If you are truly convinced that you are sticking to your diet, but you are not losing weight or centimetres, you may be suffering from ‘unconscious eating’!  Research shows that the average dieter often ‘forgets’ about up to 400 calories that they eat per day.  This might slow your weight loss per week with a quarter!

Often we think that we have only 3 meals per day.  What about the small things between meals?  A cup of coffee with full cream milk and two sugars – are you counting this as a meal?  It might not be a full meal, but it does have calories.  The best way to find the hidden 400 calories in your diet is to keep a food diary: recording everything that you eat (this also helps you think twice about what you put in your mouth!).

Here are a few tips:
- Keep a food journal, write down everything that you eat
- Cathy Nonas (author of Outwit your Weight), suggests tying a red ribbon around your wrist.  When you see this ribbon, think twice about what you are putting in your mouth.
- Pre-prepare your lunch daily or have a meal replacement.  This saves on average 300 calories rather than opting for the cafeteria / fast food or convenience foods.
- Know your portions.  A protein portion is the size of your palm, and as think as your hand on the pinkie side when you turn it sideways.  Carbohydrates (i.e. pasta, potato, rice, etc) are the size of your fist and fruit and vegetables should fit into your cupped hands.  This is the correct portion size and allocation per balanced meal.

Why Herbalife can help:
A meal replacement plan helps you to restrict those extra calories.  With Herbalife you are able to choose from diet shakes, healthy meal bars, protein bars and further weight loss enhancers.  The programme also helps you to stay full and satisfied from one meal to the next.  Contact your Herbalife agent and wellness coach for products best suited to your needs.

Contact: Marieta (Independent Herbalife Distributor)
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Mobile :  084 240 9513 
www.shapelife.co.za

Maximize your health with exercise and balanced nutrition.  Herbalife (herbal life, shapeworks) range of Core Nutrition products aims to provide the elements every body needs each day to support and maintain optimal health . Herbalife support you in weight loss, weight gain, , energy and fitness and with our skin care range and hair care products. Contact me today for assistance.

Between 7am and 7pm you may be the perfect eater.  But when the sun sets you indulge in wine, chocolate, constant nibbling, etc which just bumps up all the calories that you saved throughout the day.

Night time nibbling often happens as a result of not eating enough through the day.  Maybe you were busy and it was easy to forget about eating, but once you relax you simply can’t stop snacking.  It could also be comfort eating because you are bored, stressed or tired.

When we eat for other reasons than hunger and your body’s nutritional needs, it is much better to rather deal with the cause of our eating than to eat.  If you are tired, get an early night.  If stressed, take a relaxing bath or moderate exercise.  If you are bored, phone a friend, do crafts or anything as long as it stops you from eating. 

If your problem is specifically at night, here is a tip:  you are more likely to give into comfort eating in dimly lit rooms (compare how much you can eat in a dark cinema).  According to this study from the University of California, Irvine, switching to bright bulbs and light helps you to stay aware of what you are doing.  Similarly, never eat out of a big packet of chips or tub of yoghurt.  Dispense what you are going to eat, giving you more control over the portion size.

Why Herbalife can work for you:
Herbalife offers you nutritionally balanced meal replacements for weight loss or weight maintenance. The diet shakes will work perfectly for you for breakfast and lunch, and then you can enjoy a normal, healthy food dinner.  Because your body will be getting the necessary nutrients and energy from the shakes, you will also not be that hungry in the evening.  This is the ideal plan to keep your body nourished.  Speak to your Herbalife agent about the Quickstart package and the Thermojetics Herbal Beverage for sustained energy and great weight loss results.

Contact: Marieta (Independent Herbalife Distributor)
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Mobile :  084 240 9513 
www.shapelife.co.za

A healthy eating plan supported by  (herbal life, shapeworks) involves eating a variety of foods but all in moderation.  Herbalife supports you in weight loss, weight gain, energy and fitness ,  outer nutrition with our skin care range and hair care products. Contact me today for assistance.

I recently came across this quote on John Maxwell’s site:

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit – and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same.

On reading this, I started to reflect upon my own life and what I place most value on.  Just think about it – a glass (or substitute crystal, if you like) is not only more fragile than a rubber ball, it is also much more valuable.  Yet, most of the time we devote our time and effort on ensuring that the rubber ball does not crash.

Honestly look at your life.  What glass balls might you be juggling a little irresponsibly at the moment?

For one, look at your health.  What are you doing at present to keep this precious part of your life going?  You may have big dreams of achievement and leaving a legacy – but you’ll only be able to do this if your body keeps you strong!  As much as we’d love to ignore our bodily needs, it is the vehicle that keeps us here on earth.  And once you lose your health, once this glass ball gets nicked or shatters, it is a very hard process to put it together again.

A product like Herbalife can help you to regain nutritional balance and keep your body strong with healthy food sources.  Whether you use it for weight loss, weight gain or just healthy weight management, there are products and a programme suited for your needs.

Contact Marieta, your Herbalife Wellness Coach, today for products best suited to your needs
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Cell :   084 240 9513 
www.shapelife.co.za

Maximize your health with exercise and balanced nutrition.  Herbalife (herbal life, shapeworks) range of Core Nutrition products aims to provide the elements every body needs each day to support and maintain optimal health . Herbalife support you in weight loss, weight gain, , energy and fitness and with our skin care range and hair care products. Contact me today for assistance.

Does your last holiday feel like years ago?  Are you feeling heavy, tired and just generally low?  Have you considered how your current diet is impacting on your energy levels?

Often when we find ourselves in busy times, whether this is through business, family, etc, we tend to neglect our healthy eating habits.  This often happens with the thought: “Only this one time, I am just too tired to cook.”  And so it tends to snowball into a habit.  Sometimes this habit includes skipping meals, or opting for a fast food option.

As time goes on, your body starts to crave nutritional balance as it is not getting the required energy from the food sources you are giving it.  You then try to change your habits and go to gym, but you are so tired that you struggle to really get the best out of your exercise routine.

The Herbalife Nutritionally balanced programme brings you the option to have good sources of protein, carbohydrate, fibre and lots of vitamins and minerals an in a convenient meal replacement diet shake.  Not only will it provide your body with nutrition and give you more energy, it will also help you to slim down to your body’s target weight.  Your Herbalife shake (made with Nutritional Shake Mix and Personalised Protein powder) takes less than 5 minutes to prepare and can be enjoyed on the run.  Carry some Nutritional Shake Mix (now also available in single serving sachets) with you and just add to milk, fruit juice or water for a quick meal.  No need to opt for the fast food option anymore.

The Herbalife range of products can also help to supplement your lifestyle and help you to feel your very best.  The Herbal Complex tablets can be added to your programme to help regulate your body’s water balance and get rid of that orange peel effect on your legs.  The Lipobond tablets are a lifesaver as fat trapper for those times that you can’t avoid eating fatty foods.  The Thermojetics Herbal beverage burns centimetres and helps you lose kilos as you drink.

To speak to a Herbalife agent for a programme best suited to your needs, contact:

Contact: Marieta (Independent Herbalife Distributor)
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Cell :  084 240 9513 
www.shapelife.co.za

A healthy eating plan supported by  (herbal life, shapeworks) involves eating a variety of foods but all in moderation.  Herbalife supports you in weight loss, weight gain, energy and fitness ,  outer nutrition with our skin care range and hair care products. Contact me today for assistance.

Whether it is the long weekends or your annual leave that is just around the corner, what usually comes with holiday is adding a few extra kilograms.  We often allow ourselves more freedom in our diet over holidays and then we need to suffer the consequences afterward: feeling, heavy, tired and bloated.

You should be able to enjoy your holiday and to treat yourself.  It should also be a time where you don’t have to worry about what you will eat and what not.  Herbalife offers you a holiday meal fix that will help you to keep your energy levels up, your body nourished and fulfilled so that you don’t need to overindulge.

The products you need are:
- Herbalife Nutritional Shake Mix
- Lipobond tablets
- Thermojetics Herbal Beverage

So all you need to do is to replace one meal a day with your Herbalife diet shake, drink lots of Thermojetics (helps to burn centimetres and stop cravings) and have your Lipobond tablets (they act as fat trappers) before all meals.  This will help you to maintain your weight and your healthy lifestyle.

For more information on Herbalife products or to buy Herbalife from a Herbalife agent, contact:
Contact: Marieta (Independent Herbalife Distributor)
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Cell :  084 240 9513 
www.shapelife.co.za

Maximize your health with exercise and balanced nutrition.  Herbalife (herbal life, shapeworks) range of Core Nutrition products aims to provide the elements every body needs each day to support and maintain optimal health . Herbalife support you in weight loss, weight gain, , energy and fitness and with our skin care range and hair care products. Contact me today for assistance.