Shakeology update

Over the last few months I have been experimenting with shakeology to see if its worth buying it on a regular basis. I have finally decided the answer is yes. I pretty much stopped working out months ago because other things got in the way. I was surviving on 4 hours of sleep a night but shakeology gave me the energy to get through the day at that time I was still eating relatively healthy. Then I had oral surgery and other than shakeology, bananas, and avacado's everything else I ate was junk food pudding, icecream, pasta, cookies etc and unless you considering sleeping a form of exercise no exercise either. I still lost 5 pounds and if you have been following my blog that hasn't happened for awhile. This diet was about a month. It took me a few months to get used to shakeology I didn't drink it everyday at the beginning I didn't like the taste and texture and it felt like it wasn't agreeing with me.  I did find that the vegan versions sit a lot better in my stomach than the non vegan ones. I kept drinking it because there was no doubt that it was giving me the energy I needed. There was a few weeks where my shipment was lost and I didn't have it and I could really feel the difference in my energy level. I now drink it at least 5 times a week and I find the days I don't drink it I eat a lot more. I don't intentially not eat when I drink it I just don't feel like eating anything else. I now really enjoy the taste it feels like a treat now it took awhile to get to that point I guess it was all part of the detox process. The tropical strawberry is the best taste, chocolate second, and I don't like the vanilla and haven't tried the greenberry.  I now replace my workday breakfast or lunches with shakeology. Its easy I take a blender bottle to work and shake it and have lunch. It prevents me from eating out and I don't need to buy groceries or think what am I going to have for lunch today. I have not given up Starbucks but that is more of a social thing and I am sure I could go without it now if I wanted to but I enjoy my one latte a day. Althought the price of shakeology seems high at first the amount of money I have saved on not buying junk food or even vegetables that end up going bad it pays for itself.  I am not a coach yet so I don't get a discount unless I get it on sale its still about $5 a serving but it replaced at least a $5 junk food or lunch item and relieves the stress of making lunches and I am sure future medications. The days I am going out  socially I intentially don't have a shake because then I would be eating nothing in the restaurant and that would be awkward. There is one other side effect that I have noticed my hair grows like crazy and it sometimes it looks like I styled it when I haven't done anything. The negative part of this is my unwanted body hair also grows like crazy. Just tells me the nutrients are working. I know a lot of people think why not just drink a cheaper protein shake but if you look at my previous posts garden of life was a very good shake but my energy levels didn't increase the way they do with shakeology and the benefits were not the same. These are the results I had I did do a lot of research before buying my first package and was very hesitant to start drinking something that could potentially be discontinued at some point. For now it works I like it so I will continue drinking it. My next experiment will be the difference between results from beachbody workouts without shakeology and beachbody workouts with shakeology. Future posts and hopefully results to come.