where you can get some amazing smoothies. You can enjoy them as refreshments or they can substitute snacks and meals. They both have a lot to offer, including soups, sippable resets, and grain bowls from Splendid Spoon and vegan ice cream from Pressed Juicery. Our focus, however, is smoothies and only smoothies.

For two months in a row I've been starting my day with a smoothie or green juice, and I've noticed some positive results. My skin has improved, my digestive system works as a clock, and I've lost 2 pounds.

I have never been big on smoothies. I always enjoy juice, but the texture of smoothies always turned me off. I like to either drink something or chew something, and smoothies are smack in the middle of the two - neither drink nor food.

Splendid Spoon is my healthy food obsession. Every time I take that breakfast smoothie to gym or just out and about, I feel very sophisticated and very health conscious.

My first meeting with Splendid Spoon was purely by accident. I saw my friend toting a colorful smoothie bottle in the gym and asked what it was. She told me a bit about this meal delivery program and next day gave me two smoothies and a bowl of soup as a gift.