As much as weight loss and slimming shakes and supplements can make a difference in your weight, you still need to be the ‘operator’ that effectively uses these tools.  This includes having the correct mental, emotional and behavioural attitude.

You can ACE your weight loss by being in control of your slimming process and turning it into a lifestyle that will help you keep the weight off.  The ACE process involves:

AWARENESS:  This is about growing more in tune with your body and your motivations.  It is also an outer awareness of being aware what you eat and what the benefits/disadvantages of this food are for your body.

CHOICE: Once you have the awareness you can make the best choice that will bring you closer to your life goals.  If you want to live a long, happy and healthy life and you can choose between a packet of fried chips or a baked potato, your awareness of what option is best for you will help you to make the best choice.

EXECUTION:  Sometimes we make the choice, but don’t actually go into action around it.  I.e. you grow aware of your overweight and discomfort and decide that you want to do something, but don’t actually engage in life changing behaviour.  This is what execution asks.  Put your choice into action, today.  Not the first of the month or on Monday, from now.

The Herbalife range of products can help you to lose weight and your Herbalife Wellness coach will be available and there to support your process to ACE your weight loss.  The Herbalife Quickstart programme (includes Nutritional Shake Mix, Multivitamin, Protein Powder and Fibre & Herb tablets) can help you lose weight fast and effectively.

To buy Herbalife or to discuss your needs with your Herbalife Wellness Coach, contact:

Contact: Marieta (Independent Herbalife Distributor)
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Cellphone: 0842409513
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.

Do you stop eating when you’ve had enough?  Or do you treat your body like a trashcan by thinking “I can just as well eat this otherwise I will have to throw it away”.  Well, best you rather throw it into the dustbin than using your body as a dustbin!

People eat for a variety of reasons.  Whether this is out of hunger, boredom, emotional upset, habit, etc, etc.  I think in the original plan, we were only meant to eat to provide energy for our bodies.  This meant listening to your bodies needs and then satisfying this need and stopping when the need has been met. 

These days we are bombarded with pre-packaged meals, very large restaurant or fast food restaurant servings and with our busy lifestyles, have probably learnt to ignore our bodies and listen to its needs.  Just think about how you can go on and on working even though you know you are tired and need a break?  It is in this same manner that you can also start to tune out the voice of your body’s food needs.

So, to a great extent, it is also about becoming more aware of your body.  This simple exercise will help:
Wherever you are, just take 2 minutes and sit still.  Close your eyes and just start breathing deeply.  Then ask yourself a few questions:
-How am I feeling right now?
-How is my body – am I comfortable? Hot/cold?
-How are my water levels – am I thirsty?
-How is my energy – am I hungry?  If so, for what am I hungry?

You’d be amazed that you actually know the answers to these questions – you just need to take the time to ask!

By following the Herbalife weight loss plan and supplements you can honour your body by providing nutritionally balanced meal replacements and healthy snacks in order to help you regain your target weight.  I would also encourage you to grow more aware of your body and respect its needs through this process.  Your body enjoys healthy food, exercise and enough rest as this helps it to function optimally.

To buy Herbalife, for more information or Herbalife prices, 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.

Being on a diet does not mean you can’t have any fun or not eat at a restaurant.  Here is a guide to keep your healthy lifestyle and diet in place even at your favourite restaurant when making your menu selection:

For starters:
Choose a vegetable based soup (not a creamy soup), or a steamed seafood cocktail (ask them to bring the dressing separately so you can keep control over the amount).  A glass of fruit juice is also a great choice.

Bread and rolls:
If you are going for breakfast, ask for only one slice of wholegrain or rye bread.  If you are at the restaurant for lunch or dinner and the bread basket comes standard, rather ask the waiter to remove the bread.  It will just add extra calories and is not needed.

Alcohol:
Unfortunately, alcohol gives empty calories (i.e. it contains carbohydrates, but it also slows your bodies ability to digest).  Additionally, alcohol may increase appetite and make you less aware of when you are full.
But you can still enjoy alcohol, just limit it to one glass of dry white or red wine, or a tot of whiskey or gin and mix with water or soda water.

Choose low fat:
As far as possible choose the option that has been steamed, baked or grilled.  Boiled, wine sauce, stirfried and poached also present good options.  Avoid fried food.  Or if your food is friend, remove the fried crust and don’t eat it.

Salads:
Don’t be fooled that salads are always low in fat and a good diet option!  Beware the hidden fats of bacon, cheese and mayonnaise salads.  Rather ask for a fresh green salad with salad dressing on the side.

Main course:
Fish and chicken are lower in fat than red meats.  Also try and select a protein portion size of no more than 170g (If you are selecting a steak, choose the smallest portion, i.e. 150g).  Ask for any sauces that comes with your food to be served separately.

Dessert:
Your best option is a fresh fruit salad or a sorbet.  Alternatively, a nice cup of decaf coffee is also delicious after a meal.

Tips for success:
-Have an apple and a glass of water before going to the restaurant to satisfy the most urgent cravings.
-Take 2 Herbalife Fibre & Herb tablets and 2 Herbalife Lipobond tablets before going to the restaurant.  These tablets will help trap the fats that you might consume and also give you a sensation of being fuller, thereby preventing you of eating too much.

Your Herbalife healthy weight management program makes provision for having one healthy, colourful, food meal per day.  If you manage your daily diet shakes well, eating out according to these tips will help you stay on course to reach your target weight.

To buy Herbalife, for more information or Herbalife prices, 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.

Dieting has been a lifestyle for lots of people.  Daily I encounter people who tell me that they have tried everything, but can’t keep the weight off.  So to an extent, we have accepted dieting has part of our habits and lifestyle and keep looking out for the next diet to help reduce and keep off the weight.

It is also fascinating how information about a healthy diet changes.  Previously we heard that you need to have a lot of carbohydrates, but this trend seems to be changing again.

I don’t know the answers to this all, but there are a few things that I know and that one should keep into account:
-The best diet is nutritionally balanced and advocated moderate exercise as part of the programme.
-A diet pill on its own (without a calorie controlled diet and exercise) can’t help you lose weight without making significant changes to your metabolism (not necessarily all in a healthy way).
-Anything that promises revolutionary weight loss, every month, can’t work.  Or if it does, it might be difficult to keep the weight off after you have lost it.

So why is it that we want to follow the next best thing to keep weight off?  We all probably know that losing weight is not an easy or fast process. It took time to put on the weight, so it will probably also take time to lose it.  If you can sustainably lose weight over time, and by doing so, change your eating and exercise patterns, your chances of keeping the weight of in the long run is improved.

What works for me is the Herbalife weight loss programme that provides convenient and nutritionally balanced meal replacements.  I am also comforted that it contains all the necessary ingredients to provide a balanced diet.  And then it is tasty as well.

For more information about Herbalife products and to buy Herbalife:
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.

Any day is a good day to become more active and to make steps towards a healthier lifestyle.  Maybe you started this year with good intentions that have fizzled down.  Or the busyness has just interrupted your intentions towards starting with some exercise.  As much as some of us would love it if losing with and living healthily without any exercise was possible; unfortunately it simply is not that easy.

Getting more active and losing excess weight is something we so glibly can excuse because it can be done another day, or started on Monday or at the beginning of the next month.  But, it you’ve had the experience of standing in the doctor’s office and hearing that you have Type 2 Diabetes or other lifestyle disease, you have to look at yourself in the mirror and know that to a large extent, you have contributed towards this permanent condition as a result of a sedentary lifestyle.  And suddenly you know that all those good reasons of why you didn’t exercise or eat healthy were just lame excuses.

Maybe it is a good time to truly take stock of your life.  What is the future that you want?  And in that future does it require you to be healthy?  Or to what extent does your health play a role in your future?

If you weighed this future picture against your excuses, I wonder which one carries the most weight.  What it asks, is a long-term commitment to health, rather than instant gratification of what is enjoyable today.

A healthy diet, like the Herbalife weight loss programme is supported by moderate exercise (30 min walking) at least 5 times per week.  To further support your healthy lifestyle, Herbalife products offers you delicious meal replacements and a number of supplements and weight loss enhancers to provide balanced nutrition and to help burn fat.

Take control of your future health today. To discuss your specific weight loss questions and Herbalife products, or to order Herbalife products, contact:
Contact: Marieta (Independent Herbalife Distributor)
E-mail: marieta@shapelife.co.za
Cellphone:  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.