Someone recently asked me this question. They knew that part of my weight loss involved shakes. And YES, I am and will thankfully be taking "those shakes" F O R E V E R!
Why will I take them forever? A very good question...
1. If you never exercised, then started working out 3-5x per week and then lost weight... what would happen if you stopped exercising all together? If you ate horrible food, then switched to more healthy food and then lost weight... what would happen if you went back to junk food?
Exactly - whatever healthy habits you employ to lose weight and get healthy HAVE TO BE MAINTAINED if you want to maintain your results! So that's why a cabbage soup, no carb, starvation or cookie "diet" or some other extreme will have little chance of long term success.
2. The IsaLean Shakes are not just a nutrition-packed meal replacement at 245 calories, they are the most complete food on the planet with all 90 nutrients (60 organic minerals, vitamins, and amino acids) our bodies need for healthy cells. So regardless of weight loss, once I understood the amazing ingredients in those shakes I knew that they would be as important to my health as brushing my teeth each day. If I had to go to the health food store and buy all the ingredients for this shake (the exact ingredients aren't even for sale but let's say they were) - I would be spending maybe 10x more than the $2.60 I spend now per shake.
FACT: We all seem to be striving to be thin but being thin doesn't = being healthy - I know lots of thin people who are sick (anemic, tired, aches, pains, low energy and other chronic conditions). While they are "thin," they are not healthy - including that fact that EVERYONE has an overload of toxic chemicals that our body cannot cleanse out (visit the Center for Disease Control web site to see the latest report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals -- 212 chemicals were measured in blood and urine samples, only a fraction of the thousands of different toxins we are exposed to).
So dieting does not = health.
Dependence on prescription drugs does not = health (nothing is "cured," only symptoms are lessened).
I believe that super nutrition + cleansing toxins is the key to getting our bodies to be in balance so they can right what is wrong... so yes, me and several hundred thousand others are still happily taking those shakes!
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I just finished my evening shake as I missed dinner. Yum!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful post! I was wondering if you ever use the isagenix soups or the bars as a meal instead of the shakes? If so do you see the same results as you have with the shakes and do you like the taste of the soups/bars? Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteKate, I DO love the bars and use them when I am not home to have a shake (same results). The peanut crunch are so good I dare anyone to find a better tasting bar! Second choice in bars would be the cookie crunch. I tried the two new ones and they are good but almost too sweet for me. I am sticking with the peanut crunch. I have never tried the soups, I love the shakes so much I can't imagine trading them for soup.
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