Lose Weight and Have Fun Doing It!

Losing weight can be fun!  

Try getting together with a bunch of friends and help cheer each other on. Or join us on the Challenge....

I try to make it a competition on who can find the tastiest low calorie menu / meal for the week. It gets even better, when you can find low calorie deserts and cakes which are home made and you know all the ingredients that you personally put in them are healthy and low fat!

Going back to basics, cooking food from fresh produce makes dieting interesting and fun and not to mention healthy too!  I recently did a 10 day detox many of you have since followed and completed this too, and I found it fun buying all these vegetables I would not normally buy and making a meal out of the various combinations. 

You can control what you put in your meals, how you cook your meals and the portion size,all  of which are important to successful weight management.  Of course the fun begins when you invite friends around for a 'healthy four course meal', all freshly cooked by yourself. Who would imagine losing weight and cooking delicious food all in the same sentence!

Exercising is also made easier when you have friends to do things with, to goad you along and to encourage you when you feel like you don't want to get out there in the cold,wind or rain! Come check out our Challenge Groups, which are designed to help provide support for those of you on the 90 day challenge. 
You may also want to look at taking up activities you would not normally do, like line dancing, salsa or badminton something where you can have fun with others while building new friendships and support networks.

Don't get into the trap of weighing yourself too often. I would say once every two weeks is adequate enough, more importantly is measuring the inches you lose as this is a good indication of fat loss.  After all, that is why you are losing weight in the first place.

Have fun losing weight don't make it a chore and watch it all drop off!  After all you are now undertaking a massive lifestyle change,one that will stay with you long term.

If you want to join us on our next 90 day challenge click here and fill in the form for more info.

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I would love to hear your techniques on keeping yourself on track,post them in my comments box below…

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Detox Day 5 - Breaking Your Cleanse

You have done it.... well done all!

Now the most important part it to come of your cleanse the right way. You want to end your detox gradually, slowly incorporating your regular foods back into your diet. 

Keep it simple...

Use easy to digest foods such as steamed vegetables, proteins such as nuts, legumes, wehy or eggs.  If you are introducing meat back into your programme, choose organic chicken, or fish rather than red meats

Keep to portion sizes, as especially after detoxing your stomach may have shrunk as you were having liquids and eating cleaner, raw foods in smaller portions.  When you eat slowly and eat smaller portions, you will find how much food you really need to feel full. Take time to appreciate the flavours and how good food tastes especially when you haven't tasted it for a while. 

I know we have all been to fancy restaurants and seen some of the portion sizes and laughed to ourselves thinking we are going to starve and will have to go outside the restaurant and get a take away or snack after wards, but actually when you savour the food, chat and socialise, eat slower, you find it does fill you up.  Try doing the same at home with family, turn off the TV and enjoy the flavours and conversation and company. 

More tips on breaking your cleanse the right way

Drink more water. It’s the best way to flush toxins out of the body.

•    Chew slowly. Digestion begins in the mouth.

•    Avoid overeating. Less is more, especially when breaking a cleanse.

•    Keep it simple. Avoid eating too many different foods in one meal to ease digestion.

•    Find a good probiotic. Good bacteria keep your digestive tract healthy.

•    Pay attention to your elimination habits.

•    Eat organic where possible or wash fruit and vegetables thoroughly and avoid processed foods. Cleaner food means fewer toxins.

•    Avoid alcohol. It’s toxic.

•    Exercise. You’ll sweat out toxins as you move. 

•    Take time to meditate. Deep breathing helps cleanse the body.

If you found this useful please leave me a comment below with your thoughts :) If you want to join us on a 90 day challenge to lose more weight, click on the JOIN THE CHALLENGE BUTTON BELOW, get more tips and advise on weightloss from me there...


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10 Reasons To Lose 10lbs with Body By Vi

By entering Project 10 you not only have the opportunity to win $1,000 (£600) every week and receive an ‘i LOST it’ t-shirt, but most importantly you have the opportunity to better your life and overall health. 

Here are 10 reasons to lose 10 pounds on the Body by Vi Challenge.

1. BETTER SLEEP – Losing 10 lbs. can widen your windpipe so you won’t snore like a lawnmower
2. BETTER SEX – Losing weight can spice up your sex life big time! Erectile Dysfunction is literally a downer—and it’s a problem for 80% of overweight/obese men. YES, 80%!
3. MORE SELF CONFIDENCE – Just wait ‘til you see what happens when you start loving what’s in the mirror
4. MORE ENERGY – When your body is healthy, it radiates energy. Imagine how happy your kids would be to play with you longer!
5. BETTER MOOD – When you’re happier with yourself, you’re happier with life. And wouldn’t that make your Significant Other happy!?
6. HEALTH – Losing weight reduces your risk of life-threatening illnesses such as diabetes
7. AGILITY – You’ll improve your mobility when you drop weight, putting less pressure on your joints and making it easier to exercise. I know you want less pain every day!
8. BRAIN – Tests have shown that overweight people score lower on memory tests. Don’t you want to remember stuff?
9. PREGNANCY – Excess weight can alter hormones making it difficult for women to get pregnant
10. MONEY – Research has shown that people who weigh more earn up to $10,000 less per year than their co-workers. Super unfair – If you’re earning $10K less, let it be because you’re not that great at your job!

Make sure to check out Challenge.com where you can see thousands of people’s current and past Challenge’s and learn about what worked (and what didn’t) as you strive to lose 10+ pounds.

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Bodybyvi 90 Day Challenge Results

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The Matrix Workout - IS It Any Good?

FITNESS TRAINER DB DONAMATRIX SHAPES HOLLYWOOD'S TOP BODIES INCLUDING FERGIE, JOSH DUHAMEL, WILL.I.AM AND LA DODGER MATT KEMP WITH ALL NEW "MATRIX METHOD"

Hollywood-If you want to have the abs and curves of pop star Fergie, the muscle definition of top Hollywood actor Josh Duhamel, the strength and endurance of LA Dodger Matt Kemp, or the on stage stamina and energy of Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am, then top Celebrity Trainer, DB Donamatrix’s all NEW Matrix Method is your answer!

The Matrix Method is the result behind DB's all NEW Matrix Workout which infuses the Matrix Method with the latest music to create an incomparable fitness regimen. "The same method I've used for years to shape my athletes and entertainers, I'm now unleashing it to the public," says DB.

The Matrix Method is set up to resemble a sports game format consisting of four quarters. Each quarter is designed with two exercises that challenge the cardiovascular and muscular endurance system to tone and sculpt the body while burning fat within a 45 minute session. It is simple, strong and results oriented.
 I've found out that Don Brooks the celebrity trainer who created The Matrix workouts also recommends the BodyByVi program - more on this can be found here http://vichallengeresults.com/portfolio/don-brooks-don-a-matrix-fitness 


TO find out more about Don Brooks and how you can book him to train with visit his website http://donamatrix.com/




Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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Day 10 of my 90 Day Challenge

Just to recap my Challenge for the next 90 days is to be able to complete a 20 mile bike ride. 

 

So far been to the gym on the stationery bike and doing circuits. 

Stepping up the regime to include some personal training. I need to build up my stamina. 

I'm beginning to feel my joints ache, but don't   think it's because of the extensive exercise I've been doing, more to do with the cold weather approaching! 

Up to around 8 miles now. Just over an hour and 50 minutes to complete. 

For Nutrition

I'm on the boost kit right now, but upgrading to the transformation kit.

To find out more visit www.90days2change.myvi.net 

Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

To get started just set your 90 day goal and select a Challenge Kit! Click the Order button below and choose your country...

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My 90 Day Challenge To Complete A 20 Mile Bike Ride

Day 1
You can follow my challenge on my timeline here: https://challenge.com/timeline/2936173 

 I am using the new Transformation Kit click here for more info. It has additional products which will not only help me get fitter, but also to lose weight and to aid with snacking and hunger. 

It's nearly Christmas and most of us will want to be thinking about Christmas parties and the little black dress.  

Normally around this time of the year I start a weight loss campaign to lose at least 7lbs.  Why?
Because I know with all the good food that comes with the holidays I am bound to overeat, and if I have lost the weight I am just putting it back on so that I dont need to go into crazy diet mode come the new year. 

So who is up for the challenge with me? 


Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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It Is Important To Feel Confident About The Products You Use

So many customers, friends and people ask me about the products and what is in them.
Here is a short video which explains all about the process Vi take in their preparation of the Vi Shake and other products.
Feel free to share with others if you find this of value.

Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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Body By Vi How To Get Yours For Free

Visalus Founder Blake Mallen discusses how you can get your products for FRe e. Who else gives you free products just for sharing with your friends your success?

I hear there are a number of 'challenges' springing up from other weightloss companies, I wonder where they got the idea from?

Since the launch of th Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge, over 500,000,000 shakes have been served, and millions of pounds lost. Do you want to take the Body By Vi challenge?

Click on the link below and join us today...

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Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

To get started just set your 90 day goal and select a Challenge Kit! Click the Order button below

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How Not To Plateau - Stepping Up The Pace

Making the decision to lose weight is a big step.Taking action is an even bigger step to take.  
 

Normally people have reasons for losing weight, this could be medical, or it could be emotional, or it could be other reasons. 
 

Whatever that reason is, you need to ensure that your why and your reason is strong in order to help you prepare for your journey ahead.

What most people seem to forget all too easily is that it takes time to put weight on and even a longer time maybe to take weight off. However if it is done in the correct way will ensure that it stays off and easy to maintain. 

It may be too much to expect pounds to fall off each week, instead what we should be looking at are the inches and how fit and well  you feel. 

Changing a diet can take a number of weeks or months for you to settle in to a routine, and for your body to settle into the routine.

 Really important point here please reread the paragraph above!

When we change the way in which we eat whether this is short term or long term, initially weight will start to come off. Drinking lots of water and including exercise will also expedite your weight loss. 

There does however come a time when the body will reach a plateau. This doesn't mean to say that your diet has stopped working. Which is the excuse or reason most people take to stop doing what they're doing. Instead, look at increasing your exercise and decreasing your calorie count.

Why?

Well, your body as it loses weight will need less calories and more exercise therefore this is something that we have to continually adjust when losing weight. 

People seem to forget when weight loss is occurring you have to reduce the amount of calories that you are actually taking into the body.

When you are of a larger size you actually need more calories to operate bodily functions such as digestion, breathing, the normal bodily functions of your organs working all need energy.  As you reduce in size you need less energy but you also need less food, and sometimes it is not something we think about to reduce.

The Body by Vi Boost Kit can help to keep you on track with two shakes a day and healthy high protein snacks for those of you with a sweet tooth.  You don't have to worry about what is in your shake or how much calories you are ingesting, that is what is so good about the 90 day challenge.

Having support and accountability is also important when losing weight or gaining weight.  It is all too easy to give up, but when you have a buddy you have to remain accountable.  The challenge works because you can do this with your friends, and the great thing is by doing it with your friends in fact just 3 of them, you will get your kit for FREE, and they can too.

 

Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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Your Challenge Trainer Call -Get Motivated!

Today's post is a audio session with the challenge training call. 

This is a training call that is weekly, and helps everyone who is currently on the challenge or doing the challenge get better results. 

Not only do you get support via emails you also get group support through these training and challenge calls to help you stick to the challenge and get the most out of it. 

If you are not on the challenge and want to know how you can get started, then click on the link below get in touch with me today

Challenge Call 8.29.13 by visalus 

  to your dieting success! 

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How You Can Get Your Vi Shake Program For Free!

SO Many of you are asking how do I get these products for FREE, here Blake Mallen explains more about our 3 for FREE program. 

 So if you want to lose weight, gain weight, improve your fitness, there is no excuse after you have see the video.


 

Don't forget to share this video / blog post with friends so they can get theirs for free too..



Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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What Is The 90 Day Challenge?

 So you want to lose weight, or gain lean muscle, and you have 

heard of the 90 day challenge that is creeping around the UK, on Facebook, Twitter, in your gym, through a friend of a friend.  

News about the challenge is getting out there fast. 

News on the vine the other day was that Alex Gerrard - glamorous wife of footballer Steve Gerrard has just started her 90 day challenge here in the UK. 

In the USA, there have been many celebrities both in sport and in the TV and Entertainment world who have started the challenge to get back into the best shape of their lives.

You can find out about the challenge and which kit is right for you by watching the video below

Fighting Obesity and improving Health

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Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

To get started just set your 90 day goal and select a Challenge Kit! Click the Order button below

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Celebrities on The 90 Day Challenge

Fighting Obesity and improving Health

Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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Diabetes cases in Britain hit three million

Diabetes cases in Britain hit three million

Diabetes is on the increase especially amongst children.  With todays fast food outlets, processed foods, high in fat, salt and sugars are mainly to blame. 

The sad thing is that through simply eating fresh fruits and vegetables and by watching what you are eating, reducing the fat content and amount of salt, and increasing the amount of exercise can help to control diabetes.

Diabetes is something that does concern me, as my mother was diagnosed with this in her early 70's.  Coming from a West Indian background, the foods that we eat are rich in starches which turn to sugar if you do not use the energy or calories up.   Learning how to combine foods and not eat the wrong food types together has helped in controlling diabetes in my mother's case. 

My mother was a diabetic diagnosed in her 70's, today at 86, her GP is considering taking her off her medication as her diabetes has been controlled through diet and education of what to eat, what not to eat and swapping bad foods for good food equivalents.   

 If you are overweight and have Diabetes, then the Vi Shake is great to use to help you to lose weight and stabilise your blood sugar as it is diabetic friendly.  Eating regularly, but healthily will help to reduce weight along with gentle exercise such as walking or riding. 

Visalus UK is intent on fighting obesity across the globe, and their product is diabetic friendly, lactose free and gluten free.  

This is an article I found interesting in the METRO last week.  Diabetes is also known as the silent killer, as many people do not even know they have it.

The number of Britons suffering from diabetes has soared by a third in six years to 3million, costing the NHS £764million in prescriptions.

It is estimated another 850,000 remain undiagnosed – with 90 per cent suffering from Type 2 diabetes, linked to unhealthy lifestyles.

Doctors authorised 42.5million items costing £764.1million in the last financial year in England, compared with £513.9million in 2005-06.

Read more from this article here: 

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/13/diabetes-cases-in-britain-hit-three-million-3922628/Shared via Google Currents

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Colette Morris
Sac Dipl - Diet & Nutrition
 

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Top Diet Tips To Getting A Flatter Belly

Hi Colette here, now we all want to lose the flab around our stomach, after all this is the most dangerous type of flab to have.

Let's face it most diets don't actually work properly and it's hard work, giving up the foods that you love and restricting your portion sizes.

If you have 20lbs or more to lose then these tips will really help you get a flat stomach. The key, is to ensure you drink lots of water. 

Now most dieticians and nutritionist tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So what I am about to tell you goes against all that advice. It is not something that you should do long term but it is something that will help kickstart your fat loss. 

Now I guess I've got your attention!

 

Calorie counting, balanced diet, reduced low-fat, carbs, high protein diets are very restrictive. They are not easy to follow, and I'm not sustainable for long periods of time it has been shown. 

Your body is a really clever piece of technology, and actually calculate how much calories and movement you are doing a daily basis, and will adjust your fat loss accordingly in order to preserve energy. 

So sometimes it appears that you even though you are on a diet  you're not actually losing weight, which can be so frustrating for some especially if you are following your diet plans to a T. 

So, we are looking at kick starting for 5 days only  your weightloss with intermittent fasting. 

Intermittent fasting has shown to help kickstart your fat loss, and speed up your metabolism. Your Anti age hormones also seems to kick in. The body goes into repair mode much quicker when we fast. 

A recent scientific study has shown that fasting helps to reduce cholesterol and to reduce ageing and increase repairs of cells that normally naturally die on a daily basis in the natural event of our body ageing. 

I'm not asking you to fast for the whole day here, more like more than 12 hours. You see after you wake up after having eight hours sleep, Instead of having breakfast I'm asking you to skip breakfast and just have lunch instead starting at 12pm. 

Have a nice protein shake, In fact my shake this lunchtime  was a frozen blueberry shake, made with body by vi shake mix.  

Then three hours later around 3 PM I had my second protein shake, 

You can find more vi shake recipes here www.recipe.vi.com 

For my evening meal, at 6 PM, I had a mainly protein based meal with lots of fibre and vegetables. 

I guarantee if you follow this one day diet plan for at least three out of your seven days per week you'll start to see a difference in your weight loss. 

However, it is really important to drink lots of water, If you are not used to fasting, you may experience some tiredness and headaches. If you have a medical condition
You will need to inform your GP before starting such a diet. 

I hope you liked this little time to check the time sharing with you, if you find it useful and want to tell your friends about it please feel free to use the share button below

Trekking in Lanzarote

London Fit Girls Club (LFGC) Colette and Julie just came back from sunny Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and did quite a bit of hiking and walking while we were out there.

The weather was great compared to the snow and cold we had left back in the UK.

I can see why our counter partners in LA enjoy their weekly hikes.

There is something about the feeling the sun beat down on you as you walk or jog along the coast or trail.

Colette Morris 
Regional Director Vi UK
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90 Day Challenge

How do you get on board? 

First off, visit our site by clicking this link 90days2change  and purchase your challenge kit to start your 90 day challenge.  
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Colette's 90-Day Challenge

 Loving the fact that you can share you journey with others, and to help you to keep on track, this makes you accountable. 

Keeping a journal of your thoughts, your journey and your high and lows will encourage you to finally reach your destination. 

My 90 day goal is to lose 10% body fat.  I'm doing this on the Boost Kit - retail £119 The extra cookies help to curb my hunger.


For me this means stepping up the exercise, and drinking lots of water.  Of course there needs to be some dietary changes for me, as I love cheese which is high in fat!

So this is not going to be an easy challenge.  Also I love eating out these days,as I do not have any small children, I can enjoy the luxury of not having to cook a meal.  

I am adapting my lifestyle using the vi shakes and sensible eating, yes even if I eat out, and will achieve my goal in the next 80 plus days. 

Colette's 90-Day Challenge Timeline

Good luck on entering project 10 and wishing you success on the challenge!
Leave me a comment below if you found this useful :)
 

Colette Morris 
Regional Director Vi UK
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90 Day Challenge

How do you get on board? 

First off, visit our site by clicking this link 90days2change  and purchase your challenge kit to start your 90 day challenge.  
Once you sign up with Body By Vi you can then join in www.thechallenge.com

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