It has been a year since I started using Herbalife to lose weight and during that time I became a distributor with the intention of becoming financially independent from having to work for someone else; that has not happened yet, but I am still looking towards that goal without changing it. When I started my journey, I was at 224 lbs and 33% body fat; now I am at 207 lbs and 24% body fat. Is that a huge change, no, but for someone that started going to the gym to workout for three years before starting Herbalife and having only lost 5 lbs during that time, it is a huge change for me.
Also within the past year, my mom has gone down from 250 lbs to 193 lbs. She has struggled with her weight her whole life as well and now feels much better about herself, she is not where should would like to be but is very happy with the results she has gotten so far.
I even started my girlfriend on some Herbalife product to help her with some issues and with the help of aloe, protein bars, and some other items, things are going much better for her.
I would love to help anyone that needs help in losing weight, as that is what I really want to do and am passionate about. I want to reach those level 10 results and help everyone reach those results as well.
*Herbalife products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. However, when the body is getting complete nutrition at the cellular level amazing results can occur!
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Moleskine/Fountain Pen
About a month ago, I got a couple of Moleskine pocket notebooks just for the hell of it. Been wanting to get some once before but could never bring myself to paying the cost of them but these were on clearance and Star Wars...so I had to. Now the point of my getting them was to be able to carry them with me or at least one of them with me, at most times to write whatever, whenever. Of course I have not really been carrying them that much but I'm half way there.
So I made one as my personal writing book, sketch, idea, whatever thing and the other is more so for Herbalife, notes during STS's, clients, etc. I have managed to keep them separate in that regards so far at this point. Bonus points for me.
Now, just last week I was in Walgreens looking for some replacement toothbrush heads for mine; which it seems no one carries now, and ran across a fountain pen...so I bought it. Used it a little at the house when I got home and took it to STS for notes in the Molsekine notebook. I love this pen as much as any person should love an inanimate object that is. It is a Zebra brand fountain pen. Nothing fancy, comes with two refills or it should say a fill, and a refill of ink. Of course knowing my luck, these pens have probably been discontinued with the refills never to be produced again. Especially considering I didn't see them in Wal-mart a day or two later.
So I made one as my personal writing book, sketch, idea, whatever thing and the other is more so for Herbalife, notes during STS's, clients, etc. I have managed to keep them separate in that regards so far at this point. Bonus points for me.
Now, just last week I was in Walgreens looking for some replacement toothbrush heads for mine; which it seems no one carries now, and ran across a fountain pen...so I bought it. Used it a little at the house when I got home and took it to STS for notes in the Molsekine notebook. I love this pen as much as any person should love an inanimate object that is. It is a Zebra brand fountain pen. Nothing fancy, comes with two refills or it should say a fill, and a refill of ink. Of course knowing my luck, these pens have probably been discontinued with the refills never to be produced again. Especially considering I didn't see them in Wal-mart a day or two later.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Eat
I have been using Herbalife for five months now and have lost nine pounds so far. That is not the huge loss I was hoping for when I started, which was disappointing considering I had lost seven in the first month to only plateau, then gain back some afterwards. This was while going to the gym while using the products as well. Now, some would say that I was gaining muscle and that would account for the weight gain, but that is not the case here, especially since the fat percentage that had gone done, went back up. Muscle mass will not do that.
So I started thinking about what I was doing wrong. I had become quite religious on tracking my food intake as well as my exercise during this time; I had been using the My Fitness Pal app on my phone before iChange was launched so I was aware of my history of exercise and food consumed. With this thinking back, I remembered that when I started Herbalife, I felt great. I had good energy, was losing weight, going to the gym, it was all gravy. Then I plateaued. I still felt good, still had energy and was still going to the gym. Then I started to gain weight. Right after I joined iChange. It was not the fault of iChange, just bad timing of it all. I continued on with everything and eventually came to a conclusion.
I wasn't eating enough.
With that thought in mind, I did some research. In the beginning, I was told to eat 1500 calories a day, iChange advised 1932 a day. With some further research, I concluded that I was putting my body in starvation mode when I would go to the gym. I was eating the calories I was initially instructed to but once I entered the exercise in, I would be far below where I should be. I also discovered that the minimum that the body needs in caloric intake a day is 1500 for men and 1200 for women.
I was at that from the start!
No good.
So now, I am eating more, while staying out of the gym for now. I have been hitting my caloric daily goal of 1932 and going over without fear, have lost some weigh to even being under a pound from when I started iChange and have lost the fat percentage that I had lost initially.
I am now thinking about heading back to the gym knowing what I know now. Forming a battle plan now to keep losing while toning, without putting my body into starvation mode again. Of course this plan starts with having to eat more but I am leaning towards purchasing something from the 24 line to aid in that. Either some Prolong or Prepare.
So I started thinking about what I was doing wrong. I had become quite religious on tracking my food intake as well as my exercise during this time; I had been using the My Fitness Pal app on my phone before iChange was launched so I was aware of my history of exercise and food consumed. With this thinking back, I remembered that when I started Herbalife, I felt great. I had good energy, was losing weight, going to the gym, it was all gravy. Then I plateaued. I still felt good, still had energy and was still going to the gym. Then I started to gain weight. Right after I joined iChange. It was not the fault of iChange, just bad timing of it all. I continued on with everything and eventually came to a conclusion.
I wasn't eating enough.
With that thought in mind, I did some research. In the beginning, I was told to eat 1500 calories a day, iChange advised 1932 a day. With some further research, I concluded that I was putting my body in starvation mode when I would go to the gym. I was eating the calories I was initially instructed to but once I entered the exercise in, I would be far below where I should be. I also discovered that the minimum that the body needs in caloric intake a day is 1500 for men and 1200 for women.
I was at that from the start!
No good.
So now, I am eating more, while staying out of the gym for now. I have been hitting my caloric daily goal of 1932 and going over without fear, have lost some weigh to even being under a pound from when I started iChange and have lost the fat percentage that I had lost initially.
I am now thinking about heading back to the gym knowing what I know now. Forming a battle plan now to keep losing while toning, without putting my body into starvation mode again. Of course this plan starts with having to eat more but I am leaning towards purchasing something from the 24 line to aid in that. Either some Prolong or Prepare.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
iChange
In February I started using Herbalife to help me become healthier and lose some weight that I have been trying to lose for some time. Since then, I have lost 7 lbs and about 4% body fat, with a goal of being around 20% body fat when all is said and done.
As with all weight loss, you should track what you eat, calories, fat, carbs, protein, water, etc. and exercise as well. There are a couple of ways to go about this, using pen and paper or through electronic means with a computer or smartphone. I decided to go electronic and downloaded an app called my fitness pal. The app was free and had many foods that you could punch in, as well as exercises, track your weight, protein and other essential things. Only problem I had with it was that it did not add the weeks worth of nutrition values on the foods you ate correctly; it would only display the first days values for that entire week.
Now just this week, Herbalife launched their own nutrition tracking site called www.iChange.com. This site is basically the same as my fitness pal by being free to anyone, tracking your info but with added differences, it is a social site as well. What that means is you can comment on other people's posts and give them words of encouragement to help them along their path of being much more healthier. Once you sign up, you are assigned a coach that will help you out along the way. As far as the commenting on posts of others, you can also friend them much like Facebook. One other nice little bonus, as you accomplish certain goals, you receive awards as a job well done for you efforts.
Currently there is no app for smartphones, but you can access it through the phones browser at www.iChange.com/mobile. Just in case it doesn't automatically detect you are on a mobile device, which it did not with me or my girlfriend.
If you would like to add me as a friend, search for mindes and that will be me.
As with all weight loss, you should track what you eat, calories, fat, carbs, protein, water, etc. and exercise as well. There are a couple of ways to go about this, using pen and paper or through electronic means with a computer or smartphone. I decided to go electronic and downloaded an app called my fitness pal. The app was free and had many foods that you could punch in, as well as exercises, track your weight, protein and other essential things. Only problem I had with it was that it did not add the weeks worth of nutrition values on the foods you ate correctly; it would only display the first days values for that entire week.
Now just this week, Herbalife launched their own nutrition tracking site called www.iChange.com. This site is basically the same as my fitness pal by being free to anyone, tracking your info but with added differences, it is a social site as well. What that means is you can comment on other people's posts and give them words of encouragement to help them along their path of being much more healthier. Once you sign up, you are assigned a coach that will help you out along the way. As far as the commenting on posts of others, you can also friend them much like Facebook. One other nice little bonus, as you accomplish certain goals, you receive awards as a job well done for you efforts.
Currently there is no app for smartphones, but you can access it through the phones browser at www.iChange.com/mobile. Just in case it doesn't automatically detect you are on a mobile device, which it did not with me or my girlfriend.
If you would like to add me as a friend, search for mindes and that will be me.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Herbalife Update
Just a little update about my Herbalife progress so far.
As of today, I have held steady with my weight at 217 lbs and have lost another .4% body fat to bring me down to 30%; I started at 34.6% when I started Herbalife on the 13th of Feb., 2012. Here it is only 45 days into using Herbalife. I still have a ways to go to be within a healthy body fat percentage; 20% for my age range, but I believe that with the proper nutrition and exercise, I can do it.
Tomorrow I start on the Ultimate Program from Herbalife, to help with better results. The little bit of the Advanced that I had left, I donated to my girlfriend to try out. She wants to be healthy and would like to lose weight but finds it difficult while having severe asthma. Whenever she has a severe attack or gets a respiratory infection, the Doctors like to prescribe to her steriods that keep her hungry, which is not good if you are trying to lose weight. There are other things at play as well but I wish not to incur a woman's wrath by posting on the internet for all to read.
As of today, I have held steady with my weight at 217 lbs and have lost another .4% body fat to bring me down to 30%; I started at 34.6% when I started Herbalife on the 13th of Feb., 2012. Here it is only 45 days into using Herbalife. I still have a ways to go to be within a healthy body fat percentage; 20% for my age range, but I believe that with the proper nutrition and exercise, I can do it.
Tomorrow I start on the Ultimate Program from Herbalife, to help with better results. The little bit of the Advanced that I had left, I donated to my girlfriend to try out. She wants to be healthy and would like to lose weight but finds it difficult while having severe asthma. Whenever she has a severe attack or gets a respiratory infection, the Doctors like to prescribe to her steriods that keep her hungry, which is not good if you are trying to lose weight. There are other things at play as well but I wish not to incur a woman's wrath by posting on the internet for all to read.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Herbalife Week 2
Soooo, I have been doing Herbalife for two weeks now and I feel pretty good about it. I'm done to 220 even but think I have slimmed down more than having lost weight. I only say that because clothes seem to fit a smidge looser, which could be a figment of my imagination as I did not do any measurements other than weight before starting. Weight loss will probably be on the slow side as I go to the gym to workout four days out of the week and that may increase as my schedule at work may start to fluctuate, which will alter the current workout schedule I am on.
I do have one of those body mass scales that are able to check your body fat percentage when you stand on them and according to that, I am down 2% body fat since starting.
I tend to still have a hard time hitting the daily caloric and protein goals but it is not without effort.
On a side note, my mother has started this as well and with only being on it for less than a week, has lost three pounds so far. Her weight should come off much rapidly than mine as she is only doing the program without any exercise, other than day to day activities.
I do have one of those body mass scales that are able to check your body fat percentage when you stand on them and according to that, I am down 2% body fat since starting.
I tend to still have a hard time hitting the daily caloric and protein goals but it is not without effort.
On a side note, my mother has started this as well and with only being on it for less than a week, has lost three pounds so far. Her weight should come off much rapidly than mine as she is only doing the program without any exercise, other than day to day activities.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Herbalife
First off, this is not a post about me going the stoner lifestyle, growing my hair out, joining a commune and stop bathing; this is about me taking a step to be a healthier me.
I've posted before about joining a gym to try to lose a gut that I've had most of my life, if not all of it since before high school and I'm in my early-30's now, so I've had it for quite some time. The only change I've done to get in shape, was to join and go to a gym to workout. Through that alone, I lost some weight but not a whole bunch. What did end up happening was I slimmed down some. In high school I wore size 42 pants and up to the point I decided to stop drinking Pepsi by the gallons and to start some exercising, before joining a gym, I stayed that in that size of pant. Once I quite drinking soda, I lost 20 lbs just from that, which was from 250 lbs. After buying a weight set and through some pedal pushing, went 230 lbs. and size 42, down to 226 and size 38. For about a year my exercising slowed down but I still managed to lose weight, got down to 216 lb and size 36 for a short time.
I've been going to a gym now more regularly since my last posting on the matter but still have not managed to slim down to where I would like to be. Most of that is because of diet, I like to eat, which is not the best way to lose the pounds or slim down, regardless if you exercise like an inmate, so to combat that, I've started doing Herbalife. This decision wasn't brought on by some research or an article read somewhere or even from an ad I saw, but from a friend. Last year he weighed in at 345 lbs in Oct. as of Feb of 2012, he is down 55 lbs by using Herbalife. He no longer needs to take high blood pressure medicine and not because of Herbalife, but because he is eating better through the system, his body has been given the resources to heal itself.
After talking with him and deciding how much I would like to lose, I purchased a system for myself. The system replaces two meals with shakes that you make and with a balanced third meal, you will lose weight. I started on Monday February 13th and as of, Wednesday the 15th, have lost 1 lb, down from 221 lb to 220 lb. Now, that may not seem like much but to me it is quite a bit. I have been instructed to eat 1500 calories and 150 grams of protein a day, which I have found to be difficult, with the me liking to eat, having snackage readily available to me at work. With no longer eating in the employee cafe, which is free to us, I am not taking in as many calories as I used to and not as much protein either. I just have to find the sweet spot to grab the necessary protein without all the calories.
To help me track all of this, I downloaded an app to my phone call MyFitnessPal. With it, you can track what you eat, how much, your workouts, water intake and it will tell you the nutrients you've taken in for the day based on what you put in. Bonus is, you don't have to guess or read the labels for the information, it has a search function that looks up the items. No more guessing or tracking in a notebook. Oh, it's also free and you can use it on a regular computer as well.
I've posted before about joining a gym to try to lose a gut that I've had most of my life, if not all of it since before high school and I'm in my early-30's now, so I've had it for quite some time. The only change I've done to get in shape, was to join and go to a gym to workout. Through that alone, I lost some weight but not a whole bunch. What did end up happening was I slimmed down some. In high school I wore size 42 pants and up to the point I decided to stop drinking Pepsi by the gallons and to start some exercising, before joining a gym, I stayed that in that size of pant. Once I quite drinking soda, I lost 20 lbs just from that, which was from 250 lbs. After buying a weight set and through some pedal pushing, went 230 lbs. and size 42, down to 226 and size 38. For about a year my exercising slowed down but I still managed to lose weight, got down to 216 lb and size 36 for a short time.
I've been going to a gym now more regularly since my last posting on the matter but still have not managed to slim down to where I would like to be. Most of that is because of diet, I like to eat, which is not the best way to lose the pounds or slim down, regardless if you exercise like an inmate, so to combat that, I've started doing Herbalife. This decision wasn't brought on by some research or an article read somewhere or even from an ad I saw, but from a friend. Last year he weighed in at 345 lbs in Oct. as of Feb of 2012, he is down 55 lbs by using Herbalife. He no longer needs to take high blood pressure medicine and not because of Herbalife, but because he is eating better through the system, his body has been given the resources to heal itself.
After talking with him and deciding how much I would like to lose, I purchased a system for myself. The system replaces two meals with shakes that you make and with a balanced third meal, you will lose weight. I started on Monday February 13th and as of, Wednesday the 15th, have lost 1 lb, down from 221 lb to 220 lb. Now, that may not seem like much but to me it is quite a bit. I have been instructed to eat 1500 calories and 150 grams of protein a day, which I have found to be difficult, with the me liking to eat, having snackage readily available to me at work. With no longer eating in the employee cafe, which is free to us, I am not taking in as many calories as I used to and not as much protein either. I just have to find the sweet spot to grab the necessary protein without all the calories.
To help me track all of this, I downloaded an app to my phone call MyFitnessPal. With it, you can track what you eat, how much, your workouts, water intake and it will tell you the nutrients you've taken in for the day based on what you put in. Bonus is, you don't have to guess or read the labels for the information, it has a search function that looks up the items. No more guessing or tracking in a notebook. Oh, it's also free and you can use it on a regular computer as well.
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