My Shakeology 3 day cleanse

Shakeology is designed to have as 1 meal a day to help you reach your fitness goals.  I am addicted to this stuff and I will be taking it as 1 meal/day  for a long time.  The , energy increases and less cravings are my favorite things about the shake(not to mention the taste which I love). 


They have came up with a 3 day cleanse to help jumpstart your weight loss plan or to just get you past a plateau in your current workout.
 Below is my 3 day cleanse experience that I just completed.



I just completed the 3 day cleanse and I thought I would write an entry and let you know how it went.   I went into the 3 day cleanse a little skeptical, not knowing how I would do with just one solid meal a day.   Here's how I did.


Day1   :    Between breakfast and lunch the first day, I did get a little hungry.   After I had my shake for lunch though I felt full and re-energized  and  was great until I had another shake that afternoon.  I had supper once I got home from work and was fine until I went to bed.

Day 2  :   I felt less hungry the second day, with energy throughout the day.   


Day 3:    Had a very busy day at work, but my energy levels were up and felt full all day.

By the end of the 3rd day, although I had not had any problem sticking to the plan,  my body was ready for some real food.
 So I can see why they recommend not doing this for any longer than 3 days.


At the end of the 3 day cleanse I had lost 6 lbs.


If you want to give it a try, they have a 30 day risk free trial.   After you have used your months supply and decide it's not for you, you can send it back for a full refund.

Here's a link to my website myshakeology.com/chrismorris

Let me know if you have any questions.


Chris

Shakeology

I wanted to introduce you guys to what I think is the best nutrition you can get .


If you replace 1 meal a day with a Shakeology,  it will help boost your weight loss.

It's not only for weight loss though.  You get more energy, better digestion , plus all the daily recommended vitamins and minerals in one great tasting shake.

I have a big sweet tooth, so I like to take my shake later in the day when I mostly have my cravings.    It taste like a dessert, but only has 140 calories and the best thing it fills you up and you're no longer craving anything.

Check out the video below from a couple post back.

Jumpstart your weight loss with Shakeology

THE SHAKEOLOGY 3-Day Cleanse




The basics are as follows:


3 SHAKEOLOGY Shakes a day
2 Cups of Green Tea a Day
1 piece of fruit a day
1 salad for dinner
Only white grilled protein in salad


NO:
DAIRY, or EXTRA SUGARS


Only Low Fat Dressings.


Please Email me your results.


You can put your 2 snacks before/after any of the MAJOR MEALS-Breakfast Lunch & Dinner


The fruit was optional, and I actually discourage it, in some cases. Some of you will need the calories where others would not. Power workout participants(Super Conditioned- not the weight challenged) are recommended the greater calories.
*** For maximum results NO additives.


I also said NO DIARY products at all for maximum results. No almond soy or rice milk, either.


Dinner salad is only WHITE GRILLED PROTEIN. Poultry or fish.




REPEAT all 3 Days


1 cup of green tea
I hear a good one is Triple Leaf Detox Tea


BREAKFAST:
SHAKEOLOGY 140 calories
1 scoop
½ cup of fruit (60-90 calories)-optional
add ice
8-10 oz of water




SNACK: (85 calories)
1 piece of fruit
- Apple, pear, orange, banana mango, etc




LUNCH:
SHAKEOLOGY (140 calories)
1 scoop
Add ice
10 oz of water


1 cup of green tea


SNACK:
(either snack here or after dinner one or the other)
SHAKEOLOGY (140 calories)
1 scoop
Add ice
8-10 oz of water




DINNER:
Salad Grilled white fish or poultry (340 calories)




SNACK:
(either snack here or after dinner one or the other)
SHAKEOLOGY (140 calories)
1 scoop
Add ice
8-10 oz of water

Shakeology

If you've never heard of Shakeology,  here's a video explaining what it is and the benefits.

Laws of simple nutrition

I thought I would pass on some excellent nutritional advice from a friend of mine.  These are some great rules to live by.

 

Subject: LAWS OF SIMPLE NUTRITION by Mike French

People are over thinking their nutrition and making it overly complicated. Your nutrition should be basic, simple and workable for a lifetime. Not something you do for 90 days and then switch to something else.

You notice I NEVER use the word DIET. DIET gives the impression that its not a lasting way of eating. I prefer to say LIFETIME NUTRITION. That being said, let's get right into it!

We all need to find the amount of calories and nutrient values (grams of protein, carbs, and healthy fats) that supports our Fitness efforts and goals. I call it

WALKING YOUR OWN PERSONAL NUTRITIONAL TIGHT ROPE
Here is what works best for me:

1. 2000 calories per day

2. 1 gram of Protein per pound of body weight

3. 150-175 grams of Carbohydrates

4. No limit on Healthy Fats

5. 3/4 to a gallon of water per day

6. Nutritional Ratios ~ 35% Protein, 30% Carbs, 34% Healthy Fats

Here are my basic LAWS OF SIMPLE NUTRITION:

1.) PROTEIN ~ The most important nutrient for building muscle & strength.
MIKE'S LAW ~ 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. No more than 200 grams maximum for men and 150 grams for women. Your body simply doesn't need more than that. 35% of my daily intake.

2.) HEALTHY FATS ~ Healthy Fats are needed by the body for energy, vitamin absorption, healthy skin, and necessary bodily functions. The various health benefits including reducing the risk of developing heart disease, Alzheimer's, depression, and cancer.
MIKE'S LAW ~ I don't recommend tracking or trying to control your fat intake as long as you are consuming only HEALTHY Fats such as the following:


1. Fish ~ I don't eat any fish at all, so I consume a Fish Oil Supplement every day.

2. Almonds - My favorite! I eat a serving of 24 almonds, every day.

3. Avocados

4. Flaxseed

5. Olives and olive oil

6. Peanuts and peanut butter - 5 ounces of nuts per week reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by 35 percent. Another food that Tami and I consume every day.

7. Sunflower seeds

8. Walnuts: Have the highest levels of omega-3 fats.

Healthy Fats make up 35% of my daily Nutritional Intake.

3.) CARBOHYDRATES ~ They provide the body with fuel it needs for physical activity and for proper organ function, and they are an important part of a healthy diet.

MIKE'S LAW ~ I choose complex carbs in moderation. I eat all of the vegetables that I can (SHAKEOLOGY bails me out here!) I eat fruit every day. As long as you account for your fruit in your carb totals for the day you are good. Don't worry about the "Natural sugars" in fruits. Its natures candy, eat your fruit! Carbohydrates comprise 30% of my daily Nutritional Intake. (150-175 grams per day)

4.) WATER ~ Our bodies are comprised of 60 percent water. Your body depends on water. Water flushes toxins out of vital organs, carries nutrients to your cells and provides a moist environment for ear, nose and throat tissues.

MIKE'S LAW ~ I drink 3/4 of a gallon of water every day without fail. Some days a little more, some a little less. When I don't take in enough water, I can feel the difference.

5.) SUPPLEMENTS ~ Natural dietary supplements help us overcome nutritional deficiencies.
MIKE'S LAW ~ Supplements should be used to FILL IN THE GAPS of a healthy nutrition strategy.

Many folks try to use supplements to compensate for poor nutrition. This is a mistake. Think of your supplements like metabolic insurance for your healthy nutrition.
SHAKEOLOGY is by far the BEST supplement I have ever used. It provides protein, carbs, fiber, and an amazing array of vitamins, minerals ans other Super Foods.

My personal Supplementation includes:

1. Beachbody SHAKEOLOGY
2. Beachbody Activit Multi Vitamin/Mineral Formula
3. Beachbody Joint Support Formula
4. Beachbody Core Omega 3

Don't over think your Nutrition folks. Its not anything mystical or scientific. Keep it simple, enjoyable, and workable for the rest of your life.

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Why diet soda is not helping your fitness goals

Top 10 Reasons to Give Up Soda

By Steve Edwards

If you're looking for a scapegoat in the obesity epidemic, look no further than soda. It's the single greatest caloric source in the world, accounting for somewhere between 11 and 19 percent of all the calories consumed worldwide. It's cheap, addictive, and readily available, which generally means that it will take some willpower to avoid. But don't despair, as we at Beachbody^® are here to help. We present: our top 10 reasons to give up soda. Drumroll please . . .

10. Soda may cause cancer. According to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, consuming two or more soft drinks per week increased the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by nearly twofold compared to individuals who did not consume soft drinks. As reported, the study "followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years. During that time, there were 140 pancreatic cancer cases. Those who consumed two or more soft drinks per week (averaging five per week) had an 87 percent increased risk compared with individuals who did not."

    Then why, you're probably asking yourself, is this number ten on our list and why is soda even still on the shelf? Not that I'd challenge the ability of such large corporate power to hide such a thing but, in this case, the study slit its own throat. As one of the researchers noted, "soft drink consumption in Singapore was associated with several other adverse health behaviors such as smoking and red meat intake, which we can't accurately control for," meaning that we have no way of knowing, for sure, if soda was the culprit. Still, it doesn't hurt to know that when you drink soda it lumps you into a fairly unhealthy user group.¹

9. It's not just about calories. Calories grab headlines, but recent science is showing that diet soda users are still in the crosshairs. A 2005 study by the University of Texas Health Science Center showed that there's a 41 percent increased risk of being obese—and a 65 percent increased risk of becoming overweight during the next 7 or 8 years—for every can of diet soda a person consumes in a day. Admittedly, this one should be higher on the list, but I wanted to make sure the article-skimming crowd knew the score up front: that diet sodas are very much a part of the problem.

8. It's the water . . . and a lot more. Okay, so that was a beer slogan, but soda is also made up mainly of water, and when you're slinging as much of it as they are, and you need to sling it cheap, sometimes you can't help but run into problems with your supply chain. In India, Coca-Cola^® has found itself in hot water, and not the kind they thought they were purchasing rights to. Two of their factories have been closed, but one continues to run amok. According to a report in The Ecologist, "They accuse the company of over-extracting groundwater, lowering the water tables and leaving farmers and the local community unable to dig deep enough to get to vital water supplies."

   "Since the bottling plant was opened in 2000, water levels in the area have dropped six metres, and when a severe drought hit the region earlier this year the crops failed and livelihoods were destroyed."²

7. BPA: not just for water bottles anymore. Nalgene^® and other water bottle companies took the heat when the dangers of bisphenol A (BPA) were made public a couple years back. While these companies went to great lengths to save their businesses, the soda companies somehow flew under the radar and continue to use it in their products. A recent Canadian study has found that BPA exists "in the vast majority" of the soft drinks tested. Most of these were under the national limits set for toxicity, but some were not. And remember how much soda the average person consumes, meaning odds are most soda consumers are at some risk.

   "Out of 72 drinks tested, 69 were found to contain BPA at levels below what Health Canada says is the safe upper limit. However, studies in peer-reviewed science journals have indicated that even at very low doses, BPA can increase breast and ovarian cancer cell growth and the growth of some prostate cancer cells in animals."³

6. Can convenience. As in the 1950s colloquial: can it. Speaking of the 1950s, those were the happy days when most of our soda was consumed at soda fountains, obesity was a term hardly anyone had heard of, and the most feared epidemic was one of atomically mutated insects taking over the world. Now instead of hoofing it down to the corner confectionery for one soda, we fill out trucks with pallets of shrink-wrapped cans or bottles and quaff the stuff by the six-pack. Not to mention how out of balance this ensures our diets will become, it wreaks havoc on the world around us. The bottled-water industry (which is mostly owned by the soda industry) famously uses 17 million barrels of oil a year, and the aluminum industry uses as much electricity as the entire continent of Africa. Not only that, aluminum mining accounts for a ton of toxic chemicals that is left behind for every ton of the metal produced.⁴

5. The Frankenfood factor. Whether you consume diet or regular soda, you're getting all of the genetically modified food you need and more, via high fructose corn syrup or aspartame. Both of these are under plenty of scientific as well as anecdotal scrutiny. Findings aren't pretty but, so far, this multibillion-dollar industry has kept these sweeteners on the shelves while alternative sweeteners meeting cost requirements are explored. Since it's almost impossible to read health headlines without finding one of these ingredients in some type of controversy, I'll just use one example:

   "The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition and food safety advocacy group, called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review the claims, which stem from research conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation in Italy.

   The foundation reported that rats who consumed aspartame in exceedingly large quantities were more likely to develop cancer. CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson considers this an important finding that should not be overlooked." ⁵

   I know, there I go again with the cancer. But some people need to be shocked in order to take action. For me, seeing the Diet Coke^® and Mentos^® experiment was all I needed to swear off the stuff.

4. Foreign news cares how much soda we sell in our schools. How bad is your country's problem when the whole world is watching its daily actions? "Nearly one in three children and teenagers in the U.S. are overweight or obese and health experts say sugary drinks are part of the problem." Yep, bad. The world is well aware of the problems soda is causing and is looking to us to lead. And we certainly are trying. Are you with the program?

   "Under the voluntary guidelines, in place since 2006, full-calorie soft drinks were removed from school canteens and vending machines. Lighter drinks, including low-fat milk, diet sodas, juices, flavoured waters and teas, were promoted in their place."⁶

   And, while great and all, it appears that no one got the memo about diet sodas.

3. Diet? Um, that's just like your opinion, man. When it comes to soda, treat the word "diet" as a slogan. A study at Boston University's School of Medicine linked diet soda with increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. To be more specific, the study "found adults who drink one or more sodas a day had about a 50 percent higher risk of metabolic syndrome," which is a cluster of risk factors such as excessive fat around the waist, low levels of "good" cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other symptoms that lead to heart disease and/or diabetes. And, for those of you only concerned about how you look in the mirror, "Those who drank one or more soft drinks a day had a 31 percent greater risk of becoming obese."

2. Soda outkills terrorists. A study out of the University of California, San Francisco, shows that soda has killed at least 6,000 Americans in the last decade.

   From ABC News: "The new analysis, presented Friday at the American Heart Association's 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, offers a picture of just how horrifying the damage done by excess consumption of sugary drinks can be.

   Using a computer model and data from the Framingham Heart Study, the Nurses Health Study and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers estimated that the escalating consumption between 1990 and 2000 of soda and sugar-sweetened beverages, which they abbreviated as 'SSBs,' led to 75,000 new cases of diabetes and 14,000 new cases of coronary heart disease.

   What's more, the burden of the diseases translated into a $300 million to $550 million increase in health care costs between 2000 and 2010."⁷

1. It's the "real thing" . . . not exactly. Should having the number one caloric source in the world come from something that's entirely manmade be a metaphor for a dying world? It doesn't have to be this way. After all, there's nothing in soda that we need. In fact, there's nothing in soda that even comes from the earth except caffeine, and that's optional. It's a mixture of altered water (injected with carbon dioxide gas), artificial flavors (yes, "natural flavor" is artificial), artificial color, and phosphoric acid, along with its sole caloric source that is a by-product of genetically modified corn production and offers virtually no nutritional value. It's about as real as The Thing.