I can tell you, I have been working out most of my life and my diet was pretty good, not the best but good enough for me. I started Shakeology in December 2011 when I became a beachbody coach and I will seriously take this for the rest of my life. In all the years working out, dieting, etc. I have never seen or felt results like I have in the last 6 months.
It really is an amazing product. It is definitely not a fix all or a magic pill. If you put in the work, time and nutrition that your body craves, you will see yourself change in the way that you are looking for. Simple as that.
Did you know that it took me over a year before I broke down and ordered my first shipment of Shakeology? I thought that it was dumb. I thought that it was expensive. I thought that there was no way that it could ever do all of the things that Beachbody was claiming it did. I thought that there was no possible way that Beachbody had held the integrity of each ingredient that they claimed Shakeology had in it. I didn’t believe in shakes, and I didn’t see how this one was any different from a Slim Fast or a Special K drink. No, thank you.
I thought all of these things as a Beachbody coach!
I became a coach because I had such a great transformation with Turbo Jam, and I loved Beachbody’s workout programs. This new reach into the supplement direction seemed fishy to me. I loved Beachbody, but this was a direction that I wasn’t willing to take for myself or recommend to my friends and family members.
So, after a year of ignoring what everyone was saying about it, I finally started looking into Shakeology a little more. After researching, I realized a few things:
1. The reason it seemed pricey was because Beachbody really DID maintain the integrity of every ingredient listed. All of those whole foods were still whole foods in the bag. Just in powder form. OK, I can dig it.
2. It’s not a “weight loss” or protein shake. It’s a meal replacement shake that gives you EVERY veggie that you need for the entire day! It’s not that I don’t like veggies, but I’m more of a carb kind of girl. Knowing that I could get everything in for 160 calories was pretty cool, and I liked that it didn’t have preservatives or other nasty ingredients that other shakes contain.
3. It would replace my multivitamin. OB doctors were even telling their patients to drink it instead of taking a prenatal vitamin. Say what?!
4. When it came down to it, the price broke down to $3 a day. I can’t get any meal for $3 a day, much less one that will provide me with all of the nutrition that I need, along with probiotics, prebiotics, digestive enzymes, and antioxidants.
So, whatever. I’ll order one month of it on home direct so that I can get the free shipping, then cancel it before the next shipment goes through. I’ll give it one month.
To cut things short, I didn’t cancel it before the next shipment came in. In fact, it’s been coming to my house ever since. We get two shipments a month at my house now, because my husband can’t live without it either. We drink it every day. Religiously. My body screams for joy every morning after I drink it because I’m finally giving it the fuel it needs. I’m happier, I’m healthier, and I finally found the missing puzzle piece in my life. (Yes, it’s that serious.)
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