Anybody doing the Herbalife diet

If anybody wants some help with there herbalife products I can help you.

how is that?

It was more a general statement regarding the nature of your post. It wasn't attacking me specifically, since I had yet to post in the thread, but it was clearly pointed at folks who harbor contrary opinions of MLM's and their crap products, as I do. Your post was dripping with irony, so I took you to task over it, as I would anyone else.

Rigger

Hi. I am doing Herbalife. Started 2 days ago. I am about ready to break down and cry. I am sooooo hungry. I'm doing 2 shakes and 1 meal. My breakfast shake is done with milk and my lunch shake with water. I am so flipping hungry in between. I take the vitamins as well. The tea seems to be too much caffeine for me. Makes my heart beat really fast and gives me the shakes. Someone please help with some advise. I'm ready to throw in the towel already.

help?

throw the towel in.
count calories.
eat enough. you're hungry because you're not eating enough.

even better:

1. don't trust the initial setup that MFP provides. If you put in the wrong/inaccurate information, it'll tell you to eat an amount that may not be applicable.
2. Make sure you eat enough.
3. Figure out what works for you and is sustainable/healthy/long term.
4. avoid fads. don't buy in to any "Hey, try the twinkie and vodka diet"
5. Don't cut out anything now that you don't plan on literally giving up forever.
6. GET A FOOD SCALE. Weigh everything. No, seriously.
7. Get an HRM with a chest strap. You'll at least have a better idea of what you're burning. It'll be more accurate than the generic info in the exercise database.. and even more than the cardio machines. This is great for steady state cardio (run/walk/etc)
8. Don't go balls out. You'll burn out. I see 300 lb people show up here, instantly start working out and cutting their intake SEVERELY... trying to cut out all of their carbs at once.. whatever. Take it slow. Figure out how much you need to eat FIRST in order to lose.. then incorporate exercise.
9. Don't cardio yourself to death.
10. Take the information on the forums with a grain of salt. A lot of people that have been here for a while.. and have been successful, may seem jaded. They give out GREAT advice day after day, only to be met with people that refuse to listen.
11. Eat real food. Not diet food. Not "low fat, sugar free, now without X." It's easier to get/find/count.
12. don't set time restrictions.
13. measure yourself weekly. Don't just weigh. Measure and take pictures.
14 BE PATIENT.
15. Avoid forum topics that have "1200" in the title. It's just full of butthurt. Lots of it.
16. If you ask a question on the forum, give as much information as you can ("yes, I have a food scale and weigh my food" is worlds better than "I eat a palm full of miscellaneous boiled chicken parts..sometimes.")
17. Be honest with yourself and honest with us.
18. This isn't a game, it's about changing your lifestyle. Do that.

pretty much that.

...and don't fall into the "1200 calorie" vertigo of suck because of:

the typical MFP users does this:
1. I wanna lose weight, let's try MFP.
2. OH! Wow, it tells me I can lose 2 lbs a WEEK? AWESOME!
3. I just sit at a desk when I'm not working out, I guess I'm sedentary.
4. MFP tells them 1200 calories, and they don't even eat that.. then they work out on top of it.. creating an even bigger deficit.
5. Lose a lot, fast, brag about 1200 calorie success.
6. Come back in a few months trying to figure out why they're dizzy, tired, not losing weight.
7. Get on the forums, ask why they aren't losing.
8. Get two responses (I eat 1200 and lose) (I eat 2200 and lose)
9. Argument ensues about who is right.

Now. That being said. These threads happen hundreds of times per day. Most times, and I mean really.. seriously.. 95% of the time.. people get the 1200 number because they don't put the right information in when they set up the account. There are a great number of people that are trying to help. I'm one of 'em.

I'm a hardcore advocate of actually finding out what works for the individual.. by means of other calculators, averages, time, practice, and patience.

Blanket prescriptions of 1200 calories "because it worked for me" is more harmful to the generic new user than the "figure out what you need to eat." Unfortunately, one is a LOT easier to type.

Find out what you need: http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/

and make sure to read: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

...and here's another approach.

Block off 6 weeks. log EXACTLY what you eat for those six weeks, weigh at the beginning, weight at the end. If you've lost, you're eating under your TDEE. If you haven't lost, congrats.. you found your TDEE, if you've gained... then you're above TDEE.

From there, look at how much you lost or gained and you have a rough estimate of how to shift your intake to balance it out.

Online calculators are great, but they're just estimates. They give you decent ideas for starting points. From there, it's on you to fine tune it.

TL;DR: you don't "buy" weight loss. the shakes aren't a sustainable lifestyle. if you already hate it this much, there;s good reason

I just started Hebalife 5 days ago and I absolutely love the mint chocolate shake.I use it with a cup of lactose free fat free milk for breakfast... then vanilla shake for lunch.. It tastes a bit plane so I add some frozen berries to it and it is yummy... Then about 6pm I have pretty healthy dinner (at least I try . I do snack in between: apple, turkey breast, celery with peanut butter or just plane peanut butter for extra protein. . I do not work out but I plan on starting this week. So far program is tolerable and even though I did not loose weight I feel lighter, healthier & more energetic.. Timber weigh in is in 2 days !!! Yay..

I did Herbalife, spent tons of money, lost some weight, and didn't see any lasting or satisfying results. In the end, for me, it seems like Herbalife would be fine as a supplement, but not a "diet".

Rather than meal replacements, I eat meals..healthy meals..satisfying..filling meals. I do use shakes (my favorite is Bodylogix Chocolate), but only as a supplement to my workout regime. This method, for me, works. I don't feel like I have to stick to it, or have build up my mind to never give up or anything like that..now it's just IS. I don't see my eating habits now as a "diet" (as in a drastic change in eating habits to lose weight), I see it as a diet..just what I eat.

I personally didn't think Herbalife was sustainable..unless I wanted to drink my meals for the rest of my life.

I just started today. I had a vanilla shake with banana, strawberries and skim milk this morning. Not bad and I'm not hungry yet. I see about half and half reviews on this blog. Half bashing it and half saying it is wonderful. I am hoping to use this as a jump start to weightloss for me. It is fustrating for me when I have watched what I eat, tracked every calorie and excercised and still lost minimal weight. It looks like the most important thing is to make sure I stick to healthy eating habits and excercise if or when I decide to discontinue with the products. Please friend me if you are a herbalife user and are willing to share shake recipes. Excited to start this new journey!!

I lost weight quickly doing the herbalife diet. BUT gained it all back once I stopped. Its not sustainable and i personally find it pricey to do it in long term. I know people who still have to replace their breakfast with the shake to maintain their weight. I personally can't imagine living this way for the rest of my life..

I'm doing herbal life and I have no clue wat I'm doing. can we combine the meal and proteins mix in 1 shake? And can we combine the aloe and the tea as 1 drink? Can someone help me out?

I myself am an Herbalife Health coach, and rather than put over the products like an overzealous salesperson, it really is all about finding a plan that works for you. The idea is not to be on shakes every day forever, because that isn't reasonable and it's not sustainable. What I have noticed though, is that the people that gain weight right back after stopping are gaining it back because they go from a nutritionally complete supplement, meant to give your daily routine a nutritional leg-up, back to not practicing portion control and eating less than ideal food. I myself started with the two-shakes plan, and stalled out. I then starting using the shakes strictly as a Pre- and Post-Workout supplement, and made sure each of my meals and snacks were a clean, whole, unprocessed food. It has made all the difference :-) The tea has gotten me off of coffee, the multivitamin and cell activator has done wonders for letting me get the full benefit of the whole program.

Herbalife is NOT a diet, itis a lifestyle change. You have to want to change for the better of your HEALTH! Which means eating healthy on a daily basis. That doesnt mean you dont get to enjoy the "bad" foods, it just means you limit those foods to maybe once a week, and dont over indulge. Its all about choices and choosing to stay healthy and fit. its not about "dieting" its about nutrition and fitness. Its about living healthy so you can live longer, healthier, happier.

Hi, I have been on the 2 shakes and all the supplements, plus tea plus aloe, ive also been using myfitnesspal to track my kj intake and add my daily exercise. Ive been doing theis for 3 weeks, and even though I feel great I have not lost on the scale or in inches, very demotivating. At the end of each day when I calculate my day on MFP it says that I should be such in 5 weeks time which is very encouraging but after 3 weeks NOTHING!! have no idea what I am doing wrong

Thank you for posting this! I think everyone knows this, but you see the results people have and you get excited, but we all know, as you said, liquid diets don't work unless you plan drinking your nutrition for the rest of your life! :happy:

I myself started with the two-shakes plan, and stalled out. I then starting using the shakes strictly as a Pre- and Post-Workout supplement, and made sure each of my meals and snacks were a clean, whole, unprocessed food.

Wait is my math wrong? You're still doing 2 shakes a day. So how did it change?

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So here's some information I received from my coach about how to plan out your meals.

TYPICAL DAY:

Your day looks like this (this is a sample, adjust to fit your schedule):

7:00 am Aloe, tea, F1 shake and tablets

9:30 am protein snack

12:00 noon aloe, tea, F1 shake and tablets

2:30 pm tea, protein snack

5:00 pm aloe, dinner and tablets

7:30 pm protein snack

10:00 pm aloe

Remember - it's not just about the food intake, it's about the exercise that you participate in on a daily basis to help increase the weight loss.