Body by Vi - anyone tried this or now about it?

I have a few friends using this and talked me into it. They wanted me to do the 2 shakes a day and i passed. I'm currently having 1 shake for breakfast every day.

Its about 185 calories for my breakfast with 2 scoops and skim milk. Which is awesome. And unlike a lot of other breakfast foods, it keeps me FULL for 4-5 hours.

I agree shakes do not teach you proper nutrition or discipline. However with my lifestyle i was struggling with breakfast on the go. I love the shake. It tastes fantastic on its own, doesn't have alot of calories and fills you up. Its not cheap. $70 a month for one bag. You then have to buy the milk (i use lactose free so its NO cheap). Its not just protein, its vitamins and minerals.

I would say if you are using something like this as a tool to a healthier lifestyle (i'm working out regularly and eating better for my other meals) then it can only help. I would not suggest the program having 2 shakes a day. You may lose weight, but you cant eat only shakes forever. You need to change your lifestyle completely.

I don't understand the people that say they take this shake for the vitamins and minerals. Can't you just take a multi-vitamin in the morning, maybe through in some fish oil and calcium supplements and call it a day? Lot less calories that way too.

Least week at the gym I had tasted a sample it was peanut butter...it taste good. It says it is all natural, gluten free, diabetic friendly. It doesn't taste like a diet shake at all. It is pretty costly.

People should research things before they attack. Unfortunately it's scaring people with an honest question away from something incredibly healthy. Your idea of one a day is PERFECT for getting the extra nutrition. You don't have to stop eating and drink shakes all day. Come on people. This product is FDA and (THE ONLY ONE) Health Canada Approved, as well as recommended by doctors to diabetics. Obviously there is more to it than most think. Although I know how easy it is to assume all weight loss products are useless and a scam, as there are SOOO many out there. I still eat 3 healthy small meals a day on top of my two shakes, am incredibly disciplined with my food and exercise and have had amazing success. The shakes make me FEEL amazing because of the nutrition that is in them (UNLIKE a protein powder, which is only PROTEIN, I get my protein from lean meats daily).

Please don't let people scare you by saying it's a scam, I am here telling you as a user and NOT a seller that it's an incredible product that has changed my life in only 3 weeks. It has changed my whole family's life. Look up the nutritional specs and compare it to anything. Watch the video on what's in there, and you will see There is no substitute for good food, but there is a healthy option of help for those who need it And no one who has researched it would tell you that you can get the same nutrition in a vitamin or protein powder. Because you just can't. The nutrition is WHY it works, it gives your body everything it needs even on those days you just can't be that strict and perfect, and even on the days that you ARE, you would need to consumer over 10 thousand calories of GOOD food to get this level of nutrition. This is why your body reacts so well to it. Nutrition. Not calorie reduction.

My thoughts exactly (as well as her other posts). People who bash the challenge haven't actually bothered to research it and are making assumptions based on basic details. Most people who take on the challenge, like myself, research it like crazy for months before realizing it really IS all that it claims to be. There is no starving yourself, you have your shakes and one or two meals depending on your goal and snack whenever. You watch what your intake is just as you would any other healthy diet and it's not hard to get at least your 1200 and stay under whatever your goal is. It wouldn't even be possible to eat enough food in a day to access the nutritional benefits that the shakes provide. Any problem that comes to mind can easily be relieved with some research. Not just googling and reading that trashing sites that are affiliated with competitors whether you realize it or not. My endocrinologist, pharmacist and dietician all reviewed my kit before I even started and were very excited about it - AND they couldn't believe all of the kit was available for such a low price! People freak out about the price because you pay up front - but when the average person takes an honest look at their budget they will see they are actually saving money. Considering the three for free offer too - you cannot beat that. You get it FREE. Then you're only buying maybe one meal and some snacks a day. This is NOT just another protein shake - which is why it is so successful (just like the people who take on the challenge!). It's not only about weight loss - it's about having energy and feeling amazing. People who stop their challenge and begin eating junk of course will gain weight. Same goes for people who are eating healthy food then start eating junk. There is no difference lol Most people continue on but with the one shake a day once they meet their goals because they want to maintain the nutrition.
As for the pyramid scheme thing - I laugh every time. Where you work do you have a manager who is paid more than you and has more responsibilities? Do they have a supervisor? Does the supervisor have a regional manager? Does that regional manager not work for someone? And so on and so on until you finally reach whoever owns the company? EVERYTHING is a pyramid "scheme". Take a look at the government lol
So heaven forbid a company use the exact same methods only make it so the people at the "bottom" are actually getting benefits and what they work for - UNLIKE most jobs where the people at the top take it all and the one's at the bottom are stuck busting their butts off for min. wage and lucky to have benefits! (something promoters may not even need so much as they will be so healthy they barely need the medical care!).
Its funny when people talk about promoters pushing products on here...hello they can't share their links to their selling sites so how will THEY benefit from telling you how amazing it is? You would just go sign up with whoever you know that does it - not them. So why would they care unless it were to simply encourage an amazingly, healthy lifestyle??
Body by Vi is SAVING LIVES whether you want to believe it or not. It may not be for everyone and that's fine - but there is no need to go around bashing a product you don't actually understand, scaring off people who may truly benefit from it like so many of us do!

I don't understand the people that say they take this shake for the vitamins and minerals. Can't you just take a multi-vitamin in the morning, maybe through in some fish oil and calcium supplements and call it a day? Lot less calories that way too.

I would just love to know exactly which vitamins people should be taking to ensure they get the equivalent to what is in the shakes. THEN I would love to compare the price. Vitamins are EXPENSIVE, especially if you want high quality ones that aren't made with plastic and other garbage. Thanks to the food system of today we don't get what we need naturally anymore and so it's time for a change. As for less calories - you save on calories with the shakes because instead of having say 400 calories for a bagel - not to mention the cream cheese and/or butter, or the bowl of cereal that's 200 calories before milk, etc. you are getting less than 200 calories for your entire meal which unlike most options - actually fills you! Take a look at a fast promo for how much nutrition is in it - http://youtu.be/Ue4aXf8cGPg

FYI: No matter the source, DRINKING your vitamins is not more 'natural'.

The natural way to get vitamins is to eat food and get your vitamins through that food.

Thanks to the food system of today we don't get what we need naturally anymore and so it's time for a change.

But the change should be to the food system. Creating unnatural overly processed food stuff is how we got into the nutritional mess we're in. Creating something else in the lab isn't the solution. Demanding (and seeking out) better quality foods that ARE nutrient rich is.

So let's get's this straight, you drink a shake for breakfast and lunch then have a supper and you lose weight. Of course you do, you've successfully been fooled into lowering your caloric intake and all it cost was 100$ a month for a product that testing is starting to show has dubious health benefits.

I have no doubt you are losing lbs on a scale but does the system offer any type of body analysis testing to actually show how in what way you are losing weight? Are you dropping fat, water, muscle?

People keep thinking that losing weight on a scale is a measure of health, it's not. You need to determine if you are actually making your body healthier, not lighter.

And of course this product is so amazing that it can only be sold by a friendly multi-level marketer, it can't possibly be sold directly to the consumer in a store.

I love Canuck's and this post is why.

Hhahaaha. If you don't want to use it, don't. Don't spend your time bashing a healthy product that makes people feel great and helps them with their eating issues. It's not so easy for everyone to just "eat better and exercise DUH IT'S SO EASY!" LOL.

If it was that easy no one would be fat, and MFP would not exist. Everyone here has issues with food.

The shakes are making people happy and helping them reach their goals in a HEALTHY way, so why now just back off the people that are okay with that? It's not like they are taking a freaky *kitten* pill that can kill you. It's vitamins in a shake, FFS (That happens to have over 100 recipes to make it taste like pretty much any dessert out there... don't you think that helps so many people with their *sweets* addiction? I say GOOD FOR THEM! A yummy shake full of vitamins VS a big fat piece of cake HMMMMM??) . .

As for the calorie restriction and "starving yourself" crap, anyone who is doing either is not following the plan correctly, and again, it's no one's business but the person on the program. I love how everyone on this site is now a nutritional expert and has the right to tell everyone else what they should and should not eat. There is not one bad thing about this product, and that should be all that matters.

Let people do what they want to do and stop trying to make them feel like **** for it, it doesn't affect anyone but themselves. And you should probably all quit your jobs, because you all work likely at the bottom of a "pyramid scheme".

Not enough protien for the price.

Ill let you know, I have some samples coming in the mail.