I’d been planning to recommit myself to healthy eating with a serious week of intentional shopping, cooking, and PLANNING (the only thing that works for me) when my coach, Dillon Kreider at The Fitness Lab reached out with the opportunity to do a ten day Shakeology challenge. It was perfect. Coming off of a first anniversary trip to New Orleans that capped off a month of moving houses and lots of work travel had me struggling. I’d been doing well with regular exercise, but knew that my poor eating habits were going to catch up.
I’ve used Shakeology as a quick breakfast here and there every once in a while, but never done a dedicated 10 day challenge, so I’m excited to see how consistent use of Shakeology as a meal replacement affects my weight loss. Truthfully, I’m also really thankful that I have 10 meals I don’t have to worry about planning in the next week and a half. That takes a lot of pressure off, knowing that I can just have a Shakeology and keep going.
My number one hope is of course, that replacing one meal with Shakeology helps me kickstart my healthy eating and maybe drop a few pounds, but I’m also looking forward to learning how replacing one meal a day with Shakeology will help me manage the rest of my eating.
For the next ten days, I’ll be replacing my lunch with a Shakeology since that meal is always the one I’m last to plan. Breakfast is often oatmeal, yogurt or occasionally a smoothie, and dinner is always planned and something I usually make with my husband. With lunch often up in the air, it’s easier for me to make unhealthy choices or just skip it altogether, leading to grazing all day long to overeating at dinner because I’m overly hungry.
I can’t wait to update you on how it goes, and just to keep myself honest, above are the incriminating ‘Before’ pictures.