A little over 4 weeks ago, I was contacted by a friend about this product. At first I wasn't interested. But once I actually took a minute out of my time to check out the website and listen to what she had to say, not only was I interested in the product I was interested in distributing it! But we're not going to talk about distributing today. We're going to talk about my life before ViSalus and the first 30 days of my 90 Day Challenge :)
Before ViSalus I was tired, I was cranky, I was struggling to find energy to do anything but the bare minimum that life expected of me. I have 2 Children, a 4 year old and a 15 month old, both boys. Can you relate at all to this? The energy two small boys can have is unbelievable! I couldn't keep up. Not to mention temper tantrums, potty training and bed time fights. I felt like I was drowning. I didn't have energy to lose weight. I work part time and go to university while my boutique, Baby Mine, sits on the back burner.
Day after day I drag myself out of bed when one of the kids wakes up. I make them cereal, eggs or toast. And for myself? I am so sick of breakfast food I eat nothing and pour myself a cup of coffee flavoured with nasty creamer or I eat some sugary not-for-breakfast cereal. An hour later I'm crashing, I'm tired, I'm hungry. I go to the kitchen to find something to eat, it's probably going to be something full of carbs and sugar because my body wants energy and it wants it now and that's what it craves. Lunch time comes around and I'm still tired so I throw together Kraft Dinner with mixed veggies and call it healthy. If my son wants snacks I hand him an apple or a banana and hey he even likes fruit. I know in my mind what is healthy and I ensure my children are offered plenty of fruits and veggies but I wasn't taking any initiative to taking care of my own health. I would get home from class right at lunch time, which normally is a BAD thing because I'm starving and I eat everything in sight while I prepare lunch. By the time lunch is made I'm not even hungry but I eat anyway because who can resist that processed food your body has become addicted to.
DAY ONE OF VISALUS: A shake for breakfast, 2 scoops mixed with 8oz of unsweetened almond milk and 4 oz of coffee. I had energy and I wasn't as tired as I normally was. Then I'm actually motivated to eat a healthy snack instead of a handfull of cookies. It was like an instant change. Sure maybe it was state of mind, but it took that first step of deciding to be healthier and start these shakes that put me in the right mind set to actually eat right. So I grab a piece of fruit and a slice of real cheese and head out the door to university.
I get home at lunch time and I'm not starving so I actually can THINK about what I'm going to make for lunch and not snack while I make it. So I make an omlette with one egg and some egg whites, add some broccoli, spinach, a slice of cheese and sprinkle of cayenne pepper. YUM.
Snack time is a yogurt, a banana and another slice of cheese (hey I could probably lose even more weight if I could give up cheese, but for now I'm satisfied with my weightloss and my cheese lol).
Supper time is another Shake minus the coffee.
Evening snack I'm craving a little chocolate so I decide if I'm going to do this I need to be able to manage my cravings rather than try to ignore them. SO I bought some chocolate covered pretzels in the 100 calorie packs and share it with my 4 yr old because he's a little mooch :p
The rest of my Days look similiar to this. I switch up my days depending on how I feel. I always have a shake for breakfast, sometimes I only add coffee, sometimes I add fresh fruit like a banana and strawberries. My 2nd shake of the day switches between lunch and supper depending on whether I feel like cooking at lunch time or not.
I didn't take measurements before I started because I didn't know I would lose weight instantly. But 2 days in I was already down from 137 to 130. (I'm a whopping 5' tall and weighed 118lb before my first baby). So I measured myself then and there. I wish I had taken more picures. I've got a couple pictures, you will see the difference even though I haven't been taking weekly pictures, once I have a current picture up to compare to my pictures I have of me with my kids. Which is another thing, my pictures with my kids are limited because I am always the one behind the camera since I hated the way I looked. I'm 4 weeks in and I'm down 12lb which was all in the first 2 weeks, and I need to stop looking at the scale because I KNOW I am losing weight regardless of what the scale says. My pants are damn near falling off and I have lost at least 5 inches. I can really see the weightloss in my face as well.
If you're wondering what I do for exercise in addition to the shakes, I started out running the same week I started the shakes. I got an application for my android phone to help me run. It's a 20 minute work out that tells you when to run and when to walk. I couldn't even finish the 20 minutes in the beginning, and I couldnt run for 30 second intervals. I stopped long before the 1 minute interval that the program expected me to be doing off the bat and I often quit 10 minutes into it. SAD but true. Eventually I figured out that if I ran in the evening when it was cooler I could usually force myself to do 20 minutes even if I still couldn't finish the 1 minute intervals. Last friday I hit an all around record. I ran 1 minute 45 second intervals, went for a total of 45 minutes, 3.7 miles and broke a few time records within my intervals. I LOVE these applications that tell me just how far I went and how fast etc. I like seeing my progress and gives me something to work towards. I try to run every other day, but sometimes I go 2 days in between but I push for 3 times/week even if that happens. There was 1 week in there that I didn't run for 7 days and I went to the fair and boy did I feel like CRAP after all those mini donuts! But.. everyone needs a cheat day, I just wish I would have been running that week to make up for it. Oh well I have almost 60 days left of my challenge and my lesson has been learned!
ViSalus shakes are full of nutrition and contain hormone-free soy protein. It's diabetic and thyroid friendly and even Kosher! My energy levels are so much better, I don't even need my mid afternoon nap anymore!
If you have any questions I am here to answer them for you!
Good luck with your health and weight loss goals!
~Bri~
Before ViSalus I was tired, I was cranky, I was struggling to find energy to do anything but the bare minimum that life expected of me. I have 2 Children, a 4 year old and a 15 month old, both boys. Can you relate at all to this? The energy two small boys can have is unbelievable! I couldn't keep up. Not to mention temper tantrums, potty training and bed time fights. I felt like I was drowning. I didn't have energy to lose weight. I work part time and go to university while my boutique, Baby Mine, sits on the back burner.
Day after day I drag myself out of bed when one of the kids wakes up. I make them cereal, eggs or toast. And for myself? I am so sick of breakfast food I eat nothing and pour myself a cup of coffee flavoured with nasty creamer or I eat some sugary not-for-breakfast cereal. An hour later I'm crashing, I'm tired, I'm hungry. I go to the kitchen to find something to eat, it's probably going to be something full of carbs and sugar because my body wants energy and it wants it now and that's what it craves. Lunch time comes around and I'm still tired so I throw together Kraft Dinner with mixed veggies and call it healthy. If my son wants snacks I hand him an apple or a banana and hey he even likes fruit. I know in my mind what is healthy and I ensure my children are offered plenty of fruits and veggies but I wasn't taking any initiative to taking care of my own health. I would get home from class right at lunch time, which normally is a BAD thing because I'm starving and I eat everything in sight while I prepare lunch. By the time lunch is made I'm not even hungry but I eat anyway because who can resist that processed food your body has become addicted to.
DAY ONE OF VISALUS: A shake for breakfast, 2 scoops mixed with 8oz of unsweetened almond milk and 4 oz of coffee. I had energy and I wasn't as tired as I normally was. Then I'm actually motivated to eat a healthy snack instead of a handfull of cookies. It was like an instant change. Sure maybe it was state of mind, but it took that first step of deciding to be healthier and start these shakes that put me in the right mind set to actually eat right. So I grab a piece of fruit and a slice of real cheese and head out the door to university.
I get home at lunch time and I'm not starving so I actually can THINK about what I'm going to make for lunch and not snack while I make it. So I make an omlette with one egg and some egg whites, add some broccoli, spinach, a slice of cheese and sprinkle of cayenne pepper. YUM.
Snack time is a yogurt, a banana and another slice of cheese (hey I could probably lose even more weight if I could give up cheese, but for now I'm satisfied with my weightloss and my cheese lol).
Supper time is another Shake minus the coffee.
Evening snack I'm craving a little chocolate so I decide if I'm going to do this I need to be able to manage my cravings rather than try to ignore them. SO I bought some chocolate covered pretzels in the 100 calorie packs and share it with my 4 yr old because he's a little mooch :p
The rest of my Days look similiar to this. I switch up my days depending on how I feel. I always have a shake for breakfast, sometimes I only add coffee, sometimes I add fresh fruit like a banana and strawberries. My 2nd shake of the day switches between lunch and supper depending on whether I feel like cooking at lunch time or not.
I didn't take measurements before I started because I didn't know I would lose weight instantly. But 2 days in I was already down from 137 to 130. (I'm a whopping 5' tall and weighed 118lb before my first baby). So I measured myself then and there. I wish I had taken more picures. I've got a couple pictures, you will see the difference even though I haven't been taking weekly pictures, once I have a current picture up to compare to my pictures I have of me with my kids. Which is another thing, my pictures with my kids are limited because I am always the one behind the camera since I hated the way I looked. I'm 4 weeks in and I'm down 12lb which was all in the first 2 weeks, and I need to stop looking at the scale because I KNOW I am losing weight regardless of what the scale says. My pants are damn near falling off and I have lost at least 5 inches. I can really see the weightloss in my face as well.
If you're wondering what I do for exercise in addition to the shakes, I started out running the same week I started the shakes. I got an application for my android phone to help me run. It's a 20 minute work out that tells you when to run and when to walk. I couldn't even finish the 20 minutes in the beginning, and I couldnt run for 30 second intervals. I stopped long before the 1 minute interval that the program expected me to be doing off the bat and I often quit 10 minutes into it. SAD but true. Eventually I figured out that if I ran in the evening when it was cooler I could usually force myself to do 20 minutes even if I still couldn't finish the 1 minute intervals. Last friday I hit an all around record. I ran 1 minute 45 second intervals, went for a total of 45 minutes, 3.7 miles and broke a few time records within my intervals. I LOVE these applications that tell me just how far I went and how fast etc. I like seeing my progress and gives me something to work towards. I try to run every other day, but sometimes I go 2 days in between but I push for 3 times/week even if that happens. There was 1 week in there that I didn't run for 7 days and I went to the fair and boy did I feel like CRAP after all those mini donuts! But.. everyone needs a cheat day, I just wish I would have been running that week to make up for it. Oh well I have almost 60 days left of my challenge and my lesson has been learned!
ViSalus shakes are full of nutrition and contain hormone-free soy protein. It's diabetic and thyroid friendly and even Kosher! My energy levels are so much better, I don't even need my mid afternoon nap anymore!
If you have any questions I am here to answer them for you!
Good luck with your health and weight loss goals!
~Bri~
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