Today is my the official first day of my new Manifesting Body Diet and Fitness Plan.

Technically speaking, I announced that I started working on putting together my new diet plan back on February 23rd, which is almost two months ago, but I didn’t actually START the plan until today.

I took that time to get my thinking straight, and to get a whole bunch of stuff prepared and figured out.

The toughest part was changing my mindset / attitude around weight loss and fitness.

I had to do some soul searching, journaling, researching and meditating to get more clarity around what I want to achieve with my new diet and fitness plan.

More importantly, I had to figure out how to change my beliefs and my thinking related to health and fitness so that I can implement a life-long plan into place and not just lose weight for a few months and then gain it back.

Even though I know that I’ll always be working on and tweaking my mindset in this area of life, I do feel confident enough to get started and to see where my new thinking and my new beliefs take me.

Once I got my thinking right, the action steps of getting ready to get started weren’t that hard to implement.

I bought a new strength training gym and got that setup.

I got an infra-red sauna installed, and setup my workout room.

I have been researching and testing out various different nutritional supplements I will need during my journey of re-shaping my body.

I’m also meeting up with and considering hiring a personal trainer to work with me on the strength training side of things.

My Stats

My starting weight as of this morning is 245.1 lbs and a body fat percentage of 32.8% according to my Fitbit Aria scale.

Now, according to my Skulpt Aim my overall body fat percentage is actually 37%, which is think is probably more accurate than my bathroom scale, but it will be interesting to see how the numbers change as I lose weight and get in better shape.

My MQ (Muscle Quality) scores for all my major muscle groups are shown above… Most of my muscle groups fall into the yellow category which is “average”, except for my calves which are showing up as a a bit lower than average which I find a bit surprising.

I may need to re-run the tests again as I wouldn’t have thought that my calves would get a lower score than for example something like my lower back or my hamstrings which I would have guessed are weaker than average.

In either case, these are all just beginning stats and I’ll see how things change as I make progress.

If you’re wondering how I got these stats, check out this device by clicking here – Skulpt Aim.

My Tracking Tool

I did some testing on various apps I could use to track my meals and calories and the macro-nutrient composition of my meals, and I think I’m going to stick with an app called MyFitnessPal as it seems to do everything I need.

I tried out an app from Weight Watchers which also allows you to track your meals and it breaks them down into their point values, but the problem I found with that app is that it is very slow, and it has a very limited database of food compared to MyFitnessPal, AND you can’t search or add new foods on your mobile device.

Meaning, you can use the online Weight Watchers website application to search their food database and then you can add certain foods to your favorites list, and then the mobile app they have will show you those foods, BUT you can’t just arbitrarily add a food from your app by searching for it.

So if I’m at a restaurant and I want to search for a food I’ve never had before on my phone, I can’t do that with the Weight Watchers app… at least I haven’t been able to figure out any way to do it.

With MyFitnessPal you can do it pretty easily.

If you’re using MyFitnessPal and would like to add me as a friend on there, you can find my MFP Profile here.

Blogging About My Journey

One of the benefits of being a blogger is that when you embark on a new journey in your life like the weight loss / fitness journey I’m starting right now, there is an opportunity for you to document your journey by Blogging about it, and to help other people who are on the same journey and potentially even make money by Blogging about it.

If you haven’t already, check out my video on how to get paid to lose weight for more details of how that works.

I’m really excited about my new journey and I’m looking forward to blogging about it as well, so that maybe I can help to inspire someone else to also make the decision to lose weight and get fit and healthy.

 

Today I want to do a quick review of the Herbalife Chocolate Coconut Protein Bar.

This is another one of the snack products I ordered with my initial Herbalife order to try out their products.

One of the reasons I wanted to try out these bars is because I often find that one of the only things I can stomach first thing in the morning for breakfast is a bar of some sort, and what I find usually happens is that I end up eating some sort of supermarket brand granola bar that is filled with sugar because that is all I have available.

Most of the supermarket bars I’ve looked at have around 25-30 grams of Carbohydrates (sugars) and around 1-2 grams f Protein.

The Herbalife Chocolate Coconut Protein Bar has about half the Carbohydates at 16 grams, and about 6 times the Protein at 12 grams.

I’ve had three of these bars so far and I quite enjoy the taste.  I love the taste of coconut, so the bar tastes good to me.

One other benefit I noticed with this bar is that the other day I had to run out of the house due to a small emergency and I was unable to eat anything until around 3 pm in the afternoon.

The only thing I ate from the time I woke up until 3 pm was one of these bars for breakfast and surprisingly I didn’t feel like I was starving for lunch like I normally do when I don’t eat my lunch by 1 pm or so.

So these bars definitely do keep your hunger levels at bay, most likely because of their high protein content, which I like.

Overall I like these bars, and I’ll continue to use them along with some of the other snacks from Herbalife.

If you’d like to learn more about the Herbalife Protein Bar products, you can visit my independent affiliate store by clicking here or contact me if you’d like to place an order or learn more about the Herbalife opportunity.

 

Along with my recent decision to lose weight and to get in better physical shape I also decided to become an independent affiliate with Herbalife and to try out the Herbalife brand of products to see how good they are, how good they taste and how I like them.

I ordered a bunch of different products they offer to try them out, but in this post I’m going to specifically focus on reviewing the Herbalife Roasted Soy Nuts.

The reason I ordered these is because I wanted to have some healthier snack options available to me as I work at my computer throughout the day.

Sometimes you just have a craving for a savory snack and it’s easy to end up eating something that isn’t exactly very healthy for you, so a light snack like this can be very helpful to have around.

Herbalife advertises these nuts as something that will satisfy your craving for something salty and crunchy, while at the same time being nutritious.

The soy nuts are also individually wrapped so they are easy to take with you to work, or on a trip or to just have in your desk drawer for when you want a snack.

Each individually wrapped packet is 22 grams, 100 calories, has 9 grams of protein, 7 grams of carbs, 2 grams of fiber and 4.5 grams of fat.

Overall this makes these a pretty decent snack, nutrition wise, and definitely much better than having something like a bag of potato chips or something along those lines.

So far I’ve only tried the chile lime flavor and it’s actually pretty good. They do taste good, and they do satisfy my craving for something salty / savory.

They do also fill me up when I eat them so that I’m not as hungry in between meals.

If I had one complaint, it would be that the soy nuts are pretty dry so as you eat them you’ll want to make sure you have something ready to drink along with them like water, which might not be a bad thing at all as I do really need to increase my water intake anyways. 🙂

One thing I do love about Herbalife is that they have one of the best consumer protection plans on the market, offering a full 30 day money back on all their products so if you order something and you don’t like the taste of it, you can return it for a full refund no questions asked.

This pretty much eliminates all the risk of trying them out. You either like them, and keep them, or you don’t like them and you send them back.

For me personally I’m keeping my box of Herbalife Roasted Soy Nuts as I like how they taste and I like how they fill me up in between meals and satisfy my craving for something savory / salty.

If you’d like to learn more about the Herbalife Soy Nuts or other Herbalife products, you can visit my independent affiliate store by clicking here or contact me if you’d like to place an order or learn more about the Herbalife opportunity.

-Paul