Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Body By Vi "My Update"

So its with bummer feelings, that I have to say, I had to quit promoting Body By Vi. I was having so much fun with it and I was excited about it and the opportunity to help someone reach that goal for great health.  Unfortunately due to a little lack of detail on my part, during research of the product, I failed to recognize one important ingredient.

I was on my 2nd day of the challenge when I started to notice my face going numb and itchy and getting headaches. I immediately recognized the feeling and knew I had missed an important ingredient.  So I went back over the ingredient list and what I thought was Sucrose was Sucralose, artificial sweetener. Not only can I not do artificial sweeteners, I wont do them.  It was then, that I had to cancel my website and quit the promotion.  Knowing what I know, I cannot promote a product with artificial sweetener. I cannot promote something that I, myself, will not put in my body. Given that, I will also say, I quit the promotion but I didn't give up believing in the product. So I didn't leave with bitter feelings. PLEASE NOTE: Not everyone has this reaction to artificial sweetener. You know your body and you know what it likes and doesn't. I stopped drinking diet soda years ago because of this same exact reaction. I cannot have even sugar free chocolate chips because of this reaction. It is my bodies reaction, not everyones, so make your own call.

With that said...I will say that a lot of people have had great success on Body By Vi. I believe that if Body By Vi is what you need to push you towards a healthier lifestyle and you don't care about the artificial sweetener than 100% go for it. Body By vi is not the devil because they use sucralose. Many companies do and many people don't care.  The fact is a lot of obese people, don't care what they put in their body, which is why they are obese (STOP! I didn't say every obese person.) So truthfully their choice to put artificial sweetener into their bodies, could be a better choice than what they have been putting in there. Its an individual choice and I fully support that. 

Again, Body By Vi works....IF you want it to.  If you don't have success, its because you didn't want it that bad.  I for one, did not have success but that's because I did not want the sucralose. I still fully support bringing on a new healthy lifestyle and that means so many different things to so many different people.

With a over a month of review on the product, good and bad, I still say there is way more good then there is bad.  Because some people have allergies to some products, does not make it a bad product. Because some people need to chew food, not drink it does not make it a bad product. Anyone who says, you starve yourself on Body By Vi, clearly does not know what they are talking about and was doing the challenge all wrong. The first day on my challenge, I ate so much food and drank my shakes and still failed to reach my caloric intake.  That, is only because I made great food choices.  If the snack you choose is loaded with fat and carbs and calories, you only have yourself to blame for feeling starved.  I for one am used to drinking my meals, I prefer it. I also already follow a pretty healthy lifestyle, therefore I believe this challenge would have been super easy for me. I find it funny that in my research of the product, it was the obese people who lived a life of unhealthy eating, who complained most about "How you starve yourself", and thats only because they don't know how to utilize healthy food choices to give you the most food for less calories, fat and carbs.

Just because I choose not to promote the Challenge, does not mean I don't support it.  I highly support any challenge that will take you away from your fast food, pizza, soda and sugar habit and get you out of an obese lifestyle and into a healthy lifestyle.

With that said, should you still be interested in trying the challenge yourself I still have a friend that was very successful on the challenge who sells it.  Let me know if you are interested and I will head you her way.

Oh one last thing, A huge shout out to the Visalus customer service.  Without any problem, I was able to call and cancel my order and my promoter package and receive a full refund of all money paid.  They truly do stand behind their product and do offer a money back guarentee with no questions asked. In fact, I didnt even need to ask for the refund, they offered it.  Thats customer service! 

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

How to incorporate the Body By Vi into a somewhat clean eating diet.

Someone recently asked me if you could still eat clean and do Body By Vi.  Obviously Body By Vi is not cleaning eating friendly, due to the fact that its not in raw form, whole or unprocessed.  However if you want to lose weight or just incorporate Body By Vi into your diet for other reasons by all means, make it as clean as you can.

I know I am amazed at the 100's of recipes for Body By Vi shakes. However for me personally, I choose not to use some of the product that is used in the yummy Vi Shakes due to the fact that I want my shake to be as clean as possible.  Therefore, I use only fruits, veggies, raw almond butters, flax seeds chia seeds etc.

I have never been completely clean. Going completely clean, really takes some discipline and huge changes. I just haven't completely gotten there, but I am for the most part. I do not by packaged foods (for myself). I still eat string cheese, yogurts etc.  Therefore incorporating the Body By Vi, is really simple for me. Today was my first day on the 90 day challenge and I had no problem getting in my calories and I stayed full all day and in fact, I probably should have eaten a little more. Below, I will share my food journal for today, so you can get an idea of how I incorporate clean eating into Vi shakes.  Here's the thing, I love using wheatgrass powder and spirulina. But if you've ever used these powders you will know that they taste awful.  Well I have good news. Several of my Vi Shakes have these powders in them and I have to admit, I think they were my favorite yet.

Other fabulous news for me.  I have been journaling my foods for some time off and on. I don't journal necessarily for calories, because when your eating the right foods and right amounts, you really don't need to count calories. But I do journal my foods to keep an eye on my vitamins, calcium, fat, carbs sugars etc. I have never been able to get the RDA of certain items such as calcium.  Today I claimed that victory! I got all my vitamins, fat, calcium, etc. just from eating healthy and drinking my Vi shakes. Its no lie and I'm super excited.
So here is what todays food menu looked like. Check it out and see for yourself that I am eating healthy. I am getting enough food and I am on my way to feeling fantastic.

JOIN ME TODAY...Lets take this challenge together. See the link to my Body By Vi website on this blog below and sign up now so you too can become healthy and fit for the summer. http://blessingtou.myvi.net

Breakfast Vi Shake  255 calories

8 oz Almond Milk
frozen berries
1/2 banana
1 tbsp Flax Seed
2 cups spinach
2 scoops Vi Shake

Snack     150 Calories

1/4 cup cocoa roasted almonds

Lunch      222 Calories

2 scoops Vi Shake
3 celery stalks juiced
1 apple

Snack     150 Calories

4.0 Grilled chicken

Dinner     405 Calories

4 oz lean ground beef
1/8 cup shredded cheese
2 cups cauliflower



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