* You need 100% of your recommended daily allowances (RDA) to be healthy. It is almost impossible to do that with food alone. You have to eat 3000 calories of perfectly balanced food to do that (expensive, lots of calories, time consuming).

 

* Importance of protein: Protein helps your brain function, sustains lean muscle mass (more muscle = burn more calories. Muscle burns 14 calories/hr. Fat burns about 2 cal/hr), keeps your blood sugar stable throughout the day, and helps reduce hunger cravings. Soy protein is a slow burning protein that helps feed your muscles slowly and consistently. It is great for controlling hunger. Whey protein helps give your muscles a burst of nutrients but burns off quickly. It is great pre-workout. Soy protein is better for weight loss and post workout.

 

* Breakfast: Why it is the most important meal of the day?

 

* Say you eat dinner around 7pm, go to bed, wake up at 7am. Your body has been without nourishment for 12 hours. You lose 1-1.5 liters of water/night when you sleep. Your body needs water, nutrients, and fuel for the day. It is in a very sensitive state in the AM and needs food ASAP. If you wait more than 45 min to have breakfast, your body goes into starvation/survival mode. It thinks there must not be food available in the environment since you have not fed it. Thus, your body slows down your metabolism so that you can conserve what energy you have and expend fewer calories. It also starts eating muscle because muscle has better nutrients than fat, and it stores fat. Sugars and carbs are stored as fat for future energy needs (in case you keep starving it – your body doesn't know you plan to feed it in a few hours).

 

* You want to eat no more than 30-40 min after you wake up. If you eat carbs for breakfast, you are spiking your blood sugar and put your body in fat storage mode. When you eat a balanced, protein based breakfast, you are jump-starting your metabolism, getting a balanced meal, and keeping your blood sugar stable, thus keeping your body in fat burning mode.

 

* Thus, many diets that deprive you of nutrients through controlling calorie intake are actually causing you to lose lean muscle mass more than fat. This leads to “skinny fat” where a person may look skinny but they have little to no muscle and still have a high body fat %. This also slows your metabolism because fat burns fewer calories (2 cal/hr) than muscle (14 cal/hr). Overall, it is not healthy and will affect energy levels, immune system, bone health, and so much more.

 

* Avg american diet – here's the problem: very high in calories, very low in nutrition. To lose weight, we need to flip that around. That is what Herbalife does. Herbalife is very high in nutrients, very low in calories. Each Healthy Meal Shake is made of all-natural, plant based food and has 2000-2500 calories worth of nutrients packed into a 200 calorie shake. You cannot replicate this on your own using food and still lose weight. You would have to eat 3000 calories of perfectly balanced food to get all your recommended daily allowances (RDA) for the day. Protein shakes alone do not have the 2-3 servings of fruit and veggies, carbs, and nutrients you need at each meal. Our Healthy Meal Shake is not a protein shake. It is an entire balanced meal.

 

* You can make the Healthy Meal shake with 1% milk, soy milk, almond milk or protein drink mix. Protein drink mix is a cleaner protein than using skim milk and adds 4 more grams of protein than milk does. It also has fewer calories, carbs, sugar, etc. than milk. Another bonus about the protein powder is that it can travel w/o going bad if you make your lunch shake in the AM and can't refrigerate it. Milk needs to be refrigerated. Our Protein Drink Mix is 100% soy protein which is good for people trying to lose weight because it is slow burning and controls hunger for longer. It is a soy protein isolate which is very different than a soy isoflavin – it doesn't create estrogen in your body. Soy protein keeps feeding your muscles on a longer, more consistent basis. Our Personalized Protein Powder is half soy, half whey protein.

 

* Herbal Tea – Our green tea is a whole leaf green tea with NO fillers, just good antioxidants. Most green teas are split leaf so you get less of the beneficial properties of the plants and they add fillers so it is less pure. Our green tea helps improve your immune system and energy. It also jump starts your metabolism and burns extra body fat (burns 80 calories a serving). This really helps burn that layer of fat under our skin that covers our muscles. Helps us look cut. Drink and shrink!

 

* Cell Activator – Helps our body absorb the nutrients we take in. Helps repair cells in our intestines called villi that grab the nutrients from our food and transfer to the bloodstream. These finger-like protruding cells get mashed down and damaged from our simple carb based diet and don't work the way they should. You are what you eat? No! You are what you absorb!

 

* Multivitamin – take 3x/day with meals. All natural ingredients. No glues or fillers like most one-a-day multivitamins. Water soluble and fast absorbing. We take 3x/day so it makes sense that we need to give our body the other nutrients it is not getting from food 3x/day as well.

 

* Aloe – helps cool, soothe and repair digestive system. If you have any type of digestive system issues – stomach aches, indigestion, heart burn, constipation, etc. it will help that. Also helps with overall digestive health for people with no digestive issues. Helps your body absorb the nutrition that you are taking in. Once per day if no issues, 2x/day for digestive issues. Thus, again, you aren't what you eat, you are what you absorb!

 

* Cell-U-Loss – Helps skin stay tight around body as we lose weight so that you don't get that loose skin that occurs when people lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time. Also makes our fat cells expel the water they are holding onto, thus giving us the appearance of being more lean and cut. Great in conjunction with the tea for people who want visual results quickly. Especially helps females, who tend to store a lot of water weight. Also helps with good kidney functioning.

 

* Snacks – It is important you eat at least 5 times a day to keep your blood sugar stable and keep your body in fat burning (not fat storing) mode. Snacks should be protein based with some complex carbs (think apple with low-fat peanut butter). Females should eat at least 6-10g/protein each snack and males at least 10-15g. A quick, easy, well-balanced snack is an Herbalife protein bar for $1.20 each. Prob not gonna find a cheaper protein bar or snack (i.e. yogurt) for much less.