Did you know that just a few minutes each day of monitoring and tracking can make huge differences in the results you get from your diet and fitness regimen?

You cannot question why something isn’t working if you are not properly monitoring the habits that should be in place to meet your goals.  Too often people start out on a certain diet or exercise program with the goal of having a super model slim body in a short time… and when they do not see results in a few short weeks they simply give up.

If you are tired of starting over, then stop giving up!
Instead, start out with a SMART plan of action to lose weight and get fit, one that is scientifically proven.  Use a monitor to make sure your workouts are effective, and track your diet!

Habit #1 : Track your workouts and use a heart rate monitor that tracks calorie burn.

It’s a worthwhile investment – to get a heart rate monitor that tracks your calorie burn. Heck, you have invested in how many workout videos/gym memberships/personal training sessions? How do you know that your training is actually worth the time you put into it if you aren’t tracking? On the flip side, you cannot fool yourself or cheat yourself into thinking that wimpy workout you are doing will get you results… once you actually have the caloric burn numbers in front of you!
Use your heart rate monitor to determine which workouts will actually get you the best burn for your time. Remember that strength training workouts will burn fewer calories during the workout, but are absolutely crucial for building muscle to boost metabolism. If you are working out 5 days a week, go for a combination of 3 days of cardio mixed with 2 of strength training to burn fat and tone up fast!

Habit #2 Monitor your diet with a nutrition tracker that takes into account the ratio of nutrients you consume and calories you burned.

Your healthy weight is 80% diet. And it is NOT just about cutting calories!

You can monitor your calorie burn all day long – and sweat like crazy during your intense workouts, but if you aren’t monitoring the food that goes into your body, you may as well be sitting on the couch.

You must monitor your nutrition with an online calculator that will track not only calories, but the ratio of protein, carbohydrates, fat and sodium you are consuming.  A calorie is NOT a calorie – and if you just create a calorie deficit, you will not see your beautiful healthy body emerge. You cannot live on jello and 100 calorie snack packs and expect to lose belly fat and sculpt a beautiful behind. Your body simply does not work that way.

Don’t sabotage your hard work by overeating, or eating too many carbohydrates. Instead, use an online calculator or an app for your phone like dailyburn.com to track everything that goes into your mouth. Most foods you will find are already in the system, so it is very easy to track your diet. You can even add your own recipes to the system – and share recipes with friends! Do you have an accountability partner? How about 3 that are helping you to get your Body by Vi Challenge kit for free? Then connect with them on dailyburn to share your recipes and help keep each other on track.

I love dailyburn because I can see with a quick glance if I have gotten enough protein and veggies in a day, or if I need to stay away from the carbs and have a really lean and green dinner. It keeps me on track. I cannot fool myself… and I don’t wonder why I’m not getting results – because I DO! – Melanie Milletics

Its really simple – but if you aren’t tracking your workouts and diet, you can’t get results.

Workout – with intensity, and add strength training to your regimen. Use a heart rate monitor and track your workouts.
Eat well – low carb, high protein and lots of vegetables. Use an online nutrition tracker or an app on your phone and keep your diet within weight loss/muscle gain zone.

If you do those two things, I promise you, you will see results. Just give your body time! It may take 30 days or more to begin to see real changes in your body. But when you do, don’t be surprised if you see inches lost rather than a massive drop on the scale. If you are fueling your body right with a nutritionally sound weight loss plan, you should see muscle gain along with fat loss. The scale may not change as much, but your body fat percentage will!

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I just told you how to change things up so you can actual get real weight loss results fast. So don’t be insane… just track it!!!

As nutrition declines, supplements help fill the gap.

A carrot is a carrot, right?  Well, not always.  Today’s carrot looks the part of a winner.  It’s larger and more pest resistant than Grandma’s garden variety, but it doesn’t compare nutritionally to the one she added to her Sunday roast beef years ago.

Over the past 50 years, agriculture technology expanded crop yields like never before and allowed farmers to produce two or three times more fruits, vegetables and grains.  But in the rush to feed the world, modern farming methods are depleting the nutrient content of the soil.  With each planting of a fast-growing, pest-resistant hybrid crop, carrots have grown inferior.

And it’s not just carrots’ nutritionals that are suffering.

Nutritional Inflation

Brian Halweil, who authored a nutritional report for The Organic Center and is food expert at Worldwatch Institute, likens this nutritional decline in fruits and vegetables to monetary inflation.  “We have more food, but it’s worth less in terms of nutritional value,” he says.

Donald Davis and a team of University of Texas at Austin researchers from the department of chemistry and biochemistry studied U.S. Department of Agriculture data from 1950 and 1999.  They found “reliable declines” in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin or vitamin B2, and vitamin C in 43 different vegetables and fruits.

Davis reported to the Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 2004, “Efforts to breed new varieties of crops that produce greater yield, pest resistance and climate adaptability have allowed crops to grow bigger and more rapidly, but their ability to manufacture or uptake nutrients has not kept pace with their rapid growth.”

Rates of nutritional decline vary from food to food and study to study.  The Organic Consumers Association cites a Kushi Institute 1975-1997 analysis and British data analysis from 1930 to 1980 published in the British Food Journal, each reporting substantial nutritional decline in fruits and vegetables.  Another study concluded that the vitamin A content in oranges has fallen to a level where one needs to eat eight of them to equal one of yesteryear’s varieties.

“Less nutrient –dense food, coupled with poor food choices, goes a long way toward explaining today’s epidemics of obesity and diabetes,” Charles Benbrook, chief scientist for the Organic Center, told Worldwatch.org.

Improving soil depletion issues is the key to solving the per-serving nutritional decline of fruits, vegetables and grains.  Proponents of organic agriculture recommend forgoing pesticides and fertilizers in favor of manure, cover crops and allowing fields to lie fallow between planting cycles.  These practices improve soil quality, but they take time and cost money that savvy, health-conscious consumers don’t have.

Because robust root systems aggressively absorb nutrients from the soil, they produce crops with higher concentrations of nutrients and phytochemicals.  “Still No Free Lunch,” The Organic Center’s report, estimates organically grown foods may have as much as 20% higher nutritional content for some minerals and may average 30% more antioxidants than conventionally farmed foods.

Organics might be the nutritional solution consumers seek, but there’s more to it.  More readily available now than they were a decade ago, they remain costly.  So what is a nutrition-conscious consumer to do?

Gardeners might heed advice from Mother Earth News, which recommends planting older, lower-yielding heirloom fruit and vegetable varieties in the backyard garden, using organic growing methods and moderate amounts of slow-release fertilizers.

Consumers without a plot of land might switch some produce purchases to organic, especially for the environmental Working Group’s “dirty dozen.”  On the infamous list are conventionally produced peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, pears, grapes, spinach, lettuce and potatoes.  These foods are notorious for pesticide and other chemical contamination, which includes known carcinogens.  Outlaying extra cash for organics in this case is win/win – reducing chemical contamination and boosting per-serving nutrition levels.

Nutritional Support Beyond Food

Today’s complex nutritional landscape is increasingly difficult for consumers to navigate, made worse by news that nutrients in whole foods are diminishing.  But consumer awareness is growing, linking proper nutrition to health, weight loss and even living longer and better.  How, then, can consumers optimize their health if today’s “carrot” doesn’t supply the nutrients they need?

“Often, the doses of those nutrients needed for a therapeutic effect are simply way more than are going to be available in the average diet, even a diet constructed according to the best longevity principles,” Jonny Bowden, Ph.D. writes in his best-selling book The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer.

Over-the-counter nutritional supplements fill dietary gaps, and Bowden likes to think of them as a technology – a kind of modern-day delivery system for nutrients we can’t get enough of otherwise.  Without them, the immune system malfunctions.  Bacteria and viruses more easily invade the body, the susceptibility to secondary infection increases and so too does recovery time.

The World Health Organization Center for Nutritional Immunology studied older adults in a double-blind controlled study to find that after 12 months of basic multivitamin and mineral supplementation, the supplemental group reported half as many sick days and their immune function improved.

Maintaining proper nutrient levels in the body is the key to healthy living at all ages, but it is particularly important for dieters limiting carbohydrates and other foods in an effort to lose weight.  And it might them more successful, as well.

The Mayo Clinic recommends nutritional supplements for anyone with a substandard diet, those  who consume less than 1,600 daily calories, as well as vegans and vegetarians.  People with disorders or past surgeries of the digestive tract and women who experience heavy menstrual bleeding, are pregnant, trying to conceive, breast-feeding or or are postmenopausal should also use nutritional supplements.

Beyond balanced multivitamin supplements, Bowden recommends adding fish oil, full of omega-3 fatty acids, which help protect the heart; CoQ10, a powerful antioxidant made in the body that declines as people age; and L-carnitine, an amino acid-like substance that helps with cellular energy.  But zinc, which boosts the immune system, and a mix of antioxidants including vitamin C, selenium, beta-carotene, and vitamin E, also make Bowden’s supplement list.

“Many people who take vitamins on a regular basis don’t get sick very often.  Whether that’s because they’re healthier to begin with or because the vitamins in some way support their immune system is an open question,” Bowden writes.  “Vitamins aren’t the only thing that can keep you healthy, but they may help.”

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Why Food Today Isn’t Enough

by Beth Douglas S. Silcox in The Challenge Magazine

Childhood Obesity:  Causing Bodily Harm

Find out what’s weighing on future generations – literally – and how you can help prevent it.

As adults, it’s commonplace to monitor weight fluctuations and how our clothes fit.  But what about our children?  Is anyone making sure their clothes no longer fit because they’re getting taller – as opposed to just bigger?  Just as the number of overweight and obese adults has increased in this country, so has the rate of childhood obesity.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.  Today nearly one in three American children is overweight or obese.  In African-American and Hispanic communities the number is even higher – at almost 40%.  Experts are calling childhood obesity an epidemic.

Just as obesity and excess weight cause health consequences for adults, obese kids pay a heavy health price.  Obese youths are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure.  The CDC reported that in one sample of obese 5- to 17-year-olds, a staggering 70% had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease.  What’s more, obese adolescents are more likely to be prediabetic and have greater risk for joint problems and sleep apnea.  One recent study suggests that obesity, sleep apnea and behavior and learning difficulties can actually interact with one another to worsen their effects on children.

Health hazards aside, everyone knows kids can be cruel.  With bullying now at an all-time high, obese children are prime targets.  At an age when fitting in can be everything, the stigma of simply being bigger than everyone else can be crippling to a child.

A Lifestyle Issue

So how did childhood obesity become an epidemic in this country?  The answer isn’t simple.  A generation ago our lifestyles were different.  Kids walked to and from school, ran around at recess, took gym class and played outdoors after school.  They ate reasonable portions of home-cooked meals.  On average, they ate one snack between meals per day, and fast food was a rare treat.

Contrast that with the habits of today’s youth.  Think about it:  How do your kids start their days?  Sugary cereal?  Pastry?  No breakfast at all?  Maybe they ride their bikes to school, but most ride buses.  Many gym classes have fallen victim to school budget cuts, and after-school activities are often sedentary.  Today’s kids, ages 8  to 18, spend an average on 7.5 hours a day using some form of entertainment media – TV, computers, video games, cell phones, movies and so on.  Between meal snacks are a way of life, trending towards three a day.  Eating out, including fast food, has become commonplace.  And portion sizes have exploded.  They’re now up to five times larger than in years past.  In the mid-1970s the average sugar-sweetened beverage was 13.6 ounces.  Today it is common for kids to consume a 20-ounce sugar-filled drink and 240 extra calories.  As a society, people today eat about 30% more calories than we did 40 years ago, including 56% more fats and 14% more sugars.

Childhood obesity is a frustrating problem, but it is ours to control.  It has gained the attention of influential foodies, physicians, and first lady Michelle Obama.  She launched a comprehensive initiative called Let’s Move! that’s dedicated to solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.  As part of the effort, President Barack Obama established the Task Force on Childhood Obesity, which is charged with developing an interagency plan to reduce the rate of childhood obesity to just 5% by 2030.  The task force issued its first report in February 2011, making far-reaching recommendations for parents, schools, physicians and even government agencies.

Fighting Fat

LetsMove.gov lists many easy, inexpensive actions you can take in your own home, starting today.  Here are just a few:

• Make sure your family eats a healthy breakfast every day.  In addition to being a good way to start a day, a nutritious breakfast can help prevent overeating and snacking later in the day.
• Later in the day, replace sodas with water or 100% fruit juice.
• Learn about portion sizes.  Many should be smaller than you think.  For example, provide portions equal to the size of the back of a fist – a child’s fist for a child’s portion.  Start off serving a small portion.  Kids can have seconds if they are still hungry.
• Eat as a family whenever possible, and remember that vegetables and fruits are your meal –planning friends.  Green should be a regular color on everyone’s plate.
• Take your time as you eat.  It takes about 20 minutes for your body to signal your brain that you’re full.

Celebrities and high-profile personalities are also getting into the act.  The American Heart Association joined forces with the William J. Clinton Foundation in 2005 to form the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.  Its aggressive goal is to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices.  The association teamed up with television personality and author Rachael Ray and her Yum-O! organization to provide recipes appropriate for school settings that are nutritious and delicious.  What child wouldn’t like to see Rachael’s  Mexi-Mac and Cheese in the school cafeteria?

Ideas That Work

School cafeterias have always faced budget challenges, as well as rooms full of picky eaters in a hurry.  But today they’re getting creative, figuring out surprising ways to get kids to eat more nutritiously.  Who knew that naming plain old carrots “X-Ray Vision Carrots” could get preschoolers to eat almost twice the amount?  Or that placing fruit near the cash registers, where impulse purchases are often made, led kid to choosing fruit more often.  One lunchroom simply moved its salad bar from the side of the lunchroom to the middle.  The result:  an immediate increase in salad sales.  And at another school, just prominently displaying fruit in a colorful bowl increased the sale of fruit by 104%.

Use these suggestions to boost better nutrition at home.  After all, every chip you replace with X-Ray Vision Carrots or a Sugar-Sweet Pear means fewer empty calories and better nutrition for your family.

You may not be a celebrity chef, a government official or a certified nutritionist, but you can help prevent obesity in your own home.  Banish the Clean Plate Club from your home.  Select nonfood rewards to recognize your kids’ accomplishments.  It’s the small daily steps – especially those that rev up the heart rate – that will win this war against childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity:  Causing Bodily Harm

Find out what’s weighing on future generations – literally – and how you can help prevent it.

by Barbara Seale from The Challenge Magazine

Building Trust, Getting Results

Find a balanced, healthy lifestyle through the Body by Vi Challenge

by Lindsay Messina, 2010 Miss Bikini America, Miss Fitness America

Lindsay Messina with Melanie Milletics

When I work with new ViSalus clients starting their first Body by Vi^TM Challenge, I always recommend the same thing:  Don’t try to change everything, don’t start counting calories, don’t start a new exercise program – just replace two meals each day with Vi-Shape protein shakes for the first two weeks.  Just by making that one change, you will get 60 percent of your vitamins, lose weight or inches, feel better and sleep better.  Most important, you will believe in the ViSalus system and be ready to commit to other changes.  People need to trust a product.  They need to bring loyalty to a product.

My experience in nutrition and fitness is extensive.  I have my own independent fitness consulting business, am an elite trainer and have celebrity clients in New York City.  I was 2010 Miss Bikini America, Miss Fitness America and have appeared on the covers of five fitness magazines.  I also model for fitness magazines and write about the industry for various publications.  My clients range from teens to the elderly – people who are dealing with a wide variety of health and fitness issues, including weight loss, insecurities and life in general.  I teach how to eat properly and how to learn a healthier, balanced lifestyle.

In March, after researching the company and trying the products, I committed to become a Body by Vi Promoter.  First, I tested the shakes and vitamins on myself and was really excited to find that the protein shake actually tastes like a milkshake.  I’ve tried it myself as an athlete, using the shake as a muscle-recovery drink after I work out.  I’ve never seen such a change in my body.  I put on four to five pounds of lean muscle in the last couple of months.

My family personally struggles with obesity.  I’m very familiar with yo-yo dieting.  Before I learned about ViSalus and the Body by Vi Challenge, I knew there had to be an easier method out there that doesn’t feel like you’re dieting, but helps you lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle.  My two sisters’ weight goes up or down 30 pounds on a yearly basis.  After I tried ViSalus, I asked them to try it.  They didn’t want to at first because they were worried the shakes would taste chalky.  I told them, “These shakes taste like milkshakes.  You don’t feel like you’re on a diet.”  They tried it and both lost a full pants size and 10 pounds in the first month.  Once I saw how easy it was for them, I knew that every consumer who struggles with weight can do it.

ViSalus works because it is nutritionally sound, which means people can use it long term to sustain and improve their health and fitness.  When you’re following a specific meal plan, you want to make sure you eat frequently throughout the day.  With ViSalus, you eat meals and snack throughout the day.  The products have the right amount of fiber, minerals, vitamin and protein, without having too much sugar.  My grandmother, who struggles with high cholesterol and takes insulin for diabetes, has improved her health through ViSalus, too.  The shakes have been great for her because even if she doesn’t feel like eating a meal, she can still get her nutritional needs met.

The concept of the 90-day Challenge is a key element for people trying to change their lives.  As clients meet one Challenge, the can set themselves a new one.  The Body by Vi Challenge offers products and kits to help individuals achieve their individual dreams.  It’s all about raising the bar.  At the core of weight-loss or fitness success are the goals that you set and the tools you have to achieve those goals.  Everything about changing your life is about setting goals and furthering your next step.  The Body by Vi Challenge works because it encourages folks to upgrade their goals every 90 days and provides an easy transition to a healthier lifestyle.

Building Trust, Getting Results

Find a balanced, healthy lifestyle through the Body by Vi Challenge

by Lindsay Messina, in The Challenge Magazine

As Americans’ dependence on fast food increases, so do our waistlines.

If you’re like most Americans, you’re short on time and money.  Perhaps this is why we rely so “heavily” on fast food.  It’s so easy, convenient and cheap to pull up to a drive-through, order the “No. 1” and be on our way with a 1,500-calorie meal.

In the United States, fast-food restaurants are ubiquitous.  Everywhere we turn, there’s another KFC, McDonald’s or Taco Bell.  Perhaps this is why so many of us turn to them.  But studies show that eating fast food can easily put us on the “fast track” to fat.

The American way of life is fast-paced, making it easy to fall into the trap of eating fast food.  But have you ever stopped to think what that fast-food meal is doing to your physique and your health?

Statistics show that during the last 35 years, sales in the U.S. fast-food industry have grown by almost 1,000%.  In 1975, sales equaled $16.1 billion and in 2009 sales reached about $160 billion.  This growth is just as apparent in our waistlines.  Every year, Americans keep gaining weight.

Growing Epidemic

The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention report that the obesity epidemic in the United States is growing at an alarming rate.  In 1990, no states had a prevalence of obesity equal to or greater than 10%.  However, by 2010, no state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%, and 12 states had a prevalence of obesity equal to or greater than 30%.

Recent CDC statistics indicate that two out of three Americans – some 200 million people – are overweight or obese.  And one-third of American children are overweight or obese.

According to a CNBC special report, “One Nation, Overweight,” obesity has attacked every age group, including the very young.  Obesity rates among children have tripled from a generation ago.  One in three children in the United States is either obese or overweight and at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in their lifetime.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (March 17, 2005) concluded our nation’s youth could be the first generation ever to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.

Portion Distortion

If you watch television at all, you’ve seen the commercials – you know, the ones advertising unhealthy foods.  Whether it’s an ad for a cheesy flatbread sandwich at Taco Bell or a calorie-dense meal at McDonald’s, these commercials are designed to tempt your taste buds and cause cravings you didn’t know existed.  And they work.

According to the CDC, Americans are eating more calories on average than they did in the 1970s.  Between 1971 and 2000, the average man added 168 calories to his daily fare while the average woman added 335 calories a day.  What’s driving this trend?  Experts say it’s a combination of increased availability, bigger portions and more high-calorie foods – the hallmarks of fast food.

A May 15, 2009, ScienceNews.com article, “Super Size Diet Increases Insulin Resistance,” reports that too much fast food could put people on a fast track to diabetes.  In a study, researchers concluded that just one month on a fast-food diet was enough to alter the ability of fat cells to respond to insulin, a hallmark of type 2 diabetes.

In his book Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It (McGraw-Hill, 2004), Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., argues that fast food is accessible, convenient, heavily promoted, and engineered with fat and sugar to be tasty and cheap.  No wonder so many of us have fallen into the fast-food trap.

Convenient Killer

As the prevalence of obesity in our nation has increased, so has our dependence on fast food.  Is it a coincidence?  Or is there a cause-and-effect relationship between the two?  Many researchers believe fast food is the enemy and that convenience is killing us.

In a recent study, researchers Mark Pereira, Ph.D., and David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., showed that fast food increases the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes.  Participants who consumed fast food two or more times a week gained approximately 10 more pounds and had twice as great an increase in insulin resistance than participants who consumed fast food less than once per week.

According to the U.S. Department of health and Human Services, being overweight or obese significantly affects the health, quality of life and life expectancy of the U.S. population.  Excess weight is a risk factor for a large number of diseases and chronic conditions.

Researchers now associate obesity with more chronic disorders that can worsen our quality of life, even more so than smoking or problem drinking.

Estimates of the number of years of life lost as a result of being overweight or obese range as high as 20 years for certain age and ethnic groups.  Health experts suggest that in terms of the physical quality of life, the effect of obesity can be the equivalent of aging as much as 30 years.

Portion Distortion

American fast-food establishments and restaurants have increasingly served larger portions through the years.  A typical convenience meal pack at McDonald’s includes a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (510 calories) and a large serving of French fries (500 calories) for a whopping total of 1,100 calories – and that’s not including a sugary soda or milkshake.

According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, average portion sizes have doubled and even tripled in the past 20 years.  In the 1950s, a typical fast-food hamburger weighed 1 ounce, while today it weighs 6 ounces.  The average fast-food restaurant meal nowadays contains a staggering 1,500 calories.

These growing portions are changing what Americans think of as a “normal” portion size.  Studies show that the more food put in front of people, the more they eat.  It’s called portion distortion.

“Portion distortion is a major contributor to many expanding waistlines,” the American Heart Association reports in its book American Heart Association No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss (Clarkson Potter, 2005).

Bottom line: Make smarter decisions when choosing the foods you put in your body.

Obesity has become one of the most expensive health problems in the United States today, surpassing smoking, according to a study in Health Affairs.  – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A recent study compared laboratory measurements of calories in 269 food items with the restaurants’ stated calories.  Researchers found that 19% of food items had at least 100 calories more than listed and only 7% of the 269 foods tested were within 10 calories of what the restaurants stated.  – Journal of the American Medical Association, July 2011 edition

According to the Nurses’ Health Study, Nurses’ Health Study 2 ad the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, the foods that contributed the most to weight gain are French fries, potato chips, sugar-sweetened drinks, red meats and processed meats, sweets and desserts, refined grains, fried foods, 100% fruit juice and butter.  – New England Journal of Medicine, June 2011

As a nation we spend $137 billion a year on weight-loss solutions.  – CNBC “One Nation, Overweight” (May 18, 2010)

The U.S. fast-food industry spends approximately $1.6 billion each year on marketing aimed at children.  – Federal Trade Commission

According to researchers from the University of Oxford and Columbia University, if current obesity trends continue half of people in the U.S. will be obese by 2030.  – The Lancet medical journal, August 2011 issue

The medical costs associated with obesity are staggering – totaling about $147 billion in 2008.  – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Fast Food Trap
by Brittany Glenn, in The Challenge Magazine

A Winning Combination
Exercising without a healthy diet is futile.
by Deana Nall, in The Challenge Magazine

While Americans seem more health-conscious than ever, our eating and exercising habits still leave a lot of room for improvement.

According to a recent study by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), only one in seven American adults gets regular physical activity and consumes five servings of fruits and vegetables every day.  The New England Journal of Medicine reported in a 2011 study that weight loss and exercise combined provide greater improvement in physical function than weight loss of exercise alone.  Another study led by Dr. Anne McTiernan of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that a healthy diet and regular exercise done together are more effective at helping women lose weight than diet or exercise alone.

It’s obvious that healthy diet and exercise are the ideal combination for weight loss, physical fitness and lower risk of chronic diseases.

Start Slow and Increase Gradually

“This study shows that you get the biggest bang for your buck by combining a healthy weight-loss diet – which in this case meant reducing calories by cutting fat intake and boosting the consumption of low-calorie foods – with regular, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise,” McTiernan says.  “You don’t need to be an athlete; walking, biking or gym cardio machines all work well.  Start slowly and gradually increase to 45 minutes of activity a day, more if you are able.”

It’s obvious that healthy diet and exercise are the ideal combination for weight loss, physical fitness and lower risk of chronic diseases.  But because so few of us incorporate both into our lifestyles, America is encountering a major health crisis.  Rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other health problems are at an all-time high.

Experts recommend switching up your routine every 12 weeks, making sure you vary exercise type, frequency and intensity.

While some people can lose weight by only restricting calorie intake, the results are unlikely to last without physical activity.  And to keep a body healthy and able to exercise, a healthy diet is necessary.  The two factors of healthy eating and exercise are vital components of reaching and maintaining a healthy weight and a healthy body, and of lowering risks for disease and other health complications.

For adults, the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, a publication of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recommends aerobic as well as muscle-strengthening activity regularly.  For example, combine two-and-a-half hours of moderate-intensity aerobic activity (such as vigorous walking) every week with muscle-strengthening activities two days a week.  The CDC offers more suggestions on physical activity at www.cdc.gov.  According to the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, regular exercise can not only control weight and fight disease; it can also improve your mood, boost energy, promote better sleep and enhance your sex life.  And the Journal of the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry reports that exercise can improve mental health by reducing anxiety, depression, and negative moods and by improving self-esteem and cognitive function.  With a myriad of physical activities to choose from, you can pick one that’s best for you.  Better yet, chose several, such as jogging, swimming and Zumba, for example, and rotate to prevent boredom and burnout.  Experts recommend switching up your routine every 12 weeks, making sure you vary exercising type, frequency and intensity.

Just don’t forget the other part of the equation.  Exercising without a healthy diet is futile.  To benefit the most from exercising, you need to feed your body everything it needs to respond in the best way to physical activity.  In order to build muscle, you need protein and amino acids.  And you need complex carbohydrates to have enough energy to exercise.  According to the CDC, adults should consume whole grains, poultry, fish, beans, eggs and nuts, in addition to the five daily servings of fruits and vegetables.  You should also consume a diet that is low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, sodium and added sugars.  At the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s www.choosemyplate.com, you can get a personalized eating plan that will work the best for your age, gender, body type and amount of physical activity.

Reducing food intake alone may provide short-term weight-loss results.  Exercising without supporting your body with a healthy diet can lead to health problems.  For a winning combination, incorporate a healthy diet with regular physical activity.  Make these two vital components a permanent part of your lifestyle, and watch every aspect of your life improve!

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Trying to fit into that dress or suit you have lined up for your class reunion? Getting ready to hit the beach in that bikini or swim trunks? If so, then you may be thinking about losing a few extra pounds before you slip into that form-fitting outfit. You may even be considering going on a crash diet in order to lose the pounds as quickly as possible. However, crash dieting is an extremely dangerous way to go about losing weight, and can lead to yo-yo dieting and a number of serious health problems. So before you decide to plunge into a crash diet like the HCG Diet, The Master Cleanse, grapefruit diet, lemonade fast, Hollywood diet, or cabbage soup diet, here are some facts that you need to know.

What is a Crash Diet?
A crash diet is one of the most restrictive types of weight loss plans that you can follow. It involves drastically cutting back on the amount of calories and fat that you take in on a daily basis. Similar to a starvation diet, a crash diet is often paired with other weight loss “fixes,” including extreme exercise routines and the use of diuretics or dangerous diet pills. Thousands of men and women follow crash diets every year in the hopes that they will lose a significant amount of weight in a very short period of time. However, crash diets are recognized by health care professionals and dieticians as being a very dangerous way of trying to lose the excess pounds.

Do Crash Diets Work?: The Yo-Yo Diet Cycle
If you follow a crash diet, you will probably notice that you do lose a significant amount of weight in the first week or so. In fact, many men and women notice that they lose five pounds or even more during the first few days of their crash diet. However, this weight loss isn’t true weight loss ‘ instead, it can be attributed to the loss of water weight that happens during crash diets. This is because low-calorie diets cause the body to burn up excess glycogen, a type of glucose that absorbs excess fluid inside the body.

Additionally, weight loss during crash diets doesn’t continue for a very long time. Eventually, you will find yourself hitting a weight loss plateau, during which it will become more and more difficult for you to lose weight. The majority of crash dieters find that this weight loss plateau is followed by a period of weight gain. Many followers of crash diets even end up putting back on all of the weight they lost, along with additional pounds. This is known as the yo-yo diet effect: just like the up and down motion of a yo-yo, crash dieters find that their weight is constantly fluctuating with each diet that they go on.

What Causes The Yo-Yo Effect?
Crash diets are linked to the yo-yo diet effect because of the impact that this type of starvation diet has on your body’s metabolism and muscle loss. In order to support all of the functions that your body performs on a daily basis, your body needs to burn a certain amount of calories. The rate at which your body burns calories is known as your metabolism.

During crash diets, your body eventually clues in to the fact that it is receiving a very low number of calories. As a result, your body actually uses your muscle tissue for energy and adjusts its metabolism, so that it burns fewer calories in order to perform all of its necessary bodily functions. This means that it takes fewer calories for you to gain weight, making it more and more likely that you will put on weight at the end of your diet. Your body can maintain this decreased metabolism for a number of months, or even years, after a serious low-calorie diet.

How Low-Calorie Diets and Crash Diets Affect Weight Loss

Contrary to popular belief, low-calorie diets don’t help you lose weight. Adults need a minimum of between 1,000 and 1,500 calories per day, depending on their gender, age, and level of physical activity. When you don’t eat enough daily calories, your body doesn’t get the nutrition it needs to survive and thrive. Eating very low-calorie diets can lower your metabolism, sending your body into what fitness experts think of as “famine mode.”

Famine mode is how your body responds to the threat of starvation. It’s the product of thousands of years of evolution. If you aren’t getting enough to eat over a sustained period of time, your body assumes that’s because there isn’t enough food available. Remember, your brain might know that you’re dieting, but your body doesn’t.

When your body goes into famine mode, it slows down your metabolism to make more efficient use of every calorie you eat. Your body will attempt to conserve fat reserves, and you’ll begin to lose muscle instead. You’ll burn fewer calories and lose less weight.

How Muscle Affects Metabolism

The amount and density of your muscle tissue affects your metabolism. Muscles burn lots of calories when they function, so if you have a high proportion of muscle mass on your body, you’ll automatically burn more calories since your body will need more energy. That’s why strength training can be crucial to weight loss.

When you lose muscle, however, your metabolism slows down. That’s why low-calorie diets and yo-yo dieting can cause weight gain rather than weight loss. Low-calorie diets temporarily lower your metabolism, and they’re impossible to maintain. When you cheat on your low-calorie diet or go off the diet, you’ll gain more weight than you would have had you never dieted at all.

You should also remember that as you build strength and fitness and your metabolism goes up, you’ll need to eat more. That’s because your body will require more energy to function on a basic level.

What are the Health Risks of Crash Diets

Crash diets aren’t only a poor way of losing weight and maintaining healthy weight loss, but they are also very dangerous for your body. There are both short-term and long-term health effects that you could experience by following a strict crash diet.

Mental Health Problems
Crash diets are extremely hard on your overall mental and emotional health. Not only do crash diets cause extreme food cravings, but they can also wreak havoc with your mood: you may find yourself feeling more irritable or depressed than usual when you are on a crash diet. Crash diets can also set people up for serious mental health disorders, particularly eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

Nutritional Deficiency
Low calorie diets tend to be very restrictive, and you will find that you will be unable to eat healthy foods. In fact, long-term crash dieting can result in serious nutritional deficiencies, as a result of eating a poor variety of foods. In particular, crash dieters are putting themselves at risk for:

• iron deficiency anemia
• vitamin B12 deficiency
• potassium deficiency

Potassium deficiency is particularly dangerous. These electrolytes are used by your body to ensure proper nerve and muscle function. They play a particularly important role in regulating the way that your heart beats. If potassium and sodium levels become low enough, you could suffer from a heart attack.

Vital Organ Damage
Crash diets are extremely dangerous for your vital organs, including your heart, kidneys, liver, and brain. In order to perform their daily functions, your vital organs rely on energy from your carbohydrate intake. During strict crash diets, carbohydrate and calorie intake is so low, that your organs cannot get enough energy from these sources. As a result, your organs begin to burn muscle tissue in order to get adequate amounts of energy to perform vital functions. If your calorie intake becomes low enough, your body will even begin to burn the muscle tissue that makes up your actual organs in order to provide your brain with sufficient energy to function. This can result in serious health problems, including:

• liver failure
• kidney failure
• heart attack
• stroke

Osteoporosis
Long-term crash dieters frequently suffer from osteoporosis, a disease that causes the bones in your body to become extremely brittle. This is because fast crash diets severely limit your intake of calcium. As a result, calcium begins to leach out of the bones in your body, leaving them particularly fragile. Many crash dieters suffer broken bones, particularly hips and wrists, as a result of their osteoporosis.

Avoiding Crash Diets: Losing Weight the Healthy Way
If you are intent on losing some weight, it is best to avoid crash and yo-yo diets at all costs. Instead, engage in healthy weight loss methods by following these tips:

Speak with your doctor before beginning any weight loss plan. She can provide you with tips on how to lose weight safely, like with the Body By Vi Challenge.  The Body By Vi Challenge Weight Loss System is fully guaranteed with a 30 day money back guarantee.  Losing 4-6 pounds a week is common and safe because the Challenge is based on getting the best nutrition with the Vi-Shape shake that will keep your lean muscle and drop the fat.  You have nothing to lose but the weight!

• Don’t cut back on calories too quickly strictly or follow an extreme eating plan. Instead, eat regularly or replace meals with a nutritional weight loss shake so your body’s metabolism doesn’t slow down.
• Focus on limiting portion sizes and choosing healthier food options. Pair this with regular exercise and you will find that the weight drops off!
• Look at your weight loss plan not as a diet, but as a healthy new lifestyle. This will encourage you to continue to with healthy eating habits on a long-term basis.

The Body By Vi Challenge Weight Loss System is fully guaranteed with a 30 day money back guarantee.  Losing 4-6 pounds a week is common and safe because the Challenge is based on getting the best nutrition with the Vi-Shape shake that will keep your lean muscle and drop the fat.  You have nothing to lose but the weight!

The Body By Vi Challenge is one guaranteed way to lose weight FAST and get incredible results from any exercise you do!  Often when we start a weight loss program like walking, Zumba, P90X, kickboxing or weight training, we expect to see real results in our weight fast.   Unfortunately, most people have nothing to show for their efforts but soreness and frustration, because weight loss is 80% diet and nutrition.  With a Body By Vi Challenge Transformation kit, you are guaranteed to get faster fat loss results – and to put on more muscle than with any other nutritional supplements.

Its really very simple, and if you take the products the way I outline here, your results will be even FASTER! We all want fast weight loss when we exercise ~ so lets get the SKINNY on how to get the fat off fast!

(If you intend to do the Body By vi Challenge WITHOUT exercise, please see “How to Get Fast Weight Loss Results With the Body By Vi Challenge Kit WITHOUT Exercise“)

First thing’s First! Watch the video below that tells you exactly what is in your Body By vi Challenge kit!

The Body By Vi Challenge Transformation Kit is a complete weight loss system that enables you to simultaneously build or keep lean muscle mass while you burn fat for fast weight loss.  Because you keep your lean muscle mass, the weight loss is maintained once you have reached your target weight, as long as you are eating a normal healthy diet once you have reached your target weight.   See “The Problem With Most Diets” for why maintaining lean muscle mass is critical for long term weight loss success.

The Transformation kit is safe for people who have 10 to 300+ pounds to lose. Because it is based on sound nutrition, the Body By Vi Challenge products can be taken for as long as needed to continue to lose the weight you need to lose.  The Body By Vi Challenge has people who have lost more than 100 pounds over the course of 6 months to a year, and who are STILL losing.  If you have obesity related health problems like diabetes, heart conditions, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc take the Body By Vi Challenge to drop the weight safely, quickly, and save money in the process!

The Body By Vi Challenge Transformation Kit costs you just $8 a day for 2 healthy Vi-Shape Shake meals, your afternoon Neuro Smart Energy drink, your Vi-Trim appetite suppresant, Vi-Slim Metabolism booster, and your Omega Vitals.   The Transformation kit is a complete weight loss system that will keep your lean muscle and burn away fat.

ViSalus also offers Nutra-cookie protein cookies as the perfect delicious healthy snack, Deter-mints to help keep your cravings away and keep you from binge eating, and our patented total health system, the Vi-pak to meet all of your nutritional needs, including a double patented anti-aging and energy formula!

How to get fast weight loss results on the Body By Vi Challenge Transformation Kit:

Lets start with the 2 Shakes a Day to melt the pounds away  – the Vi-Shape Shake Nutritional Shake mix.
You will replace 2 meals a day with a Vi-Shape shake, have 2 healthy snacks, and a normal meal.
That normal meal can be lunch or dinner, depending on lifestyle.

You want one of your shakes to be post-workout, and you want to take your Neuro and Vi-Trim during your exercise to stay hydrated and increase your energy.

Breakfast:
1 Vi-Slim Tablet, 1 Omega Vital and a Vi-Shape Shake

You always want to start the day with your Vi-Shape shake to get the nutrition you need, along with the protein you need to rev your metabolism.

The basic recipe for a Vi-Shape Shake is
2 heaping scoops Vi-Shape Shake
1 cup of a low fat milk (skim dairy milk is fine, but if you have lactose issues, go with almond or rice milk instead)
1 cup frozen fruit

Blend well – and you will have a large, delicious smoothie to enjoy for breakfast that has all of the nutrition, protein and fiber your body needs to start the day off right!

You can vary your shakes into a thousand different smoothie recipes ~ and I suggest you DO! Your mind craves variety!

About 90 minutes later – mid morning (and during your workout):
Neuro With Vi-Trim – Get a big glass or bottle of water and stir mix in your Neuro smart energy and the Vi-Trim clear control appetite suppressant.  This will give you an energy boost that will burn more calories, while cutting your appetite and fighting stubborn belly fat.  You can even brew a cup of black or green tea and enjoy the Neuro & Vi Trim in it.  The small amount of caffeine in the tea will have a synergistic effect with the Vi-Trim.
If you do mix it into tea, please make sure you are still drinking water to stay hydrated, especially if you are drinking this during a workout!

Snacks:
Your snacks should be high in protein, low carbohydrate, and under 300 calories. Think ‘protein is my friend, sugar is my enemy, and I can eat all the fruits & veggies I want’
Sugar & carbohydrates are basically the same thing and you want to decrease your intake of them. Read your food labels!

If you read lables, you will find that these snacks are all good choices while on the Body By Vi Challenge:
Nutra cookie
No sugar added greek yogurt with fresh fruit
Low fat cheese sticks, low fat cheese cubes
Handful of nuts and some fresh vegetables
Apple with peanut or almond butter
Hard boiled eggs
Lunch meat and cheese rolled up with mustard
Vi-Shape shake mix shaken or blended with just milk or water

The point of the snack is to give your body the protein it needs to keep your blood sugar stable and keep your metabolism running properly. You may find you need less food than you thought when you shift your choices away from carbohydrates and sugar to protein and vegetables.

Please log into the Body by Vi Members area and watch the videos that are there to help you to choose healthy meals and snacks on the Body By Vi Challenge.  The above are healthy options, and they all fit into the category of protein rich, low carb snacks.

During your workout, any time of day
Neuro With Vi-Trim – Get a big glass or bottle of water and stir mix in your Neuro smart energy and the Vi-Trim clear control appetite suppressant.  This will give you an energy boost that will burn more calories, while keeping your blood sugar stable, cutting your appetite and fighting stubborn belly fat.  Stay hydrated!

After your workout, any time of day – post workout recovery drink.
Even if you are not hungry after your workout, you must have a Vi-Shape shake mixed with just milk or water within 20 minutes of exercising.  You can simply put it into a shaker cup and drink it down.  This will give you the protein and nutrition you need post-workout.  The Tri-sorb protein in the shake will help you to make more lean muscle, so you get even better results from your workout.  If you would normally have a meal after your workout, you can make this a full Vi-Shape shake with frozen fruit.  Just make sure you have the shake within 20 minutes of your workout.

Lunch:
1 Vi-Slim, 1 Omega Vital
Lunch is either another Vi-Shape shake, or its your normal healthy meal.  Please see the videos and menu guide in the body By Vi Challenge members area for what constitutes a normal healthy meal.  Essentially you want to eat what you want to be satisfied, but to keep your portion sizes normal.  That means if you want pizza, eat it! But have no more than 2 slices, and have a nice salad with it. And if you want fried chicken, that can be OK too…. but don’t eat the whole bucket, and skip the fries!  The fact is, by replacing 2 other meals with the Vi-Shape shake, you don’t have to worry so much about this real meal.   Just try to keep it sensible, and skip the soda!

About 2 hours later – Mid afternoon
the Neuro and Vi-Trim will give you that afternoon pick me up you are looking for, while fighting stubborn belly fat! Skip the big coffee drink and sugar bomb go for a Neuro instead!

Snack:
Your snacks should be high in protein, low carbohydrate, and under 300 calories.
A Nutra cookie works great mid afternoon if you are used to eating something sweet to keep your energy up.

Dinner:

Dinner is either your second Vi-Shape shake (if you ate a normal lunch), or its your normal healthy meal.  Please see the videos and menu guide in the Body By Vi Challenge members area for what constitutes a normal healthy meal.  Essentially you want to eat what you want to be satisfied, but to keep your portion sizes normal.  That means if you want pizza, eat it! But have no more than 2 slices, and have a nice salad with it. And if you want fried chicken, that can be OK too…. but don’t eat the whole bucket, and skip the fries!  The fact is, by replacing 2 other meals with the Vi-Shape shake, you don’t have to worry so much about this real meal.   You dont really have to count calories or ‘points’, just try to keep it sensible, and skip the soda!  The same rule applies to meals as snacks: Think ‘protein is my friend, sugar is my enemy, and I can eat all the fruits & veggies I want’

Thats IT!

Your Body By Vi Transformation Kit will help you to lose weight fast as it enables you to  simultaneously burn fat while you keep lean muscle with

• 2 Vi-Shape Shakes a day to melt the pounds a way
• 2 healthy snacks (Nutra cookies are perfect) and a normal meal (this is not about starving, or calorie deprivation)
• Neuro smart energy drinks with Vi-Trim to keep appetite and stress level down
• Vi-Slim metabolism booster, fat burner
• Omega Vitals to help melt away the fat.

The Body By Vi Challenge Transformation kit costs you just $8 a day, and is fully guaranteed with a 30 day money back guarantee.  Losing 4-6 pounds a week is common and safe because the Challenge is based on getting the best nutrition with the Vi-Shape shake that will keep your lean muscle and drop the fat.  You have nothing to lose but the weight!

All content by Melanie Milletics, Body By Vi Challenge Community Leader. It is not to be copied without Melanie Milletics’ written permission.

The Body By Vi Challenge is one guaranteed way to lose weight FAST without any exercise!  Its really very simple, and if you take the products the way I outline here, your results will be even FASTER! We all want fast weight loss without exercise ~ so lets get the SKINNY on how to get the fat off fast!

(If you intend to do the Body By vi Challenge WITH exercise, please see “How to Get Fast Weight Loss Results With the Body By Vi Challenge Kit and Exercise“)

First thing’s First! Watch the video below that tells you exactly what is in your Body By vi Challenge kit!

The Body By Vi Challenge Transformation Kit is a complete weight loss system that enables you to simultaneously build or keep lean muscle mass while you burn fat for fast weight loss.  Because you keep your lean muscle mass, the weight loss is maintained once you have reached your target weight, as long as you are eating a normal healthy diet once you have reached your target weight.   See “The Problem With Most Diets” for why maintaining lean muscle mass is critical for long term weight loss success.

The Transformation kit is safe for people who have 10 to 300+ pounds to lose. Because it is based on sound nutrition, the Body By Vi Challenge products can be taken for as long as needed to continue to lose the weight you need to lose.  The Body By Vi Challenge has people who have lost more than 100 pounds over the course of 6 months to a year, and who are STILL losing.  If you have obesity related health problems like diabetes, heart conditions, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc take the Body By Vi Challenge to drop the weight safely, quickly, and save money in the process!

The Body By Vi Challenge Transformation Kit costs you just $8 a day for 2 healthy Vi-Shape Shake meals, your afternoon Neuro Smart Energy drink, your Vi-Trim appetite suppresant, Vi-Slim Metabolism booster, and your Omega Vitals.   The Transformation kit is a complete weight loss system that will keep your lean muscle and burn away fat.

ViSalus also offers Nutra-cookie protein cookies as the perfect delicious healthy snack, Deter-mints to help keep your cravings away and keep you from binge eating, and our patented total health system, the Vi-pak to meet all of your nutritional needs, including a double patented anti-aging and energy formula!

How to get fast weight loss results on the Body By Vi Challenge Transformation Kit:

Lets start with the 2 Shakes a Day to melt the pounds away  – the Vi-Shape Shake Nutritional Shake mix.
You will replace 2 meals a day with a Vi-Shape shake, have 2 healthy snacks, and a normal meal.
That normal meal can be lunch or dinner, depending on lifestyle.

Breakfast:
1 Vi-Slim Tablet, 1 Omega Vital and a Vi-Shape Shake

You always want to start the day with your Vi-Shape shake to get the nutrition you need, along with the protein you need to rev your metabolism.

The basic recipe for a Vi-Shape Shake is
2 heaping scoops Vi-Shape Shake
1 cup of a low fat milk (skim dairy milk is fine, but if you have lactose issues, go with almond or rice milk instead)
1 cup frozen fruit

Blend well – and you will have a large, delicious smoothie to enjoy for breakfast that has all of the nutrition, protein and fiber your body needs to start the day off right!

You can vary your shakes into a thousand different smoothie recipes ~ and I suggest you DO! Your mind craves variety!

About 90 minutes later – mid morning:
Neuro With Vi-Trim – Get a big glass or bottle of water and stir mix in your Neuro smart energy and the Vi-Trim clear control appetite suppressant.  This will give you a pick me up that will burn more calories, while cutting your appetite and fighting stubborn belly fat.  You can even brew a cup of black or green tea and enjoy the Neuro & Vi Trim in it.  The small amount of caffeine in the tea will have a synergistic effect with the Vi-Trim.
If you do mix it into tea, please make sure you are still drinking water to stay hydrated!

Snacks:
Your snacks should be high in protein, low carbohydrate, and under 300 calories. Think ‘protein is my friend, sugar is my enemy, and I can eat all the fruits & veggies I want’
Sugar & carbohydrates are basically the same thing and you want to decrease your intake of them. Read your food labels!

If you read lables, you will find that these snacks are all good choices while on the Body By Vi Challenge:
Nutra cookie
No sugar added greek yogurt with fresh fruit
Low fat cheese sticks, low fat cheese cubes
Handful of nuts and some fresh vegetables
Apple with peanut or almond butter
Hard boiled eggs
Lunch meat and cheese rolled up with mustard

The point of the snack is to give your body the protein it needs to keep your blood sugar stable and keep your metabolism running properly. You may find you need less food than you thought when you shift your choices away from carbohydrates and sugar to protein and vegetables.

Please log into the Body by Vi Members area and watch the videos that are there to help you to choose healthy meals and snacks on the Body By Vi Challenge.  The above are healthy options, and they all fit into the category of protein rich, low carb snacks.

Lunch:
1 Vi-Slim, 1 Omega Vital
Lunch is either another Vi-Shape shake, or its your normal healthy meal.  Please see the videos and menu guide in the body By Vi Challenge members area for what constitutes a normal healthy meal.  Essentially you want to eat what you want to be satisfied, but to keep your portion sizes normal.  That means if you want pizza, eat it! But have no more than 2 slices, and have a nice salad with it. And if you want fried chicken, that can be OK too…. but don’t eat the whole bucket, and skip the fries!  The fact is, by replacing 2 other meals with the Vi-Shape shake, you don’t have to worry so much about this real meal.   Just try to keep it sensible, and skip the soda!

About 2 hours later – Mid afternoon
the Neuro and Vi-Trim will give you that afternoon pick me up you are looking for, while fighting stubborn belly fat! Skip the big coffee drink and sugar bomb go for a Neuro instead!

Snack:
Your snacks should be high in protein, low carbohydrate, and under 300 calories.
A Nutra cookie works great mid afternoon if you are used to eating something sweet to keep your energy up.

Dinner:

Dinner is either your second Vi-Shape shake (if you ate a normal lunch), or its your normal healthy meal.  Please see the videos and menu guide in the Body By Vi Challenge members area for what constitutes a normal healthy meal.  Essentially you want to eat what you want to be satisfied, but to keep your portion sizes normal.  That means if you want pizza, eat it! But have no more than 2 slices, and have a nice salad with it. And if you want fried chicken, that can be OK too…. but don’t eat the whole bucket, and skip the fries!  The fact is, by replacing 2 other meals with the Vi-Shape shake, you don’t have to worry so much about this real meal.   You dont really have to count calories or ‘points’, just try to keep it sensible, and skip the soda!  The same rule applies to meals as snacks: Think ‘protein is my friend, sugar is my enemy, and I can eat all the fruits & veggies I want’

Thats IT!

Your Body By Vi Transformation Kit will help you to lose weight fast as it enables you to  simultaneously burn fat while you keep lean muscle with

• 2 Vi-Shape Shakes a day to melt the pounds a way
• 2 healthy snacks (Nutra cookies are perfect) and a normal meal (this is not about starving, or calorie deprivation)
• Neuro smart energy drinks with Vi-Trim to keep appetite and stress level down
• Vi-Slim metabolism booster, fat burner
• Omega Vitals to help melt away the fat.

The Body By Vi Challenge Transformation kit costs you just $8 a day, and is fully guaranteed with a 30 day money back guarantee.  Losing 4-6 pounds a week is common and safe because the Challenge is based on getting the best nutrition with the Vi-Shape shake that will keep your lean muscle and drop the fat.  You have nothing to lose but the weight!

All content by Melanie Milletics, Body By Vi Challenge Community Leader. It is not to be copied without Melanie Milletics’ written permission.

During the Holidays, most people give in to eating with abandon, and use the season as an excuse to overeat day after day – after all, its only once a year…

The average person will put on about 8 pounds over the Holidays – pounds that will linger and then get put onto the list for the “New Years Resolutions”.  People wake up on January 1st intent on getting the unhealthy and less than attractive pounds off once and for all.  The gyms fill with people who are finally going to be all they are meant to be.  They are going to get their sexy back!

The bad news? Most people NEVER take off the Holiday weight gain.  People put on the pounds and then KEEP them.  The average weight gain is 2 lbs a year.. that NEVER comes off! This equates to a larger and larger waistline as the years go on, and the typical ‘middle aged spread’.

Who wants a ‘spread’ around their middle???

Not you? Enter a real solution to Holiday weight gain that works extremely fast, easy, and saves you money – the Body By Vi Challenge!

The Body By Vi Challenge is a weight loss solution that can ensure that you actually meet the goal of your New Years Resolution ~ and easily drop unsightly fat from around your middle so you look less like Santa… and more like your thin, trim, healthy, energetic best!

On the Challenge you’ll replace unhealthy meals with delicious Vi-Shape Shakes that taste like milkshakes , and yummy nutra- cookies!
Yes, seriously, you’ll be getting the best in human nutrition while drinking shakes and cookies, and you will LOSE weight and save money.

Peanut butter, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin cookies .. mmmm!

Order your Transformation Kit now, with the knowledge that you’ll EASILY take the weight right back off!

Check out some of the results from the 90 Day Body By Vi Challenge from Visalus Sciences:

These results are after just 90 Days! To See more, click HERE to go to the album.

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