Monday-Getting Into Gear!!!

Hello everyone, Happy Monday! Hope you all had a blessed Easter! We really enjoyed the time with our family as well as seeing the Passion Drama at a new church we checked out! Lance & Adam really enjoyed the service and kept asking us questions. It's so nice to see them involved and wanting to learn about our Savior!

Anyways, today is a new day for me because I'm starting my running training for a run I'm doing in August. I have an injury that doesn't allow for me to run, but I received a new brace on Friday from the VA in hopes that I can run again! Started my training with the brace today and it felt good, so hoping that it works out for me!

Also, today starts my new weight loss challenge at Krave in Osakis, MN which focus's on Nutritional Health using Herbalife Products. The program goes 6 weeks, takes before and after measurements and helps you keep on track to meet your goal. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I succeed because I was not happy with the info I was given!!! It said I had a body of a 48 year old at age 30...YIKES! So needless to say, I'm going to do it, I'm going to stick to it, I'm going to embaress myself so I reach my goal and I'm sharing with whomever reads this blog so that I have more accountablitiy than just myself and my Herbalife gal...Keeping the fingers crossed that this is not in vain! LOL

So here are my before pictures and starting information:

Age: 30 Height: 5'2"

Starting Weight: 147.6 lbs

Body Fat: 36.7 {YIKES}

Metabolic Age: 48

Waiste: 32"

Hips: 39"

My goal is to get my body fat down to 27% and my metabolic age down to 30...hoping I get there at the end of my transformation process!!! Then I can brag about how healthy I am and how good I look! LOL...Wish me luck everyone!

HErbalife Tuesday: Week 8

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful day!!!

I'm so happy and excited to share with you all today that on week 8, I have lost another 5.5"!!! This is super exciting since last week I thought I hit a platue...I've also lost 5 pounds!!! Woot Woot me!!!

Anyways, I'm well on my way, even though I have a ways to go, I'm celebrating all the little things!

So, here's another delicious shake recipe for you to try at home if you want!!!

Monster Cookie Shake Recipe

8oz. water
1 T PDM
2 Scoops Vanilla Shake
1 T Peanut Butter
1 T White Choc Pudding
1 T Oatmeal
3 Swirls of Chocolate Syrup
3 Swirls of caramel syrup
Ice and Blend

Calories: 360 Proteins: 22 g

Herbalife Tuesday: Week 7

Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday! Hope this post finds you well!

Well...I'm going to let you all on a little secret of mine. A few weeks ago, I attended an Herbalife party. I'm a huge skeptic of diets and pills of any kind. So I went, just to listen and help support a friend of mine that opened up Krave in Osakis, MN. So going there and listening to her talk of how Herbalife changed her family and possibly saved her daughter's life...I was sort of in awe. I've heard of it very briefly in the past, and I found out a week later that my friend's weight loss was attributed to Herbalife as well. So, after attending as a skeptic, I then found myself leaving as a customer, and then going home as a distributor!

To cut a totally long story in half, I decided to try Herbalife. Last summer, I worked out from June-end of September, never lost an inch, never lost a pound. My midwife and I chatted endlessly about what was going on with my body, and nothing ever seemed to get a point on. So I said, why the heck not. I have been working out since my 6 weeks post pregnancy apt. and still hadn't lost a pound or an inch, and so, I figured I had nothing to lose.

I came home and didn't tell anyone. Not even my hubby (he did find out a few days later after finding my Herbalife "Stash" and he was on board with me trying this. So the very next day became my "Herbalife Tuesday"...I measured every part of my body and weighed myself at the YMCA when I went for my Zumba class (addicted to that by the way!). I haven't looked back since. That was August 7th. I chose the "Quickstart" program because I thought that was most cost effective and I thought that would work the best for me. I do a shake in the morning for breakfast. Shake for lunch, protein full snack, healthy dinner, and a hardboiled egg for evening snack if I haven't met my protein intake for the day. The first week, I lost 5" and 10 lbs. I was in shock, and thought 3 scales at the YMCA was broken!

Here's what my weight loss is looking like for each of the past 6 weeks with the same workout routine at the start of each week:

Week 2: 5.25" and 0 pounds.
Week 3: 5", 0 pounds.
Week 4: 5.5" 2 pounds.
Week 5: 5.25" and 0 pounds.
Week 6: 5" and 0 pounds.

So here I am, at the start of the 7th week, and have lost another 1" and 0pounds. I'm not a huge believe in the pounds the first few months as long as you are losing inches because I can see and feel the changes in my body and I know I'm gaining muscle mass. My belly is leaving me and things are getting toned. I can just say that Herbalife has been a game changer for me, and I'm convinced. I'm not putting as much effor in the workouts as I should be, but inches are still coming off. It is amazing! I've lost 25.5" over my entire body! I am still in shock, but know I will reach my goal. It's hard not to when you find yourself addicted and having fun!!!

Here's one of my favorite shake recipes: Apple Pie!!!

Ingredients:

2 scoops French Vanilla Formula
2 tablespoons Personalized Protein Powder (optional)
6 oz. water
1/2 cup Apple Sauce
1 Tlbs. Vanilla Pudding (powder or pudding form)
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 ice cubes

Calories: 230 Proteins: 14 g

Directions:Place all ingredients in the blender and mix thoroughly until the ice cubes are completely crushed.

Anyways...If anyone is interested in learning other tips that have helped me, just feel free to email me! hlr976@hotmail.com