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Chocolate Shakeology Ice Cream Recipe – Reese’s PB Cup

Shakeology Ice Cream Reeses PB Cup

Shakeology Ice Cream Reeses PB Cup

In the middle of summer you may want ice cream. My wife, Hillary did! She asked me to make some Shakeology Ice Cream since I make my shakes so think anyway. So, I’m posting up a recipe with the healthiest meal of the day made like ice cream style! With a Reese’s Peanut Butter  twist!
It’s a great treat to have something delicious and super healthy for you! Here’s the recipe. Just make sure you are using healthy ingredients to make it the healthiest meal of the day (or at least the healthiest snack of the day).

Chocolate Shakeology Ice Cream Recipe – Reese’s Style (The Perfect dessert any time!!)
Shakeology Ice Cream:

  • 1 to 1.5 cups of almond milk or fat free milk. Water works too.
  • 1 scoop of Chocolate Shakeology
  • 1 Tbsp. Peanut butter or PB2
  • 6 ice cubes or 1 cup (or whatever thickness you desire)!

 

Preparation:
Put all ingredients into blender or use a food processor with an s blade. Blend on low for 15 seconds. Then blend on high for 30 seconds. Finish blending on low for 15 seconds. Eat immediately or put in freezer for about 2 hours. Add more ice if you need it thicker.

Enhance it: Use PB2 to back some small peanut butter chunks and freeze them separately. Then fold into the ice cream after it is all blended. I also lightly dusted the top of the ice cream with a little PB2. Kind of like adding extras like they do at Cold Stone Creamery!

IDEA: Use Popsicle holders (buy at Target, Amazon, etc). Kind of like a  Resses fudgesicle!

If you are looking for a coach to help give you more recipes and eating tips make sure to click here.

* If you don’t have Shakeology, you can get it at the link below. We have found Shakeology to be the healthiest and best shake hands down.

Yes, I want Shakeology

 

The Healthiest Meal of the Day
You Gotta Get this Stuff!

No other shake contains the world’s most powerful superfoods.

Shakeology is an ultra-premium nutritional shake. To create it, Beachbody searched the world for the most potent ingredients your body can easily absorb and utilize. This perfect combination of enzymes, prebiotics, antioxidants, and many rare ingredients—like adaptogens, Camu-Camu, and sacha inchi— give you the essential nutrients you can’t get from an average diet. Even eating the recommended serving of fruits and vegetables every day won’t give you this much nutrition.

No other shake, meal, or vitamin can make a claim this substantial.

Shakeology may help you:

  1. Lose Weight
  2. Feel Energized
  3. Improve Digestion and Regularity
  4. Lower Cholesterol (results may vary)

Tastes delicious, too!

How It Works*

This patent-pending daily nutritional shake helps your body gently eliminate toxins more efficiently while allowing for better absorption of the essential nutrients you need. A proprietary blend of digestive enzymes and prebiotics helps your body progressively eliminate the toxins that build up over time from eating today’s highly processed foods.

At the same time, whole-food ingredients deliver the essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals your body needs to curb cravings, allowing your body to shed stored fat while the more than 20 different antioxidants and phytonutrients help reduce free radical damage that can lead to heart disease, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and stroke.

See this Web Site for More information about the participants and doctors who ran the study.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

 

Health Study: Top secrets for keeping weight off

Strength Training with PT

Strength Training with PT

I was excited to come across the validating health study on the top secrets for what people do to keep weight off successfully. It’s nice to know the services we offer will help you successfully maintain your weight loss!
The abstract is below, but here are the basics.

  • Exercise at home (we have so many options. Choose one that fits your style and go for it!)
  • Eat breakfast every day (I start my day with dessert! Shakeology baby! The healthiest meal of the day.)
  • Weigh in once a week (just to keep yourself honest, not to be obsesses over it… you know my thoughts on this!)
  • Watch less TV
  • Burn over 2000 calories a week through exercise
  • Exercise with a friend (we have a whole community of friends here! PLUS, you’ll have me to coach you for free!)
  • Do strength training (our programs build that in!)

Go and be a success and maintain your happy, fulfilling life!

I'm Ready!

STUDY

WEIGHT CONTROL REGISTRY REVEALS SECRETS TO LASTING WEIGHT LOSS
ACSM journal identifies common behaviors of adults who lose weight and keep it off

INDIANAPOLIS – For the millions of Americans who struggle to lose weight and keep it off, there may be help. According to a report published by the American College of Sports Medicine in the March/April issue of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal®, the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) has identified methods that thousands of individuals have used to successfully maintain weight loss.

“By studying people who have succeeded in losing weight and keeping it off, we have identified many commonalities behind successful weight loss,” said James O. Hill, Ph.D., co-founder of the NWCR.

More than 6,000 people have joined the NWCR. Nearly all (89 percent) have combined diet and exercise to achieve their successful weight loss. Most participants, 98 percent, exercise at home, and several participants, 40 percent, exercise with a friend. Walking is the most popular form of exercise among NWCR participants.

“One of the most important predictors of continued weight maintenance is sustained high levels of physical activity,” said Dr. Hill,who is also the executive director of the Anschutz Health & Wellness Center, a new health promotion and disease prevention center scheduled to open in spring 2012 at the University of Colorado. “Successful weight loss maintenance depends on sustaining the healthy lifestyle behaviors for which NWCR members are most known.”

Individuals looking to maintain weight loss should follow these seven tips, suggested by the NWCR:

  1. Be active. More than half (54 percent) of NWCR members expend more than 2,000 calories each week. This equals about 200 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise.
  2. Turn off the television. About 63 percent of NWCR members watch television for fewer than ten hours per week.
  3. Enjoy a low-calorie, low-fat diet. The average NWCR member consumes 1,380 calories per day, and less than 30 percent of these calories come from fat.
  4. Keep your diet consistent. Resisting the urge to “splurge” on holidays or weekends, NWCR members eat the same foods on a regular basis.
  5. Eat breakfast. Most NWCR members (78 percent) eat breakfast each day. This helps curb hunger and overeating later in the day.
  6. Show some restraint. NWCR members exert great control over their eating habits, and they rarely overeat.
  7. Keep track of your progress. Weighing in at least once a day and keeping track of food intake is essential for most NWCR members.

The National Weight Control Registry was founded in 1994 by Dr. Hill and Rena Wing, Ph.D., to identify individuals who maintain substantial weight loss and to determine the strategies that help these individuals succeed. All of the study participants are 18 years or older and have maintained weight loss of at least 30 lbs. for more than one year.

For ACSM’s recommendations on long-term weight loss, view the 2009 “Appropriate Physical Activity Intervention Strategies for Weight Loss and Prevention of Weight Regain for Adults” Position Stand.

The American College of Sports Medicine is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 40,000 international, national, and regional members and certified professionals are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.

The Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, part of the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado Denver, is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to helping individuals make necessary and lasting changes for healthier living and disease prevention. Its innovative programs will combine four existing areas of expertise – nutrition, physical fitness, weight management and integrative medicine – to provide a comprehensive approach to help people achieve their greatest possible health.

ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal® is an official publication of the American College of Sports Medicine and is available from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins at 1-800-638-6423.

 

Chocolate Shakeology Pie Recipe – An amazing dessert!

Chocolate Shakeology Pie Recipe (I Love This amazing dessert!!)

Ingredients:

  • 1 container tofu, silken or firm (approx 12 oz)
  • 1 and 1/2 scoops Chocolate Shakeology
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter, natural (no sugar)
  • 2 tbsp soy milk
  • 1 pre-made pie crust…Whole Foods has Whole Grain, Graham Cracker like pie crusts that are fantastic for this!
    (I used Arrowhead Mills)

Preparation:
Blend together the peanut butter, silken tofu, chocolate Shakeology and soy milk in blender until smooth and creamy, adding a bit more soy milk if necessary. Pour into pie crust and refrigerate until firm, at least one hour.

* If you don’t have Shakeology, you can get it at the link below. We have found Shakeology to be the healthiest and best shake hands down.

Yes, I want Shakeology

The Healthiest Meal of the Day

You Gotta Get this Stuff!

No other shake contains the world’s most powerful superfoods.

Shakeology is an ultra-premium nutritional shake. To create it, Beachbody searched the world for the most potent ingredients your body can easily absorb and utilize. This perfect combination of enzymes, prebiotics, antioxidants, and many rare ingredients—like adaptogens, Camu-Camu, and sacha inchi— give you the essential nutrients you can’t get from an average diet. Even eating the recommended serving of fruits and vegetables every day won’t give you this much nutrition.

No other shake, meal, or vitamin can make a claim this substantial.

Shakeology may help you:

  1. Lose Weight
  2. Feel Energized
  3. Improve Digestion and Regularity
  4. Lower Cholesterol (results may vary)

Tastes delicious, too!

How It Works*

This patent-pending daily nutritional shake helps your body gently eliminate toxins more efficiently while allowing for better absorption of the essential nutrients you need. A proprietary blend of digestive enzymes and prebiotics helps your body progressively eliminate the toxins that build up over time from eating today’s highly processed foods.

At the same time, whole-food ingredients deliver the essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals your body needs to curb cravings, allowing your body to shed stored fat while the more than 20 different antioxidants and phytonutrients help reduce free radical damage that can lead to heart disease, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and stroke.

See this Web Site for More information about the participants and doctors who ran the study.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

 

Dessert Time!

pumpkins and hay 7Crustless Pumpkin Pie

  • 1 12-oz pkg silken tofu
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1 1-oz box sugar-free, fat-free vanilla instant pudding mix
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

Add all ingredients to a large bowl and blend until smooth.  Refrigerate before serving.

Ready in 1 hour – Makes 4 servings, 90 cals per serving

Pumpkin Pie Shakeology Bars
(recipe needs tweaking. Next time I’m following the shake recipe below along with oatmeal)

  • 1 scoop Chocolate Shakeology
  • 1 scoop chocolate whey protein powder (I’m going
  • 1 cup pumpkin
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1/2 cup rolled oats, cooked and cooled

Combine all ingredients well and freeze for at least 90 minutes

Pumpkin Pie Shakeology

  • 1 scoop chocolate Shakeology
  • 1 cup rice, soy, almond, or low-fat milk (plain or vanilla)
  • 1/2 cup canned pumpkin, unsweetened
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
  • Ice (optional)