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ViSalus Shakes Get Results for Effective Weight Loss

With the New Year already here and spring just around the corner, many people are looking for ways to shed pounds, tone up and get into shape. One of the most effective programs in North America is the ViSalus Body by Vi Challenge. The core of the program is the ViSalus Vi-Shape Shake. The company offers 5 Challenge Kit options, all including the shake mix, that will help get your body into great condition before summer starts. The Challenge is not another fad diet; it is based on sound nutrition and a program back by scientific research and recommended by healthcare and fitness professionals. Many healthcare and fitness professionals endorse the products & program and some doctors have provided doctor reviews of the shakes and products.

Ingredients

ViSalus shakes contain a proprietary Tri-Sorb protein blend that helps control hunger and builds lean muscle. For those interested about ingredients, it should be noted that the shakes are gluten and lactose free, low in sugar and carbs, low in sodium, are Kosher certified and diabetic-friendly. One of the keys to dieting is to maintain healthy nutrition; ViSalus shakes contain 23 vitamins and minerals and are fiber-rich.

Results

Many physicians and fitness professionals recommend the shakes to patients and clients because the research proves they are safe, effective and get rapid results. Many fitness professionals have changed to ViSalus products because of proven results and recommendations from clients and colleagues. Most individuals drink one or two shakes per day; the company recommends two shakes a day for weight loss and one shake per day for weight maintenance and continued nutritional balance once the weight loss goal is attained. The shakes help curb hunger and keep blood sugars level.

Flexibility

One reason the shakes are so popular is because ViSalus offers six flavor options. The scientists behind ViSalus know that most diets and weight loss plans fail because they do not fit into the everyday life of most folks. The Vi-Shape Nutritional Shake Mix comes blended as a "sweet cream" (or vanilla) flavor. The shake mix is typically blended with unsweetened almond milk, skim milk or soy milk. Along with the shake mix, Flavor Mix-ins are offered that include strawberry, chocolate, banana, peach and orange. The flavor packs are simply added to the shake mix and medium, then blended. The shakes take only a minute or two to make and offer a very healthy meal that is tasty and keeps you feeling full.

ViSalus literally means life, health, prosperity. ViSalus Body by Vi is now the #1 weight loss challenge movement in North America with more than 150,000 new customers every month. ViSalus Products Online is one of the leading online providers of ViSalus shakes, products and the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge. To learn more about ViSalus and to buy products, please visit http://www.visalusproductsonline.com/

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New Year, New Beginning: How To Get The Best Results Whatever Your Goals

It is such a relief to know that every morning we can start fresh with a clean slate and that we can do that any time during the year. A new year is simply a reminder for most people of a promising new beginning. As they say, out with the old (the old that's not working so well, that is) and in with the new.

You have made it past a very busy holiday season. Let us evaluate how you are making time for your own fitness, your own passions and your recovery from those things. It all begins with setting goals and making a decision to work toward them.

Henry Ford had said, "Obstacles are those frightful things that you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Let's look past the obstacles right now and find out: what would you like to do?

Are you balanced in these areas of life: finances, career, social, family, passion, spirituality, relaxation, health/fitness, service to others, self education? If on a scale of 1 to 10 you could score yourself and how much time you spend in each category, then what would that look like? I encourage you to make a list of each life area above and score yourself, 10 means you are heavily invested in a life area, and 1 means you have very little or no investment in that life area. If your numbers are very low in certain areas, then to increase your focus in those categories will help you achieve overall balance and improvement in all areas.

Make a number line for each life area and put numbers one through ten spaced evenly on each line. Then score yourself on each line and see if your zig-zagging all over the place. The lower the number, the more emphasis you need to put on that life area.

Go back to the first question of what you would like to do and apply that to those areas where you are spending the least amount of time. This is where you can see major positive shifts in 2013 toward progress.

If, for instance, you score lowly in the area of health/fitness what are you doing today and what are you willing to sacrifice to help you focus on that very important aspect of your life? Are you seeking weight loss? Will you choose to integrate walking in your day 6 days per week? If you already do that and it's not enough (because your body is amazing at adapting), then will you integrate 3-4 days per week on interval strength training? How is your nutrition? Be honest. Are you getting 10-13 servings of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables every day? What small steps can you take to work toward that? These are merely examples of assessing your health/fitness life area.

Take small steps in the right direction. Add 20 minutes three days each week of increased exercise or a whole food supplementation to increase your produce. Get these new changes under your belt for three weeks before you integrate a new change (like drinking more water) and turn that into a habit. It takes about 21 days to make a habit of something new. The biggest mistake you can make is to take on too much too soon and then burn out. Slow and steady wins the race.

Are you having difficulty with toxic people or situations? Are you finding support for your challenges? Is life caving in on you? If so, or, if you simply want to expand your personal development -another great resolution, then please consider reading a fascinating book on drawing boundaries. It is called Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Take Control in Your Life by Drs. John Townsend and Henry Cloud.

New starts are one of the best blessings we get every day, let alone every new year. They are refreshing and help us to get past our failings and create success. "The ignorant of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re-learn." (Alvin Toffler)

Best of luck and Happy New Year!

Liz Donnelly, a certified Cleveland Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, an IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist, President of Training by Liz, LLC and Sales Coordinator for NSA Juice Plus+. She counsels families on nutrition and fitness and instructs first through eighth graders in physical fitness. On a personal note, once marrying the man of her dreams, she will be the proud mother of four more children (she currently has three of her own). You can visit her blog called FamilyFitnessGuru.com.

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Get Amazing Weight Loss Results By Creating a Caloric Deficit (4 Tips)

You will achieve amazing weight loss results when you burn off calories.

So what in the world is a caloric deficit? Glad you asked.

It is simply burning off more calories than you take in. It is the method of calories in vs calories out.

To have long-term success you need to do this every day to maintain a healthy weight.

Here are 4 tips to do just that.

1. Determine Daily Caloric Deficit - If your goal is 500 calories then you need to workout to burn off 250 calories and eat 250 less calories than normal. Once you figure out your golden number then you will be one step closer to amazing weight loss.

500 calories a day is a good goal to shoot for since a pound of fat is about 3,500 extra calories. That means you can lose at least one pound a week. Obviously if you want to lose more than one pound a week you would increase your numbers.

2. Eat Less - You are probably rolling your eyes and saying duh. But to create a calories in vs calories out scenario that will work in your favor you need to eat less.

What you put in your mouth will determine your success just as much as what you do in the gym. Visualize yourself at your ideal weight and remember that anytime you are tempted to overeat. Step away from the cake and nobody gets hurt!

3. Count Your Calories - Counting calories is essential to creating a caloric deficit. If you don't count your calories how in the world will you know how many you take in on any given day?

4. Exercise - Exercise is a great way to burn off calories. As you sweat and get your heart rate up you will get results. The key is to getting your heart rate up. Walking is good to start with but eventually you need to move on bigger and better things.

The more your heart rate gets up the faster your metabolism will go which in turn burns more fat. The more fat you burn the healthier you become.

Tip the scale in your favor when you create a caloric deficit. Do it every day don't just do it every once in a while. Be consistent and continue to reap the rewards of your efforts. Burn off calories that are not wanted and get amazing weight loss.

Bonus Tip - Want to learn more about getting amazing weight loss results?

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The Basic Elements of Any Good Workout For Great Weight Loss Results

As we turn the corner from another holiday season when we are highly likely to eat more bad things than we should, maybe what is called for is a new approach to exercise generally.

When I say new approach, I am not talking about a new specific workout. I think we are all pretty aware that there are more choices than there are life times to try them all. Like any other market, the level of quality between workout programs varies. As a reviewer and commentator on home workouts and workout equipment generally I would submit that overall they are all mostly better than good.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, the issue isn't with our workout plan but ourselves. What I discovered in cross-section analyzing man of the most popular home and gym workout programs, is that the most effective among them share common elements. If you understand these elements generally, you can incorporate all, or at least some of them into your usual routine to increase the overall return for your time and effort. You can also make smarter decisions about which programs you choose if you go the program route.

The Most in Demand of the Three Desired Body Appearance Outcomes

On our fitness blog we have been talking more frequently about how all of us looking to get fitter are desiring one of three physical appearance outcomes. We are either looking to lose weight (normally people who have let themselves go with minimal exercise and poor diet over a long period of time), get ripped (or toned), or gain size and muscle development.

Category 1 dealing with losing weight is probably number 1 in the volume of people who would say this is their fitness goal. It is also the stepping stone goal to achieve the really ripped or more muscular physique goals.

Common Elements to Look For In an Effective Weight Loss Workout

1. To lose weight, what you eat is most important to your results. Look to improve the quality of your food intake by 80% from your current level. This is not technically part of your workout program, but if you aren't mindful of improving your nutrition, you are wasting your time on any weight loss goal. I am a big fan of the Primal eating advice of Mark Sisson, author of "Primal Blueprint". His website is a great resource.

2. Intensity is a must. This element is probably the most important and also the most difficult to achieve without professional guidance. This guidance could be in the form of personal training or buying a program like P90X for example. Too little intensity, and you leave much progress on the table and end up wasting your time. Too much intensity, you will likely get burned out or injure yourself. This is the main reason I love programs with a trainer.

3. Structure is a sub-element of intensity. What move to do? When to do it? At what intensity? These are all things we don't know much about as lay people. Guidance on these issues is what makes the cost for a home program with proven results a great investment.

4. Resistance work is something you want because it super charges your results. Be it body weight or free weights, it re-shapes your body faster to do resistance work. There are also significant short and long-term health benefits in adding resistance training no matter your age.

5. Having a defined beginning and end using a calendar. My experience with Beachbody workouts won me over to the importance of having schedules daily, benchmarks regularly, and a clear ending (preferably no more than 90 days in the future). Critics will say that you can't get in this shape or that shape in such short amounts of time. True. At the same time, shorter time frames added up with different programs over time will create some seriously pleasing results for life.

6. Fun counts towards your results. A program like GSP RushFit is hard work, but if you don't find it fun enough to make the time go faster, it is not going to work for you. Granted this one requires some testing. Good thing that in many cases you can try any of these programs risk free with nothing lost but a little time.

7. Variety in the form of muscle confusion. If you have done P90X, you already know about all about this concept. Basically the more different movements and body parts exercised with those movements, the quicker your gains. If a program becomes a routine, then it is losing effectiveness by the day. You should always feel challenged.

Cheryl Boswell is a writer and researcher on home fitness and health products. You can save time and money by getting FREE in depth news, features, and reviews on home exercise equipment, workout programs, health, and nutrition, including discounts and best prices at her blog. Check out a recent article here: http://bodyslimdown.com/power-half-hour-a-tony-horton-30-minute-workout-gem/ Cheryl and her associates have been writing extensively on the "Three Desired Body Outcomes" and particular suggestions for people to reach the one they want. So check it out!

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Use Functional Fitness Equipment for Best Results

A professional bodybuilder may look tough and strong, but then one can't help wondering whether they are as fit as they appear! We all want to have an enviable body and this involves the use of a lot of things. First of all, you need to go for a healthy diet. The next thing on your agenda is the fitness training that you will receive. For this you need functional fitness equipment. Other than allowing you to stay fit, the functional fitness devices allow people to stay healthy. Functional exercises are ones that involve multiple muscles and joints. For instance, you need not just move your elbows.

A functional exercise involves the use of your spine, hips, shoulders, elbows, ankles and knees. If it is properly applied, functional training can reduce the risks of contracting an injury and improve the quality of your life. Functional exercises incorporate the use of multiple muscles and joints at the same time for training your entire body. These may involve squatting to bicep curls, doing step up exercises with weights and multidirectional lunges. You need to find a company that provides fitness equipment sourcing to get these devices at the best possible rates.

With multi-directional lunges, you need to prepare the body to perform some common activities like doing work at the yard or vacuuming. If you are to do a lunge, you must keep a leg at one place and use the other for stepping out. Move sideways, backwards or to the front. Continue the movement until the knee attains a right angle and the rear knee is parallel with the floor. Squatting with bicep curls uses different kinds of weights and mimics the action of carrying a basket, a young child or a laptop bag from the floor. Start by placing your feet apart from the shoulders.

Hold dumbbells at the side and slowly bend the hips, ankles and knees until the knees make a right angle. You may gradually get back to the starting posture and turn the palms of your hands towards the ceiling. Stretch the arms and move the dumbbells inwards to your shoulders. If you are over 40, you should not carry out functional exercises without consulting your doctor. The payoff for these regimes is high. By adding more and more exercises to your schedule, you will notice improvements in the capacity of performing your daily activities and quality of life.

With functional fitness equipment, you can feel healthy and fit. Get a fitness equipment sourcing provider for purchasing the right equipment, at the best rates.

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No Gimmicks Just Real Diets for People Who Want Results

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You've heard them all, "lose 14 pounds in 24 hours, drop two dress sizes in 48 hours," and the list could go on. There's an endless supply of gimmicks that claim unimaginable weight losses in short periods of time. We've been burned endlessly by all this hype and finally there is hope. Finally no gimmicks just real diets for people that want results!

It's exciting that the latest diets are based mainly on studies conducted by research scientists that are focused on providing real results over the long term, rather than all those gimmicks. These new diets are certainly not boring and as an added bonus they aren't that restrictive and they work. They offer you a much more insightful understanding of why you gain weight and can't lose that weight. Let's have a look at some of the newest weight control ideas.

The Connection Between Weight Loss, Your Mind And Your Body

The most insightful awareness in dietary science quite possibly occurred when the suggestion was made that individuals don't overeat just because they love food or feel compelled physically to it, but rather that there is a multifaceted occurrence between the physical impulse and the emotional need, which results in overeating.

Judith Beck, psychologist and founder of Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research has taken a different approach when it comes to helping dieters lose weight they work to reshape and how you look at food.

Dr. Beck is also the author of The Beck Diet Plan, where she sets out to assist patients that overweight in thinking like thin people think. Her plan allows you to enjoy your favorite foods while you lose weight because Dr. Beck shows you have to make cognitive changes that will prevent you from overeating. This new approach to diet teaches you how to overcoming emotional eating. It offers you sensible, cognitive methods to avoid eating because of stress or your emotional need.

Eating and the Role of Instinct

"The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts to Lose Weight and Keep it Off," written by Susan Roberts and Betty Kelly explains how our body is programmed from pre-historic times to make sure we eat to keep us alive. The instinct is driven by the food that's available, and a host of other factors. While this instinct was very important in those earlier times the world of today is much different including the foods that are available to us and the environment, which makes it hard for our body to maintain one weight.

This diet works to reprogram you with instincts that are healthier and more fitting of our modern world. It necessitates a diet high in fiber, the consumption of non-caloric beverages, and a commitment to eat three meals a day.

The initial two weeks of this diet are a bit inflexible, after that it's really quite easy and offers you a number of excellent food choices. At the end of the diet you'll not only be slimmer you'll approach eating differently so you will remain thinner.

When your goal is to permanently shed the extra pounds you don't want a fad diet that restricts what you eat. Instead you want to comprehend how your psychological, emotional, and instinctual triggers relate to eating, so you can enjoy a healthier weight loss and a lifestyle that's healthier.

I hope these tips have been helpful for you in your weight loss efforts. If you are serious about losing weight the natural way without dangerous pills, supplements or fad diets be sure the check out the Ultimate Fat Loss Guide today at: http://ultimate-fat-loss-guide.com/

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7 Lies You've Been Told About Losing Weight Fast (If You Want To Get Results, You MUST Read This!)

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Billions and billions of dollars. That's what the weight loss industry makes on a yearly basis! And because of this, companies will most certainly go above and beyond to get their fair share of the profits.

That's good for them... and BAD for us dieters looking to lose weight and get in shape!

The reason it's bad is simply because their primary focus shifts from wanting to genuinely help people... to solely focusing on their bottom lines. One of the methods they use is by putting out false information in the hopes of persuading people into buying their next "best thing".

Listen, losing weight fast and getting great results can be done. However, falling into the traps set by these money grubbing weight loss companies will only send you down a path of no results... and possibly even worst.

To avoid getting caught into this trap, I have for you below 7 common lies told to you about getting fast results... and what you should do instead...

Pop some diet pills...

Taking diet pills is a dangerous route to travel down... and I highly recommend you take a detour or avoid it all together. Not only do diet pills have harmful ingredients in them that can do some serious damage to your body, they are also overpriced, and to put salt on the wound... they primarily reduce water weight... which is bound to come right back on!

All you need to do is detox...

Now yes, you should do things to help cleanse your digestive system, colon, and total body. Our bodies have a TON of toxins and waste in them that is making us sick, fat, and dying way too young. However, strictly doing JUST a detox is not a good idea. You still have to do all the other necessary tasks for losing weight and improving your overall health.

You need to completely cut out carbs...

Doing this will cause some serious issues with your digestive system and your energy levels... plus more. Now granted, it is imperative that you significantly reduce your simple carb intake (such as white flour foods, sugar, etc.), however, it is important that you get a healthy amount of COMPLEX carbs everyday (such as foods high in fiber). This will help your digestive system... which in turn helps your metabolism... which in turn helps you lose pounds of body fat... and more.

You need to completely cut out fats...

The only type of fats I recommend you cut out are saturated and trans fats. With that said, I do recommend you get healthy fats in your diet (better known as monounsaturated fat and omega fatty acids). Getting high quality foods with healthy fats (such as nuts, olive oil, and more) will most certainly help you with weight loss, fat loss, and improving your overall health (such as heart health and improving your joints).

You should significantly reduce your calorie intake...

This will make you miserable, it will reduce your metabolism, it will make you lose muscle tissue, and so much more. You should only reduce your calorie intake by just a couple of hundred calories, and utilize fitness as the primary tool for minimizing your calories.

You have to do high intensity workouts everyday...

In theory, you would think that doing super intense cardio workouts that will make you sweat your butt off will do wonders for your body and will cause you to lose a ton of weight fast... and it will... however, doing so will cause 2 issues to happen that will pretty much make it foolish to follow this advice...

These other issues are you will more than likely get injured or your body will reach a plateau. Bottom line, just as important as it is to workout, is just as important that you give your body rest. When you rest, you allow your body to recover, your muscles will grow, you'll restore energy, and you'll least likely hit a plateau.

Cut back on how much water you drink...

Those that say you should cut back on how much water you drink say this because water is heavy... and if you drink a lot of it, it adds on to your weight?! Please excuse for one moment while I try to stop myself from laughing so hard!

Drinking the recommended amount of water (1/2 your body weight in ounces) throughout the day WILL NOT MAKE YOU GAIN WEIGHT! Our bodies are primarily made up of water... and our bodies desire water more than anything. When you start drinking more water, you'll lose stored water weight, you'll improve your digestive system, you'll help your metabolism, and so much more.

Now, to help you lose weight fast... and STRESS FREE, go and download your free copy of my new report: "21 Quick Fixes To 21 Weight Loss Frustrations"...

This report provides you with stupid simple solutions for tackling the most common weight loss headaches that pop up (such as reaching a weight loss plateau, not having enough time, can't afford expensive health foods, and more).

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