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New Challenge Packs drop for our challenges on Thursday, Feb. 2nd. (which also happens to be the first day of the Everett Fit Club for our team!!)

I am so proud of the fact that you can get everything you need via Beachbody when you sign up for a challenge pack.  When I started my journey back to health after my daughter was born and I had slid down the path to really unfit and really depressed – I had nothing to support me. It was just me. Staring in the mirror every morning was this person I didn’t even know. But I think that’s where these Challenge packs come from. They include everything you need. You get the fitness program that you choose. The one you’ll stick with. Without the commitment you will not get there. You get the club membership trial that gives you the meal planning to help you with this most important component — nutrition. You get the support of the Team Beachbody community and your coach, ME! And of course you get the amazing Shakeology that balanced out my hormones, gave me the nutrition I was lacking and helped me start to see results. And coming in March you’ll have a new flavor to choose from, and it’s Vegan. Tropical Strawberry!! (this new flavor will be available on Feb 14th, but not in Challenge Packs until March)

The original Chocolate and Greenberry formulations took 2 years to create and it took atleast another year to get Shakeology Tropical Strawberry just right. Where the other 2 flavors are 150 calories, the new Tropical Strawberry Shakeology is only 130 calories per serving. The biggest change is that they replaced the grade 7 whey protein isolates with the most advanced (and highest bio-availability) vegan protein available in the world, fermented sprouted brown rice.

Just in case you’re new to Shakeology

Here are the benefits I’VE EXPERIENCED and you can expect if you drink it every day:

• Reduced cravings for junk food (especially sugar/sweets)
• Natural energy (not from stimulants!)
• Regulated blood-sugar levels (great for diabetics!)
• Reduced bodyfat
• Reduced cholesterol
• Reduced bloating and inflammation
• Improved digestion

A few other exciting changes

1. You’ll notice the new “Beachbody Ultimate” branding on this product. This means that the ingredients have THE HIGHEST bio-availability of any ingredients in the world! When you want THE BEST and don’t want to compromise, look for Beachbody Ultimate!
2. Shakeology Tropical is sweetened with tropical fruits like papaya, camu-camu, pineapple
3. SUMA root has been removed from this formula (this was a concern for some people because the ingredient causes false positives on athlete drug testing)

So what about the taste of Tropical Strawberry Shakeology?

It is delicious! It’s a great alternative to chocolate and greenberry. It also opens up all kinds of new possibilities on recipes! Aren’t you excited??

How much does Shakeology Tropical cost?

Because of the super premium brown-rice protein, the cost of Shakeology tropical is $129 per month (which is just over $4/day) compared to $120 for Chocolate/Greenberry Shakeology. Some people may think that’s expensive for a supplement but it depends on how you look at it. This is not just a supplement! It’s NUTRITION (with 17 grams of protein and 16 grams of carb) so consider if you can cut back on groceries, eating out, coffee, energy drinks, etc to come up with $4 a day. I was skeptical about price originally so I took advantage of the 30 day money back guarantee and tried it for 30 days. After the way I felt and saw my body slimming down, I found a way to fit it into my budget. Also, it’s actually cheaper than what you are going to pay at the gym for far less quality (this is a super dense nutritional food here!!)

Does Tropical Strawberry Shakeology still have the 30 day money back guarantee?

Yes – all products from Beachbody are backed up by a 30 day money back guarantee. You can literally try it for 30 days and if you’re not happy with it, send the empty bag back for a full refund!

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop that picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. – Norman Vincent Peale

Every day is a new day, but tomorrow is even more… it’s a new year. And tomorrow will be the official start of the “new year, new you” season, in which grandiose resolutions abound. I will start a new career, I will live my best life, I will get out of debt, I will, I will, I will. And of course the biggest one of the I will’s… lose weight, the faster the better. With the recession raging and food prices soaring, you might think dieting would be easier these days. But in a recent survey of nearly 500 registered dietitians and nutritionists, 56% of respondents said they were concerned that the economic downturn would have a negative impact on their patients’ ability to maintain or achieve a healthy weight. The reason? Junk food is cheaper than healthy fare. Plus, financial woes can be so distracting, people don’t pursue nutritional goals. Some diet programs–like Weight Watchers, which costs about $12 a week–have already seen enrollments decline in recent months. (Did you know that Team Beachbody is $2.99 a week for meal planning, recipes and the chance to win up to $500 every day you log your workout?)

The problem with most resolutions is that we don’t have a plan, we don’t think about the steps required to get there. You have no clarity on what you really want. For you to really be successful this year with your resolutions, it must be specific. I’m not saying don’t dream or visualize it because it really does take a lot of courage to figure out what is that you need to do.  Visualization is a great tool in the success of getting from point a to point b. Still, you to need to sort out what obstacles are in your way, and then plan the action steps to get to that end goal. Being “thin” is an image; losing 23 pounds by your birthday is a goal and being healthy is a lifestyle. The only way to get from the image to the goal is to life the lifestyle and be clear about your choices.

The real secret is that you have to stop being comfortable in just being. You have to stop just dreaming. You have to leave that comfort zone and go to where you need to be… and that is when the magic starts to happen. And in order to leave that comfort zone, you have to commit to the changes.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. – Thomas Edison

The most important single factor in individual success is COMMITMENT. Commitment ignites action. What actions will you commit to in 2012 to have the best year yet?

I must also say that 2011 you were an awesome year and I will miss you. You had me up and down, from putting the house on the market, to packing it all up and moving to Issaquah… oh wait… that ended up being Kirkland. Just another surprise. I am so grateful for friends that stuck by my side, and all of the new friends that I’ve made.

I’ve had happy moments as well to check off my annual list … I got rid of the double digit women’s pants, I watched my baby grow into a Kindergartener, I’ve seen my husband become a yellow belt, became a Certified TurboKick instructor and a Certified Personal Trainer. 2011 you continued to bring me better health and countless hours of fun, laughter and tears with friends who mean so much to me. Thank you for keeping the sun shining on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

2011 Favorites: Attended a class with Robyn the Green Smoothie girl; Cardiff By The Sea in the early early spring. Walking Long Beach with my family, including the funny little dog that has truly become one of us. Best of all though learning more about myself, being happy and knowing that life is still just beginning.

2012 you have big shoes to fill other than offering me the end of the world… what are you going to offer? May you be as helpful and plentiful as 2011. I wish the same to all of you!!

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It’s easy to get the benefits of healthy nutritionally dense foods with with Shakeology. Simply mix Shakeology in your favorite beverage for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Use your fitness program of choices, and you will feel great while losing weight the very first week.

Most people begin with our Shakeology Cleanse Program, which includes Shakeology mixed with water three times during the day every 3 hours, with a healthy fruit snack and a lean protein and vegetables for dinner. This is done for three consecutive days . If you often crave for food and feel lethargic, the hormone balancing ingredients will help you block cravings, boost energy and you’ll be hooked on the feeling by the end of the cleanse.

During the cleanse I recommend you log in to your account and set up your workout program in the Supergym. It will make it easier to workout. Just log in every morning (or afternoon if that is better for you) and do the workout scheduled. When you push Play in Supergym you will be entered to win up to $500 every time you workout. The combination of the Shakeology, healthy meal planning (you get the meal planning tool and recipes in the Club Membership) and the workout program you chose will start impacting the way you feel very quickly. It should help you stay motivated by the energized feeling and excitement you get as you slowly take your program to the next level.

Fitness challenges can give us more insight into our progression and ultimately inspiring us to push ourselves that little bit harder than ever before to achieve the results we want. By week four you’ll start to see changes in your abilities and your body. Within six – eight weeks your closest friends will see the changes in you. By the end of the program everyone will want to know what it is that you’ve been doing to look so great.

There are always plenty of new ideas being developed for the fitness market aimed at supporting our continuing quest for a challenge. I love that with the Beachbody programs there are all sorts of ways to continue the challenge beyond your first 60 or 90 day go at it. Hybrid programs, more recipes, more ways to enjoy your Shakeology, more ways to rev up your metabolism… and continued support from your friends, your family and the amazing Beachbody Family, including your coach… and that’s me.

Ask your family to join you. Hold a family meeting to kick off your family fitness challenge. Solicit everyone’s ideas — even your little kids can take part — for a goal to work toward. You might want to target healthy eating, increased physical activity, new strength goals, or less screen time. Spell out exactly what you’re hoping to achieve and what you’ll need to do to get there. The more support you have the better your chances are of success.

It’s time to lead your life, and stop following those people that have just grown comfortable in being where they are at. Health is essential to living the best life with your friends and family members. Taking on this challenge will allow others to follow your lead, including your children. They’ve discovered that it’s during our youth that we are actually multiplying our fat cells. Once you are an adult you can’t get rid of them, only shrink them. Children need adults to teach them about foods that are healthy for their bodies as well as to model eating healthy foods. They need to learn about what it takes to engage themselves in physical fitness on a daily basis. You can lead by example, and change your financial life as well.

Lead your own challenge group. Create a fit club. You can become a coach and be the leader and become what you’ve always wanted to become. If you are interested, you can sign up as a coach, and get your coaches fee waived when you purchase your Challenge Pack. Imagine… getting a business, the motivation, and the results for the same price you were going to spend anyway.

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You want to know what my favorite smoothie is right now? It’s a version of Robyn Green Smoothie Girl’s Hot Pink Breakfast Smoothie. Why am I all about the healthy stuff??? I believe. Like I said in my last blog post. I believe. I think that if you follow the stuff below, you will be healthier, you will be in a place of opportunities and that you won’t spend your days thinking about all that you don’t have, but rather all that you do have… at least most of the time.

My happy right now is beets. One cup of raw beets is high in carbohydrates and low in fat. It contains phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron, and potassium, as well as fiber, vitamins A and C, niacin, and biotin. Beets contain folic acid, which is recommended for pregnant women because it may lower the risk of spina bifida and other neural tube defects in newborn infants. And long-term deficiencies have been linked to heart disease and cervical cancer, too.

Beets contain a wealth of fiber — half soluble and half insoluble. Both types play roles in fighting fat. These colorful root vegetables contain powerful nutrient compounds that help protect against heart disease, birth defects and certain cancers, especially colon cancer. Dr Ferenczi in Csoma hospital in Hungary has been using raw beets to cure cancer, and nothing else since the late 1950s.

So I share with you my delight… my happiness in a cup. It’s an amazingly creamy rich smoothie, and just what I need to pick up my spirits at any time of the day.

Purple Smoothie Delight – makes about 1 quart
1 c coconut water
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 large apple cut into pieces
1/4 of a medium beet, raw and peeled (you can freeze these for later use in smoothies)
1/4 c sacha inchi seeds (optional)
1/4 c chopped dates
1 tsp Ormus Greens
3/4 cup frozen blueberries
optional: 1-2 Tbsp flax seed or flax oil, protein powder, quinoa rejuvelac, kefir or yogurt

Place the ingredients, in order listed, into your Vitamix or other high power blender leaving out the blueberries and optional ingredients. Blend for 90 seconds. Add the blueberries and optional ingredients and blend on high until smooth.

I hope that you are getting healthier, and smarter about your foods because of the tips and sometimes the rants I share with you… but I’ll leave you with one of my favorite Green Smoothie Girl blog quotes:

“..I have much more faith in is food and good lifestyle practices. Don’t drink or smoke. Breathe fresh air, find ways to release stress like yoga, let go of anger and guilt and resolve your emotional issues, and drink lots of water”

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Even as a life coach, I find it hard some days to really center on my priorities. And when I look at the choices I have made that day, it all comes back to one item… what have I done today for my health?

Health is the core, or center, of all of the other choices I make in my life during the day. If I don’t eat healthy, if I don’t follow my meal plan, if I don’t get in my fitness – my attitude, focus and clarity start to slip. I find myself spending too much time in front of social media. I find myself saying one too many times to my family, “Just a minute.” I let my schedule fall to the side and I let me house slowly fall into chaos. That can lead to sleeping in and not getting my exercise in. It leads to not eating well and then craving more bad foods. It leads to feeling emotionally battered by the day and closing off to the world around me. It leads to not having the belief in myself to go after my dreams. I refuse to let that happen. THAT is why I live the life that I’m leading right now.

Recently I was asked to write up my “Top Priority Clarity Statement”. I wanted to share it with you to help guide you in figuring out how to define your own.

My number-one priority is to live an elevated priority aligned lifestyle by choosing the healthy choices that will allow me to actively engage my parenting with a loving, supportive attitude , and to engage my husband in an intimate, connected and supportive role without feeling tired and rundown by my choices. This means that I will provide myself with the tools to have the energy, wellness and continued passion to pursue all of the other areas of my life. Any choice that I make that would endanger my attitude, health or emotions in such a way as to take me away from that pursuit will be going against all that I stand for.

I am thankful this November for having an amazing person, Chalene Johnson, around to Push my goals to an entirely new place and help me refocus when I need to. And when you need it, I’m here for you. My programs will be opening for a new group next month – both for the Living with E.P.A. – Elevated Purpose Alignment and the ELEV8 – 90 Days to Healthy Priority Alignment. The two programs are very different. The Living with E.P.A. is a 12 week program that is meant to define yourself as well as creating a real life that is aligned to your soul’s drive. ELEV8 is a health driven program to get your to that place of being where you can live that life without the regrets of unhealthy foods, temptations or decisions. Make sure you watch the blog, Facebook, Twitter and the website for the opening as I will only be taking a limited number of people through these group programs.

I am so thrilled to be allowed to work with you and your desire for a changed life alignment. Thank you!

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7- 7 -7 It may well be the most popular wedding day in history. Time Magazine
10- 10-10 The largest day of positive action on climate change ever. www.1010global.org

Now! The Shift Of A Lifetime!!

11-11-11 Event: Oneness Across The Globe

What were you doing on 7-7-7 or 10-10-10? Would you like to participate in a global event on 11-11-11 to uplift and unite humanity through conscious intention?

In the first years of the 21st Century, scientists confirmed the existence of a field of energy that connects us with everything in our world. Given names that range from the Quantum Hologram and The Field, to The Divine Matrix, and the Mind of God, research has shown that through the conduit of this energy, the feelings, beliefs, and prayers within us, change the world around us. from Description of “The Science of Miracles: Quantum Language of Healing, Peace, Feeling and Belief (DVD)” by Gregg Braden

You may be wondering what is so special about November 11, 2011. According to transformational thinkers, changes are occurring in the galaxy whether we are aware of it or not. These changes are bringing about incredible opportunity for mankind. The energy changes are making it possible to directly affect reality. We can consciously choose our higher vibration, lifting the planetary consciousness of our very being to create a golden age of unity, oneness, love, peace, joy, and abundance.

With this in mind, let’s all connect on 11-11-11 for the “shift of a lifetime” engaging millions of people across the globe.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, join us as we all open our hearts to one another, to mother earth, to everything that lives on this planet, and the universal energy that supports us all as we become one.

What: Global Event for Oneness
When: November 11, 2011
Where: Everywhere on Planet Earth
Who: The event is sponsored by I AM Group University, facilitators of higher consciousness curriculum

A study by the U.S. government found that nearly 9.4% of U.S. adults (over 20 million) had practiced meditation.

If you meditate, or would like to meditate for a global cause, join with us on 11-11-11. If you prefer, you can gather with friends to pray, contemplate, dance or sing to honor the amazing changes taking place in our lifetime, and at the same time we will all usher in an era of abundance, joy, peace, unity and pure love.

For more information, go to IAMGroupUniversity.com/11-11-11

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I often find that my clients believe that things they are dreaming of attaining are “unavailable”. So what exactly does that mean? The dictionary gives the definition as:

Not available, accessible, or at hand.

So this is how I look at it. Just because something is not right here, in your hand, right now. That doesn’t mean that it’s not waiting around the corner for you to pick up on. Sometimes it is just opening the right door, or eliminating a fear to showcase the thing that you thought was never going to be available. So what is the definition of available:

Capable of being gotten, Present and ready for use

Who knew? When you are present – you’ll open doors to these things that I promise are “capable of being gotten”. You just have to be prepared because if you are present, you had better be ready. Don’t ask for that which you are not ready to accept. But accept that you have greater abilities than you believe. And when you are truly ready, ask for the door to open. The life you change, will begin with your own.

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We’ve all heard it so many times – it’s a new year, a new day… and yet does anything ever change? In order for that clean slate to really make a difference you have to have changes to the way you have been doing things. This is the foundation of all changes – relationships, career, parenting, dieting, exercise. Nothing will change if you don’t first make the change. If you continue to have relationships with the same sort of man or woman, you’ll end up right back where you are today. The same goes for if you continue to allow yourself to eat a carton of ice cream since you “ate so well” all day. If you cannot commit to real work and real change you will never see a difference in your life, your day or your new year.

Abundance is out there, but it’s not going to jump through hoops to get to you. Make a path already. Do it today. Don’t wait until January 1st for the changes. Start it all today. I want you to commit to one change in your life for the better today. Just one. When it sticks, make another. And as you build a strong foundation you’ll clear out the obstacles in your path and be able to invite abundance in.

Looking forward to a wonderful new year for all!

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I hear people talking about abundance an awful lot these days. And if you have watched or read “The Secret”, or even heard of it you have probably taken it all to be about money. But abundance actually have very little to do with earning money. Fiscally speaking it’s more about respecting your money, and therefore attracting more because you are not abusing the fiscal power. But to be truly living an abundant life you have to understand what attracts life forces, and how much your health plays into that.

So – how do you tap into your life force of abundance? If there in one thing I can suggest it’s to respect all things in your life, and have a gratitude for it. You may be out of shape, but you are still able to walk. Be grateful that you can walk and then get out there and respect your body by using it to walk down to the mailbox. If you are feeding your body, be grateful that you are healthy and respect that by giving your body healthy foods that it craves. Have you ever noticed that you make greatly better life decisions when you aren’t feeling starved, or bloated, or just plain yucky? How can you attract abundance when you are only aware of the girth of your stride or the feeling of your stomach rolling from what you’ve just eaten… or just being focused for hours on the bag of cookies you just finished. You attract what you are focused on and grateful for. When you are focused on ill health, you are going to attract it.

Food and activity is a key to the truth of living in abundance. Think about this information from my upcoming 8 week life changing course. Your food matters … so what are you eating? And why do you need it? Let’s just take a little of my information on proteins:

These are general signs of protein deficiency.
* Edema
* General weakness and lethargy
* Muscle soreness and weakness, cramps
* Slowness in healing wounds, cuts, scrapes, and bruises
* Difficulty sleeping
* Headache
* Nausea and stomach pain
* Fainting

When you eat protein it repairs the body and creates new cells to replace ones that naturally (or unnaturally) die off. As such, it is absolutely critical for life. Does any of these items seem to resonate with you?

When you don’t have a holistic healthy approach to your life, you aren’t going to feel your best. If you don’t feel your best then you aren’t going to show up as fully present in any area of your life. Abundance is inter-connected with your mind, body, spirit and community. Start today by telling yourself the truth. A can of ravioli’s isn’t going to help your health. Sitting on the couch all day isn’t going to help you accomplish your daily goals. That can of of Diet Coke isn’t going to give you the energy you need, nor is it going to help you cope with your children.

There is a reason – as I’ve said before – that they say the truth will set you free. Free yourself to live abundantly and respect yourself and live your truth. Start today.

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