Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Sharing is Caring...

As some of you may or may not know, I work as an Herbalife® Independent Distributor and Wellness Coach. I have to say that I honestly love what I do. I have always been one to pay attention to what I eat, balance my meals, and be active. As I get older, live longer, and experience more of what life has in store for me, I pay attention. I have always been very in tune with my body. As a dancer, you have to be. My early years in ballet definitely play a large part in the development of that "self-connect". Now, I can't speak for anyone other than myself, and judge me if you want, but I am afraid to die. Just being honest. I want to live for as long as possible and I want to do so in a comfortable manner. I don't wanna be elderly and barely able to stand and carrying around oxygen tanks and completely dependent on someone else to take care of me. I want to continue to look younger than I am, and walk with an unpained gait. (Yes, unpained is a word that I just created...) I want to feel free.

After I gave birth to my son, Luc, who is now 21 months old, my body changed. Having a baby... growing a human within one's body changes that body. It depletes vitamin/mineral/nutrient stores, which is why we take prenatal vitamins. Things within the body literally move... and so do things without lol... As someone who has always been 100% in tune with her body, I found myself suddenly feeling lost. I felt like I was still me, but didn't know this body that I was in. I don't mean the stretch marks. I mean the difference in my hip joints and my back, and the way that I was suddenly able to hold onto weight from junk food where before that was never an issue. My body is changed. Not ruined, but definitely changed. For me, getting my "pre-baby body" back is just not an option.

With that being said, I find myself healthier than ever before and every day I become that much more in awe of this body that I carry around. I continue to balance my meals. I do drink more milk than I did before, which is great for my bones and teeth (important things that I'd like to keep strong). I pump iron now, because it helps to strengthen the bones and doctors highly recommend it for postmenopausal women (not that I'm going thru the change). I work out regularly (targeted workouts), and I spend 1.5 hrs doing flexibility training at least three times a week. I feel stronger than before, and more alive.

A LARGE part of this "fountain of youth" feeling that I have is due to the Herbalife® products. I may sound like an infomercial, but they really do work! I have never been the type of person to take pills and drink shakes, and protein drinks while working out (or even having regular workouts aside from dance), but this stuff REALLY REALLY works. I don't sleep much because it's just me and Luc so whenever he's up or needs something or something lol I'm the one that has to do it. I don't have another parent helping me to spoil him and expose him to everything that I possibly can to expand his horizons. Where getting between 3-4 hrs sleep each night would leave me in a zombie state, I am now able to perform better. I look better, I feel better, I have energy to do everything that he requires, and still make time for myself to be better. To exercise even more and get even better results. To (hopefully) make the Dean's List this semester.

I'm training to become a world-class pole artiste. I think that the art-form is absolutely beautiful and the physical demands are mind-blowing. In order to get better, I have to get stronger. In order to get stronger, I have to exercise more and more and fuel my body properly. In order to have the energy required to get through the workouts and help my body recover quickly, I consume Herbalife® products. I can spend 3 hrs on targeted workouts and another 1.5 on flexibility training and not be sore the next day. Where this was never possible for me before, I now breeze through it, and am able to move the next day. My muscles don't get worn down. Now don't get me wrong... when I move I feel a dull burn which reminds me that I worked out, but it's nowhere near anything to even complain about. I don't grimace when I move. However, when life gets in the way and I'm thrown off of my workout/training routine, that's when I get sore. I ache. I feel stiff. I have trouble sleeping. My overall mood suffers. I need to be able to move my body with ease. I need to be able to flow through this journey of life. I can NOT flow with a stiff ass body. It just doesn't work.

This is why I have fallen in love with Herbalife®. The products are made from naturally occurring "beneficial ingredients that have been developed using world-class scientific technology and research." Everyone in my home (my 21-month old son, my mother, my grandmother, and myself) uses some sort of Herbalife® product. And the house has become a much noisier and happy place to be since the products came through the front door. Why am I even telling you this? This is my blog, so I can. Lololol... But seriously, when I find something that I like, I share it because someone else might like it too. I looooooooooooove what Herbalife® has done for me, and the possibilities are endless. And for those of you who aren't so sure about this company, it's been around since 1980. It's reach extends to 88 countries right now at THIS very moment in time, and new markets are being reached every single day. (For more info on the Herbalife® company, head to herbalife.com.)

For anyone that may be curious about Herbalife® 
and how it can become a part of your life, 
please feel free to contact me. 
My lines of communication are open 24/7.

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