Isagenix Helped Me Lose Pounds with Nutritional Cleansing

My Isagenix Story

It always happens the same way. I come back to the school year after a long summer of eating fruits and veggies, drinking only water and tea, going on long walks and bicycle rides, walking on the beach and swimming in the pool.

I'm tan and slim and feel great.

Then the stress of a new school year begins. New students to get to know, parents to meet at open house, new procedures, regular meetings, etc. I guess I eat to soothe my stress.

My first really drastic step down into the world of weight gain begins with eating way too much Halloween candy, which I find conveniently sitting around in bowls every where I go.

Then comes the Thanksgiving feast, where I probably stretch my healthy tummy muscles out. Thereafter, I feel unsatisfied with the normal portions I enjoyed during summer vacation.

Christmas season quickly follows and I am delighted eating Christmas cookies, Christmas chocolates and going to Christmas parties. Our extended-family Christmas meal consists of a beef and pork fondue with a wide variety of dipping sauces, lots of bread and butter, complete with my favorite chocolate mouse for dessert.

At New Year's I love the variety of chips and dip (especially the buffalo chicken dip made with cream cheese).

February brings Valentine's day with boxes of candies from friends and loved ones. I know I shouldn't eat them, but I do anyway.

April brings Easter bunnies bearing chocolate treats, marshmallow chicks and another big family meal. I can't resist.

The next thing, I know I can't fit into any of my clothes, so I go looking in the depths of my closet for my fat clothes (some of these are left over maternity clothes!).

Then I feel really depressed and hopeless. Until summer when I shrink again.

This Time was Different

This time around I weighed as much as I did the day I gave birth to my first child and I had even outgrown the two new pairs of "fat" pants I bought just a couple weeks earlier.

That spring (before the Easter bunny had arrived)I confided in my friend Tammy that I had to do something about my weight. I was trying to eat as little as possible and make better choices, but nothing was working.

I was desperate.

My colleague told me she used a program called "Isagenix" and had lost 30 pounds.

I thought for a moment how sometimes opportunities appear out of the blue, and that they may arrive by divine intervention. I decided right then to just do whatever my friend did and stop the creeping weight gain and frustration I was experiencing.

I told my husband what I was going to do and he said he also wanted to do the 30 day program. I'm glad that happened, because it is much easier for me to improve my eating habits with his participation.

When our package arrived, I read everything and was immediately impressed and confident. That was the second week of March. I didn't know it at the time, but by the end of May (just 10 weeks later), I would be exactly 30 pounds lighter and feeling great.

We donned swim suits for a before photo, that I was not sure we would ever look at. Now, I'm so glad we did (I learned later that we made a mistake when we didn't hold a USA Today newspaper showing the date of the photo to qualify in this company's challenge which could have won us official recognition and maybe even prize money for being successful).

Now we are not the most amazing success story, worthy of any national recognition-- but for me, I feel very successful. I feel like I got my life back on track and I'm so much happier.

I also made another mistake, by not taking my body measurements. This would have been another great motivator for myself, since evidence of a shrinking body is even more significant than a decreasing number on the scale in the bathroom.






What is Isagenix?


Isagenix is a nutritional system that offers organic, super healthy and nutrition-packed products to help people lose weight by releasing toxins from the body's fat cells.

I believe nutritional cleansing is the key to this system. Once I started riding my body of toxins, I got all my energy back, my hairdresser said my hair felt thicker and I went from a size 14 pants to a size 8.

Isagenix is a very easy system: a shake for breakfast (I prefer vanilla, and it tastes yummy, is filling and curbs my hunger for a long time), shake for lunch (or dinner) and then one healthy meal. After each shake, I swallow an herbal metabolism booster (cayenne pepper is the first ingredient). At night, there's a different herbal capsule for flushing toxins out during the night (this does not cause problems in the bathroom-if you know what I mean).

There is an intense liquid vitamin shot that I drink when I get home from school around 4pm. It perks me up when otherwise I just feel like sitting on the couch and doing nothing.

Below is my before and after photo (taken by my nine-year old son). I know it's not as dramatic as the ones you see in magazines or on TV, but it really was dramatic for ME. I don't know if you can tell that my body is thinner in the after photo- but it is and that happened WITHOUT a minute of exercise during those 12 weeks! I didn't know that these kind results were possible without cardio workouts or weight training. If only I had taken a 20 minute walk around the neighborhood every evening. I would have had even better results for not much effort.

Using the Isagenix system, my body continues to shrink, even though I don't lose pounds as quickly as before (probably makes sense that the last 10 pounds are going to take more time).

My goal is to keep using Isagenix while my family and I learn to eat more raw and light foods. I have also learned how to fast! I NEVER would have thought I could do this, simply because I love to eat. But when I researched the ingredients of the Cleanse drink, I felt really happy that I was consuming another Super Food: aloe vera.

The fasting is simple: every four hours a glass of Isagenix Cleanse drink, and in between I choose from spring water, green tea, raw almonds, two big snack tablets, or an Isadelight chocolate. It's doable; just don't hang out around good smelling food, unless you have willpower made of steel.

The reason I followed through with fasting was because I weighed less in the morning and I felt great. I've also learned that the body stores toxins in the fat cells, and if you fast correctly, the toxins are washed out of the body along with the fat cells that surrounded them as a protection for your body (see graphic below). That's what I want, so I still fast once a week (but now I drink fresh pressed carrot juice in between the cleanse drinks).

I thought I would just stop using Isagenix, when I could zip my size 8 pants closed, so I stopped ordering. But my husband and I missed the shake in the morning, the cleanse drinks on our fasting day, and we really missed our shot of liquid "Supreme" at 4pm every day. I also missed the metabolism boost I got from the herbal capsules I took twice a day.

I discovered that if I signed up for an Isagenix membership and paid a small fee, I could become an "Isagenix Associate". That means I now pay the lower wholesale price for all my products. My husband and I also signed up for an automatic shipment of the 30 day program; now we don't need to remember to order a week before our bottles are empty. It's a no-brainer for us.

I also have a favorite Isagenix product that is an "extra". Its called Isadelight. This is the most delicious dark chocolate ever! The best part is that it has a special nutritional ingredient (so it is a truly healthy chocolate) and it stops cravings. This treat is the best part of my fasting days!

My Future with Isagenix

Although my dream is to follow a 90% raw diet with daily servings of superfoods, this Isagenix program is the best way for me to build the bridge that will get me there. It simple, easy, quick and it works. I am really happy knowing that I have learned how, with Isagenix, I can lose pounds using nutritional cleansing. I am also fueling my body with the same high quality foods that athletes choose to become the best in their chosen sport.

That's my Isagenix shake on vacation with me!

7 Month Isagenix Update

I explained how I had lost almost 40 pounds and felt super-healthy, but I had not been exercising, so I still had a lot of jiggle in my legs and backside.

The trainer suggested I spend an hour with her so she could get my measurements, history, goals and then she could give me a customized exercise routine.

That was an amazing hour!

The best news came when she did a body fat percentage measurement. She told me that the normal range is between 25% and 29% percent. I told her that I thought I would be in there, but she said it's hard to tell by looking at someone, because skinny people can have a lot of fat and large people have a lot of muscle.

So I was a bit nervous while the machine measured me. You can probably imagine how thrilled I was when she told me I measured in at 20% body fat! She told me I had a LEAN body!

Me?

My heart was singing with joy. What fun it would be trying on the new bikini I just bought.

Here is a picture of me 7 months after I weighed in at 172 and was outgrowing my size 14 pants. I now wear a size 4 and weigh 134.

I want to stress the fact that I lost the 30 pounds in the first 10 weeks of starting Isagenix (not after 7 months).

And I know, I have work to do. It's time to bring core body resistance exercises back into my life and see if I can build some lean muscles to make my thighs and butt smaller.

The last 8 pounds have taken about 4 months (remember, I'm not exercising yet and I don't always have a sensible dinner).

The miracle with Isagenix has been that, although I don't lose a lot of weight anymore, my body is constantly SHRINKING.

I bought a couple size 8 pants and 2 weeks later, they were too loose. I bought some size 6 pants and a few weeks later, they were annoyingly loose also.

I just bought two pairs of size 4 pants, and I'm not sure if they will last very long either.

This is the craziest, most wonderful thing!!

As you can tell, I highly recommend Isagenix for weight loss, fat loss, high energy, high quality nutrition and a LEAN body!

I hope you'll do it too. Feel free to contact me with questions.

Watch my video: " How I Do Isagenix " to see how I use the Isagenix products in the 30 day supply pack and you'll also find out how I schedule my "cleanse" days.

Good luck!