Anyway...join me on my journey... I started yesterday, so here's 2 installments!
SHAKEOLOGY – DAY 1
Aug 2nd – My Shakeology arrived this afternoon! I’m not going to lie, I was pretty excited. I chose the Home Direct Monthly Shipment option not only for my monthly PV, but for the convenience of knowing it will be there. The Home Direct comes with free gifts; a book about how Shakeology came to be and 2 Shakeology workout DVDs. Next month I will receive a Shakeology Shaker cup. They also sent a calendar of daily recipes for both the Chocolate and the Greenberry flavor.
Since dinner was basically a free for all tonight, I decided to try the shake. The basic recipe calls for water and ice. I thought I would use Flax Milk. I can’t drink regular milk and I liked the vanilla taste of the Flax milk. I also added about a cup of ice.
Well…I don’t recommend using flax milk or that much ice, especially for your first time. The shake tasted like a field of grass and had the consistency of runny pudding. YUCK! The amount of ice just made that much more to drink, too. But, I believe in the things it can do, so I vowed to drink it anyway and just ‘suck it up’, so to speak. It took me a long time to finish it.
I will say, despite the taste, I felt full. I drank it at 6pm. I had a snack of black bean chips and salsa around 10pm. That was probably out of boredom. I am having a hard time sleeping lately and I was still awake. I like to eat when I’m awake. If I slept more, I’d be thinner for sure!
Here’s was my thought...Shakeology tastes really bad, no matter what, and everyone is lying about it so people will buy it. I hoped to God I was wrong!
I texted my Beachbody coach and told her about my first Shakeology experience….she laughed at my descriptive explanation, which I won’t share here, and gave me a suggestion. She told me to use water and a tablespoon of peanut butter. (She had told me this a week ago before my order came and I didn’t listen). I plan on trying that in the morning.
I’m glad I didn’t make my first shake with the flax milk tomorrow morning like I had originally planned. My friends at work are waiting to hear if I liked it or not and I wanted to give them positive results. Hopefully, now I can.
Until tomorrow…
SHAKEOLOGY - DAY 2
Aug 3rd – Let’s try this again, shall we? This morning I made my Shakeology shake with 1 cup of cold water, 1 tablespoon of Jif Natural Peanut Butter and a ½ cup of ice. If you use too much ice, you increase the overall amount of shake. That’s fine unless you don’t like the way you’ve made it...like yesterday. I mixed the Shakeology and the water in a glass first to make sure all the powder was dissolved. Yesterday I saw a lot of product on the top of the blender. This stuff isn’t cheap. I don’t want to waste any of it. This method seems to work well. I’m a little leery of the peanut butter and chocolate combo first thing in the morning, but I trust my coach!
Can you say PHENOMINAL???? This is excellent! Really, really excellent!! This is one of those rare moments I will admit I WAS WRONG! Shakeology does taste good! I sip it as I’m getting ready for work. I wake my husband up and make him taste it…LOL! He nods in agreement. I bring the rest into the car with me to finish on the ride in. I spilled a little when my cup slipped out of my hand and I was pretty bummed that I would have that much less to drink!
Normally I would be walking out of the house with my huge coffee full of vanilla creamer. It would be empty by the time I got to work and I would proceed to drink at least 2 more. I would either eat a packet of instant oatmeal or a Zone bar and by 9:30am (I start at 6:30am) I would be wandering down to the café to see what I could munch on. Lunch is at 11 or 11:30. If I am slow at work, boredom may cause me to eat more than 1 snack.
So far today, I only had 1 cup of coffee (not my giant travel mug) and I filled up my 24oz water cup instead of getting seconds on the coffee. I was semi-slow today, but it wasn’t until my cube-mate asked “what’s for lunch?”, that I realized I was getting a bit hungry. Then it hit me that I hadn’t craved one single thing all morning! How’s that for awesomeness?
I won’t get into what I had for lunch or what I ate the rest of the day. Let me just tell you now that I am making a conscious effort to eat healthy, concentrate on portion control, make smart snack choices and drink lots of water. If I’m really good, then I won’t feel guilty having a little of something that I love. I’ve started a Couch to 5k running program and I plan to do the Shakeology videos in between the runs. I’ve got a Tough Mudder to do in April of next year.
Shakeology is an investment. If you don’t make changes to the rest of your diet and lifestyle, it will be a bad investment. I mainly became a Beachbody Coach for the discount. If I never do anything beyond that, I at least want to be a good representative of what a Beachbody coach should be. If I help to inspire anyone along the way, then I am a success.
Until tomorrow…
