Summer Bodies are Made in the Winter!

So when I feel I should call it a "LAZY SUNDAY", I remind myself that MARCH is in a few weeks. It's not like you, me or anyone is gonna wake up "BIKINI READY" if you decided to stay in "WINTER COAT MODE." 

I know it's COLD out there, BUT that's why I am giving you the chance to WORKOUT in the COMFORT of your OWN HOME! And I will keep you from not falling off the wagon, with MY SUPPORT and ladies in your same shoes. No one wants to feel alone.

Trust me, I KNOW it's HARD!! For those who know me, I HATE to WORKOUT and I STILL DO... but when it comes to my HEALTH and BODY I will DEDICATE a mere 30 minutes a day!!

I want to get the OPPORTUNITY to SUPPORT YOU for the next 60 DAYS in my next Beachbody Challenge and keep YOU ACCOUNTABLE!

But the first thing is first, you HAVE to COMMIT!

Alright gotta wipe this Chocolate Shakeology mustache off my face. Everyone have a great Sunday!

Success with Brazil Butt Lift and Shakeology!

This is one of my Challengers who is now PAYING IT FORWARD and KILLING it right now in HER OWN PERSONAL JOURNEY & being the INSPIRATION that so many people NEED!! So PROUD of YOU GIRL!!

Here's Reyna Michelle Lozano's story! 

"May of 2013 I reached a point in my life where enough was enough! I was exhausted, fatigued, obese, and depressed. I was embarrassed to go out. And then I realized "what am I doing?! I can change all of this!" It was then when I decided to take the Beachbody challenge. I started doing Brazil Butt Lift and drinking Shakeology.

I lost 11 lbs in the first 30days. Now, almost 3 months later.... I'm at -22lbs and -5in off my waist. It's amazing.

My initial motivation to lose weight was to make myself feel better. I wanted to boost my confidence, look good and set a good example for my kids.

Once the weight started coming off... I began receiving comments, messages all telling me how inspiring and motivating it was that I was doing this. So I decided to take it to the next step. I became a coach to pay it forward. I had finally found the solution to all of my problems and I wanted to share it with the world. I'd feel selfish if I didn't. My push now is waking up and knowing that someone out there is making healthier choices because of ME! That's the best feeling EVER!"

I would LOVE to help you out on YOUR MISSION to a HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE!

YES I WOULD LIKE A FREE COACH

Michelle Naomi's Beachbody Challenge!

 

 

 

 

Welcome SUMMER! A New Season, A New YOU!

 



What's MY SECRET to staying healthy and fit?? Read below..


People ask me all the time -- What on Earth is this Beachbody Challenge thing you talk about? The Beachbody Challenge was put together to keep people motivated to stick to a fitness program, ensure they have the proper nutrition and give them some extra support to keep on going when the going gets tough. You'll tell me what personal goals that you want to accomplish. Whether it's losing weight, getting toned or even for those ab muscles to start showing, there are packages for EVERYONE.

So why a challenge GROUP? The biggest problem many of us have our actually FOLLOWING THROUGH with our workouts and proper nutrition. Just think about it... How many times have you made an excuse not to go to the gym or eat just one cookie, but it turns into ten? Then we say we will eat better tomorrow and then DON'T?

How does that really make your feel inside? It makes you mad that you failed! Trust me, this CYCLE has been the STORY of MY LIFE! It really feels like it can be impossible. We all know how busy gyms are in January.. then week by week the crowds thin out. But guess what? It's NOT IMPOSSIBLE to stick with a workout and eating right. You gotta have the support group and the workout that is tailored to YOU! I personally chose TurboFire with Chocolate Shakeology.

I was one of these people who would go in and out of working out and eating right! It's definitely a cycle I am so happy to break apart! There are hundreds of thousands of people who would agree with me that it IS POSSIBLE to stick with eating healthy and completing a workout program from start to finish! How is that? Well you need the right tools, extra support and motivation when you feel down!

Not only will the Beachbody Challenge Packs give you all the tools at a discount -- your personalized workout program as well as Shakeology. It will give you access to a PRIVATE Facebook Group to keep you motivated and accountable as well as I will be your personal Coach to see you through the whole program! You can even sign up to Coach for FREE with your Challenge Pack Purchase so you can benefit from the discounts and make commissions to sign up your friends to get fit with YOU!
 

 

You ready to take the Beachbody Challenge?

YES I am READY to TAKE the CHALLENGE!

Oh and just to mention... You can "Take the Beachbody Challenge" and be entered to WIN PRIZES -- simply for submitting your before and after pictures! Wow can you imagine -- someone paying you to get FIT!

• You'll log in your workouts at Team Beachbody to enter to win $500 every day!
• Then there are monthly prizes of $1,000!
• Quarterly prizes of $5,000 and an expenses paid trip!
• And a GRAND PRIZE of $100,000

Be rewarded for losing weight? Call it crazy, but it's true!! Stop dreaming and start believing!

Now, What Workout Should I Choose?

I have listed MY FAVORITE CHALLENGE PACKS, but there are MANY MORE! And just to add in --- we have VEGAN flavors of Shakeology (Tropical and Chocolate) to choose from - DAIRY and LACTOSE FREE! Just click on the pictures below for all the details on each program!

Beginner to Intermediate Programs

 

 

 

Slim in 6

• Instructor - Debbie Siebers
• Full body slimming and toning focused on abs, thighs, buns and hips
• Combines cardio with light resistance moves to burn fat and reshape your body in 6 weeks

Turbo Jam

• Instructor Chalene Johnson
• Calorie burning and total body sculpting focused on abs and thighs
• Kickboxing and body sculpting to the hottest tunes to burn tons of calories

Brazil Butt Lift (One of my FAVS)

• Instructor Leandro Carvalho
• Advanced workouts and new tools will not only help you perfect your booty, but also get the tight, sexy bikini body of your dreams!
• Leandro takes his TriAngle Training method to the next level with 3 innovative workouts that incorporate heavier weights and the stability ball to engage your core with every move, for your ultimate bikini body.

Hip Hop Abs

• Instructor Shaun T. of INSANITY
• Calorie-burning cardio and total-body sculpting focused on abs and core
• Fun hip hop dance moves set to hot music to burn fat and sculpt lean sexy abs.

Power 90

• Instructor Tony Horton of P90X
• Fat burning and total-body sculpting focused on abs, thighs, and upper body
• 90-day boot camp featuring fast and effective circuit-training workouts to transform your body in as little as 35 minutes a day.

RevAbs

• Instructor Brett Hoebel
• Fat-burning cardio, muscle-building and sculpting focused on abs and core.
• Abcentrics™, Capoeira, cardio intervals, strength training, and ab/core work to get you six-pack abs in 90 days

10 Minute Trainer (GREAT if you're SHORT ON TIME)

• Instructor Tony Horton
• Full body workout in only 10 minutes a day
• Combines fat-burning cardio, total-body sculpting, and ab moves all at the same time for maximum efficiency!

Advanced Programs

TurboFire (MY FAVORITE PROGRAM and AMAZING INSTRUCTOR!)

• Instructor Chalene Johnson
• Burn up to 9x more fat and calories than with traditional cardio.
• High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) ignites your metabolism and helps your body burn calories for up to 48 hours after your workout.

INSANITY

• Instructor Shaun T.
• Transform your body in 60 days with the most intense workout program ever put on DVD
• MAX Interval Training—you perform long bursts of maximum-intensity exercise with short periods of rest

P90X

• Instructor Tony Horton
• Advanced total-body training program focused on abs, legs, chest, back, and arms.
• Twelve routines that keep introducing new moves and challenging your muscles to get you absolutely ripped in 90 days.

Les Mills Pump

• Instructor Les Mills Pump International Pro Team
• Benefits: Barbell-based rapid weight loss and accelerated strength training program for lean muscle building without the bulk.
• How it works: Using the barbell and THE REP EFFECT^™ to lift lighter weights at a higher rate of repetition boosts your heart rate and burns more fat and calories than traditional weight workouts

ChaLEAN EXTREME

• Instructor Chalene Johnson
• Advanced circuit training program develops lean, sexy muscle to help you burn up to 60% of your body fat for overall body transformation.
• The proven 3-phase circuit training technique is guaranteed to give you results every 30 days—the more muscle you build, the more fat you burn because Muscle Burns Fat^®

Les Mills Combat (Just released December 1st!)

• Instructors Dan Cohen & Rachael Newsham
• Carve a lean, strong, chiseled body in just 60 days with the ultimate Mixed Martial Arts Program.
• Fast Twitch Integration Training blends the most dynamic moves from karate, taekwondo, boxing, muay thai/kickboxing, capoeira, and jiu jitsu, and combines them in explosive, escalating patterns that work your fast-twitch muscles—the ones with the greatest capacity for change—like crazy! You'll burn massive amounts of fat and calories both during the workout and long after. That's how it builds your best body ever in just 60 days.

And for my MEN that want to BULK UP!

BODY BEAST

• Instructor Sagi Kalev
• Achieve massive muscle gains and fat loss in just 90 days
• Get HUGE. Gain massive muscle and lose fat with one of the first pro-level bodybuilding, nutrition, and supplement all-in-one systems on the market. It fuses old-school resistance training with breakthrough sports science in 12 extreme muscle-building and growth-inducing workouts, along with a bodybuilding eating plan.

OR Choose a 21 Day Cleanse (no working out involved)

Beachbody's Ultimate Reset

• Restore your body back to its optimal "factory setting" in 21 days
• Gain more energy and greater focus
• Enjoy better digestion and lose weight

Can I REALLY lose weight with Shakeology and an at Home Workout?

First, Shakeology's nutrient dense ingredients are vital to your health because you will be eating less than you're used to. Shakeology is filling, boosts the immune system, gives energy and so much more!

Shakeology is packed with vitamins and will fill in nutritional gaps!

Second, Beachbody's fitness programs were designed to help you achieve maximum weight loss results. They were tested again and again in order to help you. Doesn't matter what program you choose, as long as it's challenging to YOU!

And I can speak for being a proud "product of the product" when you combine Shakeology with your assigned nutritional plan with a home workout of your choice.. you WILL achieve WEIGHT LOSS and SUCCESS!

Why Join Michelle Goldstein's Beachbody Challenge Group?

You will get my undivided attention to your success and access to a private Facebook group with other Beachbody Challengers in your same position!

Once you sign up for a Beachbody Challenge, I will invite you to join our private Facebook group where you'll learn and encourage one another throughout the Challenge... Not to mention you'll hold one another accountable and ensure we're ALL SUCCESSFUL together!

Note: Joining the Facebook group is optional. I will still be here for all your fitness and nutritional needs.

Wait! But I want to Become a Team Beachbody Coach to receive discounts and commissions like you!

Well guess what? If you want to Become a Coach, Coach enrollment is ABSOLUTELY FREE with the purchase of a Beachbody Challenge Pack!

So not only are you losing inches and getting fit, but you have the opportunity to make money! The enrollment which is normally $39.95 is completely waived!

Get your friends, family, coworkers and anyone else you know involved with you and you'll get PAID for getting them fit and fabulous!

During enrollment, you'll pick the pack you want and it will waive the Coach enrollment fee!

Start your Coach Application right here!



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Cindy Adams -- Hot Mom P90x Transformation

This is the AMAZING JOURNEY of one of my coaches, Cindy Adams who is a mother of a beautiful little boy! She became a coach after seeing incredible results in which she credits Beachbody products! Read below on her story! Also feel free to contact Cindy directly by clicking here

Cindy's Transformation: Why and How?

I never really worried much about my weight, I was always very tiny being 5 feet tall, and always less than 130 pounds. On February 8, 2008 I was beyond blessed with a happy, healthy 6 pound baby boy.. except I had reached over 200 pounds. Being 21 years old at the time, my thought was “whatever, it’s baby weight, it will go away.” It didn't. I hadn't even given a thought to losing the weight until the end of 2009, when my marriage ended. I was 22 at the time, and felt like I needed to start some kind of change to get my life back on track. Finding myself a single mother, living in an apartment I could barely afford, working part-time, I had no idea where in the world to start. My best friend, who is my husband now, was on this third round of P90x at this time, I had heard about it but never really looked into it. He had amazing results, but I was still apprehensive. I was exhausted, stressed, and really just totally unmotivated.

 After weeks of convincing, I borrowed his DVDs, with the intention of getting him off my back, really. That didn't work, he was still asking me “How’s it going?”, “Any results?” I lied. Told him I was doing it, I wasn't. Finally, one night after I put my son to bed, I realized I needed to stop feeling sorry about myself. I needed to make a change if I was ever going to make it on my own. Day 1: I really thought I was going to die. 2 weeks later, I was down 12 pounds. So what did I do? I stopped.
And gained it back. Started over, did almost the whole 90 days this time around, and lost 50 pounds. I was so excited. Then my husband and I started dating, I put it off, we went out to eat almost every night. I was at 147, I was happy, and close enough to my goal weight that I was satisfied. Until I went back up to 160.

This time I ordered Hip Hop Abs, because I was burnt out on p90x and joined the gym, and got down to 140, 8 pounds away from my goal! Summer came, we went on a vacation to Jamaica, got married, went to the Dominican for our honeymoon, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and holy crap.. 25 pounds gained. In 5 months.

So, I returned to the gym.. December.. January.. February.. nothing, not one pound lost. I had forgotten about my Hip Hop Abs DVD until I was going back over how I got down to 140 the last time. I pulled it out and stared at it for about 20 minutes. I wanted to do it right this time, better actually. I looked around instagram at people’s transformations, even though I already knew it worked. I found Michelle on Instagram, and started following her. At first I was just watching and looking at all the posts about Shakeology, and the transformations. I was amazed at how she was helping people, and reaching out to them. This is something I wanted to do for so long, I myself had such a hard time reaching my goals, and I knew I wasn't alone. I wanted to help, If I could just reach one person and change their lives, my struggle would be worth it. I wanted to make it easier. I became a coach. I started doing a challenge, everything was so much easier. I started drinking shakeology, I felt a thousand times better. I’m working harder than I ever have to make myself better, and that is reflecting in all areas of my life.

 I learned at the beginning of the week that I have PCOS, Poly-cystic Ovarian Syndrome, and that is why my weight has been so out of control the last few years. Instead of giving up, this is making me work harder for my goals. I may not be able to lose as easy as everyone else, but I am still losing, and getting healthier every day.

I want to show people they can reach their goals, regardless of what life throws at you. You can be successful, hard work equals results. I’ve heard that numerous times, but now I know it’s true. If you want it, work for it. I am ½ inch away from reaching my first goal. I gave up on the pounds, that is just a number, that doesn’t define me. Now I’m looking for the changes in my body, that’s more realistic to me, that’s what I had a problem with. Today, I am down 60 pounds from the day in 2010 that I started, I am happier, more positive than I have ever been, and certainly stronger. 3 years ago I would have told you, you were a liar if you told me I’d be where I am today, and I never would have gotten here without Beachbody. I would love to help you out as well! Just contact me here!

APRIL 17th, 2013. Down 12 pounds in 44 days & 5 in on stomach!



Christmas Dinner Swap - Choose This Not THAT!!

 

 

 

 

 

According to Everyday Health -  "The problem with the holidays isn’t usually the weight gain — the average American gains only one or two pounds in between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — it’s the fact that most people never lose the excess pounds. So in five years you may have gained 10 pounds and in 10 years, 20 pounds. The best course of action? Stop weight gain before it starts.


The key is eating healthy throughout the holiday season and remembering portion control when it comes to your it-wouldn’t-be-Thanksgiving-or-Christmas-without-them foods. For the rest of the courses, all you have to do is make the right choices that will allow you to indulge and enjoy, yet keep you from loading up on the fatty, high-calories dishes that can quickly lead to unwanted weight gain."


Check out some of these healthy holiday food swaps that Everyday Health recommends:



Skip: Full Fat Dips
Eat This Instead: Yogurt Dips
Why: Why waste all of your calories on an appetizer with full-fat sour cream when there is tons more food to come? An ounce of sour cream has about 60 calories, while an ounce of nonfat plain Greek yogurt has only 15-20 calories and the same amount of nonfat sour cream has about 25. The calories that you save quickly add up


Skip: Candied Yams
Eat This Instead: Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Why: A mere half-cup of candied yams is a whopping 215 calories! Try oven-roasted sweet potatoes brushed with canola or olive oil instead. At ¾ cup and 100 calories, you get more potatoes for fewer calories, and you also get a healthy helping of vitamins and minerals!


Skip: Dark Meat Turkey
Eat This Instead: White Meat Turkey
Why: Did you know that the dark meat in your Turkey has about twice the amount of fat and 40% more calories? Your best bet is to stick to the light meat.


Skip: Traditional Gravy
Eat This Instead: Low-Fat Gravy
Why: Everyday Health recommends making turkey gravy—it’s healthy without losing taste! Melissa Joy Dobbins, MS, RD, LDN makes a healthy gravy with 1 cup of fat-free turkey broth, 2 tablespoons of flour and seasonings to taste. “If you still want to use the drippings from the roasting pan, remove the fat first,” she says. Just remember these two words: portion control—gravy calories add up fast.

 

Skip: Cranberry Sauce
Eat This Instead: Cranberry Relish
Why: Yes, even one little side dish can be packed with sugar, corn syrup and added sweeteners. Just a fourth of a cup can have more than 100 calories. If you make your own cranberry relish and cut back on the sugar content and/or use sugar substitutes, you’re guaranteed to have a healthier holiday side dish.


Skip: Green Bean Casserole
Eat This Instead: Fresh Green Beans
Why: Just because green beans are in the name, doesn’t necessarily make green bean casserole a healthy dish. Skip the full-fat cream of mushroom soup and French-fried onions this year—just cut and steam fresh green beans and sprinkle them with slivered almonds instead!


Skip: White Flour Rolls
Eat This Instead: Whole-Wheat Rolls
Why: Did you know that a single dinner roll has about 100 to 200 calories? If you have to have bread at the dinner table, replace white flour with whole wheat in your recipe.


Skip: Eggnog
Eat This Instead: Cider
Why: It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that a rich and creamy drink like eggnog has an upwards of 250 calories and more than half of your daily dose of saturated fat. Opt for a glass of hot apple cider instead—you instantly save 100 to 150 calories and all the fat!


Skip: Pecan Pie
Eat This Instead: Pumpkin Pie
Why: Nothing says the holidays like sweets! What would be a party without desserts anyway? Just be smart about it—a slice of pecan pie has about 500 calories. So save 200 calories and have a slice of pumpkin pie instead!


I hope this helps you make some good choices on your upcoming grocery store run! Yogurt dips are AMAZING -- they really do feel like the "Real Fat Thing!" I have to admit, I LOVE Pecan Pie, but to save 200 calories by swapping for Pumpkin Pie can be done!

I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL Christmas and we can all fully get back on track together! Just don't fully fall off! Pinky Swear?

xoxox

Michelle Naomi