The set-up.
About a year ago I got a friend request on Facebook from an old high school friend. My friend had recently participated in a 90 Day for a company she was promoting. Seeing the posts of my friend made me intrigued but I wasn't really interested in losing weight at the time. A few weeks ago another friend started her own challenge with the same company and started losing weight and gaining energy. Now that my youngest is almost 2 years old, I'd like to get rid of a bit of the baby weight that I still have so I went to her Challenge Party to check things out for myself.
I discovered two things. One is that there's a huge market for people who are looking to lose weight and/or improve their overall health and energy. The other realization I had is that I'm already working with a company that sells incredible weight-loss products, I had just never given them much thought because I wasn't focused on losing weight. I decided that if I was going to do a 90 day challenge, I'd rather do it with products from my own company. I already use and love many of their other products so it makes sense to try out their weight-loss products too.
The Challenge
Starting February 15, 2012 I will be having a shake every morning. I may sometimes add some fruit or other tasty food to liven things up. In addition, I will continue to take the vitamins that I normally take but I'll add an anti-oxidant and probiotics as well. I'll take my measurements and weight at the beginning of the challenge and each week thereafter. To see how much weight-loss can be attributed to just the addition of the shakes, I'll keep my current level of activity about the same (walking my daughter to school, going to playgroup, skating).
I'm excited to see what happens. I've never really been one to try shakes before (I'm a good cook and I like to eat my food). I also strongly believe in eating foods as close to their natural state as possible. I'm always up for a good experiment though. Now I just need to make my order.
