Did you see Jacqui on Exteme Makeover Weight Loss Edition?

Ok, so everyone is talking about Jacqui McCoy on Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition from 6/10/12! Did you see her? What an AMAZING story! Ever since I saw it, I work just a little harder at the gym! When I think I can't do it, I push myself more! She is truly an inspiration!

Just a little FYI, she was raised a Shaklee kid and uses Shaklee products today, as she did throughout her year long journey on the show. And, she had the best blood work of anybody ever on the show going through their process! In just a year, guided by extreme transformation specialist Chris Powell, Jacqui lost 207 pounds - 58% of her total body weight - the highest percentage lost in television history. (I believe the Shaklee products had a lot to do with that.)

Jacqui’s diet and fitness regime were prescribed by her coaches on Extreme Makeover.  Jacqui is also a passionate advocate for Shaklee products and her nutritional needs were supported by her use of Shaklee nutrition, including Shaklee Vitalizer™ and OmegaGuard®.

Another little tidbit, I was on stage in New Orleans in 2008 with her mom, Wanda Hart, for Cinch Top Model!! :) Here's how Jacqui is doing now. 

If you know anyone who wants to lose weight, please remember, I can help them!!!! And I want to help! #cinchspiration

My Cinch Story: Laura Evans

Take the time to watch Laura tell her story! It will inspire you, possibly to do the same yourself.

Shaklee Videos: My Cinch Story: Laura Evans

If you are ready to take control of your health and your weight, get started here. I will be with you every step of the way that you want me to!

Just wanted to share a picture of Laura showing off the new Blender Ball by Shaklee at the Roger on Tour Event in Dallas on 5/9/12! This is a great new easy quick way to blend your Cinch, or protein shakes! It sells for $8.75. Leave me a message on this blog if you would like one please!

Skechers to pay $40M for Shape-Ups Claims - ABC7.com Video

I always knew these were bogus and now my sister (Janet Wilson) is famous for helping get the word out on ABC news!!

Cinch® Recipe Contest Winning Recipes

As the fine poet William Cowper once said, "Variety's the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour." And when it comes to mixing up your Cinch® Shakes, adding a variety of wholesome ingredients will help optimize your nutritional intake and prevent "shake boredom."

That's why we asked our Cinch Shake users to show us how creative they could be by inviting them to enter our Shake It Up with Cinch®! Recipe Contest in March 2012.

Recipes had to meet the following criteria:

1. Be easy to make
2. Taste good
3. Contain nothing artificial
4. Contain 400 calories or fewer per serving. We received over 100 entries and selected our top five to be judged by Shaklee CEO Roger Barnett. Congratulations to our five finalists—and to our winner Debbie Cross, who submitted her recipe for Pumpkin Pie Cinch Shake! To see all the recipe entries and the video of Roger picking the winner, visit Cinch Recipe Contest Winner Announcement.

Recipe Contest Finalists

Pumpkin Pie Cinch Shake By Debbie Cross 2 scoops Cinch Vanilla Shake Mix 8 oz. vanilla soy milk 1/2 tsp. (or more) pumpkin pie spice 1/4–1/2 cup pumpkin puree 4–6 ice cubes Blend well and enjoy!
Yummy Peach Cinch Shake By Jo Stackhouse 2 scoops Cinch Vanilla Shake Mix 1 cup coconut milk 2 medium peaches Blend well and enjoy!	Christiane's French Cinch Shake By Annie Whitney 2 scoops of Cinch Vanilla Shake Mix 1 cup milk (nonfat, soy, or almond) 1/2 tsp. ground ginger 1/8 tsp. cinnamon 1/8 tsp. cayenne powder Blend well and enjoy!
Strawberry Chard Cinch Shake By Rose Baca 2 scoops Cinch Strawberry Shake Mix 2 oz. red chard 4 oz. canned pineapple 1 inch fresh ginger 4 oz. frozen strawberries 16 oz. water Blend well and enjoy!	Peanut Butter Cup Shake By Kim McCormick 1 scoop Cinch Chocolate Shake Mix 1 scoop Cinch Vanilla Shake Mix 1 T natural peanut butter 8 oz. almond milk 2 ice cubes Blend well and enjoy!

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Come see Roger Barnett and find out how you can Transform your life!

Cinchspiration Laura continues to inspire us!

Cinchspiration Laura has lost about 35# on Cinch. You can, too! It's free to join. Buy 3 months and get the 4th one free. Can we make it any easier for you? All you have to do is make the decision to start!

 

 

Roger chooses Cinch recipe winner!

Speaking of Cinch Recipes, here is our latest contest winner - chosen by Roger Barnett, himself!! Haven't tried Cinch yet? You can get it here.

Cinch Recipes

 Are you looking for recipes to help you get "cinched"? Have you checked out Cinchclub.com? It has a wealth of free information, including lots of fabulous recipes!

New Blender Ball by Shaklee!!!

We now have an awesome new way to mix up our Cinch shakes!!! The new Blender Ball by Shaklee! Some of us have been waiting for this for over 5 years, so I hope it's as good as I think it is!! It's not on the public websites yet. Members use Order #58657. Non-members, please ask me for help!

Join Free with ANY ORDER - Extended til May 31, 2012

Yes, that means any Cinch order as well!! 

Shaklee Videos: Join Free with ANY ORDER Through May 31.

Between now and May 31, join Shaklee with the purchase of any Shaklee product or products, and they'll waive the $19.95 membership fee! Think of it as Join Free Your Way - it allows you to try the products that you're interested in!

Can a man actually lose weight on Cinch and be satisfied?!

New Cinch Story ~ Sam lost 60#'s!!! Taken from Cinchclub.com success stories.

“Cinch is simple to do, and it gave me the energy I needed to stick with an exercise regimen." Sam says. Sam, 60 pounds healthier* Sam was an avid basketball player until a knee injury put him on the sidelines. Even with surgery, any strenuous weight-bearing exercise was painful, so his activity level dropped. As a consequence, the formerly slim Sam began to gain weight.   After a few years of being heavy, Sam was no longer happy with the way he felt or looked. He decided to try the Cinch® Inch Loss Plan, along with some Shaklee Sports Nutrition™ products. The Cinch Strawberry Shake soon became his favorite because it tasted great and kept him feeling full. Sam says, “Cinch is simple to do, and it gave me the energy I needed to stick with an exercise regimen.” Sam has lost 60 pounds, and is now more active.* He is back to running, and he looks and feels fantastic! *Results not typical. In a preliminary study of the Cinch Inch Loss Plan,  participants on average lost 15.4 pounds in 12 weeks.

Buy 3 months get 4th month FREE - Extended til July 2012

Cinch® Transformation Pack offer has been extended!!! Your first order for the 4 months must be ordered by 7/31/12, but why wait, start TODAY!

Lose weight or your money back! Cinch, like all Shaklee products, comes with a 100% unconditional guarantee of satisfaction. With Cinch, you have nothing to lose but inches. And everything to gain in a whole new life.

Buy 3 Months…Get the 4th Month FREE^†

Designed to help you to keep muscle you have, burn fat you don't want,
and lose inches you don’t need. Clinically tested*. Customer proven.
And at less than $3 per meal, you’re looking at a leaner body and a
fatter wallet. Bonus offer! This month only, join with a Cinch®
Transformation Pack and also get free membership (an additional
$19.95 value).‡ FREE!! Hurry Cinch Transformation Pack offer ends July 31^st, 2012. 

Your Cinch Transformation Pack Includes:

1 Cinch Vanilla Shake Mix canister
1 Cinch Chocolate Shake Mix canister
1 Cinch Shake Mix Assortment Pack
1 box of Cinch Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Meal-in-a-Bar
1 box of Cinch Blueberry Almond Crisp Meal-in-a-Bar

1 box of Cinch Peanut Butter Crunch Snack Bars
1 box of Cinch Lemon Cranberry Snack Bars
1 box of Cinch Chocolate Decadence Snack Bars
1 box of Cinch Pomegranate Energy Tea Mix
1 bottle of Cinch 3-in-1 Boost™

Cinch® Shake Recipe Contest

Do you have a favorite Cinch Shake recipe that you love sharing with others? Well, here’s your chance to enter your recipe in a contest on the Shaklee Health Wise blog to win a fabulous prize!

For one week, starting Thursday, March 22, we are taking your favorite recipe ideas. Your shake recipe must include one of the four Cinch Shake Mix flavors (Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry, or Café Latte). Once the contest has closed, a small group of Home Office folks will pick five finalists. They will decide based on the following criteria:

• Simple to make
• Tastes good
• Contains nothing artificial
• Under 400 calories

Required entry:  Leave a comment on the Shaklee Health Wise blog post “Shake It Up With Cinch! – Cinch Recipe Contest.” Serious, unique recipe entries only. Check the comments to make sure a recipe that is the same as yours hasn’t already been submitted. Those who register to comment must register with a valid email address.

What happens next? Recipes from the five finalists will be blind taste-tested by CEO Roger Barnett, who will determine the lucky winner!

We will announce the winner in a follow-up blog post in April 2012. The winner will pick ONE of two exciting prize offerings:

1. A $250 gift certificate to Healthy Chef Creations™ (healthychefcreations.com)

2. $250 towards a membership to Anytime Fitness® (anytimefitness.com)

The Cinch Recipe Contest begins at 6 a.m. Pacific time March 22, 2012, and ends at 6 a.m. Pacific time March 29, 2012. Limited to three separate entries per person.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

Read more about the contest, including Official Rules, on the Shaklee Health Wise blog.

New Weight Loss Pill Gets Second Look from FDA, Stirring Old Fears

When we have Cinch, WHY fool around with anything that has so many questions around it's safety and effectiveness?

HEALTH -- February 22, 2012 at 2:11 PM EDT

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/new-weight-loss-pill-gets-second-look-from-fda-stirring-old-fears.html

Cinch® Inspiration Tip: Staying Motivated by Dr. Jamie McManus

 

Hello Friends & Family,

The inner force that drives us towards change – that’s motivation.  Think of motivation as the fuel that energizes you to reach for your weight loss goals and stay committed to achieving them.

Motivation to lose weight requires that you have an understanding of what’s really important to you. Is it your health and longevity? Is it how good you look in that black dress or business suit or is it something else?

To help you find what will motivate you most, ask yourself these three questions:

What do I want? You may think the answer to this one is easy. You want to lose weight. But you need to get more specific. Do you want to be a size 10 or a size 2? Do you need to change your whole lifestyle or just a few unhealthy habits? Do you want to run a marathon or do you want to be able to just walk comfortably around the neighborhood?

Why do I want it? Once you know what you really want, ask yourself why. It’s not enough to say I want improved health. What will improved health get you? Maybe it will provide you with more energy to play with your kids or improve your self esteem.

What am I willing to do to get it? Once you know what you want and why, the next step is to assess what you will need to do to succeed. Are you willing to follow your meal plan? Are you willing to get up extra early to exercise?

Need more? Feel free to borrow these common motivations to help keep your momentum going.

1.     Self-confidence – accomplishing goals leads to an increase in self-confidence. The more you achieve while on this program, the more you will believe in yourself and your abilities.

2.     Fit into your “skinny clothes” – if you’re like most people you have a set of “skinny clothes” hiding in your closet somewhere, just waiting for the day you can wear them again. The time has come to make them your “everyday clothes.”

3.     Your children/your grandchildren – the healthier you are, the longer you will be around to enjoy your children and their children, and their children!

4.     The “you look great” effect – visualize this: you go to work, to the grocery store, to the gym, where you run into someone you know and they say, “Wow – you look great!” Feels pretty good doesn’t it? By sticking to your goals, you can make this happen!

5.     Sharing your success with others - one the most important reasons to stay motivated and reach your goal is to share this opportunity with other people. When other people learn how you lost the weight and improved your health, they will be looking to you for help. By staying motivated you have the potential to not only help yourself, but many other people too! Be well!

Dr. Jamie McManus MD
Chair, Medical Affairs, Health Sciences & Education

Join us now and start enjoying all the benefits of Cinch - receive $100 in free products and/or buy 3 months get the 4th one free!!! Hurry, before it all ends on March 31, 2012!!

P.S.  Join us on Mondays at 7 pm in the Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern Time Zones for a Cinch Inspiration Call, followed by a Dream Call, by dialing 1-512-225-3211 | 951025#.  Download the schedule of calls and topics through March 2012 - Only 2 more left!

Win up to $10,000 w/Cinch® Transformation Stories on Roger’s Tour!!!

Now you have 10,000 reasons to attend Roger’s Spring Tour this May. Ten thousand dollars that is!

In each of Roger’s Tour stop cities, we’ll be featuring some of the most inspiring Cinch Transformation stories you’ve ever heard…but we don’t know what they are yet. That’s because we want you to share your Cinch Transformation story with us. When you do, you could earn free registrations to our Global Conference, up to $10,000 in cash prizes, and the chance to rock the house on Roger’s Tour with your story!

To have your story considered, you’ll need to send in by April 15 your Cinch Transformation story in 300 words or less, with “before and during” photos or a link to a video on YouTube or Facebook to cinchsuccess@shaklee.com. We will choose 10 participants for each of Roger’s Tour cities who will share their story on the Tour. The audience in each city will then vote (by applause meter or text) on who they believe has the most compelling stories. If the vote is a tie or too close to call, Shaklee will make the selection.

So bring as many of your friends to the event as you can to make some noise!

We will reward each participant who is selected to share their story with 2 free registration passes to the 2012 Global Conference in Las Vegas. In addition, the top 3 in each city will receive cash awards as follows:

3rd place in each city - $250
2nd place in each city - $500
1st place in each city - $1,000

And, each first-place winner from each city will have a chance to win $10,000 at the 2012 Global Conference in Las Vegas!

You must be present at the Spring Tour event in order to earn these awards. Make sure everyone you know who has a Cinch story and can attend one of these events enters! See Roger’s Tour schedule and make plans now to be in a city near you this May.

You have about 5 weeks left and if you haven't yet started Cinch, you still have a chance, so get started TODAY! They are including those who start now as well as those who have used Cinch in the past 12 months! That means any and all of you who have lost ANY weight with Cinch in the last 12 months! Just have a great story and you have a great chance to win! READY, SET, GO!!!!! I'm right there with ya! :)

Check out Shaklee's New Blog!

Check out Shaklee's new Blog, featuring Laura Evan's Cinchspiration story!

5 Foods I Eat to Stay Healthy

Watch & listen to Laura's compelling story here. (video 23.37min.)

And, think about Cinching yourself NOW, as Shaklee is giving away $10,000 for a good Cinch story with photos, from one year ago until April 15, 2012. More details on my next post - you need to hurry because with only 5 weeks left, you have to move fast! If you have already lost your weight on Cinch and/or are in the process of it, you can submit your story! Even if you are using Cinch just to be healthy and the weight fell off anyway, you can enter!

You can get started by placing your order here.

Watch for next post or contact me NOW to get started!

Cinch® Inspiration Tip: Hunger Management

 

Hello Friends & Family,

Are you hungry? Sounds like a simple question, doesn’t it? But the honest truth is - most of us have forgotten what it’s like to listen to our bodies and eat in response to true biological hunger.

By definition, hunger is "the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need for food." It's a signal from your body that it needs food for energy. When you’re truly hungry, your stomach, brain, or both will send signals that it’s time to eat – your stomach may growl, you may have trouble concentrating or feel fatigued. True hunger does not go away over time - it only gets worse. And any food will satisfy your hunger and take your hunger signals away.

We were born with the innate ability to eat when we were hungry and stop when we were comfortable. However, as we grow up we tend to lose that innate sense and eat in response to our environmental triggers. We quickly learn that sometimes it’s better to eat everything on the plate instead of struggle with mom or dad, or that we should suffer through a plate of broccoli so we can have dessert. We learn to eat because food smells good, it’s “lunch time” or because we’re bored. We learn to ignore our own body signals and eat whether we are truly hungry, or not.

So do you know what your biological signals for hunger are? Is it a mild stomach growling? An empty feeling inside, or is it something else? If you’ve forgotten what true hunger feels like, take some time to track whether or not you’re eating in response to true hunger and stopping when you’re comfortable. Use the following hunger/satiety chart to help assess what hunger level you usually are when you start eating and at what level you stop eating.

10.		Thanksgiving stuffed
9.		So full it hurts
8.		Feeling quite full
7.		Starting to feel uncomfortable
6.		slightly ate too much
5.		Just right, you feel comfortable
4.		First signs it’s time to eat
3.		Strong signs that it’s time to eat
2.		Very hungry, cranky
1.		Extremely hungry, dizzy and weak

If you start eating at a “5” or higher you are most likely eating for external reasons and not because you are biologically hungry. On the other hand if you have waited too long to eat and you start eating at a “1” or a “2” you are probably “over hungry” which can lead to overeating. The goal is to starting eating at a “3” or “4.” 

When you’ve finished eating, use the scale again to assess at what level you usually stop eating. If you stop at a “6” or above you are overeating. You should aim to stop eating at a “5,” when you are feeling perfectly comfortable. At this level you have taken in the right amount of food to nourish your body but not so much that it will be stored as fat.

Be well!

Dr. Jamie McManus MD
Chair, Medical Affairs, Health Sciences & Education

P.S.  Join us on Mondays at 7 pm in the Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern Time Zones for a Cinch Inspiration Call, followed by a Dream Call, by dialing 1-512-225-3211 | 951025#.

Announcing New Facebook Sweepstakes!

click on pic to see individual products included in giveaway

Tell Shaklee What You Think the Next Cinch® Shake, Meal-in-a-Bar, or Snack Bar Should Be! Current flavors of shakes are: Vanilla, Chocolate, Cafe Latte and Strawberry. Current Meal Bars are Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip (my favorite!!) and Blueberry Almond Crisp!

FYI, I suggested Chocolate/Raspberry or Raspberry/Blueberry for a new shake or bar flavor. I don't know if you can suggest more than one and still win though, so take that as a warning! If you do win and you are not already a member in my Shaklee group, please tell them you have a Shaklee Distributor already -  me! My ID# is XE89787. Thanks and good luck!

Are you a fan of the Shaklee Corporation Facebook page yet? If not, here’s a reason to get on Facebook and start following Shaklee now!

For one week, starting Wednesday, February 22nd, we are asking all Facebook fans to enter a sweepstakes for a chance to WIN a Cinch Transformation Kit plus a weekly 30-minute consultation for 4 weeks with Pam Riggs, MS RD, Director, Medical Affairs & Health Sciences for the Shaklee Corporation.

To enter, you must do the following:

• “Like” the Shaklee Corporation Facebook page
• Tell us what you think the next Cinch® shake, meal-in-a-bar, or snack bar should be
• Provide an email address AND your Distributor ID, if you are already a member or distributor. If not, and you agree to be contacted by Shaklee, or if you win, tell them you have a distributor already - me - ID# XE89787.

While we limit entries to one per person, if you spread the word about the sweepstakes on Facebook, you will receive 2 additional entries for each referral that likes the Shaklee Corporation Facebook page and enters the giveaway.

The sweepstakes will end on Wednesday, February 29th, at midnight PST.

Please enter the giveaway from my personal FB page so I can get extra entries, just like you can do when you share! :)

Read the official rules.