Children aren’t the only ones getting all dressed up for Halloween. Your favorite candies and cookies are also donning orange and black wrappers and jack-o-lantern frosted faces. And they don’t wait for you to find them! These seasonal favors hit the shelves just weeks after Labor Day and will stick around well after October 31. Sometimes it seems like every store and desktop candy dish is taunting you to take a bite or buy a whole package of sugary snacks! What’s a healthy eater to do? Use these tricks to help you make it through several weeks’ worth of taunts without guilt.

• Buy trick-or-treat candy as late as possible. There will always be some left. Stores don’t run out of Halloween-themed items until mid-November, just before Thanksgiving hits. The earlier you buy, the more time those bags have to sit in your house tempting you to open them. Go just a few days before—or even the day of Halloween, if possible—to purchase your goods for the neighborhood kids. You’ll save money thanks to clearance deals (and probably a few calories, too).

• Double (or triple) knot your bags. Once your trick-or-treating candy does make it home, place it all in a plastic grocery bag or garbage bag, and double or even triple knot that sucker shut! If you find yourself aching for a taste in the next day or two, it’ll take you time to open the bag and you’ll hopefully be slowed enough to ask yourself whether a treat fits in your day. My suggestion: Don’t even go there! If you want a treat, get something else. Once you open the bag, it’s that much easier to go back for seconds (or thirds or fourths) Leave those bags closed until 6:18 p.m. on Halloween night when that first vampire rings the doorbell.

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Can you afford Shakeology?

The question really is can you afford not to drink Shakeology?

In today’s fast paced, “eat on the go” society, more young people are suffering from heart attack and stroke than ever before in history. With more to do in less time, people are turning to fast food and processed, packaged foods for the sake of convenience.  Americans cook on average 30 minutes a day – less than any developed country.  (Yahoo News article: Fast Food Nation).  It’s no wonder that 1/3 of Americans are obese. 

A lack of regular exercise only further exacerbates the problem. The combination of poor nutrition and lack of exercise leads to elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels and an increased risk of heart disease, stroke and obesity.

A USA Today article reports that if Americans continue to pack on the pounds, obesity will cost U.S. healthcare $344 billion in medical-related expenses by 2018.

Shakeology – The Super Food

Most people don’t get enough nutrients from our daily diet for the body to function properly and in homeostasis.  (WebMD Eating Essentials and 7 Nutrients Your Diet May Be Missing). 

What makes Shakeology such a “super food” is the ultra high quality ingredients that were hand selected from around the world based on their potency and bioavailability (the ability to deliver the nutrients your body needs).

Before Shakeology, I looked like I had something sponge-like under my skin. My arms stuck out akimbo. I WAS disgusted and ashamed of my weight. Ironically, the worse I felt, the hungrier I got…So it was like the dirty snowball effect, rolling downhill, picking up trash from underneath the snow. My health was on a downhill roll too.

Being hungry ALL THE TIME was my greatest obstacle.

My life was like one BIG Chinese buffet. I’d eat a lot and feel hungry again in an hour! And I didn’t know how to overcome it. I used to drive myself crazy craving something I knew I shouldn’t have. Sometimes, I’d actually be physically full, but emotionally hungry. It was powerful, debilitating, and totally irrational. I told my doctor that I desperately wanted to change, but that I just couldn’t stop gaining weight, and saw it as a moral weakness. He didn’t understand that I was HUNGRY ALL THE TIME—even after eating! When I asked him for diet pills, he prescribed antidepressants instead, which led to more lethargy and weight gain. Luckily, a friend told me about Shakeology. He’d heard about the amazing results others were having and suggested we both give it a try. I’m so glad I took him up on it.

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These were the pants that were too tight & digging in my waist!

It’s no secret that I’ve struggled with nutrition lately.  I basically eat clean, but have been having way too many cheat meals, carbs and late nite snacks lately (ughhhh!).

Surprisingly though, I’ve been able to maintain my goal weight (137) and maintain a solid size 4.  Sure, I get my share of exercise in each week, but we all know nutrition = 80% of results!  It just dawned on me that Shakeology has been my true saving grace by replacing one meal a day – religiously!

Shakeology is only 140 cals, so to increase the calorie count to make a meal, I generally add 1 tbsp natural peanut butter, 1 sc protein powder and weight control maple brown sugar oatmeal.  And when I really want a treat, I add a 1/2 banana to the mix! Talking about DE-LICIOUS!!!!  Not only am I getting all my daily fruits and veggies, I’m getting protein, healthy fat and whole grains all in one cold and creamy “wonder” Shake!  No need to cook and is the EASIEST most well rounded healthy meal on earth!  Go Shakeology!  You ROCK!!

Shakeology -My “Wonder” Shake!