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.

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.

It is the perfect time to incorporate some new habits into your daily routine that will rev up your metabolism and help you to avoid gaining weight.

Daily diet tips to help rev up your slow metabolism:
-Exercise for 30 min daily.  This helps to minimise weight gain and to raise metabolic rate.
-Tone your muscles through weight training 3 times a week.  Start small: it could be just walking with 500g or 1kg weights.
- Eat enough calories.  Women should not eat fewer than 1200 calories and men not fewer than 1800 calories per day.  Eating too little calories slows your metabolism down.
-Never skip breakfast.  It may slow down your metabolism.  An excellent breakfast can be found in the Herbalife healthy breakfast programme that will set you up with a nutritionally balanced meal, vitamins and minerals and energy for the day.
- Have a supply of protein rich snacks at hand to avoid high carbohydrate junk food.
- Power your metabolism with protein.  The more muscle mass you have, the higher your metabolism and you will burn fat faster.  For this reason, eating enough protein per day is essential to maintain lean body mass and to effectively lose weight.

We eat food as energy (fuel) for our bodies.  The process of burning this energy creates heat.  Nutritional supplements can also help in this way to burn energy efficiently and therefore maintaining optimal metabolism.  The Herbalife Thermojetics range of products (including Thermojetics Herbal Beverage, Thermocomplete and NRG) all have thermojetic agents that can help to effectively burn fat.  It helps you to drink and shrink and to lose centimeters.

To discuss Herbalife products for your daily regime, including the Healthy Breakfast programme or Thermojetics, contact your Herbalife Wellness Coach, Marieta, today.  I can also advise on effective weight loss, weight gain and weight maintenance programmes.

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

Dr David Heber, well-known author of the ‘LA Shape Diet’ and “What color is your diet’ emphasises the need and importance of protein in weight management.  David Heber, is as chairman of Herbalife’s Nutrition Advisory Board.  This board consists of leading health and nutrition experts.

A number of diets advocates and praises the power of protein.  For instance, the Atkins diet that has a proportionally very strong focus on protein.  However, even though we often link the use of protein to gaining weight or maintaining weight, the importance of protein goes far beyond building muscle and influencing physical appearance.  Protein is an essential component of every cell of the body.  It is an organic compound, made up of 22 amino acids – the building blocks in your body.  Protein is stored in muscles and organs and is used to repair tissue as well as for the production of enzymes and hormones.  Protein is a micronutrient, which means the body needs a large amount of it (along with fat and carbohydrates).  The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that your daily intake of protein should be 10-35% of your caloric intake.  A deficiency of protein can impair important body functions and lead to a loss of muscle mass.

It is a good idea to consider the source of protein you take in.  Ideally you need to have healthy sources of protein without high levels of saturated fat. For example, nuts, soybeans and whole grains provide with low fat and offer a lot of healthy fibre and other micronutrients as well.  Another healthy protein is from the vegetables sources of protein found in Herbalife’s Formula 1&3 shakes.  These shakes also help to personalise your daily protein intake according to your body’s needs – calculated by your BMI.  Herbalife’s Formula 1&3 shakes can help you build or maintain lean muscle while providing healthy weight management support.  Whether you want to lose weight, gain weight or just maintain your weight, protein forms a very important component.

Contact Marieta, your Herbalife Wellness Coach for a free Herbalife estimation of your protein needs per day.  I also have more information and Herbalife prices that I will forward to you to consider this healthy source of protein.

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.

Are you concerned about your husband’s weight?  At least once a week a concerned wife contacts me about helping her husband to lose weight.  Often her concern is coupled with worries about his health, cholesterol and more.  This is a real concern for many women as they want to ensure the health and longevity of their family and do what is best for their husbands.

The easy answer to this concern is to get your husband’s buy-in to the process of weight loss.  Be careful not to criticise (this will only bring about resistance), but rather share your honest concerns and remind him what you love about him.  More than anything respect his decision and be willing to help. Even if you have his buy-in, it makes a world of difference if the wife supports the process by helping to prepare meals and ensuring the house is full of healthy snacks.  If you want your husband to lose weight, you will have to help.

Your aim needs to be to improve his metabolism, provide foods that give healthy and long-lasting energy, that is a good source of protein and that is enjoyable.  Here are a few things you will need to do:

1. Remove all junk food from the house.  Stock the fridge with healthy snacks like fruit sticks and smoothies.

2. Change the whole family’s eating pattern.  It definitely won’t work if your hubby has a plate full of steamed vegetables and the rest of you are having fried chicken and chips.  Rather all join in and make it a family effort.

3. Cook low fat, low carb food.  Be creative with seasoning the foods (start adding fresh herbs, cinnamon, etc) to ensure they are still tasty.  Don’t cook in oil.

4. Improve his fitness.  It can be very rewarding if you can exercise with him.  Sneak in exercise by doing fun things together, like going on a picnic and hike. Sex is also a great calorie burner – it burns about 500 calories, the equivalent of an hours worth of running!

5. Introduce healthier ways of living gradually.  This will help to make it a new sustainable lifestyle.

Herbalife products can help your family have healthier and nutritionally balanced eating patterns.  Replace breakfast and lunch with a delicious Herbalife diet shake and make it as a lunch pack for your husband with some fresh fruits.  This will help you to control his eating at work as well.  Make sure you add a healthy snack like a Herbalife Protein Bar.

To discuss how Herbalife products can help you and your spouse best, contact me today! 

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.