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Cinch Biggest Loser

Shaklee is sponsoring the Cinch Biggest Loser Challenge!

Here’s how it works:

Enter the challenge between January 1, and March 31st, 2009. Web-based entry form found on this website for offical rules and information.

Use the Cinch Inch loss plan to lose weight and inches and get healthier!

Submit before and after photos (really good ones) along with your Cinch success story (with total weight and inches lost) by June 30, 2009.

The biggest losers will share in $100,000 cash award, with $25,000 going to the grand prize winner, $10,000 each to the next 5 Biggest Losers, and $5,000 each to the next 5 Biggest Losers. Stay tuned for launch of the new website and more details.

For more information on Shaklee’s Cinch Inch loss program, click here

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I am not eligible to participate in this event but I am willing to help anyone who wants to participate. I have personally made a commitment to lose weight with Cinch this upcoming year. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Health Face book Style

In an attempt to take my new year’s resolutions seriously I am going to do the best I can to have a positive attitude.  We can put blame on so many people and things and events around us.  The only way that I can succeed is to believe that I can succeed.

There is a great article in Time that explains this way of thinking and the results that can happen from it.

Here is proof positive of our responsibility to ourselves and our fellow men/women learn and practice the art of happiness, regardless of circumstances. I think also this is why the positive, commited, enthusiastic and forward-looking Shaklee family is so attractive to us. Let me know what you think!

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A three year old died a lingering horrible death after swallowing 3 oz.
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A seven month old died after crawling  though a puddle of spilled laundry bleach,
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his tiny body and burned his   lungs from the fumes as well.

Why did these children suffer?

If only they had never been exposed to such hazardous chemicals. Every year, five to ten million household poisonings are reported. Many fatal, and most of the victims are children.   According to the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition,  the average American home has
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In 1993, 1.8 million human poisonings were reported to the poison
control centers in the U.S. Ninety-two percent of the poisonings took
place in the home and 60% of the cases involved children under the
age of five. Many household chemicals may cause subtle and long
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The real tragedy is, accidents like these can easily be avoided.

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Cinch the third time

I have realized alot of things the past year or so. One of the things I have realized is that I am addicted to food. Yes, that is hard to admit and to post on a blog, but it is true. The reason that I post this is that I feel I need to come to terms with it in order for me to move beyond this and to get healthy. As most of you might know I am in love with a company called Shaklee. We use their cleaning products because they work and they are all non-toxic and they are friendly for the environment. We take their vitamins and they help keep us healthy and we don’t have as many colds. We even (thanks to my parents) have an air purification system in our apartment from Shaklee. The kids had this cough for weeks and once we put that in their coughs went away, there is no more dust particles in the air and Logan’s Asthma is much better. However, the one thing that I have struggled with is Shaklee’s weight loss “system”. Cinch (the weight loss system) works for so many people including my family but I have not had long-term success. I have lost inches but because of this addiction I have not been able to maintain the success. But I have decided that I need to change and that I need to live a healthy life style. So I am back on it.

I started this morning with a shake and a banana. I had a Cinch bar for a morning snack and now I am about to have a shake for lunch. One of the things that I need to do for myself is to have a weeks worth of a menu so I know what I am going to eat when. If I walk into the kitchen without a plan the next thing I know I am cooking up a storm and it is stuff that I should not be eating.

I will post the menu that I am eating under writings. I will also keep specific updates on my Shaklee blog. I will post some of the highlights on this blog from time to time.

I would love to get a Cinch group started. A support group committed to living healthy lives and getting fit together and supporting one another through the process. Let me know if you want to do that.

Well I am off to make another shake. I am glad that they taste good and they actually fill me up!
My Cinch Meal Plan

New Life with Love

So here I am today — getting ready to do another wedding at the church. It is kinda cool this time because the people who are getting married I kinda know. I guess once you start to build those relationships the weddings become more meaningful in some ways. But weddings bring me back to Katie’s and my wedding. Such good memories!

I think that our wedding was the last time – I guess for awhile that we can have that many people who love and care for us in one place at one time. While it is such a good day, it goes by so fast and the fact that there ARE so many people there who love you and want to talk with you, you don’t really get to spend that quality time that you want with them.

On a different note, I have been thinking a lot about my health lately. I have been committed to getting healither for the last few months. Ever since I got my Cinch Kit from Shaklee I have really wanted to be good with it, I really want to get healthier and to feel better. Maybe one of the reasons I have been feeling sick lately and having other problems is because of my health. I don’t know — but when I started I got a cold and I was out for a week. Then my back hurt and that still bothers me a little but that’s been going on for the last three weeks. Now I feel up to speed a bit and I can jump back on that horse. I hope to get in a rhythm and stick to it somewhat during thanksgiving. Part of me wants to wait but part of me knows that I can’t wait because then something else will come up.

Well that’s all for today, I think I hear the bride so I should go and get ready.

Sick of being sick

So last Saturday I woke up in the middle of the night not feeling good. I guess things have come to pass where I had to go to the doctor’s today. So needless to say my abliity’s on Cinich has been diminished some. I have found for me to be successful I need to work out daily. That is not just walking or swimming but it is lifiting weights.

I have some medicine now and I rested today. I have a busy weekend. Tomorrow I am doing more on my internship project. Then on Sunday I have church. So I will be busy.

That is all I have for today.

Update

So I wanted to update how I am doing on Cinch. I am proud to say that I am doing pretty good. Overall I am staying on the plan. Thursday was difficult since it was my day off and I was at home all day. I only had one shake at my meal because I LOVE breakfast and I wanted a good breakfast. But I did not go overboard which was good.

I have been to the gym a few times. I have not gone as much as I would like. I know using sleep as an excuse is not the greatest but it is the truth. Last week the average time I went to bed was 11:30 and I would have to get up at 5:45 to make it to the gym so I could be to work on time. So I made it twice. Thursday I did not make it (my day off) because Katie was home sick from work and Logan was as well. But I did go on Friday and had a good work out. I don’t think I will have time to go this weekend….but I am going to be running around a lot.

That’s how things are going so far. Not much to update on any type of weight loss. I am feeling good and that is the most important thing to me right now. On Tuesday I am going to measure myself and weigh myself again.

Day One

Day one on Cinch — It has been a good day. I did get up at 5:45 to go to the gym but by the time I got ready and somewhat awake I did not leave until 7:00. So instead of lifting I swam. It was very good. I swam about 300 yards and it felt good. I felt my heart rate go up and my arms started to feel it by the end. Then I went into the hot tub and that was nice and relaxing. I did weigh myself and I hate to admit this but I will because I want to put everything out there to get as much support as possible I am at 344. Now with Cinich the pounds might not come off right away but inches will. That’s the power of Luciene in the shakes. But either way I will be happy (pounds or inches or both!).

I decided to put the tea in my water bottle. I did not want to use it at first because of the little caffiene it has in it. But I decided that it would be the best for me overall. Plus it says that you use it with 8oz of water but I put it in 32 oz. For those who don’t know I am somewhat allergic to caffiene so that’s why I don’t want it. I won’t die or anything but I will see if it has an effect on me.

I have a Shaklee training tonight so I am driving right from work to there and that does not get over until around 8:30 or so. So I decided to have my shake while I take my trip there. It was good because we had a lunch meeting.

I have been good so far today. It is day one so you would think that I could handle it :) I did forget my cinch bars at home. So that has been hard but not terribly because we have been running around all day.

Now I am off to play with the kids for the afternoon. Afternoons are usually pretty easy as far as hunger wise. I am running around so much I usually do’nt think about food. In fact, I am more thirsty than anything else. I am glad I have my water bottle. I hope to finish it by the end of the work day.

I might write more tonight if I am not too tired. If not I will check in tomorrow for day two!

Cinch The Inch

Cinch is here!! I can’t believe it. I am SO ready to get started. For those of you who do not know what Chinch is you can go here. Last Thursday I went to the gym and I got a plan. The trainer gave me some good advice as to what to do when I work out. I plan on weighing myself tomorrow and I am going to measure myself.

I have had it and I need to do something and I know that Cinch is the way to go. After everything I have heard I have liked. The main thing that I am worried about is about being hungry throughout the day. But with this plan I could be okay.

I will keep you updated as to how I do, you can read it here or at my other blog