I received shakeology and started drinking it on tuesday. I started with trying to stick it in a water bottle as I was at work and hungry. That was a fail it really needed a blender. So new plan I will drink it as soon as I get home from work before I workout mixed in the magic bullet. I have only drank it 3 times so far and so far I still don't know if its worth it. I find I get hungry just after I drink it but the next day I feel full. Drinking it in the evening and then eating dinner I am not hungry until around 11am just before lunch. I am not using it as a meal replacement I am only replacing garden of life powder with shakeology for thirty days to see if it works. Taste wise I find the vanilla flavour is good but it has a strange aftertaste too it. I have vegan chocolate as the other flavour and I like it but I still need a blender and need to add some nut butter and milk to it. I made the shakeology bites below and really liked them. I ate two for breakfast on wednesday and it kept me full. I do find kind of uncomfortable it tends to bloat me when I drink it but goes away fast. I am not having the cleansing effect other people have written about. This may be because garden of life as some similar ingredients and I have been drinking it for a while. So far I am undecided on if I like it or not. I feel tired when I drink it, I do feel more focused, the taste is good if mixed with other things, it does prevent cravings. I will continue the trial and see what happens.
This week my workout has been gold's gym personal trainer on the wii a lot of the moves are the same as in T25 which is interesting. I am burning around 200 calories in about 30 minutes and they are fun. My scores are better if I drink shakeology vs if I don't. I only started this because a friend and I traded workouts she took T25 and gave me insanity. I watched a couple of the insanity videos and thought I am not doing that. The workouts are an hour long and doesn't have the music T25 has. I prefer more distractions in my workouts T25 has music and more choreography plus its only 25 minutes. I did decide it is time for me to get T25 Gamma. Although I have done Alpha and Beta phases and loved them, I am kind of scared of Gamma but I know if I am going to do any hard workout this is the one that will make me continue until I succeed. Tomorrow I will start Gamma pure strength which will be a mix of Gamma and Beta.
What I have noticed lately is although I have had results people keep saying things to me that are negative. Like if it doesn't work you should just give up. First its not going to work if it sits in the box. Just because results aren't super quick and dramatic doesn't mean I haven't had results and I understand there are things I need to work on. I know these people are just not comfortable in the fact that they are not doing anything and they are not going to find an excuse in me. I have had physical and emotional results. I want people to realize that not giving up is part of the process, if it was easy it wouldn't work. I want to state that currently I am not a beachbody coach and I am not trying to sell anything. Beachbody has provided me with the tools I needed to make changes in my life so I am a huge fan but that's it. I am not saying I will never become a coach but for now I want to be unbiased while I test things out. My hope is that if I share my story other people will think if you can do it I can do it too.
Shakeology bites
melt one tbsp butter (or coconut oil)
add 3/4 cups oats
stir oats until toasted
add 1 tbsp nut butter ( I used hazelnut)
add one serving of shakeology ( I used vegan chocolate)
This week my workout has been gold's gym personal trainer on the wii a lot of the moves are the same as in T25 which is interesting. I am burning around 200 calories in about 30 minutes and they are fun. My scores are better if I drink shakeology vs if I don't. I only started this because a friend and I traded workouts she took T25 and gave me insanity. I watched a couple of the insanity videos and thought I am not doing that. The workouts are an hour long and doesn't have the music T25 has. I prefer more distractions in my workouts T25 has music and more choreography plus its only 25 minutes. I did decide it is time for me to get T25 Gamma. Although I have done Alpha and Beta phases and loved them, I am kind of scared of Gamma but I know if I am going to do any hard workout this is the one that will make me continue until I succeed. Tomorrow I will start Gamma pure strength which will be a mix of Gamma and Beta.
What I have noticed lately is although I have had results people keep saying things to me that are negative. Like if it doesn't work you should just give up. First its not going to work if it sits in the box. Just because results aren't super quick and dramatic doesn't mean I haven't had results and I understand there are things I need to work on. I know these people are just not comfortable in the fact that they are not doing anything and they are not going to find an excuse in me. I have had physical and emotional results. I want people to realize that not giving up is part of the process, if it was easy it wouldn't work. I want to state that currently I am not a beachbody coach and I am not trying to sell anything. Beachbody has provided me with the tools I needed to make changes in my life so I am a huge fan but that's it. I am not saying I will never become a coach but for now I want to be unbiased while I test things out. My hope is that if I share my story other people will think if you can do it I can do it too.
Shakeology bites
melt one tbsp butter (or coconut oil)
add 3/4 cups oats
stir oats until toasted
add 1 tbsp nut butter ( I used hazelnut)
add one serving of shakeology ( I used vegan chocolate)
