Shakeology

I think I'd rather eat my calories.

I've wanted to try it, but the incredibly high cost of it ($4 per shake! Craziness!) keeps me from pulling the trigger. I'd rather make my own shake, it would probably end up being cheaper, and about as healthy.

I don't know what Shakeology is but in my experience, any sort of shake replacement actually makes me consume MORE calories over the day because they never never never fill me up so I always end up eating a meal too. Needless to say I eat real food now.

Shakelogy has a ton of micronutrients, extremely good for you. It is expensive as hell though, always wanted to try it but at 4$ per shake, not widdit.

OP was asking people who actually use the shakeology what they think, not what people think of the idea of buying shakeology versus making your own or whatever.

Oh and the difference between 400 calories in a shake (that is theoretically comprised of healthy food) and healthy solid food is water content. Assuming you aren't using heavy whipping cream or something similar.

I've taken carrots, spinach leaves, and cucumber and some other veggie, no fruit, and some water, and *nothing* else, ...and made a shake that way. Yea, I have to say that day at least I was happier drinking my calories than eating them.

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What about Harlem Shakeology?

This is not the harlem shake I grew up with...

I make my own shakes, well smoothies. I use frozen fruit, spinach, yogurt and a protein powder. They are yummy!!

I like the Chocolate and Strawberry. Never tried the Greenberry but my sister said it was gross haha. They just announced a new Vanilla flavor at their Coach Summit yesterday that is available to order now I guess.

I've been drinking chocolate Shakeology for about a year and a half now, and I am literally full for several hours. And the nutrients you get in Shake-O are incredibly high compared to how much food you'd have to consume to get the same amount. It is expensive for sure, but it's cheaper if you sign up to become a coach. Worth it for the discount if nothing else.

People that always say "I'd rather eat my calories" make me laugh. Tell me you never drink fruit juice or smoothies or protein shakes. smh

ETA - btw I like Shakeology. I like the Chocolate and Greenberry personally.

Yea because they saw a blurb on Dr. Oz about only drinking water to lose weight or some other simplistic thinking. This is the same one-dimensional annoyance as "just count calories and make sure you don't eat more than <insert latest "scientifically-figured" number here> calories a day, stupid!"

As always it is more complicated than that. For my part, I needed the protein shakes, *after* already eating lots of lean meats, eggs, nuts, jerky snacks, tons of veggies, etc. And I still found it hard to reach ~3000cal that I was shooting for, and the ratios I was chasing, while not eating garbage.

OK I will just stick to 2700calories of krispy kremes a day. Yea that will work. Too many authorities on these boards.

I'm getting the popcorn ready. Who's in?

Really? Someone asks about flavors of Shake-o and the trolls come running to whine about eating their calories and krispy kreme and tell people that like protein shakes they are doing it wrong and must be starving themselves since for that one meal or snack they have a shake. Oh..ok. Because having a protein shake of course equates to that's the only thing we eat all day, for every single meal...and obviously only mix it with water. No almond milk, or fruit, peanut butter, or anything like that. How does it go from drinking protein shakes to water fasting?

I'm getting the popcorn ready. Who's in?

I wanted to try them as a quick meal replacement for days I am stuck in the office and don't want to hit the vending machine, but they are too expensive. I researched som green smoothie recipes, and I have used those instead. I am not a big artifical flavor person, so I doubt if I would prefer the strawberry over the vanilla or other flavors. Just have never tried them.

had someone on facebook tell me that shakeology was better then a protein shake and a multi-vitamin because your stomach absorbs the shakology vitamins better than a multivitamin that is in pill form.

they couldn't tell me why though.

In regards to multi-vitamins of any kind that are present in pill form - you want to essentially "trick" your body into believing the nutrients in those pills are coming from an actual food source. It is advised to consume said vitamin pills with some sort of food that your body can digest, in opposed to just taking the pills alone with water. This way you give your body the opportunity to absorb the nutrients, in opposed to them just being flushed out of your system.

That's how it was explained to me years ago, anyway.

And back to the original question about Shakeology - like many people in this thread, I was wary to try the product because of the price alone. However, when I purchased Insanity: ASYLUM for my birthday a few years ago, I received a free 7-day trial of the stuff.

It was with that first week - the combination of those absolutely gutt-wrenching workouts, the "recovery formula," and the chocolate Shakeology to supplement for overall nutrition purposes - where I really fell in love with the stuff.

-I have tried the greenberry - and I suggest you don't. It really tastes like grass, unless you mix it with juice of some kind.
-I have tried the tropical, and wasn't too thrilled with it. (it really wasn't anything to write home about)
-And I'm not terribly excited by the release of the Vanilla flavor they mentioned at Summit this year, though I would be willing to try it.

All in all, I would suggest the chocolate shakeology. It is still my favorite, from that first free week trial. Although I know you do get some kind of percentage discount if you are a beachbody "coach," I pay the regular price and have a monthly auto-ship set up, because I really do enjoy it that much.

Shakeology is kind of like my "insurance" along with a multi-vitamin. In the event I fail to get my essential vitamins & nutrients to progress, I take shakeology once a day (usually in the morning, before I walk to work) and a multi-vitamin, to ensure my body gets what it needs.

Hope you find this info helpful!