Becoming a believer

One of my weight loss challenges is I tend to forget to eat. My college friend, knowing this about me, had been trying to get me to try these "nutrition shakes" for about a year. Of course I heard "nutrition shake" and thought "diet shake" and immediately said "NO, no way, nuh uh, not happening, no thank you, yuck". She even sent me samples & I ignored them.

Finally, I went to visit her for a weekend. During my trip she had a table set up at a green market. She was making shake samples. I looked at her and said "you're gonna make me try those, aren't you?" She said "yup". The shake flavor she made me was chocolate peanut butter. It was delicious (she really enjoys rubbing that in!". 

I started drinking the Vi-Shape Shake by Visalus the next week. I found I was not just getting nutrition, I started losing weight. 

Visalus is known as the shake mix that tastes like cake mix. Open the package and yes it really does smell like cake mix. But, the awesome thing is while the base of it has a sweet cream flavor you can make your shake whatever flavor you want. 

The basic recipe is 8 oz milk, 2 scoops of shake mix. You can put it in a shaker or a blender & drink it just like that and it's good. I prefer almond milk over cow's milk for my shakes, lower calories, more calcium. You can find almond milk right by the regular milk in the refrigerated section at the grocery store. Like I said though, what makes it awesome is you can make it whatever flavor you want. For example, my favorite morning shake is banana walnut Vi shake.

Chele's Morning Wake-up Banana Walnut Shake

8 oz plain, unsweetened almond milk

1 med banana

2 scoops Vi-Shape Shake mix

1 tbsp. no fat no sugar added banana cream pie pudding mix

Blend in blender. Add ice & pulse each cube until you reach your desired consistency. I like mine smoothie thick. My friend likes hers thinner, so littler ice for her. The last thing I do is add a few walnuts, then pulse the blender a few times because I like the walnuts left pretty chunky. 

I will be adding more recipes and giving you updates as I lose more weight about how I've done this with little exercise & how you can do it too. For right now, here is a link to the Visalus Shake Recipe Facebook page & the link to my Visalus page too. If you'd like more information email me at brokendamselfly@aol.com, visit my site, or leave me a comment here. 

http://chelekell.bodybyvi.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Visalus-Shake-Recipes/187100778005926

My friend, Negar, & I, she got me started on Visalus!