Have A Healthy Day: It's NOT Will Power.... it is SCIENCE!

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I have been getting a lot of questions from friends and family about my journey and the number one comment is "I wish I had your willpower". I thought to myself that is so funny I have no willpower. That is why I am here .

If willpower came in a pill, drink, book, or from a as seen on tv commercial I would have it. I had tried everything and every diet to loose weight and for awhile that would work but then I didn't see the results and the pounds would add up again I would be hungry, frustrated, and defeated. I began to think that I was never gonna happen for me and I should just accept my body the way it was FAT.
I couldn't imagine what I was doing wrong as it was I was cutting my calories and working out 2 times a day and taking energy drinks, adding protein powder to everything and still nothing. Below is the viscous cycle I kept falling into.

Then I seen this "new quick fix"it said 21 Days and loose 15- 20 lbs .. hey again no willpower out of desperation I messaged this girl I never met and never heard of but she had something I thought would work and what it was only 21 days, perfect. So she messaged me back and gave me all this info and video's and blogs on all the information about it and guess what I did? I seen her website link she attached and went and bought it not watching anything or knowing anything about it .. she could have been selling be me a bag of flour for all I cared but it looked like a "QUICK FIX".

So on ward with my journey the first week great.. lost weight, the second week great.. lost weight and so on .. I kept thinking the whole time I feel great, I am loosing weight, and my energy is thru the roof, and I am happy. Everyone started to wonder what I was doing and where they could get it ... again no will power so I thought I can sell it, keep me accountable, make some money, and loose weight.

I have been coaching and going thru the programs and still had the question in the back of my mind WHY is this working? When is it going to stop working? Am I just going to gain it all back? So I started doing some research into it and why should I tell someone else to buy it when I only bought it because I thought it was a quick fix. The first couple months of coaching I was just telling people you have to buy it to get into a challenge group, you should buy it because it tastes good, all I could really say is that Shakeology makes you feel good, stops your cravings, and gives you energy. Now I want to know more why does it do this and why should I tell people to buy it.

Here comes the interesting part it is really all science based now being a RN that really sparks my interest.

Even when eating whole foods and making good nutrition choices the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) estimates that an individual would have to eat an average of 27,575 calories A DAY in order to become 100% sufficient in all 27 essential micro-nutrients based on the recommended daily intake guidelines. Here is the whole article if you want to check it out. The study has concluded that when we are deficient in these key nutrients there is an 80% increased risk of becoming overweight and obese. Not only that, the other risks associate with it is resistance to infection, birth defects, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.

I have learned that the symptom of irritability, cravings, tiredness, and mental fog are all symptoms of being nutrient deficient, and by cutting calories and exercising excessively you are all depleting the body of what it needs most. There is no such thing as a bad exercise but there is such thing a thing as a bad NUTRITION.

Once I started fueling my body with the nutrients it craved and eating enough to fuel my body that is why the weight started coming off.. WEIGHT LOSS is a bi-product of GOOD NUTRITION..ahhhh that's the KEY!