Shakeology

Dur­ing my years of restricted eat­ing, I’m pretty sure I tried every pro­tein shake, pro­tein bar and sup­ple­ment on the mar­ket. Ever since recov­er­ing from my eat­ing dis­or­der, I’ve insisted on using whole foods for proper nutri­tion. Now that I know what my body actu­ally needs, how many grams of pro­tein my body can actu­ally prop­erly digest and use and how many of the prod­ucts that were labeled as “healthy” were in fact full of sugar, processed ingre­di­ents, chem­i­cals and preser­v­a­tives, they were pretty easy to cut out of my diet.

When Beach­body launched Shake­ol­ogy, I stayed out of the hype for about six months. I fig­ured the excite­ment would die down.

But it didn’t. In fact, the exact oppo­site hap­pened. I just started hear­ing more and more about how much peo­ple loved it and the changes they were expe­ri­enc­ing since being on it. Sure, peo­ple were los­ing weight, but those weren’t the suc­cess sto­ries that intrigued me. It was the tes­ti­monies of low­ered cho­les­terol and blood pres­sure, reg­u­lated blood sugar, improved reg­u­lar­ity, etc. This didn’t seem like your typ­i­cal weight loss shake.

I caved and began to research. Well, I was finally right about one thing. Shake­ol­ogy is def­i­nitely not your typ­i­cal weight loss shake. Just check out every­thing ($45 worth of pro­duce!) that’s in just one shake:

How about the fact that if you wanted to gather all of the ingre­di­ents in Shake­ol­ogy, you’d have to visit at least 17 dif­fer­ent coun­tries and go trekking through the rainforest?

Then, came the true test. I bought some. When it arrived, I got up, worked out, then decided to try Shake­ol­ogy for break­fast. Fol­low­ing a recipe rec­om­mended to me by a friend, I put a scoop of Choco­late Shake­ol­ogy, 1/2 cup of unsweet­ened vanilla almond milk, 2 TBSPs of PB2 (an awe­some pow­dered peanut but­ter that mixes great into shakes) and 1 tsp of JELL-O’s Sugar Free Fat Free But­ter­scotch pud­ding mix, ice & water into the blender. (Shake­ol­ogy comes in two deli­cious fla­vors — Choco­late and Green­berry — that can be cus­tomized like you see in my recipe here to your taste preferences.)

It tasted INCREDIBLE! I felt like I was splurg­ing with ice cream. Because of my research, I knew it was good for me…but it sure didn’t taste like it was healthy! But the best part — I kept me full for FOUR HOURS! And I drank it after my work­out, which is usu­ally when I find myself want­ing extra snacks. So how was it that a drink that even with the ingre­di­ents I added only con­sisted of 250 calo­ries keep me sat­is­fied for that long?

Shake­ol­ogy is designed to feed your body at the bio­log­i­cal and mol­e­c­u­lar level. Our taste buds may crave cer­tain foods, but our bod­ies crave the nutri­tion we need to func­tion at our best. It’s why we can still be hun­gry a few hours after con­sum­ing a fast food value meal. Our bod­ies may have con­sumed ample calo­ries to func­tion, but we’re still miss­ing essen­tial nutri­ents. Shake­ol­ogy elim­i­nates the guess work for you by giv­ing your body exactly what it needs and remov­ing the tox­ins it doesn’t.

Also, now that I am endurance ath­lete, I know all of the extra energy expen­di­ture my body endures on a reg­u­lar basis. Even though I’m a pretty healthy eater, before Shake­ol­ogy, I still strug­gled with prop­erly fuel­ing my body to get through my work­outs at max­i­mum capac­ity. (I don’t like to waste time!) Now, I don’t com­pletely drain my body of the nutri­ents it needs to power through a tough work­out. Shake­ol­ogy sup­plies me with enough nutri­tion to fuel my work­outs and my active lifestyle.

If you want more info, con­tact me. You can also click here to order your own bag. When your order comes in, don’t for­get to check out some of my favorite recipes. You can even make AMAZING no bake cook­ies with it!

Don’t just take my word for it. Check out what these doc­tors have to say.